Jose Penrose :: Life Coach

	José Penrose
	Plan your chosen path to the summit and then ... ... reach for the stars!
	Life Coach “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” Does that sound like your life’s road — a path strewn with so many good ideas you never quite brought to fruition? Goals and plans now lost in the mists of time, because you just couldn’t remain focused long enough to make them happen. Each New Year you make new plans — lose weight, stop smoking, manage your time, manage your money, change your job, declutter your home, make more time for you … and by the end of February where are you? Back in the old routine — nothing changed at all. Life coaching is about really taking a hold of your life and moving it forward. Maybe you’re unsure about how to make the best use of your talents. Perhaps you want to maximise your performance or enhance your career prospects. Maybe you need to sort out a relationship problem or achieve a better work / life balance. A life coach can help you do that. A life coach can create the momentum for you to identify your goals, set up action plans and really focus in on what you want to do and how you’re going to do it … and enable you to have some real fun on the journey. No dream is too big or too ridiculous.
	What is Life Coaching? Life coaching provides individual, personal support to enable clients to develop themselves and to achieve success. A coach will make a difference in a client’s life by supporting and encouraging him to grow both personally and professionally. The coach works with the client to improve his quality of life and to show ways in which he can achieve his goals. The coach helps the client to identify where he is now, where he wants to be, and how he can get there. She keeps the client on track until he achieves his goals. The life coach will not impose her own ideas on the client. She will not tell the client what to do or how to do it. The role of the coach is to help the client find his own way and keep him moving along his chosen path.
	How Life Coaching works A life coach is not a therapist nor a counsellor. Life coaching is not about examining past experiences or emotional problems. Equally it is not a short term measure to cope with a crisis. Once a client has identified a need to change some aspect of his life, the professional coach will enable him to clarify his professional and/or personal goals and to map out a process or pathway to achieving those goals. This may involve a minor or major change of direction for the client but until the destination is clearly seen in the client’s mind, the direction that will lead him to that change cannot be defined. Once the destination and direction are clear, i.e. when one or more goals have been set, then the means of attaining them within a prescribed timescale can be established, together with the motivation which will provide the impetus to complete the journey. A client may have goals in one or many areas of life — personal, career, relationship, health. The support of the life coach helps the client to ensure that the goals he sets are specific, realistic and achievable within a specified timescale. The coach will then provide the support to keep the client on track and motivated until the goals are attained.
	Life Coaching can help you to: Clarify your talents and core values Identify your optimal work / life balance Develop a concise and flexible life plan Dramatically increase your self confidence Build a career and personal life which provide you opportunities for personal development and self expression Identify emotional states that empower you Access powerful memories of past successes and use them as a resource in the present Recognise your strong beliefs Change unhelpful and limiting beliefs Develop the courage to take the world by storm.
	How we will work together As a life coach, I will ask you to commit at the outset to a number of sessions, usually six. We will agree a time and place to meet, or we can work over the telephone or by email. Our work together will help you to identify your goals, draw up action plans and move steadily along your chosen path. Of course, you may need to make adjustments along the way. You may find the pace too easy … You may even find you need to rethink your goals in the light of what you discover about yourself once we embark on your journey. As a life coach, I will not tell you what you need to do or how to do it. My job is to facilitate and support you as you develop and put into practice your own life plan … Yesterday is history — your life starts today. Contact me, José Penrose, for more information or to arrange an appointment. I’m really looking forward to working with you.
	Case studies Jennifer is a woman in her sixties and all her life has been convinced she could write a novel. She already has it all planned out but, even though she is now retired, she just cannot get down to starting. In the very first session, we were able to identify that her inability to begin was almost wholly due to her fear of failure. There was no foundation for this fear, as Jennifer had had several articles and short stories successfully published. By working together to increase her confidence, draw up action plans and set tasks each week, Jennifer found she was able to spend a couple of hours each morning working on her novel and is now well on the way to completing it. John began a new job in a large company a little over a year ago. He felt very flattered to have got the job but a year in still feels an outsider and is beginning to believe that this exclusion is deliberate. He has excellent ideas for developing his team and making changes in his area. His boss apparently supports these changes, but John just cannot move ahead. Over six coaching sessions, John was able to analyse exactly what it was he was trying to achieve, identify and get action on his identified needs – training, a mentor, a proper induction to the whole company. Although his progress did not proceed in the manner he had anticipated, at the end of the coaching John was much happier and fulfilled in his role and feeling he was part of and making a real contribution to his area of the company.
	José Penrose Qualifying in 1999 as a person centred, Rogerian counsellor, I worked as a volunteer with a youth counselling service whilst setting up my own practice in Woking. In 2001 I completed a Diploma in Brief Solution-Focused Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy, and now successfully treat clients for a wide range of problems, including weight and obesity, smoking cessation, panic attacks and phobias, anxiety, lack of confidence, relationship and sexual problems. Many of the clients I see seem very stuck — unable to move forward to achieve both their personal and professional goals. This realisation led me to an interest in life coaching. I now have a certificate in performance coaching, completed in 2001, and a Diploma in Life Coaching from Newcastle College. My practice is growing fast, with clients from national and international companies and sports centres, as well as individuals. I also run coaching experience and skills courses, assisted by two colleagues, to give managers basic coaching skills to use with their staff which dramatically improve performance.
	Contact me José Penrose Life Coach Taliesin Heath Road Woking Surrey GU21 4DT Tel: 01483 769058 Mobile: 0781 806 0910 Email: jpenrose@lineone.net
	Links chartered institute of personnel and development international coach federation the european mentoring and coaching council the coaching and mentoring network mind to change sally ann law, life coach healthandgoodness.com