Coaching is defined as a developmental process during which a person is empowered to fulfill personal and professional goals. In short, during life coaching sessions, the client receives help to advance from point A to point B—from the place where one is now to the place where one wants to arrive. The life coach is trying to motivate and support the client in the best possible way to accomplish life goals.
With the help of life coaching, the client is becoming aware of what she really wants in life, where the barriers are to achieving it, and taking specific actions directed toward fulfilling dreams and visions. With a series of short sessions, the client will arrive at an action plan, which will help her to overcome obstacles and achieve imagined goals. Life coaching is about helping a person to confidently step ahead and find fulfillment, success, happiness, and well-being. Moving away from barriers and obstacles that keep us in negative life cycles is one of the most important steps towards positive change. Life coaching is different from psychotherapy because it is usually much shorter and more limited. Also, it is more focused on the future. Elaboration of the past is only happening when clarity of the future goals can be realized more efficiently if they are somehow connected with the past events.
It is important to note that life coaching is not about giving advice on how we should behave and what we should do in life. It is much more than that: careful listening to the client, asking the right insightful questions, and gradual discovery of authentic potential. In fact, life coaching will assist you in finding balance in your life and transforming into the best version of yourself.
Vladimir Mušicki, PhD 