Become a Life Coach. What it takes | New Insights Life Coach Training (2024)

This is a question we get asked regularly.

On this page, we've done our best to provide answers to some of the key questions that lie behind this.

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Before we tackle the issue of how to become a life coach, you may still be wondering whether it is a career you'd like to pursue?

If you haven't yet read the page on this website that deals with what life coaching is and what life coaches do, you should consider doing so now.

Frankly, life coaching must rank as one of the most – if not the most – fulfilling career for people who have a passion for working with people.

As a life coach responsible for helping your clients live their best lives, you will watch them grow and develop and achieve things theynever thought possible.

This is what making a difference in the world is all about

There are many other reasons too.

Forone thing, when you train to become a life coach, you'll experience amazing personal development and growth in self awareness.

We sum it up as more Freedom, Confidence and Growth!

As a professional life coach, your work will never again beboring. Each client is unique, with his or her own view of the world,hopes, dreams ... and self imposed limitations or obstacles to growth.

And then there'sthe unrivalled flexibility that a career as a life coach can offer.

You choose the hours you wantto work, when you want to work, what types of people you want to haveas your clients, and so on.

Life coaching is a career that comes from the heart, more so than from the head!

So you don't need any fancy academic qualifications.

However, there are a few very important attributes that you should possess if you want to be successful in this field.

Ideally you should be someone with the following characteristics.

Ask yourself ... Are you:

Thoroughly honest and with unquestionable integrity?

Someone with a real passion for working with people?

Someone with an open, enquiring mind, ready and willing to learn about what makes you and others 'tick'?

Generally non judgmental of others (although this can be learnt)?

Happy to commit to ongoing personal development?

If you are serious about becoming a certified professional lifecoach, we recommend you get the best training you can afford.

Life experience alone is not sufficient to qualify you as a life coach. In fact, without extensive training in the various life coaching tools, techniques and systems, it can even work against you. You may need to unlearn various conditioned habits in order to help other people effectively.

Life coaching is very much a word-of-mouth driven industry, so yourability to deliver great results for your clients is far and away the most important outcome you want from the training you choose to undertake.

Ensure that the life coach training you invest in is:

BROAD BASED (focusing on all aspects of life coaching, not just niche techniques);

COMPREHENSIVE (covering both theory and practical in some depth;

REPUTABLE (with a suitable structure and/or system that has proven to deliver results over an extended period);

PRACTICAL TO APPLY (not overly academic in nature); and

SUPPORTIVE, throughout your certification period and, preferably, beyond.

With us, you can start whenever it suits you and train in your own time and at your own pace.

Werecommend that you start coaching for reward only when you feelcompletely ready and then do so in your part time until you haveestablished your practice and feel ready to go full time with your newcareer.

That way you have the flexibility to control your destiny without taking unnecessary risks.

No. At least not if you choose to train with New Insights.

The homestudy nature of our training is designed to work equally well for you,whether you're in Nelspruit or Nairobi, Cape Town or Cairo.

AlthoughNew Insights has two companies registered in Cape Town and London we do notrun conventional training centres. You study, practice and even writethe theory exam from your home or place of choice - even if you decideto emigrate during your training.

There's no need to travel to us - ever!

Youhave total flexibility and control over your training agenda. But weare always there to support you by phone, email or through ourinnovative online Forum and Journalling facility.

The quality of training on offer in the market varies widely so this a difficult question to answer!

Bevery wary of short courses that claim to turn you into a practisinglife coach after just a few days, weeks or even months. Such claims are generallyunrealistic and will likely result in disappointment and/or disillusionment.

The NewInsights life coach certification training involves a total of some 300 hours of study and practice. It offers very thorough preparation tobecome a life coach with everything you need to build a successfulpractice.

The New Insights Life Coach Training and Certification Programme will most probably take you somewhere between 9 and 18 months to complete if you can allocate roughly 4 to 8 hours a week to it.

Generally speaking, life coaching is not a career for those who prefer being in the employ of others.

The great majority of life coaches start their own life coaching practices rather than look for employment.

And why not?

This is a wonderfully flexible career that can easily be operated from home. In fact we believe that becoming a New Insights certified life coach can give you access to one of the very best home based business opportunities available..

Whenyou become a life coach and start your own practice you are in control! You decide your hours and the clients you prefer to work with.

Lifecoaching practices share very few of the challenges associated withother small business start ups. They require minimal capital outlay, aregenerally low cost to operate and carry little risk.

You can certainly earn a decent living as a life coach!

Effective life coaches are in great demand. After all, they help people to achieve their goals and dreams, so why wouldn't they be?

Fees that life coaches chargevary dependent on experience, target market, client type and so on butmost coaches charge in the range of R350 to R1000 per session (SA currency). Sessions generally taking anywhere between 60 and 90 minutes (either face-to-face or via telephone/Zoom/Skype).

A life coach's operating costs are very low and income can be supplemented significantly by, for example, engaging in public speaking and running personal development workshops and/or webinars.

Life coaching is very much a word-of-mouth business. If you provethat you can deliver great results for your clients, you'll never lackfor referrals ... and that is a coach's lifeblood!

When you first become a life coach and are just starting out, finding new clients can be a little more challenging.

Ifyou train with New Insights you'll be exposed to a number of practice clients, each one of which is likely to refer other friends andcolleagues to you, thereby helping to build your pipeline of clients.

New Insights also offers two other key advantages for life coaches who are just starting out:

• An excellent Life Coach Directory website in which you can profile yourself and your services to the world;
• Substantial, proven support to plan, promote and sustain a successful life coaching practice.
  

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