1. Balance Life Coach Training
What is coaching?
Balance Life Coach Training

2. Definitions of coaching
Coaches are change experts who help leaders take responsibility and act to maximize their own potential. Coaching is like having a personal trainer for every area of your life. Coaching is a dialogue, not a monologue
- Joseph Umidi

3. Definitions of coaching
Coaching is practicing the disciplines of believing in people in order to empower them to change - Tony Stoltzfus

4. Definitions of coaching
Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their growth - John Whitmore

5. Definitions of coaching
Coaching is about partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential – ICF (International Coaching Federation)

6. Definitions of coaching
Coaching is the art and practice of guiding a person or group from where they are toward the greater competence and fulfilment that they desire - Gary Collins

7. Definitions of coaching
Coaching is a teaching, training or development process via which an individual is supported while achieving a specific personal or professional result or goal. The individual receiving coaching may be referred to as the client or coachee - Wikipedia

8. Definitions of coaching
Coaching is a relationship between a coach and client where the coach facilitates a process of growth for the client and the coach gets some reward for doing this - Nico Liebenberg

9. Relationship Helping relationship Non-judgmental relationship
Relationship with a balance between unconditional acceptance and challenge
Relationship that creates a ‘good’ space for clients to get feedback on themselves
Relationship where self-awareness is facilitated
Relationship different than any other relationship

10. Process Process (how) is not the content (what)
Facilitated by the coach for the client
Process that helps with discovering identity and personal purpose for the release of potential
Process that makes the client self-aware
Process that empowers the client to solve previously unsolvable challenges
Process that develops perspective for the client

11. Coaching & Other people helping interventions
Coaching takes people from 0 to 10
Coaching focuses on present to future
Coaching is based less on academic achievement and more on life experience