What is Self Coaching?
Self coaching is when you take the initiative in creating positive changes in your life without one-to-one intervention from a life coach, counsellor, psychologist or other helping professional.
What are the Benefits of Self Coaching?
If you can coach yourself successfully without the intervention of a third party this has the following benefits:-
- You feel empowered and realise your own capabilities
- You work towards and achieve personal coaching goals that you have set for yourself
- You develop skills and abilities which you can use in the future to make further progress in different areas of your life in personal growth and in professional development
- You save money! - A series of life coaching or counselling sessions can cost you anything from £250 upwards so self coaching can be highly cost effective! between .
Is it Possible to Coach Yourself Successfully?
You can coach yourself successfully but it's a bit like driving a car - you are unlikely to be able to coach yourself without learning the appropriate self coaching techniques and applying them to coach yourself.
Essential Ingredients of Self Coaching
The following factors are likely to increase your chances of coaching yourself effectively:-
- Learn some basic self coaching techniques
- Use coaching exercises and forms to guide, monitor, sustain and evaluate your progress
- Follow a sensible and clearly thought out self coaching program rather than just trying to achieve change ad hoc or on an impulse.
Coach Yourself Newsletter
The Coach Yourself Newsletter created by experienced Life Coach David Bonham-Carter provides you with the essential tools and coaching techniques necessary to coach yourself (see below):.
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| Purpose of Newsletter | To help you to coach yourself effectively |
| Content of Newsletter | A 7-week web based self coaching program with guided exercises and instructions followed by regular newsletters on coaching techniques with accompanying instructions |
| Format | Web based newsletters - At regular intervals you are sent by email links to webpages where you can access the guidance and self coaching forms essential to coaching yourself in a structured and sensible way |
| What is included in the initial web based self coaching program? | The following are included in your first 7 newsletters which form the basic self coaching program and are sent out at weekly intervals: Week 1 (included with your first newsletter): Initial self coaching assessment tools and forms:
Week 2: Being Yourself - Exercises to help you explore core values and the directions you want to go in Week 3: Stages of Change and strategies for change based on Motivational Interviewing coaching theories Week 4: Evaluating and making changes to your weekly routine Week 5: The Miracle Question from Brief Solution Focused Therapy and other ideas for creating a vision to follow Week 6: Setting goals and outcomes and understanding the difference between them Week 7: Thinking about support to help you move towards your outcomes and establishing mechanisms for monitoring and reviewing your progress. |
| What coaching principles is the self coaching program based on? | The initial self coaching program (outlined above) is adapted for simple and effective use as a web based coaching program from materials in David Bonham-Carter's ebook self help program Changing Your Life - A Practical Guide which is based on a balance of different coaching approaches, including motivational interviewing, solution focused therapy and person centred counselling and coaching principles. |
| Information about Basic Coaching Techniques | This is included with additional forms provided as appropriate for coaching yourself |
| Information about Advanced Coaching Techniques | This is included after the initial self coaching program with additional forms provided as appropriate for coaching yourself and information about using CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) techniques to deal with stresses, anxieties and negative thoughts or mental blocks is provided |
| Reviews of Coaching Books | Reviews of coaching books are Included as the newsletter progresses |
| Frequency of Newsletter | Weekly for the first three months then at least fortnightly |
| What does it cost? | The cost is just £5 per month and you can unsubcribe easily at any time (see below). |
| How easy is it to unsubscribe? | Easy - you just click a link at the foot of any newsletter email and unsubscribe yourself via an automated process - your monthly payment will then cease |
| How do I sign up? | Click on the payments link below to subscribe for the monthly payment then follow the instructions. On completion of your purchase, you will be sent an email containing a link for you to click on to start receiving your self coaching newsletters. |
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