Life coach training

Does anyone have any recommendations for a training programme to become a life coach. A friend of mine, already a therapist, thinks that it would be a useful addition for her. It doesn’t seem too difficult to get a qualification and doesn’t take very long but they look quite expensive. There are quite a few different organisations providing both online and in person training in Ireland and also UK.

Would appreciate any advice or recommendations please.

I don't have any recommendations but the concept of a life coach to me is a bit like the people that tell you how you can make loads of money by doing XYZ and by singing up to my programme I can help you.

I'm sure your friend is well intentioned but it just seems a bit odd that you pay a person that probably hasn't been amazingly successful in life.

The ideal life coach is the ones that don't do it. As in they don't need the money to explain how they made good decisions in work and life as they are probably off enjoying themselves or too busy!

Personally speaking, I've had a couple of good mentors in the past that I learnt a lot from, often without them even realising they were mentoring me. This whole life coaching thing to me is up there with self help influencers and that management ra ra conference( Cant think of the name of it) held every year, a waste of time.

Having said that, some people buy into it and I have seen tenders in the past from companies looking for coaching skills for leaders, so there is a market for it.

Brother was one but he was also in the most need of one.

TedBishop said:

Brother was one but he was also in the most need of one.

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I know someone who does this. Latest in their long line of making money easily. Has the gift of de gab, so well suited. Lives the good life, but does not have the spare cash to pay for services. A great lad for looking for a discount and putting payment on the long finger.

I don't have a direct answer to the OP, but I have come around to seeing the value of a good life/work coach.

I would have been similarly cynical about coaching as an industry, seeing it mainly as a pyramid scheme, until my wife after a promotion was given access to one through work. The person was a semi-retired former senior manager, and a few sessions with her really allowed my wife to think about her management style, reflect on various issues and personalities arising in the workplace and how they might be best managed, and basically gave my wife some space and tools for thinking strategically. To the extent that my wife went back to her for a couple of sessions about life more generally, and found it really useful.

That said, the coach was someone older with significant accomplishments and knowledge of an industry, and was not just someone who, having gone through life-coaching, decides themselves to pay someone a lot of money to become a life coach.