Clever son set up a camera during phone calls and has put some good video clips on YouTube (with German transcripts.)
Here, take a look:
"Should you become a coach?" (6 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmcOuvPIWiM
"Why I train coaches" (1min 39sec)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1qljoFXucs
To find out about the coach training (beginning Nov 15, 2014) look here:
http://www.frankfurter-ring.de/index.php?id=197&kid=10454 (English)
http://www.frankfurter-ring.de/index.php?id=6&kid=10454 (German)
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Friday, September 5, 2014
Call #1 was great! But I answered all the questions! What will happen in call #2?
Call #2 is coming up. I guess I'll just let people ask what they want to.
Because everyone can listen to all 3 calls if they signed in before 7pm (France time).
But I bet I get a lot of this questions (so many people ask it): Can I coach others before my own life is exemplary? (The answer had better be yes, because my life isn't exemplary yet!) So I'll answer that again if someone asks it.
For now, here's that newsletter we sent out about these calls, in case you didn't get (because you're not on my mailing list, which is easily remedied if you go over to barbarasclub.com/courses and scroll down to the bottom and enter your email address).
Free call with Barbara: Should you be a life coach?
Barbara Sher's Newsletter
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Hi All
Do you ever wonder if you should be a Life Coach?
I've been running weekend workshops on various topics in Frankfurt, Germany for over 10 years and at every workshop, people discover, often to their surprise, that what they really love is helping other people solve problems.
I understand that very well. Helping people solve problems is my profession and my mission. I've been doing it for over 45 years. In fact, I was a life coach before any of us had a name for it. Then, after running a workshop in South Carolina more than 30 years ago, a local newspaper wrote an article about me and called me a Life Coach in the headline.
I loved that title immediately. To me a coach is someone who has the interest and natural ability to help others solve lifestyle problems. Skills and training aren't the same for psychologists or religious counselors and neither are the goals.
I once read an ad in an airport that I've never forgotten: "Fulfilling your dreams can be more therapeutic than analyzing them." Of course, sometimes people need a psychologist or a minister or a good athletic trainer, for that matter. But I think almost everyone would benefit from an intelligently trained life coach who has real respect for them and a commitment to help solve their problems.
Being a coach is not for everyone. But it's profoundly satisfying for 'naturals.' They know who they are because they've been doing some form of coaching since they were little kids.
So if you've been wondering where you fit in, this call can help you figure it out. Call in and talk with me, in person, for an hour on September 5, 2014 at 7 pm in Frankfurt, 1 pm in New York, 10 am in Los Angeles. It's free.
I'll be doing my third coach training in Frankfurt, starting November 15, 2014. That's just a few weeks from now. It will include 5 face-to-face weekends, and online assignments. You'll be working with test clients almost from the beginning.
I'll see you there.
Because everyone can listen to all 3 calls if they signed in before 7pm (France time).
But I bet I get a lot of this questions (so many people ask it): Can I coach others before my own life is exemplary? (The answer had better be yes, because my life isn't exemplary yet!) So I'll answer that again if someone asks it.
For now, here's that newsletter we sent out about these calls, in case you didn't get (because you're not on my mailing list, which is easily remedied if you go over to barbarasclub.com/courses and scroll down to the bottom and enter your email address).
Free call with Barbara: Should you be a life coach?
Barbara Sher's Newsletter
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Hi All
Do you ever wonder if you should be a Life Coach?
I've been running weekend workshops on various topics in Frankfurt, Germany for over 10 years and at every workshop, people discover, often to their surprise, that what they really love is helping other people solve problems.
I understand that very well. Helping people solve problems is my profession and my mission. I've been doing it for over 45 years. In fact, I was a life coach before any of us had a name for it. Then, after running a workshop in South Carolina more than 30 years ago, a local newspaper wrote an article about me and called me a Life Coach in the headline.
