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

Patrick Williams and Diane S. Menendez

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Praise for Becoming a Professional Life Coach:

"What a resource! This is the definitive book on life coaching. as useful to the master coach as it is to the novice. An essential book worth owning!"
—Richard J. Leider, Founder & Chairman, The Inventure Group, and author of The Power of Purpose and Repacking Your Bags

"This is the definitive book on how to become a whole-person life coach . . .  Many helping professionals now say they are coaching . . . this book will teach them the key competencies for doing it."
—Hale Dwoskin, author of the New York Times Bestseller The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace, and Emotional Well-being

Overview – Contents

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.

About the Authors

Patrick Williams, Ed.D. is a master certified coach, one of the early pioneers of coaching, and began executive coaching in 1990. In 1998 he founded the Institute for Life Coach Training, an ICF Accredited Coach Training Program. He is the co-author of Therapist as Life Coach.

Diane S. Menendez, Ph.D. is a master certified coach and has coached leaders, teams, and organizations for over 25 years.

ISBN 10: 0-393-70505-6
ISBN 13: 978-0-393-70505-8
April 2007 / 388 pages / Cloth