A Fireside Chat with Dr. Patrick Williams

Welcome To Wellness Coaching

Hello World!

I'm Dr. Michael Arloski, the Director of Wellness Coaching for ILCT.

Climbing on board the blogging bandwagon a bit later than our other authors, I'll do my best to make it up to you with blogging entries that you will find valuable.

1979 was when I attended the National Wellness Conference for the first time. This summer I presented there for the 22nd time, so I have some perspective to share. In recent years I've seen the wellness field and the world of coaching come together in more and more ways.

50 Benefits of Joint Venture Marketing!

by Dr. Jim Vuocolo

What is a joint venture? A joint venture is an agreement in which two or more
businesses work on a project for a set period of time. Joint ventures can be
long-term, like promoting a product together, or some can be short-term, like
bartering (trading) products and services. Joint venture ideas are virtually
endless.

The Benefits Of Joint Venture Marketing include:

1. You can build long lasting business relationships.
2. You can increase your credibility by teaming up
     with other reputable, branded businesses.
3. You can get free products and services.
4. You can construct most joint venture deals with little
     or no money.
5. You can gain new leads and customers.
6. You can get discounts on products and services.
7. You can save money on business operating costs.
8. You can beat your competition.
9. You can gain referrals from other businesses.
10. You can solve your business problems.

Loving With Intention

I am excited to tell you that my new workbook Loving with Intention: A Guide for Relationship Coaching is now available for purchase!

Cost - $24.95

Special introductory offer to ILCT Blog readers - purchase the book by Sept 1 and save on shipping and handling

Are you a life coach with a desire to assist couples in creating the relationship of their dreams?   Or, a psychotherapist looking to transition into professional coaching?  Relationship coaching is an emerging niche in the burgeoning field of professional coaching.  Loving with Intention: A Guide for Relationship Coaching is a practical, hands-on resource for working with couples. Whether you are an experienced coach or brand new to the profession, this book provides you with the tools necessary to establish successful coaching alliances with couples that will transform their relationships. 

For more information, go to: http://www.lifecoachtraining.com/Loving_with_Intention.pdf

To order, email lisa@livingwithintention.com

Write Your Way to Credibility!

Over time, you can build credibility for your business by publishing an e-zine and writing articles. Your clients, former clients, and prospects will view you as being an expert in your niche and trust you. You can also submit your articles to other e-zines for republishing -- this will increase your publicity and give you entree into their databases. Just be sure to  insist they include your name as the author and your contact information at the end of the article. If you don't enjoy writing, speak your articles and thoughts into a microphone and record your ideas -- then have them transcribed by a Virtual Assistant, or someone else, who can turn your spoken ideas into articles. Dont' be afraid to use your imagination and partner with others for your mutual success! - Coach Jim

Coaching the Global Village

Coaching the Global Village ™ ©:    A THOUGHT paper on powerful possibilities

Proposal:  To utilize the power of the coach approach as exemplified today with the evolution of the profession of Life Coaching for personal and professional growth, I am proposing that a Coaching the Global Village program/project be developed to create positive social change for the underserved, undervalued, underfed, undereducated, and underappreciated in many of the villages and towns of the world, especially in places like Africa, South America and Mexico amongst others.

My big vision is for a coaching initiative I am calling "Coaching the Global Village" in partnership with Rotary International, use the coach approach to combat hunger, poverty, and education in the poorer regions of the world.
Rotary of which I was a member for 15 years  is already in almost all countries...So i hope to propose a joint effort with them and then get coaches to volunteer their skills in third world countries.  Just as the medical profession has DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS, we surely have many highly skilled coaches who would volunteer their skills to provide coaching to village leaders and men and women who want to improve their lives economically, socially, spiritually and live more purposefully and in a way of thriving rather than surviving.  Yes, there are many services they need, but coaching as a conversation of empowerment, will evoke their own wisdom, and guidance to make a collaborative and creative effort to change their living situation. If more food is needed, what are the pathways? If better education is needed, what can be done creatively?  All of this can be accomplished in conjunction with existing governmental and international programs, and it can be magnified in ways outside of governmental bureaucracy just as Rotary International has done with eradicating polio throughout the world.  Or the model of micro banking that has been shown to be effective in small villages in third world countries.
And through these efforts, this initiative would win the Nobel peace prize!!!!!
Patrick Williams, EdD
Master Certified Coach and Psychologist
Author, Speaker, Trainer, Coach and
Ambassador of Life Coaching

Marketing Questions

There are a lot of ways to interview a prospective coaching client,
whether you do so over lunch or in a complimentary session. Here
are a few thoughts I've adapted over the years from the late Thomas
Leonard, who was one of my own coaching mentors. I hope you find
some of them useful in your own marketing strategies. Remember,
don't seek to "sell coaching" -- Rather, talk to people about what
REALLY interests them ... THEMSELVES! Happy marketing! - Coach Jim

Possible Marketing Questions

1.    Where do you want to be in 5 years?
2.    What’s the biggest challenge you're currently facing?
3.    What interests you most about coaching?
4.    How perfect is your life?
5.    If you could have anything, and money were no object,
       what would it be?
6.    When would you like to start working together?
7.    What are you looking for in a coach?
8.    How would having a coach help you (earn more, be more productive, etc.)?
9.    What are you wasting your time with?
10.    What’s holding you back the most?

