Life Story Coach Certification

This lecture contains important tips and insights for utilizing the material in this section with your clients.

This lecture is designed to give you some additional insights into supporting your clients 

Before beginning the process of understanding and rewriting your life story, it's important to know WHY you are doing it.

Learn how our beliefs and stories are influenced by the people around us and other influences in our environment.

Here we cover the influence of other factors and their impact on our life story.  In particular we look at at the influences of peers, the media and social responsibility

Develop an understanding of how the brain organizes information and why you need to understand this in order to change your story.

Understand how we develop patterns of behavior and belief over time because of reinforcement for our behaviors.

Learn how to get past the discomfort of doing new things.

Find out why your brain is constantly trying to prove you right, how this can get in your way, and how you can use it to your advantage.

Learn about how our memories work and why this is vital for understanding how our life stories are formed in our mind.

Learn how NLP submodalities can be used to change internal representations of memories and re-code the way they are stored, which changes the experience we have when we recall those memories.

Explore fascinating science that shows us that not only our stories and beliefs can be change but that our BRAINS are changed too!

In this lecture we look at the four life positions of Transactional Analysis sometimes known as the OK Matrix

This lecture contains important tips and insights for utilizing the material in this section with your clients.

In this lecture we'll look at ways in which you can help you your clients identify their story

IMPORTANT! This lecture and activity are a key to this life story process. This is where you will be writing out your "old" story in the format of a movie script. You will be revisiting this activity near the end of the course.

Explore 12 Jungian Archetypes such as "The Hero" and "The Sage" to determine core aspects of your personality and identity.

Explore common aspects of identity, such as poverty and victim, and develop a deeper understanding of your self.

In this lecture we learn more about Transactional Analysis with a closer look at personalities and ego states

There beliefs you hold that you aren't aware of because they are operating below your awareness... learn how to identify them and take away their power!

In this lecture, we look at what has helped shape your life story

Here we take a look at identifying the negatives in relation to your life story

This lecture and activity give you an opportunity to dig deep into your beliefs, determine what they are, if you truly believe them, and how to release the limiting ones.

We take a look at the thinking traps we commonly fall into and how we can change these with a balanced alternative

In this lecture we take a look at how we can identify negative core beliefs

This lecture contains important tips and insights for utilizing the material in this section with your clients.

This is an important lecture for coaches to enhance their practice with their clients using TA and CBT

You are attached to your old story, that's why you keep it around. Discover the benefits you receive from your problems so that you can get honest with yourself and let them go.

We are all moving toward pleasure or away from pain. This activity will help you associate enough pain to NOT making life changes and enough pleasure TO making those changes that you'll be highly motivated to follow through!

Sometimes what IS does not fit will with your beliefs about what "should" be, and so you ignore, deny, or repress it. Learn how facing the truth can set you free.

Here we take a look at exactly it is you want to change in order to rewrite your life story 

This lecture contains important tips and insights specifically for the following 4 lectures and what you need to know to effectively implement these activities with your clients.

Reframing your story means looking at the experiences of you life from a new perspective. Doing this activity is the key to being able to discover the blessings hidden within the curses.

Powerful activity that helps you identify the negative lies your inner critic tells you and the replacing them with the truth of who you are through positive affirmations.

Powerful exercise to dismantle limiting beliefs and replace them with new, empowering ones.

In order to rewrite your new story, you have to know what you WANT in your life. This activity helps you identify your true desires and empowers you to dream big!

The ABC model is an effective method to use in helping rewrite your life story

The Rubber Band is a technique taken from Transactional Analysis that helps with disconnecting from negative associations

This is another technique taken from Transactional Analysis 

This lecture contains important suggestions for how to make the climactic activity in this coaching program meaningful and memorable by creating a closing ceremony.

Now that you've evaluated your beliefs and identity, it's time to rewrit your movie script from your new perspective. 

This lecture contains important tips and insights for helping your client implement their new story through planning and accountability.

In this lecture we'll look at ways you can support and guide your client into living their best life with their new life story

It's important to identify what IS and is NOT within your power to control or influence so that you can use your energy toward what will make the biggest difference in your life.

Willpower or self-control is NOT enough! In order to be able to create change you must understand the cues and triggers that keep you in your old patterns and habits so that you can change them.

In this lecture we explore exposure therapy in a gentle controlled way

Help yourself follow through by rewarding yourself along the way.

Now that you've determined what you want your new life story to be, it's time to identify what changes you need to make in order to LIVE that new story.

Now it's time to put these changes your client has developed into practice..

It's important to be able to apply what you've learned to your ability to empathize and accept other people's stories.

This is a short summary of how you can use Transactional Analysis and CBT effectively with your clients in order to help them change their life story

It's important to create closure and leave your client feeling empowered. Find out how to create a closing ceremony.

Create a symbolic ceremony for yourself to signal to your brain that you have released your old life story and are ready to step forward into the new!