Life Coaching
Who Needs a Life Coach?
Smart, educated, actualized people should always be able to achieve their goals and find the health, wealth and romance they want in their lives. Why then don’t they? Because there is an internal dynamic — an unseen, unconscious pattern of thought, perception and behavior — that gets in the way.
It is virtually IMPOSSIBLE for you to find and fix these roadblocks to happiness, because by their very nature they are invisible to you. This is why a coach is essential to your growth process: because he or she is trained to see your patterns, to mirror for you the things you cannot see, and to mentor you in the things you don’t yet know how to do.
“Itβs not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.”
What is life coaching?
Originally, the term “coach” applied to the world of sports. Your coach is someone who will guide you step by step through the learning and training process until you excel at your sport. Well, now the idea of coaching is applied to the world of everyday life β job, family, relationships, health and even financial excellence.
Life can be thought of as a series of cycles. Each cycle is like a game, and each game is simply an opportunity to learn and grow. Some lessons are big, some are small. We complete the game and learn the lesson only when we complete the cycle β in other words, come “full circle.”
What is Full Circle Coaching?
Full Circle Coaching is about getting more out of the game of life. The game of life is not an event β it’s a process. An infinite number of factors can affect the win/loss outcome of a game. It’s completely unpredictable and cannot be forced. What a coach does with his athletes is help them be better prepared to win. Coaches do this by helping tier athletes get more out of the game itself β in other words, get more out of the process. In the same way, a life coach helps you to master the processes of life.
If you think about it, athletes train in order to get better at handling challenges. Sports and games are nothing more than a series of deliberately designed challenges β and the individuals or teams who get consistently better at meeting and mastering those challenges wind up being champions. In the same way, we find joy and fulfillment in life the better we get at meeting and mastering the challenges of everyday life.
What makes Full Circle Coaching unique?
Full Circle Coaching has two parts: talking and T’ai Chi. Yes β all of our coaching contracts involve learning T’ai Chi. This ancient martial art is based on physical and philosophical principles that teach you to meet and master challenges. Like most other life coaching formats there is conversation involved β the narrative of your life story, the introduction of basic principles, and deconstruction of certain events, beliefs and perceptions. But we believe that at some point coaches have to stop talking with their clients and start physically “doing” things with them. Imagine a basketball coach who sat his players down and just talked to them about the upcoming game β but never had them shoot free-throws or run plays. Practicing T’ai Chi will get your coaching breakthroughs out of your head, and into your body.