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Facilitation: The facilitator's roles is to make it easier for the group to arrive at its own answer, decision or deliverable. The facilitator will assist the group in achieving a consensus on disagreements that preexist or emerge to produce a strong basis for future action.

Professional Life Coaching: is a future-focused practice with the aim of helping clients identify and integrate personal goals with professional goals. Life coaching has its roots in executive coaching, which itself drew on techniques developed in management consulting and leadership training. Life coaching also draws inspiration from disciplines including sociology, psychology, positive adult development, career counseling, mentoring and other types of counseling.

Personal Life Coaching: is a practice with the aim of helping clients determine and achieve personal goals. Is a relationship which is designed, defined and agreed between the client and the coach. Use methods that will help clients with the process of setting and reaching goals. 

Business Coaching: is the practice of providing support and occasional advice to an individual or group in order to help them recognize ways in which they can improve the effectiveness of their business. A good business coach need not have specific business expertise and experience in the same field as the person receiving the coaching, in order to provide quality business coaching services.

Executive Life Coaching: Puts emphasis on the connection between your life and business and how you personally relate to your business vision, model, mission and clients. Also communication and empowerment of your employees, associates and peers.

Ontological Coaching: The word "ontology" means study of being. Ontological Coaching is about coaching to way of being, as a means of producing major shifts in perception and behaviour. In Ontological Coaching, way of being is regarded as the driving influence of behaviour. Performance and effectiveness is shaped by way of being.

Integral Coaching: Fundamental to this method is attending to the entire person (body, mind, spirit, relationships, intentions, well-being, sense of belonging and meaning, viability, and so on.)

Transitional Coaching: Sorting out the life-giving and life-draining elements  that  have   helped create where we are today, and what we want to do about it? We will explore and identify how our desires, abilities and blind-spots are being applied to our choices, objectives and outcomes. Embracing acceptance of our current situation and then strategizing the most practical, effective and enthusiastic ways to get from point A to B to C to D...

Transformational Coaching: A transformational life coach incorporates many modalities available in meeting the needs of the client, from business best practices to personal growth to even spiritual matters. This help may increase awareness and success in transforming one's life. People in transition often want to address deeper convictions about what they want out of life; they want more self-awareness and self-improvement.

Conation: Action derived from instinct; purposeful mode of striving, volition. This is the unique set of innate strengths and talents every person has which remains unchanged from birth.
The Latin 'conatus', from which conation is derived, is defined as "any natural tendency, impulse, or directed effort."

Evolution: The American Heritage dictionary says: 1. A gradual process in which something changes into a more complex form. 2. To develop or work out; to arrive at gradually.

Coaching is not targeted at psychological illness, and coaches are not therapists nor consultants.

 

 

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