Australia's Life Coaching Institute: Finding Ways To Help People

The Life Coaching Institute in Australia is the country’s leading coach training organization. The Institute has trained various life coaches as more and more people look to life coaching to help them handle life and overcome their issues. The history of life coaching covers a rich literature of concepts and principles associated to humanistic psychology based on the teachings of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow with their theories on higher human values as well as on self-development and self-understanding.

 

The Institute makes sure that life coaches have a better grasp of the theories, strategies and techniques that can be utilized in helping people maximize their full potential. This is very important because it is the role of life coaches to equip their clients with the right tools and life skills to achieve the fullness of life. In truth, it is the person who will work to attain his goals and life coaches only provide the means for the person to do so.

There are various life coaching theories that provide the meat to the many coaching approaches. The GROW model is an effective tool in helping life coaches use structure in their coaching dialogue. The GROW model also provide coaching sessions the required focus and direction, which will aid clients develop awareness as well as accountability. Often, it only takes awareness on our part for us to be in control of our lives. Once we have identified what stops us from pursuing our goals, then we can find means to process it through the aid of life coaches. Hence, GROW stands for Goal, Reality, Options and Way Forward.

 

Another approach is the Reality Therapy, which is based on choice theory. It claims that individuals have the same underlying problem, which is finding themselves stuck in a rut or a place where they are miserable. The coach then guides or directs the person to a more satisfying situation and basically instructs the client to behave positively, the opposite of the behavior he or she has been exhibiting in the past.

 

The Solution-Focused Therapy or SFT stresses on the unsatisfying situation and help to look at in with a different perspective. Afterwards, alternative possibilities are presents to be followed by goal setting complete with an action plan to attain the goals. This therapy asserts the long-held belief among life practitioners that the answer is in the hands of the person. It is part of our human evolution to be able to adapt and make changes. It only requires a certain push towards the right direction, which is now the task of the life coach. 

 

The final therapy espouse by the Life Coaching Institute is the Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP, where it is more of a technique than a therapy. NLP studies what works in thinking, language and behavior. It then applies this as a coaching intervention tool to improve learning capacities, set goals and strengthen relationships as well as handle the dynamics of thoughts and emotions in an effective manner.

The Life Coaching Institute in Australia aims to help individuals be the best that they can be through training and research to equip life coaches with the proper tools to help their clients. However, for the therapy to be successful, it is still up to the individual to want things to be better.