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Special Features: How to Become a Life Coach Through Distance Learning
Posted: March 9, 2012 at 9:43 pm
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The life coaching industry has grown at a rapid pace in the UK in recent years.
If youre wondering how to become a life coach, studying through distance learning could provide the foundation for your future career.
A distance learning life coach qualification can help you get to grips with the theory side of the job, before going on to study the practical aspects with an accredited training provider.
Listed below is a summary of the main areas covered by distance learning courses.
How to establish a rapport
For anyone looking to become a life coach, being able to establish a rapport with clients is a must. People who come to see you will be looking to share a lot of personal information and feelings, so its essential you can put people at their ease and get them to trust you.
Effective life coaching cant be done in one session, so you have to make people feel comfortable so theyll want to keep coming back to you.
Self-esteem
Many people seek the help of a life coach due to issues caused by low self esteem. This is a common problem youll need to be able to teach people to overcome and assist them with.
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TEDxManitoba – Aisha Alpha: Holding Hands with Failure on the Road to Creativity – Video
Posted: March 8, 2012 at 10:41 pm
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Emotion won't get in Wayne Smith's way
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TONY SMITH
OPINION: Make no mistake Wayne Smith is no misty-eyed sentimentalist.
The ex-All Black admits some of the best years of his life were spent in the Canterbury No 10 jersey when he guided Grizz Wyllie's great team to Ranfurly Shield glory.
He also treasures his time as head coach of the Crusaders, who he steered to Super 12 titles in 1998 and 1999.
But that was then this is now. Smith has spent the past week plotting how to beat his old team. He's the Minister of Defence in the Chiefs' coaching Cabinet and winning is the paramount part of his portfolio.
But as he takes his seat at Napier's McLean Park tonight he may sneak a peek at three former charges in the Crusaders' coaching box and feel a justifiable surge of pride.
When Smith became Crusaders coach in 1997 a rugby scribe asked him "what do you think of your players?"
"I remember saying, `I will know in 20 years'," Smith recalled this week.
Fifteen years on, he likes the cut of their jib.
Smith can reflect on his role in shaping the careers of "foundation Crusaders" Todd Blackadder, Daryl Gibson and Dave Hewett, the prop he promoted in 1999 the troika coaching the Crusaders in Napier tonight.
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Ole Miss alum part of Oscar-winning documentary
Posted: March 7, 2012 at 5:53 pm
University of Mississippi alumnus Bill Courtney didnt plan on changing anyones life when he started coaching at Manassas High School, located in the impoverished area of North Memphis. He also did not realize that documenting his last season at Manassas would bring home an Oscar for best documentary. It all started in 2004 after his friend Jim Tipton told the school he knew a guy who could help out. Courtney agreed, with no intention of staying there long much less for six years. My business is about a mile away from the school, Courtney said. In the past, I coached football and taught school. They had only 17 kids and had only won a couple of games. So I went over and coached. Because North Memphis was a different area than what he was used to, the kids Courtney would end up coaching were not like the ones he had experience with. However, Courtney said this did not change how he coached the players. You are talking about an area that is riddled with abject poverty, he said. Young men are more likely to get incarcerated than go to college. I didnt coach those kids differently than in the suburbs. If the kids believe that you care about them, they respond to coaching. In the 110 years since the school was founded, the Manassas football team had not won a single playoff game. The Tigers would pay rival teams in pay games to beat them and raise funds for the team. Little by little, Courtney and his fellow coaches, along with a new group of promising students, changed the football program at Manassas. By fall 2009, there was hope that the Tigers would make it to the playoffs. A producer caught wind of the Manassas football team around February 2009 after the Tigers were featured in an article. A Commercial Appeal reporter wrote about a student who was going to live with coach Mike Ray part-time so he could be tutored and make good-enough grades to play on the football team. As the documentary Undefeated began, the focus turned to three players on the team: senior left tackle O.C. Brown, senior offensive lineman Montrail, or Money, and junior linebacker Chavis. These three young men and their relationship with coach Courtney is the driving force behind the documentary. During the course of the football season, an injured player may get to finish playing his last year, a