I loved that title immediately. To me a coach is someone who has the interest and natural ability to help others solve lifestyle problems. Skills and training aren't the same for psychologists or religious counselors and neither are the goals.
I once read an ad in an airport that I've never forgotten: "Fulfilling your dreams can be more therapeutic than analyzing them." Of course, sometimes people need a psychologist or a minister or a good athletic trainer, for that matter. But I think almost everyone would benefit from an intelligently trained life coach who has real respect for them and a commitment to help solve their problems.
Being a coach is not for everyone. But it's profoundly satisfying for 'naturals.' They know who they are because they've been doing some form of coaching since they were little kids.
So if you've been wondering where you fit in, this call can help you figure it out. Call in and talk with me, in person, for an hour on September 5, 2014 at 7 pm in Frankfurt, 1 pm in New York, 10 am in Los Angeles. It's free.
I'll be doing my third coach training in Frankfurt, starting November 15, 2014. That's just a few weeks from now. It will include 5 face-to-face weekends, and online assignments. You'll be working with test clients almost from the beginning.
I'll see you there.
Tonight's conference calls: Ever wonder if you'd be a good life coach?
Friday! Already?
Getting ready for the first Q &A conference calls (tonight!) regarding life coaching. (It's been full for days so I won't give you a link -- but if you're on my mailing list and were away for the holiday weekend, *open the latest newsletters in your inbox!*). I planned one call, expected 30 or 40 people, but so far got almost 300 so I'll be doing three - and turning a lot of people away. I hope this means that lots of people really want to be life coaches. Because, boy, does the world need you.
When you *want* to be a life coach, that almost always means you're a natural, and that you've been doing life coaching informally for a long time. All you need is some good tools, and some realistic, humane methods for marketing - not the ones that include formidably perfect web sites (or any websites at all!) or walking up to people at parties and saying, "Hello. I'd like to be your coach."
(Choke!)
Good coaches have high empathy levels - they can't hustle! Fortunately there are lots of better ways to get clients. I've had to develop them for myself through the years, and they work. My methods got high praise from a businessman attending last year's coach training at the Frankfurter Ring in Germany: he called them 'brilliant new strategies for passive marketing'
A good coach is so important. If we all had coaches, we'd stop fussing about how we procrastinate or fear to take important steps or get stopped and don't start again. With a good coach standing by, we'd slowly, steadily put our gifts to work. We'd quit being mad at ourselves and fearing the passage of time. We'd have one of the best tools ever devised for overcoming almost every kind of Resistance.
Yes, I'm a believer.
I will give you the link to my last coach training. I'm retiring from face-to-face trainings and going back to writing. So grab it while you can. November 14, 2014 is your last chance.
http://www.frankfurter-ring.de/index.php?id=197&kid=10454 (English)
http://www.frankfurter-ring.de/index.php?id=6&kid=10454 (German)
Getting ready for the first Q &A conference calls (tonight!) regarding life coaching. (It's been full for days so I won't give you a link -- but if you're on my mailing list and were away for the holiday weekend, *open the latest newsletters in your inbox!*). I planned one call, expected 30 or 40 people, but so far got almost 300 so I'll be doing three - and turning a lot of people away. I hope this means that lots of people really want to be life coaches. Because, boy, does the world need you.
When you *want* to be a life coach, that almost always means you're a natural, and that you've been doing life coaching informally for a long time. All you need is some good tools, and some realistic, humane methods for marketing - not the ones that include formidably perfect web sites (or any websites at all!) or walking up to people at parties and saying, "Hello. I'd like to be your coach."
(Choke!)
Good coaches have high empathy levels - they can't hustle! Fortunately there are lots of better ways to get clients. I've had to develop them for myself through the years, and they work. My methods got high praise from a businessman attending last year's coach training at the Frankfurter Ring in Germany: he called them 'brilliant new strategies for passive marketing'
A good coach is so important. If we all had coaches, we'd stop fussing about how we procrastinate or fear to take important steps or get stopped and don't start again. With a good coach standing by, we'd slowly, steadily put our gifts to work. We'd quit being mad at ourselves and fearing the passage of time. We'd have one of the best tools ever devised for overcoming almost every kind of Resistance.
