Humanist Life Coach : FAQ

Won't Life Coaches Take Away Jobs From Careers Whose Services Are Already Covered By Services Offered By Life Coaches (e.g. Professional Organizers having their job taken away by Life Coaches doing the same thing)?

• First, such things have always happened throughout the course of human history. Jobs and services which were once exclusive become amalgamated with other jobs and services.
  
• Second, in a healthy, Humanist society, people would not be concerned about losing their job and the resulting loss of life-sustaining income. People's motivations would be free to operate on a higher level, because just by the simple virtue of being a fellow human being, they were guaranteed a good standard of living.
• Specialists can choose to become Life Coaches, using their existing skills to contribute to their new role as a Life Coach.

Why Have A Single Life Coach? Why Not Just Have People See Different Specialists As The Need Arises?

• In other words, keep things the way they are.
• Life Coaches spend a lot of time with their clients. It's that significant amount of time spent together that makes the difference.

Doesn't It Seem, At The Best, "Odd", At The Worst, "Unnatural", To Have Life Coaches Acting In Lieu Of Parents And Friends?

Wouldn't This Result In Clients Becoming Dependent On Artificial "Life Coaches" And Unable To Survive In "The Wild" Of Real Life With Real Parents And Real Friends?

• Are Psychologists, Counsellors, Social Workers, and other mental health professionals unnatural? By that logic, people should keep their problems within the family and friends, even when those areas of their life are not up to the task.
• The term "profession" for a Life Coach is used only within the framework of our stratified, assembly line, separationist world. Really, a Life Coach is a person who has the training and desire to really get people back on track in life. What they do isn't a "job", it's a calling.
  
• Life Coaches are just another "service" in a society which has moved past the "hunter-gatherer" stage of evolution. Past the "h-g" stage, people begin specializing in the roles which they follow in society. Life Coaches are no different. They fill in the role, DESPERATELY NEEDED, of people who really get involved in the lives of people who are struggling, and make them strong, so strong that they get back on the road of life and start running in earnest.
  
• Clients become empowered, not imprinted. They prove to themselves, time and time again, that someone believes in them, guides them, laughs with them, cries with them, and does with them, challenge after challenge, activity after activity, and they can do it all.
  
• What Clients learn from the time spent with their Life Coach is that when someone believes in them, guides them, becomes their friend, and shows them everyday that they can accomplish things, there is nothing they cannot do. Clients become empowered people who know their own worth and the timeless human truth that when human beings love and nurture each other, they tap into the infinite wellspring of potential which lies hidden inside.

Life Coaches sound like "surrogate parents", assuming the job of raising people. Should society be doing parent's job for them?

• Western culture is screwed up out of its gourd. Seriously.
  
• In traditional cultures, children weren't just raised by the parents. The extended family helped to "raise" children. Heck. The whole tribe / village / community helped to "raise" children.
  
• The idea that children are raised exclusively by their parents is just a byproduct of the separatist / pioneer mentality produced by American / Anglo Saxon individualistic mentality. A product of a cold environment. A cold environment will produce cold people.
  
• Ultimately, all people have influence in their society. It is better for those people to have healthy influence. If that means they need further nurturing, guidance, love from their society, so be it.
  
• We have doctors to heal bodies. Psychologists to heal minds. Now we should have Life Coaches to heal people's self-confidence.