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From traditional to transformational coaching: Why Whole Person Coaching gives you the inner edge
"Whole Person Coaching enables you to achieve the transformational results your clients are seeking. Become an instrument of change." Over the past few decades, the expectations of a coach have evolved from the traditional goal-centric focus, such as creating SMART...
The Power of Self-Promotion: 10 Reasons Life Coaches Must Master Marketing and Sales
If you're a life coach or any type of coach, your passion lies in helping individuals transform their lives, overcome obstacles, and achieve their goals. You entered the coaching profession because you love aiding others. However, while your coaching skills are...
3 Coaching Traits that Elevate You from Good to Great
How to deliver more value than your coaching clients imagined possible. You’re interested in coaching. Yet there’s part of you that wonders: will I be good at it? Like most of us, you possess expertise in an area you want to help others with. From leading...
What is the salary of an employed coach?
This is a great question. Not surprisingly, it’s one we get asked a lot.And the answer is… There are many factors that influence how much employed coaches make. Knowing reliable techniques and how to leverage your strengths and experience helps boost the level of...
How to give yourself a raise: Become your own boss
Thinking of starting your own business? Before you dig any deeper here, you should know… I’m biased. Becoming a “CoachPreneur” was the single best choice I ever made. Let’s see what you think after reading this… Every discussion on starting a coaching business should...
The Significance of Well-Being for Optimal Cognitive Functioning
Understanding the importance of well-being Well-being as it relates to our cognitive functioning is a central focus of neuroscience. Simply stated, when we don’t feel our best, we are unable to think clearly, creatively, and authentically. This typically incorporates...
Embracing Neurodiversity: Understanding Your Unique Traits and Ways of Existing Within the World
Credited to psychologist Howard Gardner, the concept of multiple intelligences has been revised since it was first put forward back in the early 1980s. In short, it points to the fact that each of us possesses inherent abilities. These abilities often feel as though...
Building a Positive Mindset: Three Ways to Harness the Power of Positive Associations
Power of positivity, inside & out Positive Psychology teaches that having a positive mindset can lead us to more favorable outcomes. Yet it’s also essential to realize that the more your brain creates optimistic associations with stimuli, the more resilient we...
Cultivating Perspective: How Understanding the Big and Little Picture Can Open Your Mindset
Having an expanded perspective leads to a more open mindset. It is one of the key tools that enables us to see what’s missing, both in specific moments and our lives as a whole! Neuroscience teaches that you can create a more complete picture when you expand what you...
Coaching the Whole Person: A Whole Brain Approach to Boost Creativity, Innovation, Imagination, & Intellect
Our brain is divided into two hemispheres yet it’s interconnected, within your skull & all the way out to your skin. For simplicity, let’s begin with a focus on the whole brain – that is the part of your brain encased in your skull. Many people believe that...
Whole Brain Approach for Professional Transformation
Whole Person Coaching® (WPC) is a holistic transformational learning process that leverages the body-mind connection. It is based on the premise that when you fully embrace and embody your whole self as a way of being you can create a life that is uniquely your own....
Whole Person Coaching: The Power of Relationships to Change Lives
Leveraging an embodied, relational brain focus has proven to be the key contributor toward markedly greater understanding, development, and sustainable change for all individuals. Have you ever wondered how much your mindset impacts how you experience your life? How...
The Avalanche Effect Caused by Distrust
Accepting others for who they are actually begins by accepting two critical aspects of yourself first I was immersed in a dreamlike state. Driving south on I-5 with my new boyfriend, a myriad of joyful, tingling feelings energetically pulsed through me. As we sped...
Never Enough Time: 10 Ways To Get Your Time Back
If there is one resource that is truly limited, it’s the time we have. How you spend it deeply impacts how you feel about yourself, your life and others. For example, when you invest your time in helping those who matter to you, it feels really good. But when all of...
8 Benefits of Coaching: Master Your Life, Career & Relationships
As a holistic coach educator, I enjoy sharing with my students all of the ways in which coaching can help their clients transform their lives. But my favorite outcome is what coaching can do for coaches themselves. Learning how to coach teaches you new ways to think,...
How to Find the Best Coach Training School
Coaching is one of the fastest-growing professions in the world. The ability to help others grow and achieve their goals can make you a valuable member of any organization, and it gives you the opportunity to do meaningful work that also pays well. And, if you want to...
How Holistic Coaching Can Help You Make Your Difference
Achieve your next “Ah-ha!” moment by cultivating a felt experience of success The popularity of mindfulness in the West can be traced to Jon Kabat-Zinn, an American professor who studied the mindfulness practices and beliefs of several Buddhist teachers....
5 Steps to Get Your Employer to Pay for Your Coach Training
There are many barriers that prevent people from becoming a successful coach. One of the biggest is getting clients. The other (I feel is equal in value) is that they aren’t professionally trained. This lack of training often results in a one-dimensional approach to...
Overcoming the Shadow of Doubt
Flipping the basement light switch on, my fiancé and I descended into an array of boxes. We were finally taking our first camping trip of the year, at the END of SUMMER. As we gathered our gear, my fiancé grabbed a half-open box and inquired “ When are you going to go...
How to Become a Board Certified Coach (BCC)
Lots of people claim to be a life or business coach. After reading a few self-help books and watching an online video or two, some actually consider themselves qualified to offer what they perceive as “coaching” advice. Coaching, which used to be confused with...
How I became a life coach and started my own coaching business
Hi! I'm Sheila Anne, a Whole Person Certified Life Coach and ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC). I wrote this article to help you find your own way into coaching. If you have questions please ask in the comments box! I was first introduced to life coaching by a...
Skip your 2022 New Year’s Resolutions
How many times have you promised yourself on New Years that you'll finally make the changes you know you need to make. And how long do you honor that promise? I'm no different, but there is a better way to create positive change in your life... It's not just...
Changing Others: The Impossible Conversation
Your phone rings. You recognize the Caller ID and send the call to voicemail. Minutes later, your screen fills with “urgent” text messages. It’s “that” friend or family member. The one who always needs to talk to you “right now.” You know the feeling. It’s never fun....
Meet Life Leadership Coach Lou Ionis
Meet Life Leadership Coach Lou Ionis (WPCC, PCC) from Portland, Oregon, USA As an ICF Certified Whole Person Coach, Lou’s wide range of experience and skills give him the capacity to tailor leadership development for individuals in any role or industry. With an...