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Book Training Manual for Personal Coaching and Counseling

Download or read book Training Manual for Personal Coaching and Counseling written by Dean Amory and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-08-23 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second in a series of five books. Part 1, "Definitions and Models for Personal Coaching and Counseling" is about what Personal Coaching is and offers a survey of the most popular models for Coaching. Part 2, "Techniques for Personal Coaching and Self Coaching" introduces you to the most powerful coaching techniques in use. Part 3, "Essential Knowledge for Personal Coaches", highlights the knowledge and skills that are indispendable for anybody who is considering life coaching as a career or as a serious self coaching process. Part 4, "Empowering Coaching and Crisis Interventions", helps lay counsellors, relatives and friends of people in need to discover empowering techniques for supporting the people around them that find themselves afflicted by crisis. Part 5, "When Every Word Matters", is about creating and expressing an attitude of empathy, which will prove useful every time when the way we see and experience things is different from the way our interlocutors do and is particularly interesting as a guide for communicating with persons who are suffering from a psychosis. Dean Amory's Coaching Guide is an invaluable and practical standard reference work and training manual for anybody who takes life coaching seriously, be it as a means to enhance their own life through self-coaching, or as a professional life coach. The five books - "Definitions and Models of Coaching", "Coaching Techniques", "Essential Knowledge for Coaches", "When Every Word Matters" and "Empowering Coaching and Crisis Interventions" - together form a comprehensive, highly accessible and easily navigable training program and workbook that is very transferable to the every day practice and by far the most practical coaching source available today.

Book Training Manual for Personal Coaching and Counseling   Part 1

Download or read book Training Manual for Personal Coaching and Counseling Part 1 written by Dean Amory and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dean Amory's Coaching Guide is an invaluable and practical standard reference work and training manual for anybody who takes life coaching seriously, be it as a means to enhance their own life through self-coaching, or as a professional life coach. The five books - "Definitions and Models of Coaching," "Coaching Techniques," "Essential Knowledge for Coaches," "When Every Word Matters" and "Empowering Coaching and Crisis Interventions" - together form a comprehensive, highly accessible and easily navigable training program and workbook that is very transferable to the every day practice and by far the most practical coaching source available today.

Book Training Manual for Personal Coaching and Counseling

Download or read book Training Manual for Personal Coaching and Counseling written by Dean Amory and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third in a series of five books. Part 1, "Definitions and Models for Personal Coaching and Counseling" is about what Personal Coaching is and offers a survey of the most popular models for Coaching. Part 2, "Techniques for Personal Coaching and Self Coaching" introduces you to the most powerful coaching techniques in use. Part 3, "Essential Knowledge for Personal Coaches", highlights the knowledge and skills that are indispendable for anybody who is considering life coaching as a career or as a serious self coaching process. Part 4, "Empowering Coaching and Crisis Interventions", helps lay counsellors, relatives and friends of people in need to discover empowering techniques for supporting the people around them that find themselves afflicted by crisis. Part 5, "When Every Word Matters", is about creating and expressing an attitude of empathy, which will prove useful every time when the way we see and experience things is different from the way our interlocutors do and is particularly interesting as a guide for communicating with persons who are suffering from a psychosis. Dean Amory's Coaching Guide is an invaluable and practical standard reference work and training manual for anybody who takes life coaching seriously, be it as a means to enhance their own life through self-coaching, or as a professional life coach. The five books - "Definitions and Models of Coaching", "Coaching Techniques", "Essential Knowledge for Coaches", "When Every Word Matters" and "Empowering Coaching and Crisis Interventions" - together form a comprehensive, highly accessible and easily navigable training program and workbook that is very transferable to the every day practice and by far the most practical coaching source available today.

