Therapist as Life Coach: An Introduction for Counselors and Other Helping Professionals (Revised and Expanded)

A growing body of scientific research indicates that mindfulness can reduce stress and improve mental and physical health. Countless people who have tried it say it's improved their quality of life. Simply put, mindfulness is the practice of paying steady and full attention, without judgment or criticism, to our moment-to-moment experience. Here is a collection of the best writing on what mindfulness is, why we should practice it, and how to apply it in daily life, from leading figures in the field.

Selections include:

• Leading thinking Jon Kabat-Zinn on the essence of mindfulness, stress reduction, and positive change
  
• Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on the transformative power of mindful breathing
  
• Professor of psychiatry Daniel Siegel, MD, on how mindfulness benefits the brain
  
• Physician and meditation teacher Jan Chozen Bays, MD, on how and why to practice mindful eating
  
• Pioneering psychologist Ellen Langer on how mindfulness can change the understanding and treatment of disease
  
• Leadership coach Michael Carroll on practicing mindfulness at work
  
• Psychologist Daniel Goleman on a mindful approach to shopping and consuming
  
• Pianist Madeline Bruser on how mindfulness can help us overcome performance anxiety
• and much more

The Mindfulness Revolution also includes an in-depth discussion by writer-editor Barry Boyce about how mindfulness is being applied in a variety of professional fields—from health care to education, from performing arts to business—to improve effectiveness and enhance well-being.

Total Life Coaching by Pat and Lloyd is more than just a book.

It is an interactive experience in which you will find recipes for living your life more authentically, as well as master time-honored lessons that you can bring to your coaching clients. Regardless of the personal coaching techniques or skills you may have learned, you may still not be the most effective coach you can become. This book will help you move closer to that goal.

Life coaching is more than a collection of techniques and skills. It is more than something you do. Life coaching reflects who you are-it is your authentic being in action.Readers of Pat Williams's and Deborah Davis's book, Therapist as Life Coach, know Pat to be a gifted life coach and passionate teacher. Here Pat and colleague and writer, Lloyd J. Thomas, build on this earlier book and share a unique insight into the coaching process, which shows you precisely how to enhance your professional practices through practical and effective life coaching. It also empowers you to change your own lives through use of the practical information and philosophy presented here.

Total Life Coaching is organized into a series of 50 life lessons, and is designed to be either read cover-to-cover or dipped into, as needed, for assistance when conducting a coaching session. Keeping life's processes on the "message and lesson" level makes living and life coaching much easier and more enjoyable. Total Life Coaching guides you step-by-step through the complex process of learning and coaching these fifty important lessons. The lessons are organized into 8 sections: Creating a Personal Identity; Coaching Spirituality and Life Purpose; Coaching Communication Skills; Living Life with Integrity; Success: Clients Achieving their Potential; Coaching Cognitive Skills; Creating High-Quality Relationships; Understanding Your Past to Create a Desired Future.Each lesson is presented as a structured recipe and includes:

• The life lesson
• The messages contained within the lesson
• Coaching objectives for your clients regarding the lesson
• What you need to know about the lesson to provide the framework for coaching it
• Coaching methods, exercises, questions, and language for bringing each lesson to your clients
• Sample coaching conversations that exemplify the coach-client dialogue for the coaching of the lesson.