What is Life Coaching?

A lifestyle everyone dreams of is to be in continuous development, to seize the opportunity for lifelong learning, to determine our values and goals and to live them in a feasible plan… So what do we do for this lifestyle? What kind of a plan do we determine? Do we have a way to live and achieve this lifestyle? We can find the answers to all these questions in coaching training and coaching adventures.

Life coaching is a journey, a form of education and information that enables us to reach our highest potential. It is a journey with the coach to help people achieve their goals and realise the potential that already exists within them. The ultimate goal is to develop their lives and careers in a planned way with permanent methods that they can use throughout their lives, together with the realisation of their goals.

Coaching has recently become a popular practice, especially in the career area. However, when evaluating one’s career, one should look at one’s life as a whole. Career progress or lack of progress is a process that extends to life. In other words, a person can see their whole life’s reflection in the progress or regression in their career. Therefore, it is necessary to consider life separately according to its parts (career, family, health, bilateral relationships, environment, social life, personal development, etc.) and holistically evaluate the person’s development in that way.

It would be beneficial for us to see coaching as a support system and use it this way. Coaching, used to solve our problems individually and on our career path and thus to adopt a development-oriented lifestyle, supports development in every aspect. Again, it is possible to divide coaching, which is a phenomenon that has been constantly changing in its forms of expression in recent years, into different fields. It is possible to talk about areas such as Life Coaching, Executive Coaching, Team Coaching, Corporate Coaching, Education and Student Coaching, Parent Coaching, Breath Coaching, and Relationship Coaching. However, it must be emphasised that the essence of everything is within ourselves. If we need to talk about a beginning, we must start every coaching adventure or journey by looking within ourselves.

Also, we need to know this: Success does not come by chance, and our lifelong willingness to learn contributes significantly to our success. On the one hand, we must be open to continuous self-improvement. On the other hand, we should be open to innovations and try to be flexible in the process. In other words, we should keep our minds clear and look to innovations and the future. We should get rid of the emotional burden of the negativities from the past and think of what we have learnt as an experience. In this regard, coaching and coaching training make a big difference in our lives. At this point, it is necessary to mention a little bit about NLP: NLP, together with coaching, can help us plan our next step better, but it can also help us discover our potential and step into the life we want. This is what I mean in this sentence: NLP allows us to discover more significant opportunities and perhaps many possibilities that we have not seen so far. For example, Imagine that you are standing on the ground and held on the ground with ropes and weights attached to your waist. What would happen if we cut these ropes? Perhaps certain weights are holding us down, and if we can cut them, we can rise into the air and see everything that is in alignment (perhaps behind us) more clearly. This is what NLP helps us to do. It may not change things as they are, but it changes our perspective. It enables us to see things in a different light and recognise solutions and resources.