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

Download or read book Becoming a Professional Life Coach Lessons from the Institute of Life Coach Training written by Diane S. Menendez and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated version of the best-selling therapist-to-coach transition text. With his bestselling Therapist As Life Coach, Pat Williams introduced the therapeutic community to the career of life coach, and in Becoming a Professional Life Coach he and Diane Menendez covered all the basic principles and strategies for effective coaching. Now Williams, founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT), and Menendez, former faculty at ILCT—both master certified coaches—bring back the book that has taught thousands of coaches over the past eight years with all-new information on coaching competencies, ethics, somatic coaching, wellness coaching, and how positive psychology and neuroscience are informing the profession today. Moving seamlessly from coaching fundamentals—listening skills, effective language, session preparation—to more advanced ideas such as helping clients to identify life purpose, recognize and combat obstacles, align values and actions, maintain a positive mind-set, and live with integrity, this new edition is one-stop-shopping for beginner and advanced coaches alike. Beginning with a brief history of the foundations of coaching and its future trajectory, Becoming a Professional Life Coach takes readers step-by-step through the coaching process, covering all the crucial ideas and techniques for being a successful life coach, including: • Listening to, versus listening for, versus listening with • Establishing a client’s focus • Giving honest feedback and observation • Formulating first coaching conversations • Asking powerful, eliciting questions • Understanding human developmental issues • Reframing a client’s perspective • Enacting change with clients • Helping clients to identify and fulfill core values, and much, much more. All the major skillsets for empowering and “stretching” clients are covered. By filling the pages with client exercises, worksheets, sample dialogues, and self-assessments, Williams and Menendez give readers a hands-on coaching manual to expertly guide their clients to purposeful, transformative lives. Today, with more and more therapists incorporating coaching into their practices, and the number of master certified coaches, many with niche expertise, growing every year, Becoming a Professional Life Coach fills a greater need than ever. By tackling the nuts and bolts of coaching, Williams and Menendez equip readers with the tools and techniques they need to make a difference in their clients’ lives.

Book The Life Coaching Handbook

Download or read book The Life Coaching Handbook written by Curly Martin and published by Crown House Publishing. This book was released on 2001-07-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This complete guide to life coaching reveals what life coaching IS, how to coach yourself and others effectively and how to create and sustain a successful coaching practice. Leading you through a comprehensive programme of Advanced Life Coaching Skill The Life Coaching Handbook is the essential guide for life coaches, and a key sourcebook for NLP practitioners, human resources managers, training professionals, counsellors and the curious. Curly Martin is a professional life coach, author, trainer and internationally qualified NLP Master Practitioner. Coaching for more than twenty years, her clients include celebrities, CEOs, directors and doctors.

Book The Ultimate Guide to Counselling Coaching and Mentoring   The Handbook of Coaching Skills and Tools to Improve Results and Performance Of your Team

Download or read book The Ultimate Guide to Counselling Coaching and Mentoring The Handbook of Coaching Skills and Tools to Improve Results and Performance Of your Team written by Aiden Sisko and published by Gem delos Santos. This book was released on 2015-09-20 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your main focus is growth, the most valuable asset you can possess is a quality assemblage of employees/team members who are flexible learners; problem solvers, well motivated and highly trained who will put your company on the fast track to success!Proper coaching and mentoring of this team will put you right were you need to be. This will only be possible if you work closely with each member of your team’s professional and personal growth in their abilities and performance. Close and skillful coaching and mentoring to develop champions! This book aims to do exactly that and more. Table of Contents CONTENT OVERVIEW MORE IN REGARD TO COACHING: BUILDING YOUR PEOPLE SKILLS Educate Yourself by Gaining Much Needed Information The Format for Feedback A Team Coach of Substance Develop Skills: Plot the Course: Review and Consider Choose Specifically Design a Free-Flow Process MENTORING: NEED TO KNOW INFORMATION; NEED TO HAVE SKILLS How Can You Benefit From All This? How to be a Mentor of Quality Keeping Lines of Communication Open: Learning Honest Give & Take You Must Focus on Building Trust COUNSELING AND YOU Identification of the Trouble Areas Assist the Employee in Realizing the need to Improve Performance in That Area Set Goals with the Employee that will be Conducive to Improvement Make sure the goals set are achieved When the behavior is right, let them know! A. Issue a Verbal Warning B. Issue a Written Warning C. If the Offense Occurs Yet Again, Human Resources Should Issue a Formal Reprimand D. Suspension CONCLUSION

Book Life Coaching

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dave Ellis
  • Publisher : Crown House Pub Limited
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781904424949
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Life Coaching written by Dave Ellis and published by Crown House Pub Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life coaching is not therapy, but many of the qualities that therapists possess, naturally lend themselves to a life coaching approach. This is a guide to turning your natural people-helping skills into a profitable life coaching business. It appeals to therapists and counsellors used to conducting therapeutic interventions.

