How has coaching helped you? What qualified your coach?

[sambanks]

Coaching is a relatively new type of empowerment offering and can be used for many different topics from relationships to business to Spirituality. As a coach I'd like to know how coaching has impacted your life? What changed for you? If you were to recommend a Coach to someone what qualities should they look for? What stood out for you?

In asking these questions I think that the coaches here on SGN can benefit from your feedback, thank you for anything you can share!

[Michelle]

Hi Sam - One of my very first experiences with a coach was more than a decade ago and boy was it really new then! The coaching was offered to me for free, and If my memory serves me correctly, she was a business coach. I do not think I was ready to work with a coach back then, because I found her to be to "cheerleader-ish" for me. It didn't feel authentic. I also know of another person who worked with her and had amazing results!

So, in my humble opinion, I think that one of the first and most important things that I look for in a coach nowadays, is rapport. It can make or break one's personal success when working with a coach and is important to note that if you do not feel comfortable with a coach, it does not mean that coaching is not for you...simply that that specific coach might not be the right fit!

What I love today most about coaching, whether it be spiritual, relationship or business coaching is that working with a coach can provide an un-biased guidance towards your personal goals and help reveal to you things that you might not have noticed otherwise!

[loonwitch]

Sept 16, 2015 8:27:11 GMT -5 Michelle said:

Hi Sam - One of my very first experiences with a coach was more than a decade ago and boy was it really new then! The coaching was offered to me for free, and If my memory serves me correctly, she was a business coach. I do not think I was ready to work with a coach back then, because I found her to be to "cheerleader-ish" for me. It didn't feel authentic. I also know of another person who worked with her and had amazing results!

So, in my humble opinion, I think that one of the first and most important things that I look for in a coach nowadays, is rapport. It can make or break one's personal success when working with a coach and is important to note that if you do not feel comfortable with a coach, it does not mean that coaching is not for you...simply that that specific coach might not be the right fit!

What I love today most about coaching, whether it be spiritual, relationship or business coaching is that working with a coach can provide an un-biased guidance towards your personal goals and help reveal to you things that you might not have noticed otherwise!

Hi Sam and Michelle

I have had a few different coaching sessions - 3 different types of coaches. Two of them were business, and of those two one was more dedicated to working with women entrepreneurs, in fact, I had her come and teach a workshop for my coven.  

The first coach gave me ideas, and lots of work to do, and I felt as though I were spinning my wheels trying to get all these things done with no results.  I also know now that I was not in the right frame of mind to go through the process.

The second coach; she gave me ideas and perspectives.  She is a certified personal and business coach, and I actually considered getting a certification as a "life" coach myself because I do many things similar to what I have experienced from a "coach".  She helped me to feel empowered - so much so that I had asked her to come and teach a class to my coven.  And it was a very empowering class.  She encouraged me to read the book "Co-Active Coaching" which I really enjoyed.

The third coach is actually Michelle.  I took her 4 Steps to Success program and that by far had the biggest impact on empowering me to go forward into the world and BE and ACCEPT success.

I feel that coaching has to come from that higher calling, and like most things education is great because it gives the coach the understanding of the techniques that will help perform the duties of that role.  But going through life's ups and downs and coming out on top - the life experience is something that can't be taught or read in a book.  And I do feel that the best coaches have the life experience behind them.  They have been where the person is; in the dark, at the beginning and scared... they took the challenge and created a beautiful life for themselves and are now ready to guide others to do the same.

[grahamdragon]

What is said here about coaches is so true. One coach may seem a complete waste of time to one person yet be exactly what another person needs. The same is true of personal development books, webinars, courses etc. In both cases there are good and bad, but also the good may simply not be appropriate for where you are in your spiritual development at the moment.

I spend a lot of time trying to sort the goats from the sheep and then recommend the best to my subscribers. But I recognize that even one of the best will only be right for some.