Free Online Life Coaching Courses

1. Becoming a Life Coach

Do you know what EQ, NLP and internal self-awareness are? Before you can help others, you need to complete this comprehensive course on the various tools that successful life coaches use.

2. How to Find Your Purpose and Become a Life Coach

Another popular course, this one explores the physical, verbal and emotional aspects of effective communication and helps you understand what a ‘life purpose’ is.

3. How to Launch a Life Coaching Career

Different clients will respond to different coaching methods and different communication techniques. If you want to be a top life coach, immerse yourself in as many ways of helping others as possible by enrolling in this course.

Life coaches are not the same as therapists or psychologists, who are trained and licensed medical professionals, although there can be overlap in their approaches and techniques for helping clients. A typical life coach will:

• Counsel a client through a significant life challenge
• Encourage a client to overcome a career obstacle
• Guide others to reach personal, professional or educational goals
• Help someone live an overall ‘better’ and more fulfilled life
• Assist in identifying strengths and weaknesses in an individual

A life coach cannot prescribe drugs or medication or claim to be a medical professional.

Being a good and sought-after life coach requires a mix of hard and soft skills. This is a business, and you will need to be legally and financially compliant with the relevant regulations where you practise.

Hard skills include:

• Pricing your sessions
• Ensuring tax compliance
• Marketing your business
• Dealing with business administration
• Knowledge of any regulatory requirements

Soft skills include:

• Having empathy for those in distress
• Active listening
• Leadership
• Emotional intelligence
• Communication
• Time management