Coaching Strategies

Life coaching strategies vary among coaches, however, basic techniques are established by university programs and various professional organizations focused on healing processes for individuals facing challenges in their personal or professional lives. For individuals who do not have known mental health conditions or behavioral disorders, I have found great success using both the holistic and semi-structured inquiry-based exploratory methods.

Holistic coaching is a powerful strategy for approaching various aspects of a person's life – body, mind, and spirit, through a process of guided listening on the part of the life coach, in order to help individuals verbalize their thoughts and in that conversational process discover various aspects of themselves that they have previously not been aware of.

The inquiry-based exploratory method guides question and answer sessions that generate clarity for the client, as well as goal setting and goal attainment over time. This method is particularly effective in group sessions, where input from all participants is important. These methods can be combined with great results.