Health & Well-being
- January 2007
Life coaching = Personal Training
for your life!
by Elizabeth Gore,
How I arrived at coaching and
In 2001 in the midst of a successful broadcasting career,
I stopped, looked around and discovered that my sense of
purpose was missing. Following a series of professions – flight
attendant, restaurateur, sales, talk radio host – it
was time to decide what was next. After a lifetime of mentoring,
encouraging and believing in people – I realized that
a “life coach” was what I always had been – and
wanted to become professionally. I became credentialed by
The Coaches Training Institute as a CCPC - Certified Co-active
Professional Coach. Three years later, the International
Coach Federation, awarded me the designation of PCC – Professional
Certified Coach – for 750 + hours of coaching individuals.
Coaching, writing (I’ve finished one book and am working
on the next) and my husband, Manuel, are the three great
passions of my life.
Manuel first brought me to Moab where he’d just finished
building his dream home out on Bridger Jack Mesa six years
ago. I’m a Texan but hadn’t been out to this
part of the west before. It was love at first sight. We lived
here part time for a few years and now full time. Amid all
this magnificence and beauty, how could one’s life,
purpose and possibilities not be inspired to soar?
What life coaching is…
People come to life coaching for many different reasons,
but the bottom line is that they want change in some area
of their lives.
And the bottom line of what I do as a coach is to remind
clients of the wisdom, resourcefulness and power that they
already possess with which to make that change.
In five years as a coach I’ve been deeply inspired
to watch my clients work through all kinds of transitions,
reach goals they weren’t sure they could and face down
a multitude of fears. I’ve also worked with people
that didn’t have a specific challenge or goal, yet
felt something was missing – a sense of purpose, or
a quality of life/aliveness that continued to elude them.
Three of the cornerstones of coaching
are recognition, permission, and noticing.
- Recognition – acknowledging
our strength, creativity and the unique, one-of-a-kind
self we have to express/offer the world.
- Permission – to have what we
want in our lives, and to stop tolerating what we don’t.
- Noticing – observing what keeps
us stuck where we are that works against us, and what we
are doing already that works for us.
Coaching is not therapy, which deals
with deeper issues, often requiring serious exploration of
Coaching takes the past into account, but our work and its
results have to do with the present.
“Personal training for
your life” works the same way as personal
training for your body. Both -
- Create an agenda of specific changes/goals
the client desires
- Strategize how these will be accomplished
- Address and remove what stands in
- Fully support the client throughout
- Commit to work for a period of time
that produces results
How I coach…
Coaching is a convenient process to implement and work with.
It is also completely confidential. The steps are -
- You and I meet on the phone or
in person for informational purposes. We may also have
a short “sample coaching” session. This meeting
is at no charge and implies no commitment to work together.
- If we decide to coach together, you
choose the plan - from a menu of different coaching packages
- that best suits your goals and circumstances.
- Our first meeting is a two hour foundation
session. (If in different locations, this is by phone.)
We define what you want to accomplish, begin to design
a strategy to achieve it and start providing you with self-coaching
tools you can use during and after the coaching process.
- Our meetings after the foundation
session, are all by phone.
Experience what coaching is like… there is no fee
or obligation for a thirty minute sample coaching session.
Whether we decide to work together or not, it’s my
intention that you receive something of value from our session.
For more information, www.ejgore.com.