What is life coaching?
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Learn more about our approach to the questions "What is Life Coaching?" and what our personal leadership coach and personal breakthrough specialist Tony Healer has to say.
What is Life Coaching?
Tony Healer has inspired coaching clients in Manchester, and across the UK since 2009. Every one unique, and every one with a different situation or motivation to change something. But what is coaching?
Life coaching is a dynamic conversation between the coach and the coachee on a topic, situation, challenge or goal the client wishes to develop. The International Coaching Federation (ICF) define coaching as "partnering with a client in a thought provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential".
The content, purpose and drive of the conversation is determined by the client. The coach follows a process that tap's in to the coachee's hidden potential. Deeper level thinking leads the coachee to empowering insights that deliver inspiring personal or professional growth. Those "aha" moments of insight will change the way you think about solutions that can literally change your life. A coach will help capture insights and to put them to work in your life in a way that will bring compounding positive results.
Our coaching business is founded on solid development principles and high standards espoused by professional coaching bodies such as International Coaching Federation (ICF) or Association For Coaching (AC).
Working with a life coach is a strategic alliance to give you an advantage for your personal and professional development.
Who is life coaching for?
Life coaching is for people who are ready to invest in themselves and commit to achieving more. We help experienced professionals, business executives and small business owners uncover and break free from the hidden patterns behind self-doubt and self-sabotage, so they can live with greater confidence, connection and fulfilment.
Whether the goal is career coaching, relationship coaching, health coaching, business growth or simply better work life balance our services will help you overcome obstacles that stand in your way. Tony's client base includes public services, private sector, charities, employees, business owners. It doesn't matter if you are at ground level or in supervision and even leadership roles. If your personal and professional development is important to you, life coaching should be a primary consideration for you.
An introduction to coaching appointment with Tony will help you identify the best approach and inspire you into action to get to where you want to be. We wont charge you, or "hard sell" any of our services. We will answer your questions and suggest best options.
All we need to ask is when would now be a good time for you to work with a professional life coach and personal breakthrough specialist?
What is Life Coaching Useful For?
Tony Healer is a personal leadership and personal breakthrough specialist who helps clients overcome internal conflicts, and often subconscious obstacles that obscure or block the path to success. These can even show up in successful CEO's, leaders and business professionals as blind spots, or negative thinking patterns like performance anxieties, imposter syndrome or self doubt. Once overcome, the new possibilities are invigorating. Coach Tony is passionate about helping our clients move beyond their comfort zone's. Whether it be through face to face coaching in Manchester or online Tony's unique approach helps clients tap potential they never knew they had.
Our approach to life coaching is all about fostering positive and lasting personal change that you want to keep. Some people come with clear goals already laid out, while others may start without a specific direction in mind. In fact, many use the Personal Leadership Coaching Program which is based on Results Coaching Systems™ principles to create and achieve an inspiring personal development plan. Tony will help set goals, work out strategies and create actions that will bridge the gap from where the coachee is to where they want to be.
That is why we call our podcast "The Bridge to the Bigger You™"
Our Personal Leadership Coaching Program
Our twelve session results based personal leadership coaching program will help you create a strategy for achieving your primary goals and clear action steps that you will take along the way. Your personal growth is what matters. The person you will become along the coaching journey is someone your future self will be grateful for. In fact, your future self may ask why you didn't do this sooner.
Our Personal Breakthrough Experience
Our personal breakthrough coaching program will help you overcome emotional blocks, fears, phobias, limiting beliefs about your self and blow away obstacles in your path. Whilst we are not a mental health service people often find NLP or hypnosis sessions transformative and therapeutic. This is your best coaching approach for clearing internal obstacles.
What is life coaching for me?
No two clients share the same goal or obstacle and no two sessions are the same. This means there are no guarantees for what coaching will deliver for you. That said, life coaching offers benefits that go way beyond the sessions held with your coach. In fact, your sessions are merely gateways to growth and new, exciting possibilities. It is how you show up and take action that will drive specific results you desire. Potentially that could be a personal breakthrough such as:
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confidence in public speaking
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excitement in your career prospects
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mastery in relationships at work and at home
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belief in your own business idea
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sense of fulfilment in work and life
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overall feeling of elation
The power of life coaching is in the moments of discovery, or flashes of inspiration that open doors to resources you never realised you had. You may find yourself uncovering exciting gems that you can put to use immediately.
