Each of us requires strong interpersonal and communication skills to meet the needs of clients and those we interact with. The purpose of this course is for participants to continue to develop their specific skills, and to apply these skills to a variety of coaching situations.

The Empowering Life’s Energies course presents the basic principles of coaching, developed and continually enhanced by Academy staff since 1985. The purpose of this course is to enhance your skills and determine your strengths and identify areas for improvement.

Role-play exercises and actual coaching sessions with immediate feedback allow you to develop and enhance your communication, listening, and coaching skills. This coaching interaction/immediate feedback model allows you to hone the skills acquired during Empowering Life’s Energies. As a result, you leave this course with more confidence in your ability and even greater ease in coaching others. In addition, you will receive additional tools and techniques to target your coaching interactions and communication so as to achieve optimal results in any coaching situation.

You will learn to:

• Employ powerful questions that encourage inquiry and curiosity and move your client beyond self-generated limitations
• Implement perceptive listening skills that go beyond the content of what is expressed so that meaningful conversation emerges
• Establish and maintain a partnering alliance with whomever you coach
• Support your client(s) in going from insight to action
• Foster genuine promises that produce reliable outcomes
• Create an environment in which clients bring forth their natural capabilities and strengths
• Observe how and when your non-verbal behavior promotes or hinders coaching
• Generate a powerful coaching context that can be applied to every coaching interaction.
• Distinguish between rules and principles, and how to support clients in making use of principles, so as to apply what they’ve learned to the rest of life
• Above all, practice, practice, practice coaching!