Life coach mentor or Business Coaching

is always goal-oriented. That means a professional life coach wouldn't start working with you before there is a clearly defined coachable goal for the life coach-process itself. This enables both the client and the life coach to evaluate the success of life coaching-sessions.

Life Coaches

are solution-oriented. Instead of focusing on the past, on problems and their causes, a life coach focuses on generating solutions and new possibilities. Life Coaching works on the premise that the problem-cause relations are rather a construct of our mind more than a reality, and therefore can be re-constructed. In contrast to therapy - life coaching doesn't work on your potential deficits but tries to reinforce your individual resources. A life coach or mentor works with your personal strengths, not with your weaknesses. You could compare a life coach to a midwife. A midwife supports the mother during childbirth with the help of her special techniques, but giving birth is something only the mother can do by herself. Life Coaching is interactive without a hierarchy between coach and client. The relationship between a life coach and client is based on respect and acceptance. As opposed to a therapist, the life coach is not a person "who knows better than you what you should do" but rather a facilitator for your change-process.

Life Coaching

is limited in time. The life coach client decides how many sessions he or she wants to take and defines the intervals between the sessions. My personal experience is that many times single-session life coaching ignites so many new ideas and possibilities that there is no need for consecutive sessions for a long period of time, if ever. A life coach should try to make himself obsolete as fast as possible. Although life coaching is not therapy and no substitute for therapy - and a serious professional life coach would stop a coaching process if he or she has the feeling that the client needs therapeutic help - life coaching is as confidential as a therapeutic relationship. For more information see ethical standards.
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"Only the possibility to realize a dream is going to make our life worth living."

Paulo Coelho
life coach mentorLife Coach Barbara Lemke -- Certified by Vienna Training Academy, Austria & International Association of Coaches Founding Member, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Stop daydreaming & start to realize your dreams

We all have dreams. And many times we spend hours after hours of daydreaming and imagining the exciting new possibilities that would arise, the joy and fulfillment we would experience, the meaning we would find and the energizing power we would gain from such a major change or transition in our life.

Maybe you have a dream. . . . you really think that . .

There seems to be never enough time during a day to start with the development of an organized plan; There are inner voices holding you back, telling you that "you better not, you shouldn't". And like almost everybody – next to your successes – you might have a lifetime experience of failures and relapses, situations where other people pointed out 'that they knew right away, that your plan, idea, project was never going to work". There might be the belief 'that you have not deserved to lead an easier life and realize your dreams'. And it might be that the very dream that inspired you becomes the cause of strain and frustration, because you know you should, but you somehow just can't.

life coaching helps to make a dream come true and start a major life transition


A personal coach helps you to overcome inner and outer barriers, the fears of failure and feeling of insecurity that prevent you from realizing your goals and dreams Personal coaching is the art of creating amazing new possibilities with simple, almost effortless steps. life coaching helps you make the first steps towards the realization of your dreams, supports you during a major life transition and enables you to feel fully alive again.

Stop daydreaming and start to realize your dreams today by signing up for the free change-toolkit or one of my workshops.


Your life coach, Barbara Lemke

"Whatever you are able to do or whatever you are dreaming of - start it. In boldness there is genius, power and magic." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe