Product reviews for The Life Coaching Handbook

`The Life Coaching Handbook` and accompanying CD's are inspirational and challenging for the Life Coach. In Section 1 Curly Martin clears the ground with definitions, explanations of key skills, and an outline of the development of neuro-linguistic programming. Section 2 draws the reader's attention to advanced skills. -˜Reframing' is explained, there is discussion of -˜representation systems' in chapter eleven, and rapport skills are helpfully laid out in chapter 12. Then there are more technical chapters on the Milton Model, and meta-language patterns. It was in these sections that this reviewer had most to learn, appreciating the accessible style of the writer. There follow further informative chapters on coaching meta-programmes, Metaphors With Meaning, The Spiral Coaching Model outlined in chapter 16, then tips on secrets of coaching success, and a final chapter on specialist life coaching.

Although we might say that life-coaching has a limited or more narrow application in educational settings, the writer provides the reader with theory, higher level skills, new models to evaluate and relate to our professional lives. This book will be valued highly by life-coaches, and moreover it has much to share with an education audience unfamiliar with some of the ideas and coaching competences.