Book Total Life Coaching  50  Life Lessons  Skills  and Techniques to Enhance Your Practice       and Your Life

Download or read book Total Life Coaching 50 Life Lessons Skills and Techniques to Enhance Your Practice and Your Life written by Lloyd J. Thomas and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Total Life Coaching by Pat and Lloyd is more than just a book. It is an interactive experience in which you will find recipes for living your life more authentically, as well as master time-honored lessons that you can bring to your coaching clients. Regardless of the personal coaching techniques or skills you may have learned, you may still not be the most effective coach you can become. This book will help you move closer to that goal. Life coaching is more than a collection of techniques and skills. It is more than something you do. Life coaching reflects who you are-it is your authentic being in action.Readers of Pat Williams's and Deborah Davis's book, Therapist as Life Coach, know Pat to be a gifted life coach and passionate teacher. Here Pat and colleague and writer, Lloyd J. Thomas, build on this earlier book and share a unique insight into the coaching process, which shows you precisely how to enhance your professional practices through practical and effective life coaching. It also empowers you to change your own lives through use of the practical information and philosophy presented here. Total Life Coaching is organized into a series of 50 life lessons, and is designed to be either read cover-to-cover or dipped into, as needed, for assistance when conducting a coaching session. Keeping life's processes on the "message and lesson" level makes living and life coaching much easier and more enjoyable. Total Life Coaching guides you step-by-step through the complex process of learning and coaching these fifty important lessons. The lessons are organized into 8 sections: Creating a Personal Identity; Coaching Spirituality and Life Purpose; Coaching Communication Skills; Living Life with Integrity; Success: Clients Achieving their Potential; Coaching Cognitive Skills; Creating High-Quality Relationships; Understanding Your Past to Create a Desired Future.Each lesson is presented as a structured recipe and includes: The life lesson The messages contained within the lesson Coaching objectives for your clients regarding the lesson What you need to know about the lesson to provide the framework for coaching it Coaching methods, exercises, questions, and language for bringing each lesson to your clients Sample coaching conversations that exemplify the coach-client dialogue for the coaching of the lesson.

Book Handbook of Coaching Psychology

Download or read book Handbook of Coaching Psychology written by Stephen Palmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Coaching Psychology: A Guide for Practitioners provides a clear and extensive guide to the theory, research and practice of coaching psychology. In this new and expanded edition, an international selection of leading coaching psychologists and coaches outlines recent developments from a broad spectrum of areas. Part One examines perspectives and research in coaching psychology, looking at both the past and the present as well as assessing future directions. Part Two presents a range of approaches to coaching psychology, including behavioural and cognitive behavioural, humanistic, existential, being-focused, constructive and systemic approaches. Part Three covers application, context and sustainability, focusing on themes including individual transitions in life and work, and complexity and system-level interventions. Finally, Part Four explores a range of topics within the professional and ethical practice of coaching psychology. The book also includes several appendices outlining the key professional bodies, publications, research centres and societies in coaching psychology, making this an indispensable resource. Unique in its scope, this key text will be essential reading for coaching psychologists and coaches, academics and students of coaching psychology, coaching and mentoring and business psychology. It will be an important text for anyone seeking to understand the psychology underpinning their coaching practice, including human resource, learning and development and management professionals, and executives in a coaching role.

