The Chronicle of Coaching provides a snapshot of what’s happening in the coaching profession, and is updated each Wednesday at noon EDT. Compiled and edited by Linda Ballew and Ruth Ann Harnisch.

In this week’s Chronicle: A state legislature considers an urgent request to fund coaching services that have been proven to cut crime. Over two dozen coaching professionals from eight countries meet in New York City to discuss the future of coaching around the world. More publicity for the “My Life Coach” video game, explanations of what coaching is and is not, attention for coaching programs that target college students, parents, executives, women, with datelines from Canada to the U.K., from Texas to Tennessee. And finally, a former teen star from the old American television classic “Happy Days” tries to get his life together with help from a life coach.

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In-Home Parent Coaching Proven to Cut Crime Rate
July 16, 2007, Battle Creek Enquirer (Michigan, USA)
The Michigan State Senate has passed a resolution urging Congress to provide funding for improving and expanding in-home parent coaching that has been proven to cut crime.

Global Convention On Coaching Planners Convene
July 15, 2007 New York City (New York, USA)
The ground work for a worldwide summit on coaching was held in New York July 15-16. This event included 25 people from 8 countries convening to establish goals and process for the ongoing work, discuss selection of nine working groups, and move toward an international conference in Dublin in 2008. The participants in the Global Convention on Coaching will imagine a variety of scenarios for what is possible for coaching.

DISCLOSURE: The Foundation of Coaching is a founding underwriter of the Global Convention on Coaching. TFOC Chief Executive Officer John L. Bennett, Co-founder David Goldsmith, and Director of Operations Linda Ballew participated in the planning.

Famed Hockey Coach Dead
July 11, 2007, Sports Illustrated (USA)
Jimmy Skinner, who coached the Detroit Red Wings to their seventh Stanley Cup in 1955, died on July 11th at age 90.

Take it to the Next Level with Business Coaching Workshop
July 14, 2007, Times-West Virginia (West Virginia, USA)
Coach will talk about three types of leadership presence: personal presence, team presence and organizational presence.

Executive Coach’s Diary: Client Works Through Adoption Issues
July 13, 2007, Training Zone (UK)
Adopted client understands his underlying reason for needing to set up a business was to create the family he had never had.

New Kind of Advisor for Students: Success Coaches
July 16, 2007, The Chronicle of Higher Education (USA)
Success coaches help students find their way to a successful college experience.
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Bored at Work? Coaches Have Suggestions
July 16, 2007, International Herald Tribune (France)
Suggestions include pursuing activities that may bring in additional revenue for your company, list projects you want to lead or join, offer to manage a high-maintenance client, or write a proposal with ideas that can save the company money or time.

Career Coaches Answer Questions From Young Professionals
July 16, 2007, New York Times (New York, USA)
Questions include handling job stress, finding a career that integrates head and heart, and planning a future that draws on personal skills and abilities without sacrificing personal values.

Life Coach Weighs in on “Unplugging” for Vacation
July 16, 2007, Newsday (New York, USA)
Some people on vacation have a need to check their phone messages and email in order to feel needed and wanted, and to find out who misses them. The article gives tips on how to disconnect.

Business Coaching an Option for IT Professionals
July 16, 2007, IT Business (Canada)
Business coaches could be used to help individuals be more effective in their roles, or coaches can offer services company-wide in areas like mergers and acquisitions or succession planning.

Yes, There’s a Coach for That
July 15, 2007, Star-Telegram (Texas, USA)
Spotlighting coaches with a variety of niche specialties, including romance, parenting, weight loss, gardening, and more.

The Difference in Coaching and Counseling the Career Path
July 15, 2007, News-Herald (Ohio, USA)
Profiles of real people who have been helped by both coaching and counseling, and an explanation of the difference.

Life Coach Helps ‘Chachi’ Grow Up In New Reality Show
July 15, 2007, The Arizona Republic, (Arizona, USA)
Q&A with the show’s life coach, who explains how she tries to help former teen idol Scott Baio, who suffers from a need to be validated by others. Also, a ‘cavalcade’ of girlfriends kept him from learning to develop a mature romantic relationship with just one woman.

New Video Games Include Word Coach and My Life Coach
July 14, 2007, Washington Post, (Washington, D.C. USA)
Creator Ubisoft claims that Word Coach will turn learning vocabulary and spelling into fun, and My Life Coach will show consumers how to plan a healthier lifestyle that includes nutrition and exercise.

Coaching or Psychotherapy: What’s the Difference?
July 12, 2007, The Acorn (California, USA)
Explanations and perspectives on the life coaching process from both coaches and clients.

Coach’s Blog Gives Tips to Live a “Charmed Life”
July 17, 2007, Charmed Life Blog (New York, USA)
Included are her speaking/book signing schedule, her recommended list of diet books, and an invitation to a girl’s getaway in Bermuda.