hothead may have to stay off the team due to his volatile nature and a player that needs to make the grades to play college football may achieve his goals. Because the documentary focused on the players instead of football, it has gained a lot of positive attention. Courtney said he wasnt surprised at the reactions because it is something anyone can relate to. There was an older lady who saw the movie in a focus group in L.A., he said. She said, This is the best movie Ive ever seen; its my all-time favorite movie. She had no idea that it wasnt actors that it was real people. Undefeated has nothing to do with wins and losses. The positive feedback may not have been unexpected, but Courtney said the Academy Award nomination was a huge shock. I was asleep; I had been at the office the night before, he said. The phone rang at 7:20 (a.m.) and I had to go into work at 8:30 (a.m.). The director who was in L.A. called me and I asked him, What are you calling me for at 5:20? He then told me, Your story got nominated for an Oscar. I told him OK and hung up. I called him back as soon as I woke back up. Things have changed for Courtney and the players since the documentary won an Oscar, but Courtney said hes doing his best to keep things in perspective. It is surreal, he said. I do want to enjoy it. Honestly though, it is just a moment. For an 18 year old, they have a long, miserable life (ahead) if this is what has defined them. It doesnt need to define us. Its going to college, getting a degree, having a family not a damn movie. It is humbling and great. Nineteen seniors went to college. Courtney taught and coached at several schools before Manassas, but whether he was in the suburbs or North Memphis, he said he didnt deal with the kids any differently. In two ways I related to kids, he said. As a kid, I lived in it and played with those guys. I know what it is like to be lost and lonely. I just coached them; I didnt treat them any different. They have the same fears and anxieties. You coach and mentor and love; you love in spite of, not because. As a student at Ole Miss, football played an big role in Courtneys life. He was a junior when the Sigma Nu Charity Bowl was founded to honor Ole Miss football player Chucky Mullins, who broke his neck and was paralyzed. If you are willing to put that garbage to the side and work together for a common purpose, it truly is amazing, he said. Courtney said he wrote to Dean of Students Sparky Reardon when Undefeated was nominated for an Oscar. Reardon, who taught Courtney during his undergraduate tenure at Ole Miss, said this was his first year to watch the Oscars. I knew him as an undergrad and he had a great deal of self confidence, but he was very respectful, Reardon said. Bill is passionate. He was passionate when he was a sports writer at The DM. I am just real proud of Bill and everyone who has had a hand in this; its a real testament to Ole Miss. Courtney left Manassas after the 2009 season, but he will always be connected to the school, the team and the players. Not a day goes by that I dont talk to them, he said.
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Free financial-aid workshops to be held in Marblehead, Swampscott, Salem
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Jim Femia, a certified college planning specialist with the National Institute of Certified College Planners, will be conducting a series of free educational workshops to parents of local area high school students interested in learning more about the college admissions process and how to access financial aid. The sessions will be held at the Swampscott Public Library on Monday evening, March 12; at the Abbot Public Library on Tuesday evening, March 13; and at the Salem Police Department on Thursday, March 15. All of these workshops are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., and reservations are required.
Femia has recently joined CollegeBound Coaching as a principal and as a financial-aid consultant. CollegeBound Coaching is a North Shore consulting firm, which provides college preparation and admissions services based upon a new and innovative student life coaching methodology.
CollegeBound Coaching has also recently launched a new and innovative, personalized college-visit service called Campus Connections. CollegeBound Coaching and Campus Connections are currently hiring and training college students on campuses across the country to assist its professional staff in working with high school students and their families.
I am excited to be working with CollegeBound Coaching so as to be able to deliver the highest level of college preparation and admissions services, said Femia. Having a daughter in college myself and a son who will soon be engaging in the college admissions process, I am keenly aware of the many challenges and stresses that other parents are facing. Through our network of qualified, professional partners and carefully selected, well-trained college students, we are able to provide real solutions to meet the specific needs of these families.
Femia will address a number of compelling areas, which are likely to be of significant interest to parents with children in high school who are going to be applying to college.
