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What

is Life Coaching

Life coaching is a professional partnership designed to help individuals achieve their goals, overcome challenges, and create meaningful, sustainable change. It empowers clients to recognize their strengths, build resilience, and navigate obstacles with clarity and confidence. At its core, life coaching is about improving quality of life, fostering growth, and unlocking potential that may otherwise remain untapped.
A life coach acts as a trusted guide, offering perspective, accountability, and encouragement while helping clients clarify their vision, align actions with values, and stay focused on what matters most. Coaching is not about giving advice or solving problems for clients, but rather about enabling them to access their own resourcefulness, creativity, and inner wisdom. Beyond goal achievement, life coaching supports individuals in cultivating authenticity, developing new skills, strengthening relationships, and achieving balance across personal and professional domains. It can help reduce stress, replace limiting habits with empowering ones, and inspire a deeper sense of purpose and direction.
Ultimately, life coaching is about transformation — guiding individuals to move from intention to action, from potential to performance, and from uncertainty to clarity, so they can live more fulfilling and impactful lives.

The Values of Life Coaching program for the Indigenous Communities

Life coaching programs address unique cultural, social, and economic challenges in the Indigenous Communities. Life coaching programs can play a significant role in enhancing the overall quality of life especially Mental health and Emotional Wellbeing of the Indigenous individuals and communities.
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Impacts

and Benefits of Life Coaching

Cultural Sensitivity & Empowerment

  • Cultural Relevance: Life coaching programs tailored for Indigenous communities can incorporate traditional knowledge, values, and practices, making the support more relevant and respectful of their heritage related to Turam based concerns.
  • Empowerment: Such program helps individuals reconnect with their cultural identity and heritage, fostering a sense of pride and self-worth.

Holistic Development

  • Personal Growth: Life coaching can aid in personal development, helping individuals set and achieve goals, build self-confidence, and develop resilience.
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  • Development: Empowered individuals will contribute positively to their communities, fostering collective growth and well-being.

Mental & Emotional Health

  • Support Systems: Life coaches provide emotional support and guidance, helping individuals navigate personal challenges and mental health issues.
  • Trauma Healing: Life Coaching will be instrumental in addressing and healing from historical and intergenerational trauma that many Indigenous people face.

Health & Wellness

  • Holistic Health: Life coaching promotes a holistic approach to health, encompassing physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
  • Health Education: Life Coaches provide education on healthy lifestyles, goal setting, and wellness practices that are culturally appropriate and its experiential.

Strengthening Social Networks

  • Create Community Bonds: Life coaching programs strengthens social ties within communities, fostering a supportive network where individuals will share experiences and resources that is respected and trustworthy.
  • Promoting Mentorship Opportunities: Experienced individuals will become mentors, offering guidance and support to others in their community.

Course

Outline

  • Introduction to Life Coaching from ICF perspective
  • Definition and Scope of Life Coaching
  • History and Evolution of Life Coaching
  • Learning about the advantages of Life
  • Coaching to enhance Quality Life Style
  • Difference Between Life Coaching, Therapy, and Mentoring
  • ICF Core Coaching Skills and its implementation
  • ICF Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
  • Intentional Listening and asking powerful and motivating questions
  • Effective Questioning Techniques
  • Building Rapport and Trust for cultivating safety
  • Implementing “Coaching Conversation”
  • Goal Setting and Achievement Strategies
  • Change management and resistance control
  • Coaching Models and Frameworks (Mental health, Emotional Health, Wellbeing and Enablement)
  • Problem solving skills to understand and to be able to measure the level of healthy decision making
  • Understanding what Wheels of life is and how to bring balance into life’s perspective
  • Understanding Human Behavior and the science behind life coaching in delving best results
  • Motivation Theories and measuring the readiness stage of the client
  • Communication Skills and conflict management
  • Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
  • Building Professional Plans in helping the client to make more productive and healthy decisions
  • Relationship management approach to Life Coaching
  • Financial health and understating the scope of its impact in life in general
  • Ethics and Professionalism
  • Confidentiality and Boundaries
  • Feedback and constructive reflection to enhance healthy and productive behaviours
  • Understanding the 3 centers of the
  • Enneagram on developing a biased free coaching conversation
  • Cultural Sensitivity and Inclusiveness with respect to different clients
  • Continuing Professional Development
  • Practical Life Coaching Skills and conducting coaching sessions
  • Client Assessment and Evaluation
  • Developing Action Plans
  • Monitoring Progress and Accountability

Course

outcome

Individual Level

Participants will develop
  • Improved mental health and emotional well-being
  • Increased self-confidence and self-esteem
  • Stronger goal-setting and problem-solving skills
  • The ability to become self-organized and self-reliant
  • Greater self-awareness and mindfulness in daily life
  • Enhanced resilience and adaptability under pressure
  • Stronger capacity for collaboration and openness to change
  • Improved self-efficacy and the ability to balance life’s dimensions, strengthening self-mastery
  • A personalized Happiness Index to measure and track behavioral change
  • Reduced impact of social and climate injustice, income inequalities, disengagement from democratic processes, loneliness, isolation, and other forms of human suffering
  • Increased capacity-building skills for personal growth and to positively influence others

Community Level

Cultural Relevance and Respect

  • Culturally Sensitive Coaching: Indigenous life coaches will offer guidance that respects and integrates traditional values, knowledge, and practices, making the coaching more effective and relatable.
  • Cultural Preservation: Indigenous Life coaches will help preserve and promote cultural heritage by integrating it into their coaching practices.

