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Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute of Life Coach Training

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I highly recommend "Becoming a Professional Life Coach" for both new and experienced coaches, and for anyone interested in learning the "coach approach" in their lives, business and communities. Today coaching skills are an invaluable resource, both in the workplace and for personal fulfillment, yet there are still millions that don't even know what coaching is or how to become one. Pat and Diane deliver an easy to read, comprehensive guide offering history, theory and practical application of the most potent skills used by professional life coaches worldwide. This book addresses a great need in the marketplace.

As a veteran coach, it was refreshing to expand my own depth of knowledge on skills I've been using for years. They describe the skills, and when and how to use the skill most effectively. I also love how they included the developmental stages of consciousness, which help people recognize how ready someone is to change, and the best way to support someone to the next stage. They've also included sections on identifying life purpose, creating fulfillment and working on practical issues like money. The case studies integrate real-life examples to demonstrate how a skill or process is put into action.

Since Patrick Williams is the founder of his own coaching school, I expected a cookie cutter curriculum from his own school's teachings. However, I was pleasantly surprised at how thoroughly they integrated and referenced the best disciplines from a variety of coaching schools, as well as useful and distinguished models from the field of psychology. It is no wonder that Patrick Williams is known as "The Ambassador for Life Coaching." As a veteran life coach, I applaud Patrick for inspiring thousands more to integrate a "coach approach" in their everyday lives and/or become a life coach themselves. The world could use a few more life coaches, and this is a perfect place to begin.

Mary E. Allen, CPCC, MCC
Author of The Power of Inner Choice: 12 Weeks to Living a Life YOU Love
Host of "Conversations with the Masters"
Host of "Conversations with the Masters of Coaching"
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As a certified life coach, I love this book. It is a must for any experienced or new coach. In addition, this book can help anyone that wants to enhance their personal growth and improve their relationships. It truly is a book for anyone and everyone! It teaches you skills that will improve your personal life, at work, as a parent, and a friend. I have an extensive library of coaching books and this is my favorite by far.

I am also using it as a foundation for a professional workshop that I am writing and teaching.

I highly recommend this book for anyone.

This book is a great resource. I am a life coach and have used many of the exercises with my clients. The book is also good to give to my new clients who are interested in the field of coaching. I also enjoy the quick history of coaching in the beginning. This is good resource to have on the shelf to be used as needed.

Being a truly effective ally of another person requires us to know both what
to do and how to be, Becoming a Professional Life Coach gives us both.
While the task of creating a comprehensive training text on the broad field
of life coaching is quite daunting, Patrick Williams and Diane Menendez take
it on with what appears to be real joy and they master it. The reader is
both instructed and inspired cover to cover. The challenge of doing more
than producing another coaching "cookbook" is met and exceeded with an
excellent integration of both practical technique and well grounded theory.

Becoming a Professional Life Coach integrates what is sometimes missing in
much coach training, such as Prochaska's Stage of Readiness For Change. The
book takes terms which have become well-worn catch phrases, such as
fulfillment and empowerment, and infuses them with new life, helping the
coach to truly understand their meaning, importance and their use. Becoming
a Professional Life Coach will become the touchstone in the field of
training life coaches.

Michael Arloski, Ph.D., PCC, author of Wellness Coaching For Lasting
Lifestyle Change.

For a seasoned Life Coach, with 30+ years of experience, I was astonished at the wealth of insights I uncovered. This book is ripe with wisdom for coaches at any stage of their work. The evolution of our purpose must continue throughout our coaching lives. This book is a guide to helping us discover the power of purpose in coaching ourselves and others. I am confident it will be a classic in the coaching profession for years to come.

This book really lays a good foundation for developing different streams in your life-coaching practice. I was really seeking a book to help round out some of the areas I was weak in and this book did not disappoint. Highly suggested reading for anyone seeking to build a flourishing business in life-coaching!

I found this book deeply satisfying as a way to deepen my coaching skills. It's about the philosophy behind coaching, and has great dialogues with clients, from which I learned a lot. Warm, engaging, and based in the literature, this book is sensitive to what coaches can do to really benefit their clients.

I am training to become a life coach, and I found this book to be extremely useful. It provides you with just the right answers from the very source of all coaching out there. I highly recommend this book.

Reading,BECOMING A PROFESSIONAL LIFE COACH about the foundational principles and coaching processes for becoming a life coach is one thing. To read that book at the same time you are taking the foundations course is another. To read this book, take the course and have the privilege of being coached by both of the authors is to experience the congruency and the depth within these three processes. It is taking the learning process by Patrick Williams and Diane S. Menendez to a quantum level. Few books on life coaching clarify the difference between a coaching paradigm, consulting, and therapy and help you understand how these three approaches interface with each other. If there is a book that supports life coaching as a paradigm for personal change for the twenty-first century it is this one.
--John Bellanti, D.Ed. PCC-- Psychologist, Life Coach, founder of Coaching Through the Crossroads and Co-author of Mind Over Muddle to be released shortly.

Becoming a Professional Life Coach is an invaluable resource for new and experienced coaches, and for anyone who is considering life coaching as a career. As a veteran life coach and coach trainer, I have read just about every coaching book I can find. Pat and Diane have written a practical, hands-on guide that is comprehensive, and easy to understand and apply immediately. I highly recommend this book!