The Life Coaching Handbook [Paperback]

Curly Martin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2001

If you are considering life coaching as a career, then meet your winning coach. The Life Coaching Handbook is a complete guide to creating and sustaining your practice, a comprehensive resource for coaching yourself towards a more fulfilled life, and a reference and companion that will continue to serve you through your professional life. But what exactly is Life coaching, and is it the career for you? The first task this book undertakes is to address these important questions, as it promotes a thorough understanding of what life coaching entails, and helps you decide whether coaching really is the career you wish to follow. Once you know what to expect from life-coaching, this book will lead you through a powerful course of applied Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques and exercises that will revolutionise your coaching abilities. These include: State Control; Rapport-building; Metaphor; Meta programs; and Meta languages. The Life Coaching Handbook also pioneers Spiral Coaching, an exciting new coaching tool that involves identifying and utilizing people's thinking patterns. An invaluable guide for professional life coaches, NLP practitioners, Human Resources and training professionals and counsellors, this book is the essential read for the would-be life-coach. As you read this handbook you will begin to think, feel and act like a coach. From there, it is one small step to being a brilliant, professional life coach, for life.

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From the Publisher

Curly Martin is a professional Life Coach, author, trainer and internationally qualified NLP Master Practitioner. Coaching for more than 20 years, her clients have included celebrities, CEO's, directors and doctors.

Product Details

• Paperback: 330 pages
• Publisher: Crown House Publishing (November 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1899836713
• ISBN-13: 978-1899836710
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,461 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Motivational, December 2, 2004

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Pam Richards - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Life Coaching Handbook (Paperback)

Using her emotional intelligence the author has written a book which clearly and simply describes what the applications are, of various NLP models in the life coaching context and what life coaching is, how to set up a practice, some guidelines of conduct for a life coach, etc. And the book includes the index and the biography, essential from a serious readers point of view.

You would be a fool to consider a 250-page book will give you all the answers, and that just reading a book would make you a life coach - practical experience is essential. However, this book is easy to read and apply and will be a big step on the learning ladder of life coaching. I found it an inspiring and motivational book which gave me the confidence to consider life coaching as a career. Rather than the often stuffy self absorbed books which give the reader a feeling of inadequacy. I highly recommend this book if you are just starting out or doing research into life coaching.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is JUST what I was looking for !!, December 1, 2004

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Pete Arnold "Pete" (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Life Coaching Handbook (Paperback)

I have read quite a few books on coaching and then I came across this one. It told me EXACTLY what I needed to know. It is full of practical advice and is down to earth with no hype. I would recommend this book to anyone that is thinking seriously about starting a career in Life Coaching.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring and easy to use, March 22, 2006

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Annie Angus - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Life Coaching Handbook (Paperback)

This is my first review. I just had to tell you how this book has helped me in my personal life and also as a trainee life coach. The techniques are easy to follow and to implement into everyday life and what is really great, I can help my clients with techniques I have used on myself. The book is a pleasure to read, understand and interpret and also, it has been an invaluable learning tool and reference manual.

Curly Martin has captured the essence of life coaching in an inspiring and clear way. It knocks the socks off some of the theoretical tombs which pontificate about coaching but do not inspire people to become coaches. You immediately know when reading this book that Martin is a practicing life coach and she shares her knowledge and experiences freely. The best coaching book I have bought and I recommend this book to life coaches and people who want to help themselves to achieve results and to achieve their goals.