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

Download or read book Becoming a Professional Life Coach Lessons from the Institute of Life Coach Training written by Diane S. Menendez and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal and professional coaching, which has emerged as a powerful career in the last several years, has shifted the paradigm of how people who seek help with life transitions find a "helper" to partner with them in designing their desired future. No matter what kind of sub-specialty a coach might have, life coaching is the basic operating system: a whole-person, client-centered approach. Here, Pat Williams, who has been a leader in the life coaching movement, has co-authored another essential book for therapists working as coaches. Becoming a Professional Life Coach draws on the wisdom of years of collective experience that have gone into designing the curriculum for the Institute for Life Coach Training. This curriculum has trained therapists and psychologists around the world to add coaching to their current businesses. This book presents the essential elements of life coach training program in a content-rich form that is equivalent to a graduate-level education in the field.

Book Becoming a Life Coach

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Skibbins
  • Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
  • Release : 2007-04-01
  • ISBN : 160882540X
  • Pages : 153 pages

Download or read book Becoming a Life Coach written by David Skibbins and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than just fixing what ails them, many therapists today seek to help clients achieve personal and professional goals and navigate life changes successfully-a variety of practice called life coaching. This book offers a complete strategy professionals can use to incorporate life coaching into their practices. Becoming a Life Coach compares the role of the therapist to that of the life coach; the role of the patient to that of the client; the service of the mentally ill to that of the mentally healthy; treatment to collaboration; and finally the differences in professional standing between these two endeavors. Using real coaching exercises, the book teaches therapists everything they need to know to start and maintain a successful coaching practice. It includes information about necessary skills, tips on integrating coaching and therapy, business models, marketing advice, and more.

Book Basic Personal Counselling

Download or read book Basic Personal Counselling written by David Geldard and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to personal counselling for professional and volunteer counsellors and those who train them covers the specific skills required and includes examples of dialogue to show how counselling skills are implemented in real situations.

Book Life Coach 101

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wee Dilts
  • Publisher : Change your life ebooks
  • Release : 2015-11-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 62 pages

Download or read book Life Coach 101 written by Wee Dilts and published by Change your life ebooks. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Coach 101 A Life coaching E book filled with insider secrets. Stop spending money on gurus and life coaches. This Life Coach E book will show you how to become your own Life Coach. Get ready to live with confidence and peace of mind. Are you ready?

Book Coaching Skills Training Course  Business and Life Coaching Techniques for Improving Performance Using Nlp and Goal Setting  Your Toolkit to Coaching

Download or read book Coaching Skills Training Course Business and Life Coaching Techniques for Improving Performance Using Nlp and Goal Setting Your Toolkit to Coaching written by Kathryn Critchley and published by www.UoLearn.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coaching Skills Training Course This book brings together different coaching models and helps give you an easy to follow structure to design inspiring coaching sessions. An easy to follow 5 step model to guide you through the coaching process. Exercises will help you enhance your skills. Learn to both self-coach and coach others. Work at your own pace to increase your coaching ability. Free downloadable, from http: //www.uolearn.com easy to apply scripts and guided questions that you can start to use immediately. Over 25 ready to use ideas. How to use NLP in your coaching. Goal setting tools to help people achieve their ambitions. A toolbox of ideas to help you become a great coach. What do people think? "Fabulous workbook. Covered the background, the techniques, the 'hows' and the 'whys' making it very clear and simple to use for yourself or others." "A great business or personal tool packed with useful information and techniques." "The only coaching book I have read that gives you the templates and scripts ready to use and permission to use them." "Takes you through step by step from understanding coaching to running your own sessions." About the author - Kathryn Critchley Kathryn is a highly skilled and experienced trainer, coach and therapist. She has worked for over 14 years with organizations such as BT, Orange, Peugeot, Cisco Systems, IBM, British Gas, Victim Support & Witness Service, NHS and various Councils, Schools and Universities. Kathryn was keen to write a coaching skills book with a difference, that not only described useful coaching tools but empowered the reader with ready to use skills, strategies and templates to self-coach or coach others. This is a comprehensive book of tried and tested tools and techniques that Kathryn regularly uses to be a successful business and personal coach. Kathryn Critchley, Realife Ltd Kathryn is a highly skilled and experienced trainer, coach and therapist. With over 14 years experience of high-pressure sales and management roles in the telecoms industry with organizations such as BT and Orange, Kathryn understands the dynamics of team-building, change management, employee motivation and organizational productivity. She has provided training, coaching or therapy for organizations such as BT, Orange, Peugeot, Cisco Systems, IBM, British Gas, Victim Support and Witness Service, NHS and various councils, schools and universities. Kathryn is passionate about helping people make positive changes and achieve their goals. She achieves remarkable results through seminars and workshops, as well as one to one interventions. Her website is www.realifeltd.co.uk In this book she shares some of the knowledge and skills that have helped her to be a successful business and personal coach.

