Welcome to West Coast Coaching

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What is a life coach?

Coaching is a blend of techniques utilized by a coach to aid their clients in transitions in their personal life and in the process of self-actualization. Coaching draws from a number of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, spirituality, finance and career counseling, philosophy, and numerous other types of counseling. A coach is a confidential, objective, knowledgeable sounding board with no personal agenda and no preconceived ideas of who you are or who you should be. Your best interest is your coach’s #1 priority. A coach is not a therapist. While a therapist can help you work through your past, a coach will help you:

• Design your future.
• Define specific goals and move quickly toward them.
• Identify and remove any obstacles that are standing in your way.
• Sort out what is and isn’t working in your life.
• Tap into your personal inspiration and integrity.
• Build a strong, healthy personal foundation.
• All you need to do to get started is contact us.
• We’ll set up a free 30-minute introductory session, or schedule you into a group.

About West Coast Coaching

West Coast Coaching is a Los Angeles based coaching firm founded by Life Coach T.C. Conroy. Since we began in 2001, our team has assisted hundreds of life coaching clients achieve success in both their personal and professional lives. Whether through one on one personal life coaching sessions, group sessions, or seminars, our clients have found the value of working with a West Coast Coaching life coach to Design the Life They Desire. Our offices are conveniently located in Hollywood, CA. Your life coach can work with you via the phone, at our offices or in your home or office. While we work with a wide variety of clients, we specialize in: Creativity Coaching, Relationship Coaching, Business Coaching, Band Coaching, Creative Unit Coaching, and Transitional Coaching. MISSION STATEMENT My success is contingent on the success of my clients My goal is to guide them to their greatness by creating the clarity they need to see the multitude of choices that are available to them while co creating the tools they need to consistently and effortlessly live in their full potential." -WEST COAST COCHING FOUNDER T.C. CONROY

What Happens in a Session?

We offer several different types of coaching including Individual Success Coaching, Creative Unit Coaching and Group. With Individual Success Coaching, you and your coach meet three times a month. In your introductory session you’ll discuss what brought you to coaching and start identifying your goals and desires. Then, with your coach’s support and guidance, you’ll get to work immediately taking practical, inspiring steps toward success. In Creative Unit Coaching, a coach works with a Creative Unit such as a rock band or writing team. Whether the group is just starting out or has already accomplished many goals, a coach will help facilitate communication, strengthen and maintain relationships, identify challenges, and create and implement success strategies. Group Coaching can be a wonderful way to begin implementing change in your life. It can also be utilized as a supplement to Individual Success Coaching. Each group meets for 2 hours, four times per month. Group size is limited to seven members plus a moderator. Specific, universal issues are addressed in one-month blocks. The entire group works on these issues and shares experiences and encouragement in a supportive group atmospher. All you need to do to get started is contact us. You’ll begin enjoying the benefits of success coaching right away.

West Coast Coaching Policies

Regardless of your specific needs or the type of coaching you opt for, we will enforce the following policies designed to help you get the most out of your coaching experience:

Confidentiality

Everything you say in a coaching session is confidential. Even the members of your group sign a confidentiality agreement. You too will be expected to respect the anonymity and confidentiality of others.

Commitment

Whether you come to us for help with general issues, long-term goals or a short-term project, we ask clients for a minimum 3-6 month commitment. While many see fantastic results immediately, real change takes time. In our experience 3-6 months is the minimum commitment required to ensure lasting results.

Referrals

We want all of our clients to get the most out of their experience. If your coach feels that your specific needs would be better addressed by another coach or in a different group, we will not only tell you this, but also help you find a good match. The same applies if you feel your coach or group is not a good fit for you.

Personal Coaching

One of the most effective way to work with your coach is working in a PERSONAL SESSION. This can be on the phone or in person. This type of session is beneficial to individuals, bands, groups, business partners, and couples.

What is Life Coaching?

according to wikipedia:

Coaching is a method of directing, instructing and training a person or group of people, with the aim to achieve some goal or develop specific skills. There are many ways to coach, types of coaching and methods to coaching. Direction may include motivational speaking. Training may include seminars, workshops, and supervised practice.

