Changing Lives (One at a Time)

Practice Coaching

New Insights trainee life coaches are required to complete extensive practice coaching as part of the certification process.

In our experience, exposure to the skills training theory is both eye opening and life changing. But the practice coaching phase takes the training experience to another level.

 

Nervous excitement

Most trainees – even those who cruise through the theory – find themselves confronted with a serious bout of nerves just prior to embarking on the process of applying their knowledge in real live coaching situations.

In the great majority of cases, though, the \’newbie nerves\’ soon give way to surprise and elation as the aspirant coaches contemplate the outcome of their efforts and reflect on how well their training prepared them for this step.

Straight after the relevant coaching session, practice clients are asked to complete and submit an online feedback form directly to New Insights. By analysing this feedback, we can identify obvious strengths, and areas for improvement that we can, in turn, feed back to the trainees.

 

A constant source of insight and inspiration

At New Insights, we just love reviewing the feedback forms. They act as a constant source of insight and inspiration to us in pursuit of our mission.

Let’s face it, if inexperienced trainee coaches can have such a positive effect on the people they practice their newfound skills on, the same must surely be true of our many hundreds of certified coaches – only magnified!

We’ve recently made it a goal to re-connect with certified coaches and ask them to share a few of the stories of how their coaching efforts have resulted in changing lives for the better.

We hope to share some of these with readers in due course.

 

Changing lives – sharing good news

For now, allow me to share a few snippets of feedback from some of our trainees\’ practice clients.

The names of trainee coaches and clients have been excluded to protect and respect confidentiality. However, I would like to assure you that these are all unedited, perfectly genuine and can easily be validated.

Perhaps some of our trainees reading this post may recognise the words of their clients 🙂

 

From the mouths of our practice clients

“The experience of leaving every session empowered and experiencing how I grow on a weekly basis. I feel a sense of achievement for all my milestones that I have reached towards my goal and I have more self-awareness to realize when I have limiting beliefs, class 3 behaviours and when I\’m not living my Values or applying incorrect rules to my life!”

– H.S.

“Through my journey of being coached I learnt so much about myself and how I have been holding myself down. So using these tools helped me a lot. To be accountable for my actions. People around me even see the change in me.”

– G.Z.

“It was a very helpful and life changing experience.”

– S.D.

“From the session developing self awareness through to setting mega goals- I was able to see how everything we had worked on came together in a breakthrough moment of what I actually want to do with my life. These sessions were so illuminating to separate the wheat from the chaff and are allowing me to focus on what is important whilst not getting caught up in distractions.”

– L.H.

“I’m a total different person as the one that started with her a few months ago. I’ve achieved SO much that I never thought I am capable of achieving!! After my time with my coach, I’m looking forward to the future and all that I still going to achieve!! I\’m going to miss her and our sessions SO much but will always be SO grateful for this wonderful opportunity that makes me a much stronger person!!”

– A-M.H.

“I have always battled with the setting of very clear and realistic goals. The sessions, and the way my coach guided my own thought pattern, helped me to see how to approach goal setting so that it is much more realistic and achievable in the time allotted.”

– R.L.

“I would recommend it highly to anyone who is serious about vastly understanding how they think, and learning to do what is needed to get through the blocks to that next level of growth. This program was amazing.”

– L.S.

“So professional … and I feel like I am onto a different chapter in my life. It has also lead me to be more trusting in myself. She listened, she genuinely cared, she wanted me to help myself and all of it has helped me so much.
Even just seeing how I feel about my life on a wheel opened my eyes to what I need to concentrate on. I am amazed at what just two sessions have done for me.”

– C.L.

 

People doing wonderful things

Thanks, dear reader, for taking the time to read this post. I hope it has brought a smile to your face and an appreciation that no matter what you read in the mainstream news, there are people doing wonderful things for others, every day.