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"Goal-Oriented coaching explores how we observe or perceive the world. The collaborative process is one in which the client comes to understand that how they act and react derives from how they observe circumstances. When the client learns how to shift their observations… they have learned how to independently generate their own behavioral strategies in the future."
Paraphrased from:
Coaching to the Human Soul: Ontological Coaching
and Deep Change (2007)
Alan Sieler

Life Coaching

Life coaching is not based upon the medical model of therapy; instead it focuses on what you want rather than on what you need (medical model).
You define your specific goals and ultimately conceive of the appropriate behavior/actions that will lead to your desired outcome.

The work is in the present, not the past. We use your hesitation or inability to reach your desired goal as the vehicle to explore how you interpret what is possible or impossible.
The process allows you to understand that you are not your self-limiting perceptions and beliefs; rather you have self-limiting perceptions and beliefs that drive your automatic behavior away from your goal.
With a shift from I am not my thoughts to I have thoughts, you become capable of generating new ways of observing/perceiving that supports constructive behavior.
Lastly you learn about power. Power comes from the absence of control rather than the presence of control. When your primary focus is on how life should or shouldn’t show up, you are not likely to take risks and, therefore, you limit your scope of experience.
Once you embrace the fact that life turns out as it does, not as it should or shouldn’t, you can shift from a life of hyper-vigilance and caution to living comfortably with risk and uncertainty.

Transpersonal Aspect of Coaching: All of us have a desire for a sense of meaning and a purpose in life … and, ultimately, most of us desire to move past the accumulation of wealth, knowledge and cleverness – toward deeper wisdom and connection.