Life Coaching Part 1 - International Coaching Association

Master Life Coaching Skills: Build Positive Habits, Manage Emotions, Set Goals & Align with Your Core Values

Episode 1: Laying the Foundation – Introduction to Life Coaching

Understand the role of a coach—what to do, what not to do, and how to establish a professional coaching relationship rooted in ethics and trust. You'll walk through coaching contracts, intake forms, and client expectations, and learn how to set the tone for a results-based coaching experience.

Episode 2: Values – Clarify What Truly Matters

Help your coachee identify their core values and rank them in order of personal importance. You'll learn how to guide clients in distinguishing between values, needs, and wants, and how to use this clarity to align life decisions and long-term goals.

Episode 3: Habits – Transform the Daily Behaviors That Shape Identity

Explore how to recognize negative habits, uncover their consequences, and support clients in building new, values-driven habits. You’ll also learn motivational strategies to help clients celebrate small wins and gain momentum as they create new patterns that stick.

Episode 4: Attitude – Master Mindset Shifts for Growth

This episode dives into how attitude affects success and how to coach clients through changing their mindset. Using the Degrees of Attitude tool, you'll guide clients in examining thought patterns, adjusting their self-talk, and reframing limiting beliefs into empowered perspectives.

Episode 5: Emotions – Name It, Understand It, Move Through It

Guide your coachee in understanding emotional triggers and responses using proven tools like the Plutchik Wheel, the Five Whys, and the Bulls-Eye Model. This episode focuses on emotional literacy, regulation, and resilience, helping clients respond more skillfully to life’s challenges.

Episode 6: Goals – Create a Purpose-Driven Life Strategy

Help clients translate their values and emotional insights into clear, measurable goals. Using the Mayonnaise Jar metaphor and structured Goal Setting Charts, you’ll support them in building a life strategy that prioritizes what matters most.

Episode 7: The Subconscious Mind – Rewriting Internal Programming

Teach clients how the subconscious mind influences thoughts, decisions, and emotional reactions. This episode helps clients identify automatic beliefs, recognize limiting patterns, and begin rewiring their internal dialogue to better support their goals and identity.

Episode 8: Creative Visualization – Turning Mental Images Into Momentum

Guide clients in using intentional visualization to strengthen belief, motivation, and emotional connection to their goals. You’ll teach them how to imagine success vividly and in the present tense, replacing fear-based imagery with empowered mental rehearsal.

Episode 9: Visualize Success Goal Book Party – Making Goals Tangible

Clients learn how to turn their dreams into a physical form using a Goal Book. This episode helps them organize images, phrases, and representations of their goals in a way that inspires daily action, emotional engagement, and long-term consistency.

Episode 10: Create Your Goal Book – Building a Living Vision

Deepen the Goal Book practice by teaching clients how to categorize life goals, use accurate images, track achievements, and continually evolve their vision. This episode strengthens clarity and keeps their goals visible and actionable.

Episode 11: Ranking and Prioritizing Goals – Focus on What Matters Most

Help clients prioritize their goals using urgency, importance, and emotional involvement. You'll teach them how to identify short-term, midrange, and long-term priorities—and prevent crisis-based living by investing steadily in the future.

Episode 12: Taking Action – The Do Something Model

Shift clients from planning to action by helping them overcome procrastination, fear, and negative preconditioning. Using the Swiss Cheese Model, you'll show them how to shrink the “holes” in their goals through consistent, manageable action steps.

Episode 13: Life Strategy – Designing a Blueprint for Success

Guide clients in transforming dreams into SMART, controllable goals. You’ll teach strategy alignment across life areas, root-cause clarity using the 5 Whys, and practical accountability methods that support long-term follow-through and personal fulfillment.

Episode 14: Focus & Attention – Mastering Mental Discipline

Help clients understand how attention works, how to manage distractions, and how to switch effectively between macro (big picture) and micro (details) focus. This episode teaches selective attention, emotional regulation techniques, and refocusing strategies that sharpen decision-making and productivity.