Life Coaching
Life Coaching is a modern discipline that has evolved from mentoring, councilling , psychology & NLP. Tailored to the changing situations of our lives, life coaching throws a light on how we can move on to live the lives we want to live.
Life coaching can be used for a one session , for something very specific or as a maintenance programme to keeping on track with our goals, whether these goals are material, physical or mental ones. The life coach acts as a facilitator to the client's intentions. It can be challenging, revealing, targetted, task orientated, enlightening. It is client-centred. The use of either Hypnosis or NLP can also be incorporated.
Testimonial
Before coming to see Marilyn, my only experience with her had been the few times I’d seen her, intermittently, over the course of my wife becoming a Hypnobirthing® practitioner. My wife would go away during the days for classes with her and would come home, spouting off tid-bits of the wealth of knowledge that had been poured into her. Marilyn had some very unique talents concerning her mind and body and the control she had over both. I was very intrigued by these talents and wanted to know more. Therefore, I embarked on a six-month course of life coaching with her, determined to acquire these talents for myself.
Our sessions were very casual, with very little formality to begin with and even less in the latter sessions in the series. They were held, most often, at her home, in a very particular room that she had set up as her own. There were no water-running machines or golden Buddha doorstops. Nor was there any new-age music full of harps or birds tweeting or babbling brooks to create the illusion of serenity. There were some very comfortable chairs, a warm drink always offered to me, and a lovely sea-breeze through the room. Succinctly, there was no pretension in her approach.
During my course with her, I discovered that we talked very little about those talents I wanted, and more about me. Often, I would leave wondering what on earth we’d talked about, or how the topic of conversation had drifted, and stayed for the duration, on that particular subject. Still, I continued on in faith, because my wife had started looking at me funny and telling me how she could see me changing before her eyes. (I now know those funny looks she gave me were of admiration and wonder.)
The original reason for my coming to her was addressed in a way. It was addressed in that Marilyn, in her experience and wisdom, saw my want to be different, and set apart from the rest of the population, as a symptom of something hurting inside me. I never did receive those particular talents that I wanted though I’m sure she would have taught me if I’d been persistent. Instead, I was brought to the point where I could be honest with myself, and ask at the end if I really, truly still wanted them. I didn’t. I was fine with who I was. I needed no one’s approval. Needing no-one’s approval in life is something I’ve never had, and is something I’ll never trade.
Whether it was Marilyn herself, or her merely facilitating my own decision to change my life, I came out of our sessions, not a different person, but a better one. A more developed person. I was travelling a particular route and I saw her on the road as a beacon lighting the next portion of my journey.
I consider her a close friend and confidant. I recommend her in the strongest possible way to anyone willing to admit they don’t already know everything.
Danny Z Strategic Management Consultant . Brisbane 2009
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