Module 1 - Introduction to Life Coaching

🎯 Module 1 Objectives

• Understand what life coaching is (and isn’t)

• Learn the coach’s role, ethics, and boundaries

• Practice a basic coaching conversation (GROW model)

• Identify your target client and niche

📚 Lesson: What Is Life Coaching?

Life coaching helps clients move from the present to their desired future through powerful questions, accountability, and action. It is not therapy, consulting, or mentoring. Coaches facilitate growth; clients own the outcomes.

Key differences:

• Therapy → focuses on healing past issues

• Consulting → gives expert answers and plans

• Mentoring → “Do what I did”

• Coaching → elicits the client’s best answers, builds awareness, sets action

🧭 Ethics & Boundaries (quick list)

• Confidentiality (within lawful limits)

• Informed consent & clear scope of practice

• No diagnosis or medical/legal/financial advice

• Refer out for crisis, trauma, or therapy needs

🧩 The GROW Model (quick guide)

G — Goal: “What do you want to achieve?”

R — Reality: “What’s happening now?”

O — Options: “What could you try?”

W — Way Forward: “What will you do by when?”

✍️ Practice

Write 5 open-ended questions you could ask a new client to clarify their goal.