Life Coaching practitioners explores and
implements the motivational factors that perpetuate a healing response. The practitioner
can also help the client realize their higher purpose in life. This greater sense
of life balance, connection, and peace can have a profound effect on wellness,
and personal and professional success. Some practitioners specialize in Spiritual
Life Coaching as well. Life coaching is used by a growing number of both
credentialed (e.g. psychologists) and non-credentialed practitioners to aid clients
with transitions in their personal life, and in the process of self-actualization.
Currently no regulatory standards exist, and thus no degree or formal training
is required to become a life coach. With roots in executive coaching, which itself
drew on techniques developed in management consulting and leadership training,
life coaching also draws from a wide variety of disciplines, including sociology,
psychology, career counseling, mentoring, and numerous other types of counseling.
The coach applies mentoring, values assessment, behavior modification, behavior
modeling, goal-setting, and other techniques in assisting clients. Coaches are
to be distinguished from counselors, whether counselors in psychotherapy or other
careers.
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