What Makes the Spencer Institute Life Strategies Coaching Program Unique?
This program has the missing link between coaching, that gives practical advice about what to do, and psychotherapy, that focuses on talking about the past. Hemispheric Integration™ and neuro-linguistic skills provide the structure of how to move through challenges and beyond theoretical concepts, by creating a positive road map to success.
The Spencer Institute's Coaching Programs are not simply cheerleading. Encouragement and positive affirmations such as: "You can do it!" "It's easy." "Just go ahead and try it!" are wonderful, 'feel good' affirmations - and yet, they carry no specific information about how to "just do it." What is missing with the "cheerleading approach" is a specific action plan and strategies of action that will create a pathway to success. With The Spencer Institute, through the use of Hemispheric Integration™, we provide you with the information and structure of the necessary tools for balancing the brain. The information in this program is based on structural research, not folklore or testimonials.
The Spencer Institute's Coaching Programs are not 'talk therapy' delving into the past recesses of personal history with no understanding of the patterns and brainwashing that are held often out of our conscious awareness. Life Strategies does look at the current influences from our past to eliminate any hidden obstacles that could become a roadblock to current and future success.
How much money will I make as a Certified Coach?
In the U.S., the average coach makes roughly $400/month per client. This is for four 45-minute coaching sessions per month. If you are doing corporate coaching, you can expect to be paid $150-$200 per hour. It is not uncommon for a seasoned coach to make well over $100,000 per year. Most coaches ask for a minimum of a three-month commitment to their coaching program. There are many instances where a coach will be hired to help resolve a specific issue which may be acute in nature. Seldom is a contract used unless you are working with a government agency. We show you how to make a great living! Your life coaching business development is a significant part of your training. Does coaching really work!
Yes! This is why:
1. Most of us don't know where we're going, what our lives are about, and how our values affect us day to day. Coaching helps us clarify our values, beliefs, purpose, and goals.
2. We may know where we're going and what we need to do, but we forget or simply get stuck in our limiting belief systems, ineffective habits, or inability to focus. A well-trained coach gets us back on track by helping us identify limiting beliefs and ineffective habits and find more effective ways of living and enjoying life.
3. Many times we resist change because it's easier and more comfortable to stay the way we are. Any change we make causes resistance and backlash within ourselves as well as from other people in our lives. A coach helps us move beyond that resistance -with greater ease and flow. In the coaching relationship you may decide to work on all areas of your life at once or just focus on one.
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What will I do as a Certified Life Strategies Coach?
As you decide to become a life coach, you will be an essential ally to those who seek your advice and guidance. You will assess and align your client's beliefs, values, morals and support system as a means for them to naturally and easily achieve their goals. You will guide them in creating a plan of action while remaining a resource to keep their motivation focused on reaching their goals.
You will have many different roles. Often times, as a graduate, you will use your new coaching knowledge to augment an existing talent or skill set that your clients posses. Many coaches come from a wellness background. Fitness professionals may incorporate whole life coaching into their menu of services. A business person who holds an MBA may choose to coach executives on a whole life perspective of mastering the corporate world. Those who work in a personnel or human resources department will use their new interpersonal communication skills to better evoke excellence in others. A religious leader can use his or her coaching skills to better counsel members of their congregation. A psychologist may wish to transition out of traditional therapy and work with clients on future plans rather than past issues. The benefit of being a Certified Spencer Institute Life Strategies Coach is that you will learn how to work with structure instead of working with content. Coaches that work with content tell their clients to "be happy," "be proactive," "feel good," without providing the structure or "instructions" on HOW TO be happy, proactive, feel good, etc. You will learn the difference that makes the difference in getting reproducible results.
As you can now see, with your education and life strategies coaching certification from the Spencer Institute, you can incorporate coaching into your current field or area of expertise. You may also wish to move in a totally new direction; the choice is completely yours.
Life Strategies Coaching is.....
The number one home-based profession, according to the American magazine Start-ups.
Defined as "The art of facilitating the performance, learning and development of another."
A helping profession, which embraces all aspects of life: work and career, relationships, community, self-development, wellness, abundance, education, and spirituality. Clients may choose to focus within one of these issues, or to follow a program of re-examining and enhancing various areas of life.
A way for the coach himself or herself, through self- and peer coaching, to enhance the quality of his or her communication with everyone: family, friends and colleagues, and to be a better manager, supervisor, chairperson, community leader, helper, or team member.
Life Strategies Coaching is a profession that is free from the over-regulation and licensing restrictions, which surround counseling and therapy professions in some countries. Your self-employed coaching career is portable should you decide to resettle in various parts of the U.S., Canada, UK, Europe, or elsewhere without retraining with a locally approved body. Because most coaching is done via the telephone, you have virtually no geographical limits for your client base. You will no longer be tied down to your office desk; you may enjoy a vacation as far away as your cell phone may reach. Best of all, your clients call you at their scheduled appointment times, giving you the freedom to plan your day and at the same time saving on any long distance fees.
Unrivaled in its choice of client specialties. You can find your niche coaching people in a particular career, job, age group, stage of life, spiritual direction, ethnic group, type of relationship, role in life, wellness need, disability or challenge, or any special need for support of which you have knowledge or life experience. Depending on your background or skill, you can coach company CEO's or women returning to work after raising their children; you can help a highly-stressed professional make the transition to a more acceptable way of life; help successful people hone their skills; or help people "downshift" to a simpler lifestyle. The choice is now yours. |