Yes, I'm a believer.
I will give you the link to my last coach training. I'm retiring from face-to-face trainings and going back to writing. So grab it while you can. November 14, 2014 is your last chance.
http://www.frankfurter-ring.de/index.php?id=197&kid=10454 (English)
http://www.frankfurter-ring.de/index.php?id=6&kid=10454 (German)
Monday, September 1, 2014
My Mission
What drives me.
When people have something inside them that’s not expressed, they feel it—they feel something’s wrong, something’s not happening, and time is passing. And no matter how they try to help themselves, whatever they learn, they wind up blaming themselves. So they take a deep breath and get all determined and decide they’re going to do it right this time. But, of course, they haven't been given what they need to do it right, so they end up not doing it again and hating themselves. That kills me. I know they've got something’s wrong there, something doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense.
And they're too alone. They think there's something wrong with them and blame themselves for not fixing it.
That keeps me awake nights. Because I know it's a mistake. They got the wrong information.
If they get it right, they will be moving. They'll feel it. They'll be happy. But the heart of what they need to know, this other thing, which I like to think of as my contribution to the world, isn’t just making people happy—it’s getting them - and you - to give your gifts to the rest of us, because I think everyone has at least one real spark of genius inside them, and usually many more than one. We all have something of great value to give the world, and it feels great when we're doing it.
So, my mission is to let the genius in you flourish. Lots of people think they don’t know what they love or what they want to do (they do know, everyone does), and I help them with that. That's just the start, of course. Once they figure out what they love, most people—and this makes perfect sense—don’t know how to get started or how to get there or what to do. How could they? But we’ve all been taught that you’re supposed to just do it, like Henry Ford did: you go in a dark room and then you figure it out and then you come out and do it.
That’s all a lie, of course. No one ever did anything that way. Self-improvement won't help, neither will positive thinking. You need to be understood, and you need someone on your side. You need information you can't possibly get on your own. And you need some kind of regular structure and accountability to keep you going - like school does or a job does.
No successful person ever accomplished anything in isolation.
When people have something inside them that’s not expressed, they feel it—they feel something’s wrong, something’s not happening, and time is passing. And no matter how they try to help themselves, whatever they learn, they wind up blaming themselves. So they take a deep breath and get all determined and decide they’re going to do it right this time. But, of course, they haven't been given what they need to do it right, so they end up not doing it again and hating themselves. That kills me. I know they've got something’s wrong there, something doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense.
And they're too alone. They think there's something wrong with them and blame themselves for not fixing it.
That keeps me awake nights. Because I know it's a mistake. They got the wrong information.
If they get it right, they will be moving. They'll feel it. They'll be happy. But the heart of what they need to know, this other thing, which I like to think of as my contribution to the world, isn’t just making people happy—it’s getting them - and you - to give your gifts to the rest of us, because I think everyone has at least one real spark of genius inside them, and usually many more than one. We all have something of great value to give the world, and it feels great when we're doing it.
So, my mission is to let the genius in you flourish. Lots of people think they don’t know what they love or what they want to do (they do know, everyone does), and I help them with that. That's just the start, of course. Once they figure out what they love, most people—and this makes perfect sense—don’t know how to get started or how to get there or what to do. How could they? But we’ve all been taught that you’re supposed to just do it, like Henry Ford did: you go in a dark room and then you figure it out and then you come out and do it.
That’s all a lie, of course. No one ever did anything that way. Self-improvement won't help, neither will positive thinking. You need to be understood, and you need someone on your side. You need information you can't possibly get on your own. And you need some kind of regular structure and accountability to keep you going - like school does or a job does.
No successful person ever accomplished anything in isolation.
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