Bliss Planet has a scholarship program through our sponsors that provides a complimentary online Wellness Coaching Program that certifies students as Wellness Specialists.
A Life Coach is a popular vocation with similarities to a Wellness Coach without the additional emphasis on Wellness knowledge that a certified Wellness Specialist possess.
Our Wellness Certification Course
Why Become a Life Coach?
Life Coaching is all about building extraordinary lives. Coaches help clients to clearly identify what they want in their lives personally and professionally. They help clients gain clarity on values, helping them to make meaningful choices and take consistent action toward achieving a life filled with balance, joy, intimacy, energy, financial abundance, focus, and action in every area of life. Life coaches are there to provide their clients with the tools, support, and structure to accomplish great things. Coaching is like having a personal trainer for your life.
Clients usually seek a life coach to help them in the following general areas of life:
1. Make and keep more money
2. Get more done in Less Time
3. Communicate more Effectively
4. Feel better Physically and Emotionally
5. Substantially Increase Quality of Life
6. Become Closer to Others
7. Eliminate the Hassles of Life
8. Get on a Path to achieving some other goa
There are as many as 100 sub-specialties of life coaching as well. Some people choose to focus on, for instance, Real Estate or Retirement Life Coaching.
Life Coaching is not the same as therapy, and you should not attempt to do therapy on a person without first obtaining proper training and licensing. Therapy tends to focus on past and present issues. Consultants tend to give answers to their clients. Life coaches focus on the present and future and enable their clients to come up with their own answers through the work done in the coaching partnership.
Should You Be A Life Coach?
Do you enjoy people for who they are? Do people come to for counsel? Do you love to help? Do you love to continually learn new things? Do you want to be on a rewarding path of self-awareness? Do people listen to you and respond to you? Could you charge money for your advice? Are you well-connected/do you have a strong network? Do you have $1000-$5000 to put towards your first year of training and expenses?
If you answered yes to at least 2/3 of these questions, life coaching may be a career you want to pursue. If not, you can enjoy your skills as a hobby and as an opportunity to contribute positive things to other’s lives.
About Life Coaching Training:
There is no undisputed King of life coach training and certification, and trying to pick a school or route of training can be very confusing. Some Life Coach experts recommend to find a school whose training motivates and inspires you, training platform (classroom, face-to-face, audio, video, telephone training, reading, etc) best fits how you learn, by your niche preference (Life/Personal Coaching, Business Coaching, or Corporate Coaching), and by location. Here is a brief explanation of certification and training programs:
The International Coach Federation is an independent organization that accredits Life Coach Schools. They do not do life coach training, nor are they affiliated with any Life Coach Schools. Their training is considered by some to be the gold standard of coach training certification. You can set you heart on the ICF accreditation, choose a school whose training motivates you, and end up with a school and ICF accreditation in the end, but be aware that you need at least 250 paid coaching hours , 60 training coach-specific training hours prior to sitting for ICF accredited school exams. Takes 6-12 months to reach the first level of ICF certification. So, unless you already have this, you may want to consider the Coachville School of Coaching or some other certification program.
Coachville School of Coaching schools are not ICF accredited, and rely on streaming audio over the internet. There is no live interaction with trainers on the phone or in person. Ironically, the Coachville School of Coaching was created by the same person who created the International Coach Federation. When you graduate from a Coachville school you have a CV and an IAC accreditation.
Are you already a Life Coach?
Are you looking for ways to increase your marketability and sale-ability? Are you looking for ways to increase your education so you have more tools in your toolbox to benefit your clients? Have you ever been stuck in coaching someone because you we’re educated enough in that area? Find your Niche!!
Mentoring programs can also be extremely useful- find those that have had the kind of success you seek as a Life Coach, and pick their brains and experiences! There are many people on the web who are looking to spread their impact of changing as many lives as they can for the better by helping you help others as well! Mentors can be a great resource to help you find ways to make your success reality. They can tell you what marketing strategies have worked for them, and those to avoid so you do not waste money investing in something that does not work!
Also, there are an array of special interest continuing education topics and additional certificates you can earn.
Heatlh/Wellness: LifeDynamix Certified Specialist, Nutrition Certification, Lifestyle Fitness, Holistic Life Coaching, and Personal Training.
Relationship Coaching
Spiritual Coaching
Business/Career: Small Business Coaching, Executive Coaching, Career Coaching, and Leadership Coaching.
Retirement Coaching
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP): a set of models and principles meant to explore how language patterns, human perception and cognition interact to become subjective reality and human behaviors. This can have a wide application and boost your success with all your clients!
Alternative Healing Modalities: Holistic Nutrition Therapist, Western Herbalism, Auriculotherapy and Detox, Dream Yoga, Hypnotherapy – Advanced Practitioner, Multi-Cultural Native American Studies, Medical Intuitive, Ortho-Bionomy, Polarity Cranial-Sacral Unwinding, Polarity Master Program, Special Touch, Taoist Philosophy, Tibetan Traditional Healing, Yoga Teacher Training-Advanced.
This certification can add many benefits for your coaching such as Mental mastery, nutrition, fitness, non toxic living and bio energetics. We have a wellness community within Bliss Planet that may interest you for additional vehicles of free publicity. You can design your own page with photos and your website link and add your articles into blogs/ forums incorporating your website link. When you become a supportive member of the community and give advice you actually promote your services in one of the best manners possible.