Empowerment and Self-Determination

  • Personal Empowerment: Learning life coaching helps individuals gain the skills to set and achieve personal goals, build confidence, and improve self-esteem.
  • Community Leadership: Equipped with coaching skills, individuals can take on leadership roles within their communities, promoting self-determination and self-governance.

Mental and Emotional Health

  • Support Systems: Trained life coaches within the community provides ongoing emotional and mental support, helping others navigate personal challenges and mental health issues.
  • Trauma-Informed Care: Indigenous life coaches will offer support that is sensitive to the unique historical and intergenerational traumas experienced by their communities.

Education and Skill Development

  • Educational Support: Life coaching skills will be used to support educational initiatives, helping students and community members set academic goals and overcome barriers.
  • Career Development: Life Coaches will guide individuals in exploring career opportunities, developing job skills, and pursuing meaningful employment.

Strengthening Community Bonds

  • Social Cohesion: Indigenous life coaches will foster stronger social ties and a sense of community, creating a supportive network where individuals can share experiences and resources.
  • Mentorship and Role Models: Trained life coaches will become mentors and role models, inspire others and providing guidance based on shared cultural experiences.

Holistic Health and Wellness

  • Holistic Approach: Life coaching promotes a holistic approach to health, encompassing physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being, aligning well with many Indigenous cultural perspectives.
  • Wellness Education: Life Coaches will educate community members on healthy lifestyles, nutrition, and wellness practices that are culturally appropriate.

Economic Empowerment

  • Financial Accountability: Life coaches will provide financial accountability education, helping community members manage their finances, save money, and make informed economic decisions.
  • Entrepreneurship: Life Coaching skills supports aspiring entrepreneurs, fostering economic development and sustainability within the community.

Enhanced Communication Skills

  • Effective Communication: Learning life coaching improves communication skills, enabling individuals to listen actively, ask insightful questions, and provide constructive feedback.
  • Conflict Resolution: Life Coaches will mediate and resolve conflicts within the community, promoting harmony and understanding.

Advocacy and Social Justice

  • Community Advocacy: Indigenous life coaches will advocate for their communities, promoting social justice and influencing policies that benefit Indigenous peoples.
  • Empowerment Through Knowledge: By learning life coaching, individuals will better understand their rights and how to advocate for themselves and their communities.

Sustainable Community Development

  • Long-Term Impact: Training Indigenous life coaches creates a sustainable model for community development, where the skills and knowledge remain within the community and can be passed on to future generations.

The Delivery

Process

  • 170+ ICF Accredited Coach Training Hours (Level 2)
  • 60 hours live, 3-hour per week Training Courses for 4 to 6 months
  • Discover You: Get Niched working with your team and create resilience 
  • Your own personal success coach for 6 months (Available upon enrollment, every 3 weeks you have a one-to-one coaching session)
  • Get access to questionnaires related to coaching for your people management
  • Dr. Delbar Niroushak a MCC Professional Leadership and Business Coach presenting her 22 years of experience with knowledge as an experienced instructor.
  • All manuals and workbooks being shared virtually
  • 50-hour of project delivery
  • 50-hour of peer coaching sessions
  • 10-hour mentor coaching ( 7h of group mentor coaching and 3h of one-to-one mentor coaching with Dr. Delbar Niroushak )
  • Everything you need to coach others, customizable coaching tools, and other materials will be shared virtually.

Our method

of delivery

Individual Level

  • Group discussion
  • Dyad and triad exercises with fellow participants
  • Sharing current situations as case study to explore more alternative solutions
  • Sharing experiences from the participants to understand better
  • Develop allies with fellow participants through group exercises
  • Focus on their daily challenges
  • Using managerial games to engage more with the topic
  • “Role Plays”
  • Creating more opportunities through “assigning homework”

Certifications

Participants will receive

ICF Level-2 Certification

Level-2 wellness and Life Coaching certificate from the ICF

Enneagram Certification

Certification from the Enneagram Empowerment School and the IEA (International Enneagram Association)

Global Leadership Foundation

Certification from the Global Leadership Foundation

ICBOC Certification

Certification form the ICBOC ( Indigenous Certification Board of Canada)