WHAT IS LIFE COACHING?

In life coaching, the coach supports his clients by means of selected methods, techniques and questions to help explore and develop their potential and to achieve positive changes in one or several areas of life, e.g.:

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• professional & private goal finding,

• relationship, 

• decision making,

• work-life balance, 

• family, 

• self-confidence,

• stress management,

• health and

• crises.

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We all know this: we intend to do more sports from now on, to eat healthier or to spend more time with friends and family - but we do not succeed. Or we know it's somehow time for change, but we do not (yet) know what that might be and how we can achieve it. Therefore, it is important to be aware of your personal values and individual (personal & professional) goals.

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Values are like inner guiding signs on our way through life - they help us in pointing out 

• what we spend our time and energy on,

• how we set our priorities,

• how we make important decisions,

• how we achieve important life goals for ourselves and

• how we formulate the meaning of our life.

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We need life goals in order to not just let ourselves drift. If we do not take the rudder ourselves, we may arrive at a wrong destination or let others direct us. Therefore, it is important to define your own life goals and to monitor them: Am I still on course or would I like to set the sail differently? What do I really want? Without being aware of our values and personal goals, we live past them too often.

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We feel this through sudden (or steadily rising) dissatisfaction in our current life situation. You go to work listlessly, are unhappy in your relationship or find it hard to make the right decisions for you. Often, this feeling arises after drastic life events or the transition to a new phase of life, which requires a realignment or reorientation. And the longer you are in such a situation, the more a feeling of being powerless and deadlocked arises.

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Through life coaching a coach accompanies people in this self-discovery phase (sometimes referred to as a crisis of meaning) and helps them to see their situation with different eyes, to gain clarity on their own needs and goals and to develop new perspectives. A good life coach will not give the answers to emerging questions. He / she designs the process while clients always remain the experts for their own topic. That is, both jointly develop solutions (such as detecting & resolving blockages or developing a step-by-step plan) that fit exactly the clients’ individual need.