Life coaching sessions are tailored to your individual needs and will evolve over time. Through these sessions, you'll be able to identify and overcome any mental or emotional blocks that are preventing you from achieving your goals. As a life coach, I will help you set goals and stay accountable for your personal and professional success. I will guide you as you articulate your aspirations, evaluate the options before you, and create action plans to reach your goals.
You will be in control of the agenda and I will serve as an objective sounding board to help you stay focused and on track. The first step of any session should be to establish a good rapport. If you already know the client well, you can build a connection by referencing past sessions and asking them how they felt after the previous session ended. If this is your first session with the client, you'll need to look for something else to get started.
Make sure to let them know that they have to answer questions before a specific time. For example, if you need at least 24 hours to review their answers, let them know that they must submit the form 24 hours before the session. The next step is to explore their strengths, weaknesses, insecurities, worldview, perspectives, beliefs, and core values. This knowledge will provide you with the “why” of the questions you asked in the previous step. As a life coach, it is important to understand that both the client and the coach have specific roles that they must fulfill.
A life coach can help you set and achieve goals in many areas of your life, whether it's health, relationships, career, or creating a life with more meaning and purpose. There are times throughout a person's life when they are not where they would like to be or think they should be. This will provide you with those little seeds of information you need to guide your client through upcoming training sessions. Your purpose as a life coach should be to get your client to take action, so your client will need to agree to the plan in order to act on it. Start by asking the client to define an outcome for their session, which can be completely new or a continuation of the objective of a previous session.
Instead of giving instructions or making decisions for them, it's about getting to a point where you fully understand their life from a variety of angles and perspectives. Before deciding how you'll structure a life coaching session, figure out its purpose. Whether it's finding more peace and less anxiety in life, looking for more purpose and less paperwork, or breaking relationship patterns that have been perpetuated for years, life coaching can help you live a happier and healthier life. At the end of each session, ask your client to commit to completing certain tasks before the next session. This alternative perspective is one of the most valuable tools a life coach can provide their clients as their own life experiences and training experience can provide a unique point of view for someone who is stuck. No one is ever in a position to tell you how to live your life, so a life coach won't give instructions or make important decisions for you.
