1. Spiritual Coaching Techniques for Career Development
Purposeful Listening
Spiritual Coaching Techniques for Career Development

2. Your presenter Gail Liebhaber, M.Ed.
Career and Lifework Counselor Consultant to Career Counselors/Coaches
40 Cottage Street, Lexington, MA Phone: (781)
 Fax: (781)

3. An Invitation to Deepen Your Skills
Purposeful Listening as an additional technique
Clearing out and letting go
Model becoming present and witnessing our clients,
questions for you to ask your clients to help them in listening to themselves
roles that inspire hope
Tools to help your clients tell their story.

4. Poem on a bookmark “No one listens,” they tell me
and so I listen and I tell them
what they have just told me
And I sit in silence listening to them
letting them grieve
“Julian, you are wise”
They say, “You have been gifted with understanding”
All I did was listen
For I believe freely, surely, that G-d’s spirit is in us all
Julian of Norwich, 14th C. English mystic
(from book, Purposeful Listening)

5. The role of a career counselor
Re-defining the “good-enough” career counselor
Our need to be techno-savvy, problem solvers within tight time/budget constraints
Old questions vs non- answers

6. Guiding clients to answer their own questions
We do not have the answers, may have the questions
However, we can be guides
Silence, listening and accessing inner wisdom- needed by both client and counselor

7. Defining the essential ingredients
Purpose: An understanding that accessing the authentic but perhaps hidden self will tap into spiritual energy and clarity
Listening with an open mind, body and heart--without judgment, an agenda or possibly answers

8. Training the ear to hear the soul

9. Preparing to listen with purpose
Providing a sacred space
Getting present
Listening with your heart
Inviting the unknown into the session
Trusting inner wisdom

10. Developing our presence
Getting ready/clearing out
Using the breath
Short meditation
Mantra
Setting intention

11. Letting the Soul Express Itself
Empty out expectations, shoulds and old rules
Allow innermost yearnings to emerge
Welcome the unknown

12. Create the environment for sacred space
The power of the physical space
Types of offices
Creating trust on phone/in office
safety
comfort
Intimacy
professionalism

13. More can be found in the book
Asking new questions
Sample questions to inspire hope and purposeful change:
What is my purpose in life?
How would I like to leave my mark in the world?
What talents do I have that I am not using?
What am I yearning for in the future?
More can be found in the book

14. Tuning into their whole being:
A holistic approach
Tuning into their whole being:
Listen with your heart to their heart
Where is tension in the body?
Is their gut or intuition attempting to get their attention?
Are things happening serendipitously?
The chakra system

15. Supporting Growth
Encourage the development of their own unique voice from their own truth
Giving permission to not know
Support the will
Acknowledge the workings of the universe

16. 7 Principles of Purpose-Centric Coach
According to Richard Leider,author/consultant, our roles can be:
1.believing
2.serving
3.calling
4.dreaming
5.listening
6.declaring
7.doing

17. Tools for Purposeful Listening
(From the book)
These exercises are designed to inspire purposeful listening for you and your client. Feel free to use them for your practice.
Questions for your career journal……………………………5-2
Spiritual Landmarks………………………………………….. 5-3
Developing a Mission Statement…………………………….5-4
Questions for Goal Setting……………………………………5-5

18. To order the book Purposeful Listening:
Spiritual Coaching Techniques for
Career Development Practitioners
Cost: $10 plus $1.50 s&h
send your check made payable to:
Gail Liebhaber, 40 Cottage St., Lexington, MA 02420
Be sure to include your address

19. Gail Liebhaber, M.Ed.
Career and Lifework Counselor Consultant to Career Counselors
40 Cottage Street, Lexington, MA Phone: (781)
 Fax: (781)