Visser (2011) defines solution -- focused coaching as viewing and treating clients as competent and unique individuals as well as being responsive to helping clients visualize the changes they wish to make, responding to what clients tell the coach, and then building on the successful past experience of the client step-by-step in order to reach goals. Solution -- focused coaches assume that people are autonomous and competent, desire to do good, enact change by a specific process, respond better to positive reinforcement/events, and work better in a cooperative environment (Visser, 2012a)
Mind and Mediation Body, Mind, and Meditation Different cultures throughout time and geography have viewed the mind and body connection from vastly different perspectives. Most ancient healing practices, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic medicine, emphasize the links between the mind and the body (Ehrlich, 2011)
Many psychologists believe that antidepressants are the ultimate treatment for depression. However, over the past decade many psychologists have come to recognize that depression is not merely a brain disease and altering chemicals alone will never work to overcome depression (Kirsch, 2011)
Mind -- body interventions include a number of different techniques that can range from relaxation, meditation, hypnosis, biofeedback, yoga, martial arts, and so forth. The research indicates that despite claims that many of these techniques are older, substantiated treatments that are primarily used in underdeveloped countries with great success they actually are quite popular in industrialized countries with higher proportions of middle-class and upper-middle-class people (Harris, Cooper, Relton, & Thomas, 2012)
CAM is the term for medical practices and medical products that do not fall under the domain of standard care (Micozzi, 2014). Standard care is typically defined as practices and treatments performed by medical doctors, doctors of osteopathic medicine, nurses, allied health professionals, and other health-care professionals such as physical therapists (Hatfield, 2014; Micozzi, 2014)
CAM is the term for medical practices and medical products that do not fall under the domain of standard care (Micozzi, 2014). Standard care is typically defined as practices and treatments performed by medical doctors, doctors of osteopathic medicine, nurses, allied health professionals, and other health-care professionals such as physical therapists (Hatfield, 2014; Micozzi, 2014)
Mind-Body Interventions Mind -- body interventions comprise a major portion of techniques known as contemporary and alternative medicine (CAM; National Center for Contemporary and Alternative Medicine [NCCAM], 2015). CAM is the term for medical practices and medical products that do not fall under the domain of standard care (Micozzi, 2014)
In fact, this is the only professional way a life coach should act. When it comes to the kind of mindset involved in life coaching, Carol Dweck offers the simplest description: "the kind of mindset that could turn a failure into a gift" (Dweck, 2006) Any life coach knows that the greatest enemy of life coaching is skepticism
His findings revealed a connection between the psycho-physiology of the healing process and the altered states of the mind. More specifically, consciousness uses signal generators that affect the output influenced by action, and meditation affects the input range that deals with the perception block (Jovanov, 1995)
Affirmations and other signature practices of the self-help movement "are rarely based on even one iota of scientific evidence," (Williams, 2013)
Tony Robbins takes himself as an example of what success really has behind it. Successful life coaching means: "helping clients build life skills"(Nelson-Jones, 2007) According to Robbins, standards and skills are two fundamentals in life coaching as in any other area one is competing for performance
Robbins speech about standards and rituals is a valuable lesson that could be contained in a class for life coaches. Phrases like: "Rituals define who we are," "Failure comes from all those little things, as does success," "You miss the little stuff, you will eventually know failure," "Success= all the little stuff"(Robbins, 2014 )