Lifestyle coaching is a term that has become incredibly used over the last 10 years. The term life coaching first became beloved in the USA where, together with Neuro Linguistic Programming, it became part of a new spectacular wave of very proactive therapy modalities. Find a Life Coach in London and make the change today.

In many ways both Personal Coaching and NLP are an answer against certain factors of the person-centred therapy movement, in particular Person-Centred Counselling. A criticism of the human-centred therapy approach is that it is exceedingly reactive and not particularly proactive. Although this works great with some people, with other customers long periods of impasse or low return for time and effort occur. Life coaching and Neuro Linguistic Programming are both human-centred therapy in stance, focusing on improving a customers smiles rather than looking into the depths of childhood, as in traditional psychoanalysis. Their emphasis is, however, deliberately proactive and problem solving.

Performance coaching is not about preaching to the coaching customer what to do. This is a common misconception. Some life coaches are quite successful in their business careers and then make the change to lifestyle coaching, thinking that they will at most be required to divulge their pearls of mind-blowing business wisdom with the client. This is more like mentoring an apprentice in a specific environment. Personal coaching is instead about life as a holistic view.

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