What is Coaching?

Coaching is a partnership that helps clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. The coach and client work together to develop a program that fits the client's needs, values and visions while helping them overcome barriers that prevent them from reaching their goals.

A Coach is someone who helps you become self motivated, provides unconditional support, identifies your strengths and helps you build upon them. You are assisted to find strategies to deal with your unique challenges and guided to discover creative solutions to achieve the results you want.

2 more definitions of Coaching are: 

“Coaching is the art and science of bringing out the best in people through processes that honour each individual. Clients are seen as whole and resourceful while guided to overcome the obstacles which cause them to feel less than optimal, clearing the way for them to achieve their inner-most desires.”
-Jevon Dängeli-

“Coaching is the art of conversationally creating a context for change to occur naturally … More specifically: Coaching is a professional, confidential relationship between two people based upon openness, honesty and integrity, with the intention of assisting the client in living a congruent and fulfilling life based upon their values, goals and outcomes.”
-John Overdurf and Julie Silverthorn-

History of Personal Coaching

Personal coaching as a profession grew from the interaction among the following fields: Organization development and consulting, therapy and counseling and personal self-development programs. Many self-development programs took a coaching approach instead of therapy since coaching did not have the stigma of “being in therapy”. Coaching, compared to therapy, was viewed as a healthier, more positive and goal-oriented alternative. Coaching focuses on the individual taking personal action and responsibility for his/her choices.

From its inception, NLP & HNLP processes when compared to traditional therapy, has offered a positive, proactive goal-oriented approach to the change process, making them appropriate for coaching. Using certain NLP & HNLP processes to create change could just as easily be referred to as coaching or therapy, depending on the technique used. NLP & HNLP do however have similar presuppositions and principles as coaching: The client has all the resources they need and they are at cause in their life. NLP & HNLP certainly offer the coaching profession a tremendous scope to assist clients in more rapidly achieving their desired outcomes and sustaining those results.

Personal coaching was recognized as a profession in 1998 by the international Coaching Federation.

NLP - An Indispensable Tool in Coaching
(article written by Ligia M. Houben)

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“Of all the creatures of earth, only human beings can change their patterns. Man alone is the architect of his destiny… Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of the lives.” 
-William James-