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About Wendy Buckingham and Life Coaching Professionally

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1. Why I built this site for life coaches

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Why I created Life Coaching Professionally?

Well, After a 20+ year career in life coaching and helping people plan and achieve their goals, plus mentoring new coaches, I felt it was time for a new direction.

I've always loved to simplify information and educate others in a user friendly way so doing this around life coaching was the obvious choice. Over 14 years ago I created Life Coaching Professionally which has continued and will continue to evolve.

In recent years, coaching has exploded into many different specialities and niches. However, I firmly believe a well trained life coach can use the generic principles of life coaching to help clients with any issues whether personal, professional or businesss. So you will find the information and suggestions in this website useful whoever you have as a client.

What some of Life Coaching Professionally visitors have told me

From Eduardo Mendonca, Brazil:
This site is incredibly helpful.

I found pretty much all the answers for my questions about coaching and training information and Life Coach activities. Congrats Wendy!

From Josie, London:
There's so much information! I already used the niche marketing section to start thinking about my target clients. Thanks!

My Life Coaching Training

I really believe that you need life coach specific training to call yourself credible professional life coach, regardless of what other qualifications you have. My trainings were both personally and professionally beneficial in ways I could not have imagined.

CoachU

My major coach training and certification was over 200 hours with Coach U between 1998 to 2000.

This was the original life coaching school in America, founded by Thomas Leonard who created and developed the concept of life coaching as a niche profession. When I took the training the emphasis was on personal coaching rather than the more corporate model it has today.

The best part of my CoachU training was that we had to experience these processes as part of our training, rather than just learn about them, which was invaluable for our own understanding and growth.

After graduation I went on to became a Tele-class Leader with CoachU (no Skype or Zoom then) which was put me in good stead for subsequent distance learning events I ran within my own coaching practice. Mentoring new coaches, building their confidence and holding their hand through the challenges of working with their first clients was one of my favourite things.

Results Coaching Systems

My other training was with Results Coaching Systems now part of the Neuro Leadership Institute whose founder David Rock has become an authority on brain science in coaching.

The Results coach training I took with David was focused mainly on goal achievement and had a format of the client committing to a fixed number of sessions - usually 12 - with an introductory free session.

I also took several extra Results trainings including team and group coaching which were really valuable in allowing me to broaden my coaching scope.

My involvement with the International Coach Federation (ICF)

The International Coach Foundation (ICF) is the worlds premier governing body for coaches, setting standards and offering credentialing.

As one of the earliest members of the ICF chapter in Australia, in 1999, I held the then advisory position of Coach Credentialing Leader helping coaches understand what was involved in obtaining a credential. Although it is no longer relevant for me to be a member of the ICF, I still hold it in high regard and recommend it as a credible benchmark for coaching excellence.

More about my career background

My own career background history:

being a secretary (in the days before they were called PA’s or executive assistants😊)
teaching Shorthand and typing at evening school
journalism (feature and special supplement writing for major capital city newspapers and magazines in Australia). These included newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald, The Telegraph and The Australian and magazine Better Homes and Gardens and ITA.
broadcasting, I had my own 2 hour slot interviewing all sorts of interesting people and celebrities on community radio in Sydney, 2RRR and 2NSB.
business ownership of an online video production education company with my husband, Paul; VideoDriven.com
voiceover work, (apparently I have an international accent)
Working pro bono with recovering drug addicts to help them set and achieve goals
coaching, training and speaking.

I am also really proud to be a Guest Author Expert for articles about coaching published in the newsletter of the Coaching Tools Company. If you sign up for this newsletter you will be able to sources really useful articles on all aspects of coaching as well as special offers.

About Me Personally

Life has been my greatest teacher in coming to realise that it is better to run and stumble and hurt yourself, than to regret never having tried to run at all.

My stumbling has included “learning” marriages until I met my souldmate Paul and we married in 1990. Between us we have four terrific daughters and a pod of grandchildren.

Highlights in my personal life include:

Emigrating to Australia from the UK.
Living as a volunteer on a Kibbutz in Israel for a year.
Trekking five days in the Sinai with a Bedouin guide, camels, but no tent.
Turning my “someday” dream of trekking the high altitude trail to Machu Picchu in Peru, into an exhausting if exhilarating achieved goal.
Six months working and traveling in the UK and Italy and achieving my goal of drinking coffee in St Marks Square in Venice.
Living and working (online) in Thailand for six months and having a real experience of that country and its culture.
Building and managing this trouble-free website using the fabulous Solo Build It business building system.
Moving to the glorious south coast of NSW and finally having a herb garden.
Publishing my first book Ready Set Goal in 2000 which has morphed into Mastering the Art of Goals Coaching.
And of course, marrying Paul Buckingham, who is also my technical backup and a contributor to my Life Coaching Professionally website.
Becoming invited to become a moderator on the Coaching Helping Coaches forum, which I consider to be the best and most authentic life coaching forum on FaceBook.

I’m looking forward to more adventures in my work and my life. The best is yet to come!

Enough already! But do take some time to look around this site and discover all you can about life coaching professionally.

I find an excellent place to start is at Becoming a Life Coach, so good hunting!

I look forward to hearing from you soon. You can contact me here.

All the best
Wendy

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