Book EBOOK  Coaching Skills  A Handbook

Download or read book EBOOK Coaching Skills A Handbook written by Jenny Rogers and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A straightforward approach to the simple art of coaching conversations, while offering insight into the complexity and sophistication of coaching for those looking to take their practice to the next level." Dr Jonathan Passmore, Independent Consultant "Coaching Skills is much more than just a book containing a wide portfolio of tools, techniques and concepts, brilliantly supported by many case studies. It is a book for practitioners who will find here a profound and accessibly-presented analysis of the most important models, theories and results of research, with detailed links to coaching as well as guidelines on how to deal with the difficult situations and dilemmas faced by coaches." Dorota Porażka, Managing Partner of DORADCA Consultants Ltd "Jenny Rogers writes with enviable elegance and simplicity about the skills that coaches need. This third edition is a testament to her belief that coaches never stop learning. In this edition she shares the fruits of her recent reading and experiences. There is a good deal of new material, including a chapter on advances in neuroscience, new insights from the recent coaching literature and new models to consider. But Jenny wears her erudition lightly. She takes the reader by the hand through a complex journey, sharing the excitement of her discoveries but not overwhelming with detail. Her strong personal voice comes through in every sentence, understanding, encouraging, pragmatic. I read it from cover to cover in a weekend, and know I will be back to reread before long." Lis Paice, NHS Mentor of the Year, 2010 "Jenny Roger's clear writing style, straight-forward approach and case examples allow for insight into the coaching process and a glimpse at the learning that occurs for both client and coach. This edition offers even more with enhancements to previous writing and a chapter specifically focused on the brain. Whether you are a coach - new or experienced, a manager or simply interested in learning more about what we do as coaches, this is a must have resource for your library." Diane Brennan, MBA, MCC, Past President of The International Coach Federation (2008) and coeditor, The handbook of knowledge-based coaching: From theory to practice "This book is a gem for anyone curious about executive coaching - what it is, how it works and how to do it well in practice. As a coaching pioneer and highly accomplished practitioner, Jenny draws upon her extensive experience in coaching, coach training and supervision and brings to life theory and approaches with rich case studies, humour and humility. The third edition benefits from a chapter on the fascinating emerging field of neuroscience and explores early implications for coaching. As with the rest of the book it is accessible, relevant and well researched. I consider Coaching Skills to be essential reading for novice and established coaches alike." Sandra Grealy, Director of Coaching, Management Futures Ltd "Among all the coaching books on the market this book stands out for its clarity and wisdom, and for its engaging and unpretentious voice. In designing a coaching course at Fielding Graduate University, I had no hesitation in making it required reading." Leni Wildflower, PhD, PCC, wildflower-consulting.com Coaching Skills is a popular text for coach training schools all over the world, brought to life with dozens of case studies and practical guidance, while also emphasizing the importance of underpinning psychological awareness and understanding. This book will support you whether you are an experienced coach working with senior executives, or a beginner taking your first steps on the journey to becoming a master-practitioner. The book answers questions such as: Which tools and techniques pay dividends every time and to avoid? What are the magic ingredients that determine whether the coach-client relationship works? Why are goal-setting and questioning such important skills for any coach and how can you acquire them? How as a coach can you work with clients to make truly transformational changes in their lives? Now includes new material on: coaching and the human brain, working with clients on their self-limiting beliefs, new models of understanding what coaching is and being a coach during the psychological stresses of a severe economic recession. Jenny Rogers is an executive coach with more than 20 years' experience. Her clients are typically senior leaders from a wide range of sectors. She has also trained many hundreds of coaches and managers in coaching skills. As a writer Jenny has published more than 70 books on topics which include adult learning, influencing, facilitation skills and career management.

