Future Self Coaching

Every coach has their own way of working. Even though similar, it is sometimes hard to know what to expect from a life coach. In this section, you can find different techniques, tools, and characteristics that makes my Life & Personal Development coaching services different from the rest. It is important to note that even though this is a general guide, sessions are different depending on each individual’s psychology. As time progresses, I will learn how to adapt our sessions to the benefit of your personal development.

When signing up to my Life & Personal Development coaching services, there are a few things you can expect from my side. Some examples are:

• Evoke self awareness.
• Confidentiality agreement.
• My 100% undivided attention.
• Motivate you to achieve goals.
• Make sure focus is maintained.
• Non-directive behaviour & speech.
• Maintain the structure of the session.
• Time management within the session.
• Acknowledge and celebrate your success.
• Lots of confronting, open-ended, non-directive questions.
• Hold you responsible & accountable for your action points.
• E-mail and Whatsapp respond rate of less than a bussiness day.
• Awareness to spot behavior / speech out of the norm, bring it forward to light, and confront.
• Have a strong internet connection that will not interrupt the functionality of my online life coaching services.

Open ended, non-directive questions are the foundations of a good coaching session. The questions are meant to organize, break down, and analyze in depth the situation that you want to talk about. I believe every person is whole, creative, and the expert of their own life, so I believe these kind of questions are powerful because they allow you to explore yourself in a way that is authentic and in accord to your psychology. Since I will not use statements, – unless they’re used to summarize or mirror you – all of the information input to the session comes from you. The non-directive approach ensures that all the information used during the sessions – included my summarizing & mirroring statements – comes from you only. This session’s dynamics allow you to explore your situation all through your perception, without outsider’s input. This will ensure that you stay true to yourself, and focus on what is important to you. Authenticity is given upmost importance because only by reaching into yourself and increasing your self awareness of what is really important to you, you can make positive, and meaningful long-term change.

I believe every individual to be powerful, creative, and the expert of their own life. Therefore, nobody can answer questions about yourself better than you. By following the path of authenticity, you can find your true self. From there on, you can work on your ideal self. Every human being has tremendous potential, but is sometimes hidden because people don’t show their true self. Societal pressure, expectations, fear of judgement, past experiences, and an oppresive society are a few examples of a never ending list of reasons why it is hard to be authentic and true to your self. During our sessions, we will work through those blockages (if existant), and get you closer to your true self, and later to your ideal self. During the coaching process, it is important to stay true to your authenticity, so that the information that comes out of the sessions – that you will take with you on your every day life – is in line with your values, beliefs, and intentions.

It is important that you are responsible and accountable throughout the coaching process to ensure results. When dealing with personal development and self improvement, it is important that you are commited to achieve the goals we set up. Throughout our sessions, we will go through lengthy processes to analyze situations in depth, confront challenges, and set action points to work towards your goal. Therefore, I expect commitment from you towards your action points, or else all the work done is in vain. Goals are your aim, or desired result: the object of your ambition. Action points are specific, measurable, and realistic steps you can take to achieve your goal. I will assess your responsability and accountability by how commited you are to your action points. If I am to assess you as not being responsible and accountable for yourself, I can decide to terminate our coaching contract. If there is no commitment, it is a waste of time for both of us.

The wheel of life is an exercise of self awareness and organization. It is a tool that states ten different areas that describe a human’s life. Some of these areas include: Work & Finance, Spirituality, Partners & Love, Health & Fitness, Community, etc… Using the wheel of life, you will identify where you find yourself at the moment in each area from one to ten. Similarly, you will also identify where you would like to find yourself in a year from now in a scale of one to ten. Afterwards, you will rate them in order of importance. This simple exercise will open up important topics that must be spoken about for you to grow in all areas of life. It is common that these areas are inter-connected, and that development in one of them might impact the development in another. Completing the life wheel will make you aware of your life situation from a “bird eye”, multidimensional perspective, and will help you set priorities.

Nowadays anyone can call themselves a coach. In fact, many online coaches call themselves a coach, but don’t follow any specific methodology during their work. There are a few regulatory bodies that stand for what coaching is and certify people to be apt to coach. The International Coach Federation (ICF) is the biggest and oldest regulatory body, which has a rigorous process for certification. This process ensures that the person who graduates from an ICF regulated course has the right set of skills to be a good coach. There is a whole section in my website about ICF regulation, with links to their website. Please click here to go more in depth.

Results can be expected at different times for different individuals. There is no definite answer for this in terms of results towards your goal. It depends on the scope of your situation, and how driven you are to achieve your goals through your action points. However, what you can expect from my services as a life coach is that by the end of the coaching relationship, you will have increased self awareness in various areas of life. Most likely you will become more decisive, assertive, and self aware, and will be closer to your ideal self. If everything goes well, by the end of our relationship, you will learn how to do self coaching, learning how to apply the techniques we used together on yourself, for your own self improvement. The ICF conducted a study which concluded that clients with a personal life coach are happy with their results: 99% of individuals and companies who hire a coach are “satisfied or very satisfied” and 96% say they would repeat the process.

Throughout our sessions, we will spend a lot of time talking, and we will go in depth about your particular situation, psychology, values and beliefs. These are all personal, and no two people share the same set of characteristics. Therefore, by understanding your ways of communicating, learning, and expressing, I can adapt the sessions to your benefit. Thanks to my multi-cultural background, education, and incredibly social life since childhood, it’s second hand nature for me to quickly understand a person and adapt to them. This skill proves itself very useful when being a coach. I guarantee you will feel the positive effects of it.