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Life Coach Zen © AJ Mahari – There is Only One Unique You
June 24th, 2010 | Author: Coach A.J.
In all the world there is only one you. You unique and worthy. Unique because you are who you are, just as you are right now. You do not have to fit anyone else’s mold or expectation for you to be who you really are. The only person that you truly need to understand is yourself. From there profound understanding of others and life itself will flow. You are unique. Unique if you succeed. Unique when you fail. Unique when you are happy. Unique when you are sad. You are unique. You are worthy.
© A.J. Mahari, June 24, 2010 – All rights reserved.
Life Coaching Provides Support
June 5th, 2010 | Author: A.J. Mahari
A.J. Mahari firmly believes that Life Coaching supports the client. The client is at the heart of this process. The journey is the client’s. Life coaching is the process through which, in relationship to one another, the life coach walks along your path, for a time, on a part of your sacred journey. It is a sharing. It is support. It is guidance and feedback. Life coaching is a very supportive process that provides a safe place for clients to explore a better or clearer understanding of self and a getting to know you they really are at a deeper and more meaningful and authentic level.
In my Life Coaching practice, support involves active listening. I offer compassionate and patient support. Support also involves asking questions that can help you to gain new perspective that can increase your awareness, give you food for thought, and help you to continue to cope with and/or understand what you are concerned about.
Support as it center, respect and a non-judgmental lovingkindness that is given freely to each client in a validating and understanding way. Support is crucial to the process of life coaching because validating the experience of the client is of utmost importance.
There are many different tools and techniques that employ in coaching clients. I do not try to apply a one-size fits all approach. I have a very ecclectic approach that supports the journey of each and every client for the individual person that you are. Some people are working to address what is blocking success or blocking recovery. Others are interested in transformative change, which is a process – getting from where you are right now to identifying and mapping out strategy to support your personal growth toward the achievement of your goals, needs, desires, and/or dreams.
Others are working to cope with personal circumstances and challenges in ways that can support their moving forward and feeling empowered.
Support is first and foremost about acceptance. As a life coach I meet and accept each client where he or she is and for who he or she is regardless of some of the difficult and painful things people need to talk about. I do not change my opinion of a client and my support does not waiver based on what is shared. My philosophy of life coaching means that my support and unconditional acceptance of the client is given freely and consistently. Each client needs to know that I am not going to judge what they have to say. I am not going to judge choices or decisions made.
In my life coaching practice, as a touchstone, involved in helping people to educate themselves more about what they need and how to meet those needs (or goals) I believe that mirroring acceptance not only provides safety but it also provides a positive psychology-based perspective to help the client re-frame any negative core beliefs, negative thoughts, self-destructive and/or self-critical behaviour and attitudes toward self that may well be important to understand in terms of what often blocks you from attaining your goals.
Support is central to life coaching. Life coaching is not about me, as your life coach, telling you what you need or what you should do. It is up to each client to find that out, and to define that and make his or her own choices. Life coaching is not about giving you answers. It’s about hearing you, supporting you, validating you and helping you to ask the questions that can help you to find your own answers and your own way forward.
© A.J. Mahari – All rights reserved.
