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LIFE COACHING BPS305

Duration (approx) 100 hours
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Why Study Life Coaching?

Do you want to be a life coach?

Are you interested in helping people to change their lives in a positive way? This course will help you to develop skills in supporting others to set and achieve their goals. For example, helping people to lose weight, gain a promotion, find a new career, resolve difficult problems.

Life coaching is a rewarding and fulfilling career.

ACS Distance Education is an organisational member of the Association for Coaching.

Students on the course are eligible to join the association as student members.

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Who Is This Course Suitable For?

This course is suitable for anyone who wants to help others.   You might have worked in the helping professions, counselling, business, education, health and fitness etc. There is no set pathway into life coaching. Use your existing knowledge and skills and develop them further through this course to offer life coaching to others.

This course is suitable for career/professional development or personal interest. 

What Will You Learn in This Course?

During the course, you will learn –

  • What is life coaching?
  • Barriers to change
  • Leading a well-balanced life
  • Coaching theories and techniques
  • Coaching skills
  • And much more.

COURSE STRUCTURE AND CONTENT

The course comprises 10 lessons, as follows: -

Lesson 1.  Introduction: Nature & scope of Life Coaching

Nature of life coaching, cognitive behaviour therapy, different approaches, the scope of life coaching.

Lesson 2. Individual Perception

Psychology of self-perception, perceptual barriers, motivating clients to challenge their perceptions.

Lesson 3. A Well-Balanced Life

The inter-relationship between psychology and physiology, stress, the psychology of balance.

Lesson 4. Coaching Processes

Key coaching processes, assessment of the client's situation, dealing with emotions, setting goals, replacing negative habits with positive ones, leadership qualities in a life coach, imagination and enthusiasm, clarifying goals, recognition of limitations.

Lesson 5. Coaching Skills

Understanding the communication process, body language, communication barriers, listening skills, assessing learning styles.

Lesson 6. Coaching and Physical Well-Being

Human nutrition, important factors in nutrition, physical well-being.

Lesson 7. Coaching and Psychological Well-Being

The psychology of self-esteem, stress management programme, identifying stressors.

Lesson 8. Coaching Success

High achievement, coaching success, career guidance, managing your money, beginning a business.

Lesson 9. Goal Setting

Values, aims and goals, types of goals, planning, future goals, steps for successful goal achievement, effort and attribution.

Lesson 10. Review and Adjustment

Indications that a programme needs to be reassessed, client’s lack of confidence, personality clash, over-achievers, health and safety issues.

COURSE AIMS

  • Define life coaching and differentiate it from other professions such as psychotherapist, counsellor, personal trainer and so on.
  • Understand that people perceive the world in different ways and identify ways to help clients change counter-productive perceptions without excessive discomfort.
  • Define a well-rounded individual and well-rounded life.
  • Define different coaching skills including listening, analysing, planning and focussing.
  • Identify ways in which life coaching can contribute to physical well-being.
  • Identify ways in which life coaching can contribute to psychological well-being.
  • Identify the areas in which successful life coaching can benefit a client.
  • Understand the importance enabling clients to develop aims, plans and goals.
  • Recognise the importance of reviewing and adjusting the life-coaching processes.

WHAT YOU WILL DO IN THIS COURSE

  • Interview a life-coach (or someone who offers life-coaching service as part of their professional counselling repertoire) for information on the nature of life-coaching.
  • Identify principles that differentiate life coaching from other helping professions.
  • Consider the pros and cons of different approaches to life coaching.
  • Do case studies to reflect on and/or observe the effects of different life-coaching approaches on improving a person’s quality of life.
  • Design and administer a questionnaire to research some effects of negative aspects of self-perception.
  • Discuss the importance of balancing a client’s limitations and encouraging them to step outside their comfort zones.
  • Identify means of monitoring an individual’s self-perceptions.
  • Examine the relationship and interaction between a person's mental/psychological and physical health and well-being.
  • Consider how to deal with clients with special needs such as disabilities.
  • Identify the processes involved in life coaching and describe what each can contribute to a client's personal growth and development.
  • Discuss ways individuals might resist life changes and ways to facilitate change.
  • Discuss the pros and cons of assertiveness training.
  • Identify reasons that individuals are unable to make decisions.
  • Identify different life coaching skills and when they are required.
  • Explain the importance of listening to the client and how to do it.
  • Consider factors that might make a life coach’s personal skill repertoire ineffectual.
  • Discuss the role and risks of physical life coaching in the life-coaching process.
  • Research factors that must be considered when setting out a life coaching plan to promote physical health, and psychological health.
  • Identify crucial information to be included in the development of a client’s plan.
  • Discuss ways to nurture a client's goal setting, planning and self-monitoring skills.
  • Research how much life-coaches use/do not use individualised client plans.
  • How can the life-coach monitor the effectiveness of his/her program for a client?
  • Create and evaluate an action plan for a real person/client, including monitoring. 
 

What Do Our Students Think of the Life Coaching Course?

"I have done several counselling courses in the past and the coaching course fitted in well with the learning experiences I had encountered previously. The reading material was detailed and interesting and the feedback was detailed and constructive."
Sarah, UK - Life Coaching course.

"[The course] provides a thorough introduction to the practices of Life Coaching. It provides very good learning materials and practical assignments at end of each lesson. The comments from my tutor are always very encouraging and positive. The services from school administrative staff are excellent."
Wai Ming Au, Singapore - Life Coaching course.

"Yes [the course was a valuable learning experience]. It provided useful tools and information, and assignments/set tasks provided greater insight into topics. [The course] was better than expected. The tutor was fantastic, gave great feedback and was also very motivating. It has given me the confidence to begin offering Life Coaching services."
Rebecca Cox, UK, Life Coaching course.

What Next?

Are you ready to start a new and rewarding career in life coaching?

Do you want to help people to find new and better ways to live their lives?

If the answer is yes to these questions, then this is why you should study this course -

  • Learn to help others find a better life.
  • Prepare you for a new career as a life coach.
  • Fill in the gaps in your life knowledge and experience. What are your weak points (health, fitness, finance, management, communication, knowledge)?

You might want to set up your own business as a life coach. Or offer life coaching in conjunction with your existing job role.

Become a better life coach with training to add to your experience.

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Meet some of our academics

Tracey Jones (psychology)B.Sc. (Hons) (Psychology), M.Soc.Sc (social work), DipSW (social work), PGCE (Education), PGD (Learning Disability Studies) Tracey began studying psychology in 1990. She has a wide range of experience within the psychology and social work field, particularly working with people with learning disabilities. She is also qualified as a teacher and now teaches psychology and social work related subjects. She has been a book reviewer for the British Journal of Social Work and has also written many textbooks, blogs, articles and ebooks on psychology, writing, sociology, child development and more. She has had also several short stories published.
Jacinda Cole B.Sc.,M.Psych.Psychologist, Educator, Author, Psychotherapist. B.Sc., Psych.Cert., M. Psych. Cert.Garden Design, MACA. Jacinda has over 25 years of experience in psychology, in both Australia and England. She has co-authored several psychology text books and many courses including diploma and degree level courses in psychology and counselling. Jacinda joined ACS in 2001.
Jade SciasciaBiologist, Business Coordinator, Government Environmental Dept, Secondary School teacher (Biology); Recruitment Consultant, Senior Supervisor in Youth Welfare, Horse Riding Instructor (part-completed) and Boarding Kennel Manager. Jade has a B.Sc.Biol, Dip.Professional Education, Cert IV TESOL, Cert Food Hygiene.


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