Life coaching is about achieving inspiring goals and overcoming hurdles that have held you back for years. Have you ever said to yourself, "I really want to do that, but"? When you overcome your biggest buts your wins compound, year after year. Your results will be your's forever.
You may have heard the phrase “success breeds success.” As you build momentum towards specific outcomes, opportunities will appear. Life coaching sessions will help prepare you to take them. Life coaching offers you a chance to take a journey across the bridge to the bigger you and discover what you will become along the way.
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What is life coaching NOT for?
One of the key benefits of life coaching is in the ability overcome obstacles and expand possibilities for the client. It is not a magic bullet. It is not passive on your part either. It takes effort, commitment, and the occasional touch of brutal honesty. It's often what you need to hear, not necessarily what you want to hear.
Life coaching therefore is not for you if you have no real desire to overcome obstacles. I just wish I could change my life ...
BUT I can't afford it
BUT I don't have time, I have so much to do …
BUT I’m too young, Ive got all my life ahead of me, why rush?
BUT it wont work for me, I already tried it once
BUT I'm too old, what do I need to change anyway?
They may be big "BUT's" and if you want to stay stuck in that story, coaching is not for you. People who chose to work with us are tired of being stuck, tired of watching others succeed, tired of watching life pass them by. Perhaps you have a current dilemma, something like:
"I'd really like to get a new job but I'm no good at interviews"
"I'd really like to start a business but I don't know where to start"
"I'd be a better boss than them but I just can't pass the exams"
"I should give up smoking but I don't have the willpower"
"I'd really like to lose weight but I know anything about nutrition"
"I'd really like to meet someone again but I'm too shy"
"I really want to see the world but I'm freaked out by a fear of flying"
We are proud of our five star life coaching reviews from our incredible clients who say that Tony Healer Life Coaching really helped them. The key difference for our clients is they stopped simply wishing their life away. They were the ones who got off their buts and took action to overcome obstacles that showed up along the route. And yes, they went on to achieve incredible things.
Our Manchester Life Coach Tony Healer is probably not for you if you don't want to achieve any more than you are currently achieving. BUT, if you want to have more, do more, or even be more, then life coaching sessions could be the answer for you. There is only one way to find out what a life coach can do for you.
"Life coaching is about creating positive and lasting personal change" - Tony Healer
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Never be afraid of not being enough.
That fear is your potential going to waste.
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What is the difference between life coaching and mentoring?
Life coaching and mentoring have a place in your personal journey depending on where you are.
Life coaching sets the vision and goal whilst mentoring develops skills and knowledge to achieve them. Another way to put this would be:
"A mentor will tell you what to do, but an effective life coach intuitively asks questions that shifts autonomy over your personal and professional development back to you" - Tony Healer
How is life coaching different to therapy?
Therapy assumes you have a problem, whilst life coaching assumes you have a goal. Therapy is used to diagnose or treat specific medical or cognitive conditions such as severe emotional trauma, anxiety and depression. Some talking therapies are closely related to coaching approaches. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for instance. CBT is a licensed therapy which is available through the UK National Health Service for specific neurological interventions.
A life coach cannot make professional diagnosis and therefore may refer a client to a medical practitioner should it be useful. Our life coaching and personal breakthrough services will not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment for medical conditions, but it will change your life.
Which Life Coaching Program Is Right For You?
What level do you want to achieve within a specific area or aspect of your life?
Can Tony Healer's coaching help you reach your highest potential or optimise your results here? The answer is a resounding "Yes!". The real obstacle holding you back right now is your commitment to doing the things that need to be done.
You will only discover what life coaching is for you when you defy the odd's, set a new standard and step up. Take the bridge to the bigger you. Life changing results follow life changing decisions. Schedule an introduction now to make a change your future self will thank you for.
To Your Success!
Tony Healer
Manchester life coaching & personal leadership specialist