LIFE COACHING

There seems to be a sudden growth in the number of personal, ‘executive’ and life coaches these days, usually using standardised off the shelf systems. Although these systems are often thorough, they sometimes seem to me to be a bit long winded, bringing clients back over and over again to do what is well within the client's own capability.

My approach is more flexible, and having had over sixteen years experience at the sharp end of NLP, I believe it is also more incisive.

As my approach is completely flexible, between us we can select whatever is appropriate from the main areas described below.

 

The Basics: Feeling Good and Effective Communication

The success and satisfaction we want to experience in our lives absolutely depend on

• Being in control of our own minds, moods and emotions
  and being able to feel good and resourceful within ourselves; and on-
• Being able to understand, predict, communicate with, influence and gain the help cooperation and support and love of other people.

No amount of goal setting, time management, or performance coaching will help us unless these are first in place.

In order for you to be in control of your own mind, I can teach you

• Five ways to Feel Good!
• How your mind creates feelings and moods, and why
• How to deal with negative emotions
• How to prevent, de-fuse and overcome stress
• How to detach from and rise above problems
• The basis of confidence and
• How to motivate yourself.

On the communication side, I can teach you

• The subtle secrets of rapport
• How to get people's attention
• Respectful assertiveness and how to take over the lead
• Handling difficult people
• How to detach and avoid taking things personally
• How to see things from the other person’s point of view
  and know how to put your own point of view across more effectively
• Seeing and setting up the best possible ‘Win-Win’ situation,
  the importance of ‘Win-Win or No Deal!’
  And why it is so important to be willing to be unreasonable.
• How to make people feel good
  and how to inspire and motivate them.
• Simple yet surprising communication patterns.

If you have already come across NLP or NLP training before, you may be surprised at some of the novel approaches and the subtleties within the more familiar techniques. These are the differences that make the differences!

 

Personal And Career Development

I have worked extensively with goal setting (using far more comprehensive and effective methods than 'SMART Goals') as well as with time management and have written very fully on these for PowerSense: a comprehensive learning tool for businesses. I know from working with others and from personal experience what works or does not work in these areas. Additionally, I have had sixteen years experience of the intricacies of how people's minds work, from working with NLP.

It is this experience:

• That gives an extra dimension to setting your goals in a way that they are much more likely to fulfil your true inner desires;
• Will often enable you to find surprising, unexpected solutions to achieving what you want (especially where the known conventional solutions have already failed to produce the desired result);
• That will enable you to realistically build stronger and more reliable bridges between where you are now and where you want to be;
• And will streamline how you manage your priorities, your time and your resources.

Remember, I am a facilitator, not someone who thinks he knows what is best for your life. I draw on and draw out your own vast store of inner wisdom in order to enable you to excel yourself and make your life wonderful.

 

Performance Coaching

You can use this for developing your performance in any area of your life including sports and leisure activities, personal communication- particularly with those closest to you- or who you would like to be close to you, study and learning, and developing your skills at work.

I use two approaches to performance coaching.

• One is to mobilise and streamline the resources, skills and strategies that you often did not know that you already had.
• The other is to use the NLP principle of Modelling, whereby we draw on the beliefs thinking patterns and behaviour of someone who is already a shining example of what you want to achieve.

Neither method requires me to have any significant skill or knowledge in what you want to achieve (though my life experience can usually contribute to your success.) My skills are in drawing out what is hidden to most people, and yet can be made plain and easily acted on.

The first can be very rapid. I once worked with a professional tennis player who at the time was seeded at 18 th level in world ranking. After just a fifty minute session, he suddenly started beating players seeded at ninth level, i.e. about twice as good as he was previously. Similarly, an insurance agent more than doubled his business after working for only a few hours with me.

The second method sometimes takes a bit longer than the first, though it is useful for developing in new areas or for going significantly beyond your previous best.

Contact Details

For a Richer, Healthier Life, Book an Appointment

with       David Owen        Now on

Telephone 0845 2068 705 Local Rate or
Plymouth   01752 361 576  land line.

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Please, if possible, call during normal working hours or early evening.
Home visits available.

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