Mind Map Business School

Certificate in Life Coaching

 
At some point in their lives, everybody seeks advice from friends, family or professionals to help them make decisions or decide how to handle a particular situation or event. The life coach makes available the kind of consistent assistance and support that may be lacking in a person’s life or difficult to obtain when consulting family or friends who may have quite different perspectives.

A life coach can become a confidante, helping the client determine what is important, identify their strengths and weaknesses, and ascertain where they want to be in six months, a year, ten years. Life coaching involves assisting the client set personal and professional goals and establishing a workable strategy to attain them within a given time frame. For clients, a life coach can provide a life-changing experience, an invaluable opportunity to take control over their lives and fulfil their dreams.

Life coaching can help people in many different aspects of their life, from physical and emotional wellbeing to career success and financial management. This course will prepare you to offer life-coaching services to others, or to support yourself through personal change. 

This Certificate course is ideal for those with a basic understanding of psychology or with knowledge or experience in such practical areas as business, fitness, financial management, and who want to help others define and achieve practical goals. 
 
Course Code VPS006
Fee Code CT
Number of Modules 6
Duration (approx) 600 hours

So you want to become a life coach? We can help you.
A life coach is a person who supports others through the processes of finding a way past their perceived or real limitations and taking responsibiity for achieving valued goals. This course will develop your ability to facilitate that kind of change in others so that they can achieve practical outcomes.




Some Sample Course Notes

NATURE OF LIFE COACHING

Like the coach of elite athletes, the life coach is results oriented, and his or her main tasks are to help clients recognise, overcome or remove barriers to personal growth and development, and develop strategies for achieving goals that will enable the individual to develop his or her full potential. Again like the sports coach, the life coach will be required to accurately assess the client’s aptitudes, strengths, weaknesses, needs and goals in order to arrive at a program that is specifically tailored to that individual. Unlike a sports coach, however, life coaches may also have to manage clients’ reluctance, lack of motivation, inaccurate perceptions and other psychological barriers to effective self-management. Life coaching is primarily about helping clients develop the skills and attitudes that will enable them to manage themselves and their own lives.

People may contact a life coach for very different reasons: to help them make better financial or career decisions; to get them motivated; to help them overcome feelings of frustration, helplessness, or lack of confidence; to help them manage personal relationships; to help them develop practical life skills. However, the reasons for contacting a life coach may not be the primary issues that are causing the client distress or dissatisfaction, and much of the life coach’s work will be to lead the client on a journey of self-discovery.

Like all inner journeys, life coaching must begin with the client’s present situation and the many internal and external influences upon it. Life coaching begins with working with the client to understand where the person is at, psychologically, physically, financially and interpersonally. Only after obtaining a more accurate, clear picture of the client’s Present can both client and life coach identify elements in the client’s Past that may be hindering growth in any particular area, and plan strategies for the client’s Future that will encourage and nurture progress.

Some areas in which a life coach may be asked to provide assistance and support are:

-interpersonal relations

-self-esteem and confidence

-development of physical wellbeing

-public and professional image

-personal finances or business

-career development

-practical life skills, such as time management.

COURSE STRUCTURE

The course is made up of the following modules. To complete this qualification you must successfully complete the following 6 modules, and pass the exam for each module.

Life coaching

Career Couselling

Stress Management

Human Nutrition 1

Psychology and counselling

Either Health and Fitness 1 (for anyone without prior health and fitness studies): or

Professional Practice for Consultants