What is Coaching?

• Coaching is a tool for people wanting to maximise their personal and professional potential. A life coach teaches you to be the best you can be, without needing to beat anyone else. Through coaching you learn the philosophy of win/win. Coaching is about finding solutions rather than analysing or unravelling why there is a problem. Coaching = Another Piece to the Puzzle!
• According to a study from the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the effectiveness of coaching is proven by a large number of statistics. For example, here are 4 benefits identified by clients from an ICF survey:
  80% of clients improved their self-confidence
  73% of clients improved their relationships
  72% of clients improved their communication skills
  67% of clients improved their work-life balance

What is Hypnosis

The British Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis states:

• “In therapy, hypnosis usually involves the person experiencing a sense of deep relaxation, with their attention narrowed down, and focused on appropriate suggestions made by the therapist”. These suggestions help people make positive changes within themselves.
• A hypnotist cannot get you to do anything you don’t want to do.
• In a hypnotherapy session you are always in control and remain fully aware of your surroundings and situation, and you are not vulnerable to every given command of the therapist.”

What is Meditation? Wikipedia Definition

• “Meditation is a practice where an individual trains the mind or induces a mode of consciousness, either to realize some benefit or for the mind to simply acknowledge its content without becoming identified with that content, or as an end in itself.

• The term meditation refers to a broad variety of practices that includes techniques designed to promote relaxation, build internal energy or life force (qi, ki, prana, etc.) and develop compassion, love, patience, generosity, and forgiveness. A particularly ambitious form of meditation aims at effortlessly sustained single-pointed concentration meant to enable its practitioner to enjoy an indestructible sense of well-being while engaging in any life activity.

What is Mindfulness?

• Mindfulness has been practised for thousands of years, with origins in Eastern philosophy, and over the past 40 years, it has been taken up in Western societies.
• We can increase their mindfulness in everyday life, through activities like meditation and yoga, or even by simply paying more attention during regular activities like walking, driving or something as basic as brushing our teeth.
• Mindfulness is a way of bringing us back to experience life as it happens.
• When a person is mindful, they:
  • Focus on the present moment;
  • Try not to think about anything that went on in the past or that might be coming in the future;
  • Purposefully concentrate on what’s happening around them;
  • Try not to be judgemental about anything they notice, or label things as ‘good’ or ‘bad’.

What is Mindset?

• Mindset is a set of beliefs or a way of thinking that determines a person’s behaviour, outlook and mental attitude.
• Carol Dweck, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist, talks about the power of our mindset or our beliefs (especially around challenge). We can either have a Fixed Mindset where we let failure (or even success) define who we are, or a Growth Mindset where we see setbacks as opportunities to grow and improve ourselves. Just like how we learned how to walk… there are many stumbles along the way, but to reach our potential and live the life we desire, it takes practice and perseverance. We always have a choice about which view we adopt for ourselves, and it is never too late to change.

What is NLP?

Excerpts from “The User’s Manual for Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner Certification” – Bob G Bodenhamer, D.Min.; L Michael Hall, PhD N.L.P stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming:

• “Neuro” refers to our nervous system/mind and how it processes information and codes it as memory inside our very body/neurology. By Neuro, we refer to experience as inputted, processed, and ordered by our neurological mechanisms and processes.
• “Linguistic” indicates that the neural processes of the mind come coded, ordered, and given meaning through language, communication systems, and various symbolic systems.
• “Programming” refers to our ability to organise parts such as sights, sounds, sensations, smells, tastes, and symbols of words) within our mind-body organism which then enables us to achieve our desired outcomes.
• NLP originated from several different intellectual disciplines as organized by two co-founders: Richard Bandler and John Grinder.

What is a Time Line?

There are several reasons why the use of Time Lines, and the principles of Time Lining in particular, are very useful:

• It helps us to clear past ‘baggage’, such as negative emotions and limiting decisions;
• It works with our existing resources and solution states.
• It provides the opportunity for lasting change at a neurological level.
• The process is quick, easy, has no content and hence no ‘drama.’
• We can use Time Lines to put goals in our future.

What is Visualisation? 

(Excerpt from Dr David Hamilton’s definition)

• Visualisation is also known as “Mental Imagery”, or Visual Mental Rehearsal (VMR), and is a technique that has been proven to be extraordinary successful in producing a specific outcome.
• Visualisation evidence suggests that our mind plays an important role in the creation of our experience, and therefore it may be possible to ‘program’ our mind and body to act in a certain way to gain positive results.
• Studies show that the brain does not know the difference between imagining something nor actually doing something. Therefore, visualising positive outcomes or successful completion of an outcome enables both the brain and the body to become responsive and conditioned to that particular result.
• The physical effects of visualisation are evident in a person’s physiology – therefore, visualising a positive outcome inadvertently has a positive effect on the biochemistry of the individual.
• Visualisation or Mental Imagery is usually demonstrated through the focused attention on various imagery, usually involving all aspects of your modalities (that is: imagining what you would see, hear, feel smell, etc).