• Need Clarity & Direction?
• Need some practical advice?
• Stuck, and not sure how to move forward?
Get in touch with The Life Coach Guy
The Life Coach Guy guides and councils you through the personal and professional challenges that you are facing, and provides you with the tools and encouragement to live a more fulfilling life
The approach I use is Direct. You can expect some tough conversations that enable you to see what the issues are, and what is required to resolve them.
The issues are discussed, actions and potential solutions are considered, options decided on, and then you are pushed to implement the solutions in your life.
My work is to walk with you through the challenges that you are facing, to push you through to the other side, and to leave you as a better person.
Simply put, you, the client, wishes to achieve a specific goal or goals, and the life coach facilitates, empowers, and guides you to achieve those goals. The life coach has a number of tools and strategies available to facilitate this process.
These include realistic goal setting and monitoring, negative belief modification, attitude adjustment, training in discipline(s), increasing self-awareness & self-control, strategies to resolve re-occurring problems, development of resilience, creating awareness of views, beliefs, perceptions, and perspectives, truth, common sense, and personal experience.
Pieter van Vuuren is The Life Coach Guy. A retired Education & Training Management executive, with a specialization in Operations. He successfully carried out these functions in South Africa, The United Kingdom and the Middle East. Positions include:
Director of Operations – Training Connection – Johannesburg
CEO GTSLearning-Africa – Johannesburg
Director of Operations & Sales GTSLearning HQ – London
Founder & CEO- ITS – Middle East
The Life Coach Guy is a father of four, now, adult children and lives in Chartwell, Johannesburg. Hobbies include woodwork, hiking, and media production. “In my quest for self knowledge and understanding I have studied, and continue to study, Psychology, CBT, Life Coaching, NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming), Philosophy and numerous other modalities.
I have chosen to provide clarity and direction, where I can, to those who need and request it. I undertake this conscientiously and it provides me with fulfillment and meaning.”
In preparation to provide Life Coaching services, Pieter van Vuuren completed a number of structured courses:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Practitioner - Academy of modern, applied psychology
Life coaching certificates – Beginner, Intermediatte and Advanced - Academy of modern, applied psychology
Official NLP Practitioner (Assoc) Cert iGNLP™ / ABNLP – HeadGear Labs P & P Dev.
The combination of my life experience, learning’s, and personality, provide me with the abilities and insight required to be effective in this work.
ETHICS
Ethics are the moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity. The business of Life Coaching often deals with sensitive and personal issues. I adhere to the Ethical Standards of COMENSA
(https://www.comensa.org.za/Public) and my status is that of “Friend of COMENSA” Professional Number 10599 .
The initial discovery session, is free. This can be done in person or via Zoom
The process consists of a series of one-on-one sessions between you and your life coach. A session is usually 60 minutes and sessions can be daily, weekly or even monthly. The first session is a “Discovery Session”.
In this session:
• The core issue(s) are determined and clarified • We determine whether we are comfortable working with each other
• The coach determines if he has the required talent, skills, and experience to deal with the issues, and whether the client is receptive to dealing with the issues.
• The administrative details and financial arrangements are finalised.
From this initial session, we create a plan or roadmap, which ensures common direction. Sessions consist of, sometimes intense, discussions, questions, answers, and exercises for you, the client, to complete. On resolution of the issues, the process is complete.
The cost is R500 per session, when a set of four sessions is purchased.
And R 650.00 for a single session
All Life Coach sessions are purchased up-front.
For home/office visits, a cost may be applied based on the time & distance.
Sessions can be undertaken via Zoom and other Internet meeting apps, by prior arrangement
In the case that you require an alternative arrangement, feel free to discuss your requirements with me.
If you are unhappy, if you are struggling and need a hand to get through this time, then Yes, this is for you. If you are looking for an Agony Aunt that is going to listen and provide sympathy for as long as you talk, then I am probably not the person you need. I am direct, and get things done. I will push you, work with you to resolve the issues, and then let you get on with your life.