Life Coaching Origins and History

Today coaching plays an important role in Human resource development (HRD) and life help, and the field of coaching as a distinct area of study is rapidly gaining ground. Although the role of coach has changed over time, some examples of research papers on business coaching show that between the late 1930s and the late 1960s, some forms of internal coaching in organizations were already present; i.e. managers (or supervisors) also acted as coaches to their staff (cf. Zeus & Skiffington, 2002.; Grant, 2003.a; 2006.). Gorby (1937.) specified how older employees were trained to coach new employees to reduce wastage.

The evolution of this formal discipline has been influenced by and enhanced through the incorporation of pertinent maxims from other fields of study including personal development philosophies, adult education practices, elements of psychology (sports, clinical, developmental, organizational, social and industrial) and other organizational or leadership principles. Since the mid 1970’s, coaching has developed into a more independent discipline and has a set of training standards (Davidson & Gasiorowski, 2006).

Today, coaching is a recognized discipline used by many professionals engaged in people development. However, as a distinct profession it is relatively new and self-regulating. There are six self-appointed accreditation bodies for business and life coaching: the International Coaching Council (ICC), the International Coach Federation (ICF), the International Association of Coaching (IAC), the Certified Coaches Federation (CCF), the European Coaching Institute (ECI) and the International Guild of Coaches (IGC). No independent supervisory board evaluates these programs and they are all privately owned. These bodies all accredit various coaching schools as well as individual coaches, except the IAC and ECI which only accredits individuals.

According to Davidson & Gasiorowski (2006) ICF has been “key in identifying training criteria and ethical standards in this rapidly evolving field” (p.189).

It is important for future clients to distinguish between coaches who are professionally trained and/or accredited and those who “hang their name plate” out as a coach. Professional coaching skills are transferable across the variety of areas in which a coach may be employed. Whitworth, et al (1998) stated that “the coaches experience is confined to the coaching process. The coaches job is to help clients articulate their dreams, desires and aspirations, help them clarify their mission, purpose and goals, and help them achieve that outcome” (p.5) in any area of life (i.e. personal, professional, relationship, health etc…).

Recent practices in performance coaching for non-sporting environments focus on non-directive questioning, provocation and helping clients to analyze and solve their own challenges, rather than offering advice or direction (see Timothy Gallwey’s The Inner Game of Tennis, Myles Downey’s Effective Coaching, or Nigel MacLennan’s Coaching and Mentoring).

Who Can Benifit From Coaching?

* Many people can benefit greatly from coaching, including: * Anyone who wants to reach their goals more quickly and with less stress. * Anyone who is struggling to define their goal. * Anyone who feels disorganized, overwhelmed, blocked or uninspired. * Anyone who wants to make and keep more. * Anyone who is in transition – such as a change of career, relationship or location. * Anyone who wants to strengthen positive relationships or release harmful ones. * Anyone who is ready to pursue their dreams. * Anyone who is ready to grow – personally, professionally & spiritually. * Anyone who is ready to close the gap between where they are now & where they want to be. If any of these statements pertain to you, we encourage you to consider personal success coaching. Whether you chose to work on general issues, long-term goals or a short-term project, you’ll begin to see results almost immediately – and the results will amaze you. All you need to do to get started is contact us. We’ll set up a free 30-minute introductory session, or schedule you into a group. You’ll begin enjoying the benefits of success coaching right away.

Creativity Coaching

Whether you work in a profession that requires creative thinking, are someone looking to develop a more creative outlook, or wish to either begin or finish that creative project that has been sitting on the back burner, West Coast Coaching can assist you. We work with entertainment professionals, musicians, stylists, actors, writers, those in the fashion industry, entrepreneurs, business owners and more, to  set goals and realize their full potential , thereby creating the remarkable life they desire. Many clients have come to us frustrated with their lack of discipline, drained from their everyday lives, seeking a better understanding of the creative process and blocked from their creative selves. We help these clients break these barriers, increase their productivity and enhance their vision. Length and frequency of sessions are determined on a group by group basis, as are rates. Call or email to discuss your needs.

Life Coaching Services

We believe that anyone can benefit from life coaching. We also believe, and our clients agree, that when you invest in coaching, you invest in yourself. Because everyone has different needs and schedules, we offer a variety of options for you to work with your coach.