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What is Life-Coaching?
Professional coaching is an ongoing partnership that helps clients produce fulfilling
results in their personal and professional lives. Through the process of coaching
clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their
quality of life. In each meeting the client chooses the focus of conversation,
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This interaction creates clarity and moves the client
into action. Coaching accelerates the client's progress by providing
greater focus and awareness of choice. Coaching concentrates on where
clients are today and what they are willing to do to get where they
want to be tomorrow. (From the International Coaches Federation.)
How Does Life-Coaching Take Place?
Most coaching is accomplished in weekly ½ hour sessions
over the phone, with the client calling the coach at a set time
each week. This can be adapted to suit personal needs of the client.
Some clients prefer weekly phone calls with occasional face to
face visits, if geographically possible, or some other arrangement.
Some people want to be coached biweekly and some on a per session
basis. How the coaching works best for you is something that can be discussed
and agreed upon in your first session with your coach.
"My methodology is to coach like a guardian angel. I promise
to offer you, as my client, unconditional and non-judgmental support.
I will be your guardian and helper along the path, and will help
you guide yourself toward ever increasing happiness, fulfillment,
and understanding."
Currently Grant has a full time job as a pastor. His life-coaching
is on a limited part-time basis. Please contact him if you would
like more information. To find out more about Grant's Life Coaching
Approach: E-mail grs@grantschnarr.com
Partners On The Path Of Life.
You may not be able to talk to your guardian angel once a week, but here's the
next best thing. You have someone there to walk the path with you, and support
you along the way. That's what Guardian Angel Coaching is about. You can get
that support weekly, experience growth through your coach's empathy, respect,
listening, support, and gentle leadership to a new perspective and a new way.
What separates Guardian Angels Coaching from other life-coaching is its emphasis
on compassion, integrity, respect for the client's personal freedom to choose
a path, and courage to lead the client toward deeper learning and positive
action.
"If I had to ask myself if there is someone who has made a positive
difference in my life I would have to answer yes... that would be
Grant. Not only has he helped me find clarity in a very difficult
time in my life, he continues to guide me through my present and
future to realize my full potential mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. He
has a pure understanding of the human spirit."
Grant challenges me to go to a higher level in order to
uncover my pure potential. Because of this, I am now on a path in
my life which is maximizing my own set of unique abilities. I am
energized and know this is where I need and want to be.
Grant has a true personal interest in me . Not only is he my life
coach, he is my guardian angel.
Working with Grant for the past two years has been an incredible
blessing. He approaches the coaching relationship with a deep
respect for the coachee, while at the same time being completely
ready to challenge me to continually stretch and grow. Through
working with Grant, I have been supported in examining and challenging
many of my unconscious and sub-conscious beliefs - about my work,
my relationships, and my life. As a result, I am seeing positive
change in all areas of my life, including career, family, community,
and spirit.
I also deeply appreciate Grant's ability to help me find the
connection to Spirit in all these areas of my life, and his support
and encouragement in deepening my relationship with my Higher Power,
whom I choose to call God. He truly has been a guardian angel
for me, and I look forward to continuing to work with him for many
years to come.
"When I found Grant my life coach it was a wonderful day. He
was just what I was looking for. Through his light hearted
humor, listening ability and direction it is easier to find
my way through life. He is always there for me ready to
hear my story and empower me to move on. The techniques he
uses turn a difficult decision into a no brainer."
Grant's coaching has been a tremendous gift to me. There's
nothing I'd hesitate to talk with him about, and I love the way he
looks at his relationship with me as a guardian angel. He
has this way of looking for and honoring the good in me, be it intentions
or actions, which makes me feel like a flower that longs to grow
toward the sun. I have experienced much growth in the time
we've worked together.
"Life coaching, for me, has been one of the greatest facilitators
in my personal growth. I have struggled with what has been diagnosed
as Clinical Major Depression for nine years, for which I was signed
up with various psychologists and psychiatrists. I eventually dropped
these programs because of the sterility of the setting - the solely
thought-oriented approach. Nothing seemed to bridge the disjunction
between my rational thoughts and irrational feelings - so the remedy
was certainly not more rational thoughts! When I heard about Life
Coaching, the process intrigued me. It's given me a far more tactile
approach to problems - yes, I've done a lot of clear thinking during
my sessions, but what's more is that I've been able to make those
thoughts register with my subconscious (where it really counts
when trying to change behaviors and deep-seated convictions). The
meditations, poetry-writing, and various other exercises have helped
me to access deeper latent parts of myself which, in turn, has
allowed me to see that the depression and ambiguous ache I have been
feeling for many years have been symptoms of greater issues. I finally
feel like I'm finally beginning to deal with the roots
of my problems, and I can honestly say that Grant has been a fantastic
guide in my awareness, deepening of spirituality, and self-exploration."
Lindsay P. Conn CPCC
I am a certified Co-Active Coach that is dedicated to supporting
others in identifying and living out their greatest dreams. Everyone's
life has a divine purpose and we each deserve nothing less than
to have happiness and share the goodness that life has to offer.
Certified Life Coach
(301) 928-8143
Email: lconn@womenenablingbeauty.com
www.womenenablingbeauty.com
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Jeff Kaplan
Niche: managers and senior executives (though I work w/a handful of non-execs
who are highly motivated and ready for coaching); specialties: emotional intelligence,
stress management, and work/life balance.
Email: drjeff@drjeffkaplan.com
Website: www.drjeffkaplan.com
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Vicki Mattingly
Niche: Life purpose coaching, vocational coaching, evolutionary/consciousness
coaching, personality assessments, astrology, tarot.
Email: vicki@transcendentvoyage.com
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Kirsten Cronlund
Kirsten Cronlund is a life coach, specializing in growth through optimism and resiliency. She is taking a break from classroom teaching to pursue a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, set to graduate in May 2008. Her passion is to empower others to embrace optimism and resiliency, and she accomplishes this through coaching, academic tutoring, and public speaking. She finds joy in laughing with others and in being a catalyst in their growth process, putting her skills into daily practice with her own three children, ages 13, 11, and 6.
Email: kirsten@cronlund.com
Telephone:215.672.8328
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Susan Lynch
Life Coaching in London UK : Life Coach Susan Lynch works with the traditions of establishing lasting relationships with clients, offering a confidential & professional service in London.
Website: http://www.thecoachinglifecompany.com
