What is Bhaktivedanta coaching? Bhaktivedanta Coaching is a one-to-one service that helps you to:
Clearly identify your Krsna conscious goals
Take 108% responsibility for your spiritual and material life
Assess where you are now
Explore all the available possibilities
Remove both internal and external obstacles to your success
Build up your faith and determination
Help you make an inspiring success plan
Take intelligent and dynamic action
Stay on track
Please Lord Krsna and His representatives
Assists you in going from where you are to where you want to be
Provides you with personal support committed to your success and development
Builds on and engages your strengths
Clarifies where you are in life, opening up to possibilities, focusing on what you want to achieve, learning new ways of doing things and discovering new value and purpose
Questions your current ideas and beliefs in order to find a better way and provides a framework for self-observation, evaluation and improvement
Releases your potential through a process of uncovering and then eliminating destructive behavioural and thinking patterns in your life in a supportive, caring and inspirational environment

Bhaktivedanta coaching course outline:

Day 1

Session 1 - Introduction to Coaching
The Spirit of the Bhaktivedanta Coaching, DVD 1: Legacy (2:30 min), Discussion

Session 2 - Attitudes and Qualities of a Coach Five Attitudes, Attitudes Self Assessment, Four Core Qualities of a Life Coach, Exercise: Being Understood, Exercise: Other Qualities, DVD 6: Stone (8:00 min), Discussion

Day 2

Session.3 .-.Goal.Setting
Introduction to Goal Setting, Goals within a Life Coaching Context, Language of Goals and Coaching, SMART Goals, Choosing the Goal from the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, DVD 15: Wildly Important (5:00 min), Discussion

Session 4 - Coach-Client Relationship
Establishing Rapport, Exercise: Rapport Test, Breaking Rapport, Three Sensory Types of People, Honesty, Exercise: Your Spiritual Ethics, Understanding, Coach as Servant, Discussion

Session.5 .-.Coaching.Skills:
Listening, Exercise: 3-minute Listening, Questioning, Turning Problems into Opportunities, Promoting Action, GITA Coaching Model, Personal Action Plan (one thing that will have the greatest positive impact).

Day 3

Session 6 - Coaching Skills in Action (10:30 - 12:00) DVD 14: The Nature of Leadership (3:30 min), Mutual 20-minute coaching session with the GITA Model, Discussion, DVD: Krsna Vision and awards

Sample.Coaching.Sessions: 45-minute sample coaching sessions for those devotees who would like to experience coaching right away.

This is the link for Akrura prabhu's info:

www.vedicilluminations.com/bhaktivedantacoaching

If you are willing to do invest time and energy in coaching you will:

Develop unbreakable determination and learn how to eliminate the doubts and limitations that hold you back
Become mentally strong, think like a natural optimist, be more focused and handle setbacks effectively
Clarify your desires, dreams and ambitions into precise Krsna conscious goals
Be motivated to take dynamic Krsna conscious action
The roles of a life coach:

First, he believes in you and demonstrates that by taking you and your thoughts, desires and feelings seriously.

Second, he encourages you to believe in your innate goodness and in your ability to serve.

Third, he defines with you a plan of action for achieving your goals and desires and keeps you on track towards achieving them.

Each day of the seminar will be packed with 10 hours of interactive learning with a lot of workshops.

There is not a charging fee for this seminar, but your voluntary donations would be much appreciated.

If you are interested in becoming a life couch yourself and attend Akrura prabhu's three day course, please contact Vrsabha as soon as possible as places are limited:

vrsabha@gmail.com or by phone 087 6219416

Published 10/01/07, Amended 12/02/07