50 Life Coaching Exercises

50 Life Coaching Exercises by David Bonham-Carter is an easy to use eBook containing 50 helpful life coaching exercises, covering a range of life coaching and personal development issues including making changes, career, relationships, self esteem, anxiety, assertiveness and stress.

Who Can the Life Coaching Exercises Help?

You can benefit from using the coaching exercises in this eBook if you are:

A life coach or other professional providing support or coaching to people seeking to make positive changes in their life or deal with issues such as low self esteem, career, relationship or communication difficulties

An individual seeking to make personal or professional changes or adopt a practical problem solving approach to difficulties in your own life, career or relationships. This eBook provides a toolkit of helpful coaching exercises which you can use to coach yourself or to evaluate your thoughts and options and decide on the choices that your want to make in your situation

A life coaching student seeking coaching resources and materials to use. You can use the coaching exercises in the eBook in your coaching practice as you develop the skills and abilites needed to be an effective professional coach.

Feedback

"Dear David,

Many thanks for the 50 exercises. I have found your books helpful, clear and concise.

Warmest regards - "

- Jo, Life Coach

"I came across your website by chance as I was researching life coaching websites in general looking at ideas of how to structure my own website. However when I read some of the information around your ebooks I thought the 50 Life Coaching Exercises would be a useful tool to have. I have found the style and content both easy to use, read and digest. It's a sort of referral guide for me and my clients that I use in preparing for my coaching sessions."

- Hilary, Life Coach

"I am a qualified executive coach, so mainly coach on work related issues but I frequently come across more person/life issues and it has given me comfort to know there are some good exercises I can turn to if a particular issue crops up and how to address it. Most of the main 'life' issues are covered and the exercises are simple to understand, pragmatic and easy to use. Great to have some more tools in my toolbox! "

- Liz, Executive Coach

"I bought the book for myself and for my coaching. I have had a lot of coachees with very low self esteem and I made use of your e-book and got some good ideas from it. I am only sorry that it is not in Danish because I could then use it even more!"

- Else, Life Coach (Denmark)

"I found the book helpful and interesting. It has helped me to build an arsenal of tools to assist my clients."

Shawn, Life Coach

"I've started working through the exercises and I've found the book to be well set out. The instructions for each exercise are clear and easy to understand...I wasn''t happy with how I was living my life. I thought I didn't know how to change things but I'm beginning to see that I just didn't have the confidence to make the changes I wanted to make. I'm working on that..."

- Melanie, Surrey, UK

Life Coaching Techniques Covered in the Exercises

The coaching exercises in the eBook are easy to understand and follow, with clear instructions included in each exercise. The exercises demonstrate proven ideas from different but complementary coaching models, using coaching techniques drawn from established approaches such as:

CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) - For instance, the well known ABC Model for analysing the relation between your thoughts, feeling and actions and applying this to problem situations is set out simply and clearly

Motivational interviewing (the Change Questionnaire and the Advantages and Disadvantages of Change exercises in the eBook build on the work of Prochaska and DeClemente and the transtheoretical model, sometimes known as the cycle of change)

Brief, solution focused therapy (the exercises include a simple helpful version of the famous Miracle Question exercise).

What Coaching Exercises are Included?

The 50 life coaching exercises that are included in the book are listed below. Next to each exercise are indicated the life coaching areas that the exercise is likely to be relevant to. A similar list is included in the eBook itself when you buy it from this website so that you can select the exercises from it that are appropriate to you at any given time:

Title of Life Coaching Exercise	Relevant Coaching Areas
Advantages & Disadvantages of Change	Making Changes, Breaking Habits, General Life Coaching, Motivation
Affirmations	Self Esteem, Motivation
Alternative Behaviours	Assertiveness, Anxiety, Self Esteem
Assertiveness – Using the DEAL Method	Assertiveness
Anxious Thoughts	Anxiety, Stress
Balancing Statements for Negative Self Image	Self Esteem, Anxiety, Assertiveness
Building Self Esteem – The List of 3’s	Self Esteem
Career – Assessing Your Next Move	Career
Career Options – Initial Questionnaire	Career
Career Options – Analysis	Career
Change Questionnaire	Making Changes, Breaking Habits, General Life Coaching, Motivation
Core Values	Values, General Life Coaching, Goals
Create Your Vision	General Life Coaching, Goals, Making Changes, Breaking Habits
Creating Your Project Plan	General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Motivation
Dealing with Procrastination	Making Changes, Motivation, Breaking Habits
Dealing with Stumbling Blocks	General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Motivation, Breaking Habits
Decision Making	General Life Coaching, Making Changes
Ending a Relationship	Relationships
Explanations	Anxiety
Facing Your Fears	Anxiety, Making Changes, Breaking Habits
Fears about Conflict	Assertiveness, Making Changes, Anxiety
Focusing on Others	Anxiety
Improving a Relationship	Relationships
Job Analysis	Career
Job Experience and Suitability	Career
Leisure Activities	General Life Coaching, Anxiety, Stress
Looking Outwards	Anxiety, Stress
Managing Risks	General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Career
Meeting Job Requirements	Career
Monitoring Your Progress	General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Motivation, Breaking Habits
Motivation & Actions Checklist	General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Motivation, Breaking Habits
Myths of Change	General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Motivation, Breaking Habits
Negative Thoughts & Alternatives	General Life Coaching, Motivation, Anxiety, Stress
Negotiation and Compromise in Relationships	Relationships
Positive Rehearsal	Anxiety
Quality of Life Assessment - Short Form	General Life Coaching
Quality of Life Assessment - Long Form	General Life Coaching
Regrets & What You Can Do About Them	General Life Coaching, Anxiety, Stress, Relationships, Career
Relationship Pros & Cons	Relationships
Reviewing Your Project Plan	General Life Coaching, Motivation, Making Changes
Setting Goals	General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Breaking Habits
The ABC Model	General Life Coaching, Anxiety, Stress, Breaking Habits, Making Changes
The Miracle Question	General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Motivation
The Normal Process of Change	General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Motivation, Breaking Habits
Thinking Flexibly	General Life Coaching, Anxiety, Stress
Weekly Diary	General Life Coaching, Anxiety, Stress
Weighing Up Two Options	General Life Coaching, Making Changes
What Are Your Needs?	General Life Coaching, Making Changes
What Are Your Rights?	Assertiveness, Self Esteem
Your Priorities in Life	General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Motivation

About the Author

The coaching exercises in 50 Life Coaching Exercises have been compiled carefully by Self-Help Author David Bonham-Carter who specialises in the use of CBT and other practical techniques to help people deal with negative thinking patterns and address difficulties such as:

Relationship and communication difficulties
Self esteem and confidence issues
Stress, anxiety and assertiveness
Life change and motivation

David worked for many years in the UK as a social worker before becoming a professional life coach in private practice for several years. He now focuses on sharing useful coaching and CBT techniques through self-help guides.