Book Becoming a Professional Life Coach 2nd Edition

Download or read book Becoming a Professional Life Coach 2nd Edition written by Patrick Williams, Edd and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated version of the best-selling therapist-to-coach transition text. With his bestselling Therapist As Life Coach, Pat Williams introduced the therapeutic community to the career of life coach, and in Becoming a Professional Life Coach he and Diane Menendez covered all the basic principles and strategies for effective coaching. Now Williams, founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT), and Menendez, former faculty at ILCT—both master certified coaches—bring back the book that has taught thousands of coaches over the past eight years with all-new information on coaching competencies, ethics, somatic coaching, wellness coaching, and how positive psychology and neuroscience are informing the profession today. Moving seamlessly from coaching fundamentals—listening skills, effective language, session preparation—to more advanced ideas such as helping clients to identify life purpose, recognize and combat obstacles, align values and actions, maintain a positive mind-set, and live with integrity, this new edition is one-stop-shopping for beginner and advanced coaches alike. Beginning with a brief history of the foundations of coaching and its future trajectory, Becoming a Professional Life Coach takes readers step-by-step through the coaching process, covering all the crucial ideas and techniques for being a successful life coach, including: • Listening to, versus listening for, versus listening with • Establishing a client’s focus • Giving honest feedback and observation • Formulating first coaching conversations • Asking powerful, eliciting questions • Understanding human developmental issues • Reframing a client’s perspective • Enacting change with clients • Helping clients to identify and fulfill core values, and much, much more. All the major skillsets for empowering and “stretching” clients are covered. By filling the pages with client exercises, worksheets, sample dialogues, and self-assessments, Williams and Menendez give readers a hands-on coaching manual to expertly guide their clients to purposeful, transformative lives. Today, with more and more therapists incorporating coaching into their practices, and the number of master certified coaches, many with niche expertise, growing every year, Becoming a Professional Life Coach fills a greater need than ever. By tackling the nuts and bolts of coaching, Williams and Menendez equip readers with the tools and techniques they need to make a difference in their clients’ lives.

Book Therapist as Life Coach  An Introduction for Counselors and Other Helping Professionals  Revised and Expanded

Download or read book Therapist as Life Coach An Introduction for Counselors and Other Helping Professionals Revised and Expanded written by Patrick Williams and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2006, U.S. News and World Report listed coaching as one of the 10 top growing professions. The first edition of Therapist as Life Coach, published in 2002, anticipated this trend, and since its publication it has become a standard for therapists who wish to transition or expand their practices into life coaching. Pat Williams and Deborah C. Davis have finally revised their classic practice-building book for today's therapists and future coaches. Every chapter in this second edition has been updated and rewritten, reflecting the growth of the coaching field and its increasing appeal to not only therapists, but all helping professionals. The book begins by exploring the history of the coaching movement and shows how society is hungry for life coaches. The second part of the book explains in detail the differences and similarities between coaching and therapy, discusses the coaching relationship, and considers some of the skills therapists will need to learn and unlearn in order to reclaim their joyfulness about their work. Professional transition tools such as developing and marketing your practice and honing your coaching skills are discussed at length in Part Three. The final section moves beyond basic life coaching to introduce coaching specialties such as corporate coaching, offers self-care strategies for life coaches, and peeks into the future of life coaching. There is new material throughout, including an overview of recent coaching developments, updated liability concerns, new business opportunities, and a new section on the research about coaching. Coaching gives practitioners the opportunity to break free of managed care and excessive reliance on the insurance industry and to work with a wide range of clients—specifically, those who are not suffering from mental illness but, rather, seeking to maximize their life potential. This book will help you enter this lucrative and personally enriching world with the skills and knowledge you need to build a successful coaching practice.