Product Description

If you are considering life coaching as a career, this book provides a guide to creating and sustaining your practice, a resource for coaching yourself towards a more fulfilled life, and a reference and companion designed to serve you through your professional life. It sets out to promote a thorough understanding of what life coaching entails and to lead you through a course of applied neuro-linguistic programming techiques and exercises aimed at improving your coaching abilities. These include state control, rapport-building, metaphor, meta-programs, and meta-linguages. The book also introduces the spiral coaching model, a new coaching tool that identifies and utilises people's thinking patterns.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7447 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 330 pages

Review
I used this book to help me navigate an introduction to life coaching course I was studying and found it invaluable both for painting the wider picture and as a reference point for some key theory and skills information. Such is the book s easy accessibility and relevance that it is excellent for a wide readership from others in training like me to existing practitioners; people who want to know what life coaching is to those who might be thinking of going to see one. For client or coach this book is an excellent starting point. --Emma Nelson, Student Support Officer, University of Leeds

Fiona Harrold, author of
Absolutely terrific!

Fiona Fraser, Human Resources Manager
A book you can dip into time and time again.

Customer Reviews

Thinking of becoming a life coach?
This is an essential book if you are considering becoming a life coach. I have found this to be a very helpful and practical guide to my own coaching practice. It includes a range of coaching models explained in an easy to read way and the author illustrates how you can apply the models to your own life coaching practice. The book is clearly laid out and very practical. It is has become a well thumbed book on my bookshelf! It is also the book used on the fully accredited Life Coaching Diploma written and delivered by Curly Martin. A must have book, supporting a must attend life coaching course.

total rubbish
I think this book is absolutely shocking - great for those who feel comfortable to read a book and then 'become' a life coach and have an influence over people's lives and take their money - very worrying for people who have actually trained and studied to be a coach and take the profession seriously and wish others to do so. I would give this book and the advice therein a very wide berth indeed.

An accessible and thorough work
Sometimes books can be accessible yet light in terms of content. You may have come across such works, lot of time on layout, little on content. Curly Martin achieves an uncluttered approach to both the topics and the presentation and this is to her credit. Given her expertise and in my opinion, justified reputation, the author presents towards an NLP biased approach. Chapters include Metaphor and Meta Models, although I suggest the latter while not needing further content might benefit from more specific focus on anonymous client experiences.

David Miskimin
The Directors Coach
Author - The Coaching Parent