Strategic Life Coaching Practitioner Cert (ACCREDITED)

This section traces the history of coaching, introduces three key questions and prerequisites for effective practice, and explores conscious responsibility and when not to coach.

Explore the history and effectiveness of coaching, tracing memory retention with the Ebbinghaus curve and showing how continual coaching reinforces learning for lasting change.

Determine that clients change only when they are ready for change. Offer a 30-minute free session to assess readiness and refer out legal, medical, or moral cases to qualified professionals.

Explore three questions that drive strategic life coaching: why we behave, how to create rapid, pattern-based change, and learning from others to empower clients.

Explore the prerequisites of strategic life coaching as flexible guidelines, not fixed rules, recognizing that clients are not their behaviors and that strategies guide change with positive intent.

Explore the coaching prerequisites by recognizing that clients often don't know their destination, uncovering limiting stories, and aligning with their map of the world. Increase choices to enable change.

Explore how shifting perspective creates more choices for clients, how resources can be created, and how alignment, flexibility, and authentic living drive sustainable change in strategic life coaching.

Take conscious responsibility for your life and write each chapter with intention. Empower clients who are ready to change as a strategic life coach, not as a miracle worker.

This wrap-up highlights the ebing house curve, coaching's impact on learning and change, conscious responsibility, and the move toward coaching basics for strategic coaching.

Explore a client-focused, multi-skilled framework to move clients from current emotions to a balanced, value-aligned life, aligning identity, beliefs, and values with resources and tools, driving change.

Develop core coaching skills by strengthening the helping relationship, building rapport and trust, mastering language patterns, listening, and questioning to uncover truth and foster emotional state change.

Build a strong coaching relationship by practicing unconditional positive regard, being fully present, and understanding your client's map of the world to foster trust and rapport.

Build rapid rapport in strategic life coaching by mirroring and matching breathing patterns, posture, and paraphrasing clients' language to foster trust.

Master core listening skills for strategic life coaching by practicing active listening with presence, mirroring and matching, and rapid repeat to hear meaning, build rapport, and show care.

Learn to identify visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic language patterns to build rapport, mirror and match clients, and flex between modalities for effective strategic life coaching.

Examine four question types: open, closed, why, and presuppositional tags. Learn how coaching uses them to elicit truth, explore current situations, and promote client problem solving through five whys.

Discover how the palm method links physical states, attention, language, and meaning to create and shift emotional states, and how to use questions to reframe feelings.

Explore the core basics of coaching, including unconditional positive regard, presence, rapport through listening and paraphrasing, language patterns, open and why questions, and the palm method.

Discover the person and their support network, map of the world, and habitual questions to tailor coaching, then use a personal evaluation and workbook to guide communication.

Map your support team across family, friends, work, and other groups, then expand with social networks and coaches to gain perspective and accountability.

Build a client map of the world by actively listening and identifying visual, auditory, and kinesthetic representations. Explore association versus disassociation and how modalities guide coaching conversations.

Discover how habitual questions shape emotional states and life outcomes, replace a disempowering primary question with empowering ones, and guide clients through personal evaluation to move forward.

Explore a personal life evaluation using an eight-section life cycle, letting clients rate fulfillment in areas like family, friends, work, and leisure, and identify key improvements to fuel meaningful conversations.

Learn to map life cycle insights to a personal evaluation, prioritize least fulfilled areas, and use ten-point questions to define baseline, commitment, and the desired future.

Explore building rapport by mapping a client’s support team, senses, submodalities, primary questions, and unconditional positive regard. Conclude by assessing the current situation with the life wheel and plan design.

Explore the client's current situation, actions and reactions, elicit emotional states with the palm method, and use language patterns to uncover deeper quality issues.

Identify a client's action or reaction by examining behavior and emotional responses tied to thoughts or experiences, uncover limiting beliefs, and use questions to guide coaching toward change.

Identify and move beyond safe problems to reveal the quality problem underlying clients' fears and limiting beliefs, then align coaching with values to enable real change.

Dig through the client's language to uncover truth, challenge assurances, and ask constructive questions that reveal obstacles, expand possibilities, and move clients from negative to positive.

Develop the skill to extract more information from language through effective listening, applying the metal model to challenge truth, reframe negative language into possibilities, and expand growth for clients.

Guide clients to tell their life story from a disassociated point of view, uncovering safe problems, identifying quality problems, and revealing truth through movie-like plots and subplots.

Learn to elicit and shift emotional states by guiding clients through physical associations, tension, language, and meaning, using the Palm method to replace negative patterns with happiness and joy.

Learn how to break negative emotional states by disrupting physical associations, attention focus, and habitual language, using movement, questions, and reframed meanings to shift clients toward positive states.

Explore how emotional states swing on the emotional raceway, identify patterns of depression and anxiety, and replace them with alternative states like gratitude, joy, or love.

Identify the client's current state, uncover the quality problem like limiting beliefs and fears, and shift toward empowering emotional states through targeted questions, language, and pattern awareness.

Explore the desired situation and current situation, learn goal setting and the rise up strategy, and discover how to identify, prioritize actions, and secure resources to reach well-formed outcomes.

