Life Coaching in Andalusia
Purchasing a home in Marbella or elsewhere at the sunny Costa del Sol is the relatively easy part - relocating to a new country and settling into a different culture is much harder to do. For most people the move to Andalusia signals the need to completely change one's life, but that is sometimes easier said than done. Life coaching provides new arrivals with support and one-to-one professional advice on how best to achieve a change of life style and career aspirations.
Often the breaking of old habits is the hardest part. A professionally trained life coach will guide new arrivals in Andalusia through the first difficult situations, clearing the way for making the most of clients' natural talents and showing them how to embrace new opportunities.
Professional Listening Skills
Friends and family often only hear what they wish to hear - and give the kind of advice they believe we want to hear. A professionally trained life coach, however, will listen to a person's aspirations and dreams without prejudice, in an objective and non-judgmental way. Based on that first session, the life coach will put together a step-by-step plan with achievable goals. These can assist achieving one's career aspirations, help with relationships and social skills or rediscover dormant creative skills.
Practical Help
Unlike a psychotherapist, who will concentrate efforts on establishing what went on in a person's past, before tackling the present, a life coach uses a person's personal history only as a reference point to kick-start the future. Many people who seek the help of a life coach never even get to meet their life coach face to face: sessions can be held via telephone, Skype or email.
This may appear to be quite impersonal at first glance, but has the advantage that a person can arrange for a life coaching session at their convenience without the worry of how to get from A to B to attend a meeting. It also cuts out the initial embarrassment and inhibition, when people are asked to talk about their personal and professional aspirations and dreams. The client chooses a time when there is no risk of being interrupted by family or friends. As a result, the client is far more relaxed and therefore more receptive to the life coach's advice.
Advice is always practical, for example, somebody who buys a Marbella home with the view of starting their own business or embark on a completely different career, can discuss the opportunities open to them with their life coach and what it takes to make that dream a reality, taking a step-by-step approach.
A typical life coaching session lasts 45 to 50 minutes, allowing the client to talk in detail about their hopes and dreams, or their frustrations of not achieving what they set out to accomplish with their move to Andalusia. Single people and families come to settle at the Costa del Sol, each having different hopes for the future. Some are looking for a less stressful life, others crave excitement after years spent behind an office desk.
A step-by-step guide might include getting healthier and fitter to gain confidence, or might provide a strategy to cope better with intricate family or professional relationships.
Career Choices
Depending on what personal preferences the client has expressed and what talents and existing skills have been discussed in the first session, the life coach can suggest a large number of life changing career choices.
For example, the greater Marbella area has various colleges that offer massage courses for people to become professional therapists; there are yoga courses and holistic courses, courses teaching dance movement therapy or scuba diving, sailing, tennis and golf that can open up a new career path that can be attained in a relatively short time. Such occupations also offer clients the chance to run their own business in the future and achieve the kind of control over their lives they've always craved.
At some Marbella based colleges, sports massage, anatomy and physiology, aromatherapy, beauty specialist training, including manicure and pedicure, and reflexology are taught at an internationally recognised level, providing easily transferable occupational skills that can be carried out anywhere in the world.