Life Coaching FAQs
Why work with a Life Coach?
If you’re feeling stuck, lost or just not your usual self, you’re not alone. We all have times in our lives when we feel unfulfilled. You know something needs to change - perhaps you know what that is, maybe you’re not so sure. Either way, coaching can help clear a path and guide you to your true potential. Your coach will provide resources, accountability, and creative solutions to assist you in reaching your goals.
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If you ever say this phrase, "I can't do (fill in the blank)", then even a session or two would bring meaningful change to your life.
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What can a coach help me with?
However you approach life, your coach will be able to tailor your sessions to fit. Subjects coaches can provide effective guidance include:
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Relationships - Do you wish you had the confidence to approach someone you like romantically? Do you struggle with commitment? Are you struggling to cope with a divorce? A coach could help you to understand your love-life and work towards improving it.
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Business life - Starting and running a business is tough work. Sometimes we get so absorbed in hard work we neglect ourselves. Coaches can help build confidence, develop leadership skills, enhance decision-making abilities and assess your work/life balance.
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Personal life - Do you feel like you're not making the most of life? There's so much to see, do and learn in this world, but often a lack of confidence, time and willpower can cause us to stay inside our comfort zones, doing nothing. Life coaches use specialist skills to motivate their clients to do the things they want to do, see and achieve, so they can finally fight the urge to procrastinate.
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Performance - Improvement is at the heart of life coaching. Whatever your skill, coaching could help improve it. Whether you're an athlete, an artist, a writer, a performer, or a musician - adopting specialist techniques will help you to push your limitations and exceed expectations.
Neuro Linguistic Practitioner (NLP) FAQs
What is NLP?
In simple terms, Neuro Linguistic programming (NLP) is a series of models, techniques and strategies to help us better understand how the language we use influences the way we think and the results we get! NLP is the study of excellence. It is the study of both the conscious and unconscious processes that combine to enable people to do what they do. It is the study of excellent communication–both with yourself, and with others. It was developed by modeling excellent communicators and therapists who got results with their clients. NLP is a set of tools and techniques, and it is so much more than that. It is an attitude and a methodology of knowing how to achieve your goals and get results.
How can I benefit from using NLP?
NLP can have a positive effect on every aspect of your life. It can be used to move forward with some specific challenge or issue, or can be adopted more generically to make a difference to all areas of your life. ANLP has many case studies and success stories detailing how NLP has helped clients, organizations and educational establishments with specific challenges over the years.
How does NLP work?
Have you ever done something so elegantly and effectively that it took your breath away? Have you had times where you were delighted at what you did and wondered how you did it?
NLP shows you how to understand and model your own successes, so that you can reproduce them. It is a way of discovering and unfolding your personal genius, a way of bringing out the best in yourself and others. NLP is the study of excellence. It is the study of both the conscious and unconscious processes that combine to enable people to do what they do. The key to success is often unknown at a conscious level. Using NLP, you can elicit these unknown pieces.
You may want to improve your relationships, or eliminate an anxiety, or become more competitive in the market place. The key pieces are not found in the muscles, but in your inner thoughts, like words or pictures, or feelings or even beliefs. Once you know these unknown pieces you can change them. NLP exercises are like thought experiments, mental exercises or a game.
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Where is NLP useful?
NLP is valuable wherever human communication skills can enhance results — in business consultation, management, negotiation, education, counseling, therapy, relationships, parenting, nursing, public speaking, sports performance and many other areas.
What kind of results can I get with NLP?
NLP can allow: a salesperson to significantly increase their business, a therapist to change the impact of the past on a client, a teacher to change a poor speller into a good speller, a business person to gain rapport nonverbally and to run meetings efficiently, an athlete to improve concentration, and more.