Your life coach will explore your goals with you and set some targets to be reviewed at an agreed time.  As you go along through the sessions you will work towards your main goals.  This isn't always necessarily plain sailing as your coach may challenge you to address certain aspects of your thinking or behaviour that they feel are negative or destructive to your overall aims.  Discussions therefore will need to be open, frank and totally honest on both sides, which of course means absolute confidentiality (see Code of Practice).  You will agree with your coach on tasks to be completed by you before your next meeting or a review date and they will support you entirely throughout the process.  A well trained and experienced coach is highly skilled in enabling clients to think more clearly, more positively and more creatively so that you will discover within yourself how to be successful and to act with confidence and utter self-belief to achieve long-term results in any area of your life you choose.   

As there is a significant degree of dedication required on the part of every client, you may be asked by your coach to sign a "contract" to show your commitment to the changes you will make and the effort you are about to put in.  The "contract" will state what your coach will do for you and how they will support you. You will both meet from time to time, usually weekly but sometimes more and sometimes less, until those goals are achieved or until you decide you have new goals you want your coach to help you with.  Usually it takes at least two meetings to start to develop your goals, map out the way forward and being seeing small results, but you will probably need around four sessions at least to start making real changes.   

At each session you will review how things have gone. Ideally you will discuss the benefits of undertaking the tasks set by your coach and how you have grown as a result and then move forward onto the next set of goals and closer to your ultimate target.  If it hasn't been as good a result as you would have liked you will both discuss the reasons for this and maybe amend your plans to make them more realistic or take account of new circumstances.  However, if your coach feels that your commitment is not sufficiently high enough, or if it is evident that personal circumstances are preventing you from gaining any benefit from the relationship at that time, they may discuss with you the option of terminating the coaching relationship until you are ready to restart.  In this situation you will be offered a refund of unused pre-paid sessions.  With mutual agreement your coach will stay in contact with you and when you feel the time is right you can start coaching sessions again with renewed goals and targets. 

Throughout the process your coach will continually encourage and motivate you and listen carefully right from the beginning to form a clear idea of how you "tick" and what will work best for you. They need to get to know you very well so it can become quite an intense relationship for the period of time you are working together towards your goals.

As no two clients are the same the client-coach relationship is always going to be unique.  Therefore the process is flexible and tailored to your specific needs.  There is no set format or timeframe for working within.  Once your goals are achieved, or if for any reason you decide its time to part company, the relationship is terminated. You are in complete control the whole time. Your coach will not judge or criticise you and all details of your coaching relationship are kept in absolute confidentiality. 

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