It appears that Life Coaching even though is "pretty popular" in global scale and there are many people that use and consider it as the catalyst of their personal development at the same time there are as many people that confuse it with mentoring or consulting and consider it either unnecessary and useless or in the worst case scenario a "scam".
So.. the term is known and familiar but the scope is blur and misunderstood.
Thus I am happy to "cast light" on the scope and the beneficial use of Life Coaching in everybody's life.
▶ Life Coaching is a tool of self-help development, that goes hand in hand with Positive Psychology, with ultimate goal the self-fulfillment of the individual. It is used for achieving goals in every sector of an individual's life and is distinguished into almost as many categories as these sectors.
Life Coaching assists the individual using active listening, powerful questioning, coaching models and other techniques without giving advise or interfering by steering the individual to specific answers or outcomes. It is important to note that Life Coaching addresses individuals that are considered as "mentally healthy" and in any case not individuals that are coping with mental illnesses or are under any medical subscription for mental issues. ◀
Transformation or Transformational Life Coaching focuses on how the individual "is" or wants to "be". During my practice and since my first hours as a Life Coach it was obvious to me that I wanted to work with the conscious mind and use it as the doorway to unfold and discover the unconscious mind for the purpose of transforming the self. Life Coaching is the perfect tool to accomplish self-exploring, self-knowledge, self-development and self-healing through personal insights and "aha moments" of the conscious mind that inevitably lead to inner and outer transformation. Working with the conscious mind makes the process more self-empowering and as exciting as it would be exploring another planet while mapping it.
I believe in Life Coaching because it changed my life both as a Coach and as a Coachee and I hope that it will be recognized for its true value as a tool that can transform lives.