Many families inaccurately believe that they are ineligible for financial aid, Femia explained, whereas others, many of them middle class and upper middle-class, pay close to nothing for their childrens college educations. I am going to explain how to position your eligibility status, and how best to position your children so as to take advantage of the many opportunities for financial aid which exist at colleges and universities across the country.
In order to reserve your seat at one of these upcoming financial aid workshops, you can either call 800-689-5195 or send e-mail to register@collegeboundcoaching.com.
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Lewis Moody: Flanker to try his hand at coaching after body says enough is enough
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Rugby union has lost Lewis Moody as a player but the game will be glad to learn that it may not have lost the man they call "Mad Dog" altogether. As he sets out on a life which for the first time since he was five years old will not involve putting his head where many devils would fear to tread, the former England captain revealed he is set to try his hand at coaching.
A shoulder injury forced the 33-year-old to announce his retirement yesterday. Having bid farewell from international rugby last October, the openside flanker lasted just four more months with Bath. Moody, a lifelong Leicester fan who enjoyed such success at Welford Road before leaving for the West Country in 2010, had hoped to add to a collection of silverware which includes a World Cup winner's medal, two Heineken Cups and seven Premiership titles. But as he told The Independent yesterday: "It was not to be. I do feel a bit of a failure as my body finally won. I know that's not the case, but I would love to help Bath in another capacity."
Perhaps this will involve coaching, although Moody stressed he would not be keen on a fast-track to any hotseat. "I'd start from low down and work my way up to see whether I enjoyed it and have what it takes to be a good coach," he said. "I've done a bit of coaching kids in schools and part of me knows I'll crave to still be a part of the game I've played all my life. I have a love for rugby that will never disappear. I think it's important to give back and impart knowledge that the guys might find useful and help them with their careers."
The guys would be wise to listen. Moody won 71 caps for England and five caps for the Lions in a 16-year career which saw him emerge as one of rugby's most combative loose forwards. He captained his country on 11 occasions, most recently in the World Cup in New Zealand.
England's tournament was overshadowed by controversy off the pitch, which featured players caught up in drinking escapades. Moody, himself, was not involved but as the captain still came in for criticism. "I was frustrated that we didn't play anywhere near as well as we could have in that World Cup," he said. "The rest of what went on is consigned to history and people will have their interpretations of it. But the fact is we could have and should have played better, and that will always annoy me. Yet, looking back over my career, I don't have many regrets."
Neither should he. The tributes which flooded in following Moody's announcement confirmed the high regard in which he is held. Sir Ian McGeechan, the Bath director of rugby, said: "Lewis was everything any coach would want from a back-row forward," while Damian Hopley, the chief executive of the Rugby Players Association, added: "Lewis has been one of the great servants of rugby in England over a magnificent career in which he lifted every major trophy in domestic, European and international rugby."
Yet the best line came from his former team-mate, and England coach, Martin Johnson: "Whenever I think back about playing with Lewis it always brings a smile to my face," said Johnson. "He had a complete disregard for his physical well-being."
Yet eventually, Moody, with a wife and two young children, was obliged to show some regard. "I've had this shoulder problem since last November and thought I'd get over it as I always have with injuries. But then I had setback after setback," said Moody. "I saw a specialist, took all the advice and on the weekend sat down with Annie [his wife] and came to an unavoidable decision that my body was saying enough is enough. This injury was one I wasn't coming back from. I'm disappointed because I never wanted an injury to retire me. But then, I was very lucky with injuries."
Added Moody: "Since I've made the decision, I get waves when it hits me: 'that's it, I won't step on to a pitch to play a game of rugby again.' I've been playing since I was five with the Bracknell minis and been a professional since I was 18. Now it's over. That won't dawn on me until the end of the season, because I will be rehabbing until then to get my shoulder sorted. This time, however, it'll be different."
A few outside-halves will doubtless say "thank goodness for that", but English rugby will sorely miss Moody. As Johnson noted, it was his courage which set him apart. "I played the way I did because I always thought I was doing it for the benefit of my team and my mates around me," said Moody. "People might think I'm mad, but I'll miss all those tackles, all that throwing myself on the floor, because I loved feeling I was contributing to the cause.
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