Activate a rise up strategy to lift clients from negative disempowering emotions into positive empowering states, then clarify goals using empowering questions, storytelling, and action oriented choices.

Apply strategic life coaching by spotting the spark inside clients, noticing what they talk about passionately, then lift them up and shift their emotional state toward goals and actions.

Learn how to set specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound goals using the small model, break goals into manageable steps, and apply chunking to guide client progress.

Explore goal-setting models such as the small and growth models, mentioning smart and well-formed outcomes, and discuss when to apply each. Preview the six-step process for strategic life coaching.

Learn the six-stage process of a well-formed outcome for goal setting. Decide what you really want, state it positively in sensory terms, evaluate effects, and choose a worthwhile, achievable goal.

Master the W4 square goal-setting model to define what, why, who, and when; identify key actions, build momentum, and plan monthly reviews for client goal achievement.

uncover and prioritize all actions toward a goal, overcome fear and limiting beliefs, and step out of your comfort zone using the history's highway strategy to guide clients.

Explore history's highway to identify the exact actions needed to achieve a goal, guiding clients to cast forward, list actions, and prioritize them for momentum toward success.

Prioritize actions with the Eisenhower matrix, classify tasks by urgency and importance, assign 1–4 scores, prepare and monitor actions, and schedule or delegate while reviewing priorities monthly.

Negotiate with your mind by asking key questions, balancing conscious and unconscious pull, and cultivating empowering patterns, relationships, and emotions to move toward your goals.

Burst the I don't have bubble by reframing limits into actionable questions like how could I have more time, money, energy, and drive to move forward.

Explore the rise up strategy to shift from affective states to power states and use goal setting with well-formed outcomes, W4 swag questions, and Eisenhower prioritization toward the desired state.

Discover how to uncover a core identity, craft an identity statement of who you are willing to become, and align your positive values and personal standards for balanced, aligned clients.

Lead a breath-centered identity exercise to uncover your core 'Who am I' and craft empowering 'I am' statements rooted in honesty, integrity, and care.

Regain balance with a quick breathing exercise, then articulate your core identity through 'I am' statements, listing roles like husband, father, coach, musician and related life actions.

Define your core identity by articulating how you choose to live, using 'I live with' statements such as integrity, honesty, contribution, and pace, now and going forward.

Extract top traits from the I am and I choose to live lists, then craft an identity statement that names who you are and who you are willing to become.

Discover your core values and align actions to them, acknowledging values change with life events. Build a 10–12 item list and identify your top values.

Rank your positive values by balancing them against one another to build a prioritized order of love, compassion, caring, contribution, growth, and becoming.

Identify and name your negative values to uncover what holds clients back, listing emotions you would avoid, such as rejection, worthlessness, loneliness, and fear, to prepare for ranking.

Identify and rank negative values to learn which feelings you avoid most, such as not good enough, rejection, loneliness, worthlessness, and anger, and link them to limiting beliefs.

Reflect on positive and negative values to assess whether you live toward or against them, then shift focus to core values such as love, integrity, growth, and contribution for alignment.

Raise your personal standards to embrace conscious responsibility, align your values, and eradicate limiting beliefs and unwanted behaviors that throw you off balance.

Explore how to align clients from a conscious perspective by revisiting core identity, identity statements, and core values, then enhance balance with breathing and meridian techniques for coaching.

Explore breathing patterns that align energy systems and internal alignment, center the self for strategic life coaching; boost energy, oxygenate the body, and resolve internal conflicts through breathing-based techniques.

Practice heart-centered breathing to center and ground your heart and mind in a few minutes, align your body, relax, and gain clarity for decisions you need to make.

Engage in heart activation breathing to align the heart and mind and reveal your truthful choice. Learn to resolve inner conflicts through a brief, guided breath, deepening energy and clarity.

Master an energy breathing exercise to shift clients into an energized, resourceful state that supports breakthroughs. Use this quick, minute-long technique to break patterns and empower clients to make changes.

Learn a 4-4 breathing pattern to boost energy and oxygenation, performing two sets of 10 reps while mindful of bodily sensations and energy shifts.

Practice a six 12 six breathing pattern to oxygenate the body and brain, with breaks encouraged and adjustments (five ten five) for comfort, aiming to center energy and boost vitality.

Learn a deep breathing and cold-water routine to stimulate the lymphatic system, boost oxygenation, and move waste, with a 28-day challenge and meridian system insights.

Explore the meridian energy system and how tapping with emotional freedom techniques—rooted in acupuncture and acupressure—balances energy flow, eases pain, and supports holistic coaching.

Engage EFT and TFT tapping alongside heart-centered breathing to relax, balance, and align heart and mind through a guided tapping sequence from karate chop to finger points.

Wrap up the section by highlighting internal alignment, breathing and tapping techniques that help clients reach a prime emotional state for lasting change, aligning identity and values.

Reflect on what we've learned so far, assess your progress in coaching basics and rapport, and explore discovering the person, their support, current issues, design situation, and goals for change.