This course is suitable when you:
- have developed experience working one on one with clients in a structured program, with the learning and practical course requirements from our previous modules.
- have researched about life coaching and are already in a coaching relationship with a life coach or mentor.
- have identified your strengths and personality are best suited for a career in life coaching
- are willing to set up a professional part-time of full time life coach business/practice as per the regulations in South Africa.
QUALITIES OF A LIFE COACH
- Maintain a Positive Attitude - A positive attitude to inspire your clients by your belief in them.
- Be Passionate - Be passionate and empathetic with a desire for helping others – this trait allows you to understand your client’s emotions and barriers to success.
- Have Great Listening Skills - Listening to clients is what life coaching is all about. Understanding subtle tells and messages help in understanding your client’s issues
- Be Non-Opinionated - As a coach, your job is not to give client advice, it is to facilitate client’s finding solutions to barriers to success in their career or personal life.
- Free of Judgement - The world is filled with people who hold different opinions that you don’t agree with. But, in their view of the world, these opinions might be accurate. Discernment is the key to master.
- Cultivate Curiosity - Curiosity fosters your ability to ask questions of your clients that help them understand their own feelings and how they impact their success.
- Be challenging - The very best coaches challenge their clients so they gain a deeper understanding of their issues. A coach challenges clients in a way that causes them to face the reality surrounding them with clarity, focus, and honesty.
- Be Observant - Great coaches learn much by observing clients and sort out the subtlest signs of worry, uncertainty, and trepidation.
- Communicate With Clarity - To be an excellent coach it is vital that you communicate well on many levels such as body language, vocabulary and more.
- Stay Honest - Preserve your integrity. Your coaching relationship with clients depends on trust.
- Be fluent in asking questions - it is in the quality of the question where the coach makes the biggest difference
You will learn how to master the above skills in addition to learning numerous psychological perspectives that can help you to cultivate the craft of life coaching in a very effective and efficient way.
ADVANCED LIFE COACH CERTIFICATION COURSE
1. Pre-requisite: Completion Heal Your Life Teacher Certification Course (120 hours)
2. Pre-Requisite - Personal Life Coach Sessions (10hours)
3. Online Master Class - Heal Your Life Coach Certification Course (70 hours)
3. Total Independent practical case study assignment hours (50 hours)
TOTAL CREDIT HOURS: 250
This course qualifies students for membership and credentialing with Coaches and Mentors South Africa (COMENSA).