Blogger Believes in Celebrating Accomplishments
July 17, 2007, Life Coaching by Jean
She says celebrate after trying something new, after taking a risk, or after letting go of something that isn’t serving you.

Coach Solicits Votes for Greatest Business Challenges
July 16, 2007 Business Performance Coaching Blog (Canada)
His blog site shows the ongoing results of this survey.

Coach: Are You a Strategy-Oriented Executive?
July 16, 2007, Coaching Tip: The Leadership Blog (USA)
He suggests that C-level Executives may be poor performers and offers a self-assessment tool.

Coaching: It’s Not Just For Sports Anymore
July 15, 2007, Leadership: Best Management Articles (Ohio, USA)
Author explains why coaching is now becoming an important key in leadership and management.

Free Online Networking Coaching Offered
July 15, 2007, The Virtual Handshake Blog
First 250 to sign up receive free weekly coaching calls designed to increase networking skills.

Reader Shares Profound Reaction to Miracles Coaching Book
July 15, 2007 Dr Joe Vitale at Zero Blog
He explains his reaction in this email to the author.

Life Coach: Relax and Slow Down Your Mind
July 14, 2007, Freedom Coach Blog (Tennessee, USA)
Tips include time for pampering, dropping some of the “to do” list, having a quiet evening, not bringing work home, and trying to live in the moment.

Coaching Site Offers 10 Tips for Businesses Providing Service
July 11, 2007, Ladies Who Launch Blog
In addition to the advice, she suggests reading material and resources.

Is Life Coaching for Kids a Good Idea?
July 11, 2007, A Life Coach’s Blog (UK)
Life coaching may teach them to think more positively, be creative problem solvers, and believe they can achieve their wildest dreams.

Why Coach Just One Player Instead Of The Whole Team?
July 11, 2007, Coach Training Alliance (USA)
Expand your coaching practice to work with entire teams inside a corporation. Organization goals come into alignment, communication and performance improve, and corporate profits increase.

Business Coach Wishes to Make Entrepreneurs’ Wishes Come True
July 12, 2007, Startupprincess.com (Pennsylvania, USA)
She shows entrepreneurs how to merge their spirituality with their business.

Business Transformed
By Paul Gossen
July 14, 2007, Business Transformed Blogspot
Blog describes this as a guide to powerful questions that executives and business leaders have already used to accelerate team results and drive business transformation.

Coming Soon: The Control Freak's Guide™ to Mindful Management
July 14, 2007, PR.com (New York, USA)
Interviews are being conducted with bosses who once were control freaks, and employees who have identified their bosses as control freaks, for this new book in the series.

Life Coaching Podcast for Twentysomethings Offered
July 16, 2007 PR Web (Washington, USA)
The podcasts will cover self growth, career, job fulfillment, the opposite sex, communication, relationships, money, and rites of passage.

Smart Women’s Coaching Program Wants to Help Women in Transition
July 15, 2007, PR Web (Washington, USA)
For a monthly fee, women will receive collaborating, sharing and co-promoting advice through access to the monthly group coaching call, an on-line forum, question and answer email coaching, podcasts, a complete library of e-books and articles, and live events across the globe.

Executive and Life Coaching Seminar Scheduled
July 14, 2007, Emediawire (Washington, USA)
This is a four-hour interactive session designed to help business professionals and individuals clarify what they really believe and to use this knowledge to achieve greater success in their careers and in their lives.

Survey: Larger Companies More Likely to Offer Coaching Programs
July 14, 2007 Emediawire.com (Washington, USA)
Survey shows companies believe coaching helps address the shortage of talent and leadership. Younger employees attach value to these kinds of programs, which may help with retention.

What is a Lifestyle Fitness Coach?
July 12, 2007, PR.com (Calgary, Canada)
This new breed of fitness professional will combine skills of exercise management with coaching, counseling, motivating and educating in order to influence people to maintain a healthy and fit lifestyle.

Weekend Life Coaching Course Scheduled
July 12, 2007, emediawire.com (Washington, USA)
This 2-day course will cover what coaching is all about, recommend a business model for coaching and cover techniques to market and promote your coaching business.

Career Coaching Company Adds College Grads to its Focus
July 11, 2007, send2press (California, USA)
This business, which helps baby-boomers manage the empty-nest syndrome, is now turning its focus to college grads in an effort to help them adjust to the real world.

By Vikki G. Brock

Mind Dynamics was the first large group awareness training (LGAT). It was started in Texas in 1962 by Alexander Everett, and moved its headquarters to California in 1970. According to Stewart Emery, it was a form of meditation, designed to help practitioners get their brainwaves to the alpha, or relaxed, state. Mind Dynamics employed seminar leaders who went on to found companies that became icons in the personal growth industry. Some of the seminar leaders were Werner Erhard, (founded Erhard Seminar Training, better known as “est,” in 1971),Stewart Emery (founded Actualizations in 1975), and John Hanley, Charlene Afremow, Randy Ravelle and Bob White (co-founded Lifespring in 1974).