Lifestyle coaching is a term that has become increasingly familiar over the last 10 years. The term coaching first became likeable in the United States of America where, together with NLP aka Neuro Linguistic Programming, it became part of a revived astonishing wave of hugely proactive therapy techniques.

In many ways both Personal Coaching and Neuro Linguistic Programming are a reaction against certain factors of the Humanistic therapy movement, in particular Humanistic and Person Centred Counselling. A criticism of the human-centred therapy approach is that it is remarkably reactive and not extremely proactive. Although all this works fantastic with some clients, with other folk long periods of no exit in sight or low return for time and effort occur. Coaching and Neuro Linguistic Programming are both human-centred therapy in stance, focusing on improving a clients happiness rather than delving into the minefields of childhood, like traditional psychology. Life coachings emphasis is, however, deliberately proactive and used to make you happy.

Performance coaching is not about telling the coaching customer what to do. This is a common misconception. Some performance coaches are comparatively successful in their business careers and then make the cross over to success coaching, assuming that they will only be required to share their pearls of magnificent business wisdom with the lifestyle coaching customer. This is more like mentoring a person in a specific environment. Coaching is instead about life as a whole. Get help with stress management with a life coach.