There are so many people out there claiming to be coaches, how do I select one?

Yes, unfortunately there are people out there who did a quick seminar and claim to be coaches, asking professional coaching fees.

Make sure that the coach studied through an ICF and/or COMENSA accredited & registered institution.

What is coaching and what would I gain from the process?

Coaching is a life changing experience and has as many definitions as authors. Have a look at some of the testimonies on my website to see what clients have been gaining from the process.

The term ‘coach’ is used to describe all types of coaching that may be taking place, both inside and outside the work environment.

Coaching is about creating change that enhances performance and learning.

A coach is a personal navigator for the journey of life, focusing on what the client wants. Everything in coaching hinges on listening with the client’s agenda in mind.

The International Coach Federation (ICF) defines Professional Coaching as "an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations.”

Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life. In each meeting, the client chooses the focus of conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions. This interaction creates clarity and moves the client into action.

ICF member coaches and ICF credentialed coaches recognize that results are a matter of the client's intentions, choices and actions, supported by the coach's efforts and application of the coaching process.

Coaches & Mentors of South Africa (COMENSA) defines coaching as “a professional, collaborative and outcomes-driven method of learning that seeks to develop an individual and raise self-awareness so that he or she might achieve specific goals and perform at a more effective level”.

Coaching involves individual interaction, with a coach and client working closely together in an environment of trust and support. Unique aspects of each client’s personality, goals and environmental factors can be effectively addressed in this kind of forum. Each coaching program is specially tailored to the client’s needs to thereby ensure maximum success.

What is the difference between Coaching, Psychotherapy, Mentoring and Consulting?

Therapy: Therapy may focus on confronting, diagnosing, exposing, intervening and adjusting issues such as traumas, disorders, symptoms, pathologies, patterns and behaviours.

Mentoring: A mentor is usually an expert practitioner in the field that he or she practices as a mentor. A mentor may give advice, share experience and knowledge, guide and help the mentoree. “Mentor” is often defined as a trusted counsellor or guide.

Consulting: A consultant is an experienced individual that is trained to analyse a business, business process or part thereof and give feedback and suggestions in order that the client may make the best choices for their business.

Coaching: Coaching is a potent & professional partnership that empowers people to take control of their lives as a creative process, and to achieve fulfilment and personal freedom. A coach supports a client to focus, prioritise, be proactive, clarify, brainstorm and achieve. Coaching is outcomes-based and emphasises the need for balance and purpose. A coaching cycle will equip the client to explore new possibilities and to overcome blocks to exercise their unique personal power in order to strategise and act, thereby creating a fulfilling and purposeful life. The focus of life coaching is to empower the client through learning practical life skills.

A Coach will have a network of professionals such as therapists, healers, financial advisors should it become apparent that a client is in need of specialised interventions as an alternative to or in addition to coaching.

What is Consciousness Coaching®?

Consciousness Coaching® is a unique method of coaching that supports a client to achieve a heightened level of awareness such that the client becomes able to detach from the conditioned ego and is empowered to choose a self created way of being. It is only through attaining such awareness that the client is truly able to harness the power of creating a life of their own choosing, as distinct from a life in reaction to circumstance, ego demands, the past or conditioned beliefs/attitudes. The power to operate one’s own consciousness frees one to speak, think, and act from a place of self chosen, self created being.