I’m sure many of you have noticed this term more recently than in the past. So I did a bit of very rudimentary searching / googling and found all sorts of training / certification related to Life Coach. But interestingly the few individuals I did see list “Life Coach” as a skill on the online career sites didn’t seem to list any such certification. Not suggesting that they don’t have some training but do find it curious that they don’t feel they need to list what qualifies them.
Anyway, past that I suppose we all perform some level of Life Coaching in our own lives. Even if we don’t think about it actively, there are individuals in our lives who look up to us for advice / guidence. Of course they don’t necessarily stay in that place all their lives, most eventually move beyond. My point here being that we perform, unofficially, the role of a Life Coach without necessarily realizing.
But the more I think about it to me an official “Life Coach” is someone close / similar to a Therapist.
– manzoor
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