Dear Fellow Coaches:

I just returned from my second National Wellness Conference in Stevens Point on the University of Wisconsin campus. I love this conference. I went last year for the first time and delivered two presentations on coaching. My colleague and the director of our wellness coaching classes at ILCT, Dr. Michael Arloski, also presented on coaching. Michael has been going to this conference for 25 years and encouraged me to go and I am so glad he did. Coaching is becoming a hot topic at the wellness conference and they now give continuing education credits for ICF certified coaches!!!

I encourage you to attend next year, and even submit a proposal to present. This is a conference (www.nationalwellness.org) where everyone wears shorts and t-shirts all week, does Tai Chi, yoga, NIA classes and more in the morning, noon and evening and the presentations and keynotes are very good. So if you want to learn, and make new friends in a college atmosphere come to Stevens Point, Wisconsin the week of July 15, 2006...and stay in the college dorms for a real campus experience (but bring your own pillow!!!)

Happy Coaching,

Pat

20 Moments of Truth

20 Moments of Truth are the moments at which a person
1) chooses to use your services
2) chooses to continue to use your services, or
3) chooses to use your services again and recommends you to their friends
    and family.

These occur:
1. When a person hears someone else praise you or your work.
2. When a person likes your physical presentation (appearance, handshake, voice,
    smile, etc.)
3. When a person is touched intellectually and emotionally by what you say.
4. When a person recognizes you as a model of who or what they would like to
    become.  (Unconditionally constructive, get that people are right; tell the truth;
    the present is perfect, etc.)
5. When a person experiences that you are consistently excellent technically.
6. When a person knows that you care.
7. When a person feels that they are safe with you.
8. When a person trusts your professional credentials.
9. When a person thinks they will be challenged and get what they need from you.
    (Specific coaching for what they presented.)
10. When a person pays your fee without any conversation.
11. When a person looks forward to small gifts and  thoughtful messages from you.
12. When a person knows that you will make it right for them, if they have a complaint.
13. When a person knows that your fee is slightly above the industry standard, and
     feels you’re worth it.
14. When a person is sure that their success and well-being is your priority.
15. When a person knows that you never stop growing professionally.
16. When a person is asked to tell you their expectations and frustrations about
     the service you provide.
17. When a person knows that you have designed your business around what is
     convenient for them.
18. When a person is able to reach you effortlessly. (If you can’t answer the
     phone in person, you have a secretary, voice mail or answering machine,
     cellular phone or pager, AND you respond.)
19. When a person can count on you to treat them as a unique individual with
     unique needs.
20. When a person knows you will remember their birthday and their kids’ names.

Live Training with Patick Williams, the ambassado of life coaching

Opportunity to train with Patrick Williams live in Cape Cod!!!!
Dear ILCT members, and Tomorrow's Life Coach subscribers

Patrick Williams is once again presenting his very popular workshop in Cape Cod this summer with the New England Educational Institute, August 22-26. Even though the symposium is called Therapist as Life Coach, it is applicable for anyone who wants to hear Pat's perspective on Life Coaching as the operating system of all coaching and how it is different and a unique profession. Topics include history of coaching, distinctions, and practice....all done with Pat's humor and enthusiastic and engaging style.

Click here for details:

http://www.neei.org/workshops/conference_details.aspx?WID=2&CID=25

THERE IS STILL ROOM FOR 25 PEOPLE!!!!

This symposium has been designed to provide participants with an understanding of the theory, historical perspective, and practical methodology of the profession of personal and professional coaching and how it has evolved. This symposium will clarify the distinction between therapy and coaching. Participants will learn skills that are transferable from the field of therapy and skills that need to be "unlearned." This symposium has been designed for participants who would like to understand further the field of coaching and how they may incorporate it into their practice or evolve their practice into one entirely of coaching.

Live coaching demonstrations, practical experience, and interactive worksheets will be utilized to illustrate coaching principles and techniques.

Loving with Intention

The Smart Marriages conference that Pat Williams mentioned was amazing!  If you're curious about relationship coaching with couples, read on....

Relationship coaching is a growing niche for life coaches who want to assist couples to have extraordinary relationships. 

As life coaches we engage in conversation with our clients about their purpose, their vision for a fulfilling life, their dreams and desires. Our work is focused on narrowing the gap between where they are and where they want to be. In relationship coaching with couples, there is another layer ---the relationship vision---in addition to each partner’s personal vision. The relationship vision is designed by both partners, and the process of co-creating it enables couples to consciously explore and then articulate what they want from the relationship and from each other.

According to Harville Hendrix’s Imago theory, in a committed partnership each individual carries the blueprint for the other’s psychological and spiritual growth. What this means is that the needs and desires of one partner are exactly what the other partner must satisfy in order to become whole themselves. In relationship coaching, the process of creating a shared vision and then developing and implementing a plan to achieve the vision is how this blueprint becomes real. From there the work focuses on narrowing the gap between where the couple is now and where they want to be. The power of the coaching relationship assists couples to create a conscious relationship---to love with intention.

Are you a coach looking to add relationship coaching to your practice?  Check out the Institute for Life Coaching training website (lifecoachtraining.com) for details about the next offering of Relationship Coaching with Couples beginning this fall. 

To learn more about Imago theory, go to: http://www.imagorelationships.org/

To read the full article on Loving with Intention, go to: http://www.livingwithintention.com/april05-1.htm

Look for details on the blog for Loving with Intention, a relationship coaching manual for coaches to be released in August!