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What is Coaching?

At ACN, we believe that coaching is about helping people attain their highest vision for themselves. When we coach, we create a place of safety to help our clients find and attain what they really want in their lives. We help clients envision their future. We partner with them to make a plan to get there. We empower and motivate them to create changes. We incorporate powerful coaching and NLP techniques to move through the perceived obstacles. And we hold clients accountable for the actions they want to take to change their lives.

Everyone has a deep need in life to be seen and loved for who they really are. Coaching begins here. It’s not about fixing a client. It’s not about giving advice. It’s about tapping into the client’s inner wisdom, resources, and knowledge of who they already are.

First Steps in the Coaching Process
In coaching, we believe that the client already has the answers to their questions. Our job is to help the client find those answers. Often a client begins the process by not knowing what they want or not knowing exactly what they expect from the coaching relationship. Or they know what they want but they do not know how to get there.

A good coach asks questions and listens not just to the answers, but to what the client may not be saying as well. This process of listening helps the client really explore at a deeper level their dreams and desires for their life. A coach also partners with their client every step of the way in order to move beyond the obstacles, to create the life they have always wanted, and to be the person they have always wanted to be.

Determining Your Coaching Goals
Goals are unique to each client. Some clients may wish to build their business, earn more money, change careers, become a better parent, create meaningful relationships, become more creative, improve their health, or to deepen their personal growth.

Given these different goals, coaches often develop a specialty such as executive coaching, business coaching, career coaching, health coaching, parent coaching, or relationship coaching. Many other new specialized niches are born every training we hold.

For students who want to add a coaching element as a service to their current business, your area of expertise can help you develop a special niche as a coach. At ACN, we can help you identify and build a practice around your unique body of expertise. We can also assist you with developing a network around the clients you already have.

NLP as a Coaching Tool
Coaches also help clients identify and overcome the obstacles in their path. One of the best ways coaches can accomplish this is by using simple, effective NLP techniques. At ACN, our focus on NLP coaching skills provides a way of identifying those often unacknowledged, unconscious beliefs that are sabotaging or holding the client back from their goals. Through the use of cutting-edge NLP techniques, we assist clients in shifting these beliefs and perceptions, clearing the path of the obstacles in their way to success.

Accountability and Structure
Providing structure is an important part of this process. Sometimes, this is what the client wants most of all. To help structure a client’s process, the coach holds the bigger picture of what the client wants in their life and assists the client in clarifying and designing actions to keep moving the client closer to the outcome they desire. Building accountability into the coaching session takes place through gentle, trusted guidance.

Find out more about how NLP and Coaching work together or learn more about ACN's coaching approach.

"Before I started the Coaching Program, I didn't quite understand how to integrate my nutrition practice with NLP coaching.

The program taught me how to be an effective listener, compassionate communicator, and how to motivate people to reach their health goals.

Now as a Certified Nutritionist and a NLP Coach, I am able to effectively support my clients in ways I never thought I could before. My clients and colleagues rave how effective my coaching skills are. I am proud to say that my success and my client's success rate is 100%.

I would recommend the NLP Coaching program to anyone who wants to truly create great change in themselves as well as their clients."

Mandisa Fabris
Certified Holistic Nutrition Counselor
NLP Master Practitioner
NLP Life Coach
www.simpleholisticliving.com

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