Lifestyle coaching is a term that has become incredibly familiar over the last nine years. The term lifestyle coaching first became preferred in the USA where, together with NLP, it became part of a regenerated fabulous wave of profoundly proactive therapy modalities.
In many ways both Personal Coaching and NLP are an answer against certain aspects of the person-centred therapy movement, in particular Person-Centred Counselling. A problem of the humanistic therapy approach is that it is hugely reactive and not greatly proactive. Although this works good with some clients, with other folk long periods of impasse or low return for time and effort occur. Coaching and NLP are both humanistic in stance, spending effort on improving a clients well-being rather than delving into the depths of childhood, as in traditional psychoanalysis. Their emphasis is, however, deliberately proactive and their to resolve your problems.
Performance coaching is not about telling the client what to do. This is a common misconception. Some life coaches are legitimately successful in their business careers and then make the change to life coaching, assuming that they will merely be required to share their pearls of spectacular success and wisdom with the lifestyle coaching customer. Sharing pearls of wisdom is more like mentoring a person in a specific environment. Coaching is instead about life as a holistic view. Find a Life Coach in London and make the change today.
