LifeCoaching Background

[FigTree]

Hi everyone, i'm currently doing self motivated learning until i can afford LC quals, government funding cuts cost me my job, and am wondering on background for peoople becoming life coaches.

i have no corporate experience and wonder of anyone out there is making good connections and could offer any advice or suggestions on a career path, once in life coaching, which i can follow which would lead me to success.

i realise there's an awfult lot more to coaching than a corporate background and i know that 12 years working with people in the community and on psychiatric units will aid me in my goal but i need to know that the effort i will put into studying and the time i am taking without work will be worth it in the end.

the real issue is money tbh. i have no issues with helping people achieve goals and will be better equipped with qualifications but if corporate grounding is what i need because companies and business people are the ones with cash to pay for a good service. individuals may be less well equipped financially then i have to find them...

any advice or discussion would be great.

FigTree

[David100351]

I'm sure the best way is to offer a free session of something to some people, to get your foot in the door. A friend of mine used to call it research - I'll do this free if you tell me how it improves staff well-being, business turnover, cuts illness, absenteeism, etc.

A weekly or fortnightly 15 minute relaxation session over a lunchtime at the office of a large firm, for instance, would go down well, and you can advertise how else they might benefit from your services when they are all in a nice hypnotic state .

In NLP we used to call it "opening a loop."

Once you are known, when someone needs help you will be the obvious choice...