Mindful Life Coaching for Personal Growth
One-on-One Coaching to Help You Grow, Connect, and Live Mindfully
Learning and Growing Being Present Connecting with others Finding calm Simplifying life
Feeling stuck or out of balance?
Discover new ways to feel more aware, centered, and purposeful as you grow into your best self.
At Life Coach For You, you’ll find a safe, supportive space to explore what’s possible and move forward with clarity and confidence.
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What can I explore with my coach?
During coaching sessions, we explore your challenges and various ways to help you reach your goals.
The topics we discuss can be wide ranging. A sample of topics and techniques are reflected below, but what we may cover depends on your unique journey.
Paying attention to my needs
Meditation and Mindfulness
Discover how to slow down and reconnect with yourself. Through simple mindfulness and meditation practices, you’ll learn to focus your attention, quiet the noise, and cultivate a sense of presence and inner peace that carries into daily life.
– Carl Jung
Health and Wellbeing
Find balance in both body and mind. Together we’ll look at practical ways to manage stress, improve sleep, and build habits that support your energy and mood. Learn to listen to what your body needs so you can feel calm, grounded, and ready to grow.
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live”
— Jim Rohn
Emotions and Feelings
Understand your emotions rather than being overwhelmed by them. We’ll explore what triggers certain feelings, how to respond with awareness, and how to turn emotional insight into personal growth. This is about knowing yourself and feeling more at ease within.
“Emotions are like waves; we can ‘t stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.”
– Unknown
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Planning and Interacting with others and the world
Communication
Learn to speak clearly and listen deeply. Together we’ll work on tools for honest conversations, setting boundaries with kindness, and communicating in ways that strengthen connection rather than create conflict. It’s about expressing yourself with confidence and care.
“All activities should be done with the intention of communicating. This is a practical suggestion: all activities should be done with the intention of speaking so that another person can hear you, rather than using words that cause the barriers to go up and the ears to close.”
– Pema Chödrön
Organising
Bring order and flow to your daily life. Whether it’s time, priorities, or big-picture planning, you’ll learn how to simplify, create balance, and make space for what really matters. Less chaos, more clarity and purpose.
“A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder”
[directionless and vulnerable to the tides]
— Thomas Carlyle
Relationships
Build healthier, more fulfilling relationships — with partners, family, friends, or colleagues. We’ll explore how to foster understanding, compassion, and shared direction so your connections support you, not drain you.
“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same,
but you leave them all over everything you do”
— Unknown
How to get Started
Discover
Step 1
Complete the application form online and we will contact you to set up a meeting for your free introductory session.
Decide
Step 2
Take Action
Step 3
We agree to take action and then our coaching journey begins.
A confidentiality and written agreement is
provided and signed by the client and coach and returned before our next session.
Choose your next step
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Frequently Asked Questions
What would my integral coaching journey look like?
Once you have agreed to start your coaching journey, we would enter into a series of coaching sessions starting with Session 1. Sessions can range between one (1) to eight (8) or twelve (12) sessions depending on what we have agreed. In each session we will review the work done by you, the client, and how this is helping you, the client, to reach your desired outcomes. Importantly you will confirm how the coaching programme fits into your life as well as what may prevent you from taking the required steps.
Most importantly in doing the work you the client determines who will support you in your coaching programme besides the coach. i.e. a work colleague, or a spouse or a friend.
Is coaching counselling or therapy?
At the outset it is important to know that Life Coaching is not:
• Advice, Mentoring, Therapy, Counseling
• Medical diagnosis, intervention or treatment; or
• Intended to replace individual medical or psychological care in any way.
What coaching can be described as is a purposeful conversation that helps a client build a goal oriented and future focused life that is a best fit for their way of being.
Sometimes the difficulties that you are experiencing whether at work, in your business or in your relationships may be extreme anxiety and stress and the coach may find that he or she is not fully trained to help. Where a coach realises this he or she may recommend that you seek trained professional help such as a therapist.
How can coaching help me?
Coaching can help you clarify goals and identify manageable steps to achieving them. It can help you understand ways you may be blocking yourself and provide you with strategies you can implement to overcome blocks to your success. It is particularly helpful when you are highly motivated and keen to take on tasks outside of the coaching sessions.
Coaching can help you in areas such as:
• Self Awareness discovering why you act in the way you do.
• What beliefs you have about yourself that may be preventing you from taking certain actions
• What are the possibilities that arise in conversation and what your options really are.
• How you can Self Correct and go about pursuing the possibilities which you find are right for you.
• How you can Self Generate and remain motivated in pursuing goals.
How long will I need to work with a coach?
The number of sessions you may need varies, depending on where you are and what you want to achieve. Some clients with one or two specific issues, may be able to achieve their goals in as little as six to twelve sessions. Other clients may wish to work with a coach on a range of issues and this can exceed twelve sessions, depending on the outcome you are seeking.
A good coach will aim to reduce your dependency on them as soon as possible.
As you find yourself becoming more resourceful and dealing more effectively with new situations as they arise, you will know best when you are ready to end.
What feedback will the coach provide?
After the free introductory session and in the first formal session the coach will spend time unpacking your life story and what brought you to coaching. Thereafter in the second (2) session the coach will summarise what he or she has heard the client say and explore the clients options and POSSIBILITIES be it in response to where the client finds themselves in:
1. work,
2. relationships,
3. resources at your disposal,
4. a new role the client wants to step into,
5. possible healthy lifestyle choices,
6. stressful situations,
7. spiritual matters, or;
8. in any other matter that may be important to the client.
Ultimately to help the client reach their desired OUTCOMES.
During these sessions one (1) and two (2) the coach may also begin inviting the client into some preparatory work.
Are our conversations confidential?
A CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF INFORMATION FORM is provided to the client and signed by the coach and client before formal sessions begin
Client confidentiality and high ethical standards are important prerequisites to any coaching relationship which gains access to confidential information and material of an individual, their lives and the organizations that they have worked for and continue to work for. The coach therefore signs the CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF INFORMATION FORM covering the Code of Ethics which is the Code subscribed to by all members of the Centre for Coaching UCT courses, New Ventures West and the International Coach Federation and is in place to protect the safety and well-being of clients as well as the integrity of the profession. See Confidentiality and written agreement.
What type of work will the coach invite the coachee to do?
The coach during the agreed coaching sessions will provide Practices, Self observations, Remembering’s and Exercises to be completed which in turn will assist the person being coached on their development journey.
Practices are:
Actions or activities you will undertake during the coaching sessions and which you will do repetitively to build a capability or competence.
Self Observations are:
An activity that will allow you with curiosity and without being judgmental towards yourself notice your patterns of doing, saying or thinking something before, during or after you act or react to increase your awareness of self.
Self -Remembering:
A tool to allow you to remind yourself what you are living into now and not what you have done before. What goals and aspirations you are striving for.
Exercises:
Work that you will do once to generate insights, new possibilities and learning.
What does a coach aim for in a coaching session?
The coach will have the objective of aiming for:
1. A purposeful conversation that inspires you to create your best life.
2. A mindset of a short-term personal development intervention meaning about six (6) to twelve (12) coaching session or more when needed, covering:
a. A series of one-on-one future orientated discussions.
b. A facilitative rather than a directive form of development.
c. A focus on action and change.
d. A means to develop yourself and social awareness and assists with self-regulation.
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