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A good life coach can push you toward your goals and help you combat this:
"Your comfort zone is your own worst enemy"
(said Barry McCarthy in early 2022)
our page for Life Coaches
To
be a good life coach, you first need to fully understand your worldview.
In a
February 2018 post on coachingfederation.org, entitled
"Coaches: How You
See the World Impacts Your Clients",
Matt Trenchard discusses the
importance of this, and explains
why life coaches should encourage and help their
clients in this regard.
He ends his article by expressing this
wish...
"May
you go into your future sessions, noticing both your own worldview and that of
your client
and may you have deeper, more fruitful, more intimate conversations
leading to greater impact for, and through, your clients"
Project Worldview can help you do this. After
you understand our framework for characterizing worldviews in terms of
104 worldview themes paired to form 52 choices, and have used
our resources to explore your own worldview, we recommend you do the
following: |
#1
After acquainting your clients with what is meant by the term worldview,
give them a copy of the Choices We Make
booklet, or at
least direct them to the smart phone scrolling version of it.
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#2 Devote at least one session to discussing these choices with your client, and perhaps additional ones with choices your client faces that pose particular challenges. And you may decide to spend additional time probing for what you suspect, but what the client is not telling you.
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#3 When appropriate, ask your client to use worldview analysis programs, and reflect on the results and apparent contradictions uncovered. If careful
attention is given to input, the one person program can provide a good %
estimate A second
program can be used to estimate the extent to which the client's worldview correlates #4 As appropriate spend some time with your client discussing particular worldview themes as they relate to challenges they face. The web pages for these themes are wonderful resources to use in this regard! Examples: #41 Struggling
With A Basic Need: Self Esteem #52 Physically
Challenged ==>Independent
Living #201B Positive Expectations* (see below) *While
the last theme above has some value, often the most important thing a life coach can
do for a client is to help that person avoid wishful thinking and be firmly
grounded in reality. |
#5 If
your client is from a progressive background, |
The
ultimate goal of a life coach to help create self-actualized individuals!
Accordingly,
we return to choice #1 in the Choices We Make booklet,
and end with what famed psychologist and human
potential researcher
Abraham Maslow concluded about self-actualized
individuals.
To paraphrase him, he felt such people
“see
life more clearly than others due to a better understanding of themselves.”
And that self-actualized individuals have the “ability to see life clearly,
to
see it as it is, not as they wish it to be.”
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