Ours is a small but very experienced business.  We have been providing coaching and training services to a wide variety of employment sectors for over 15 years. 

Our lead coach and trainer Martin Ousley was one of the very first Life Coaches operating in the UK over ten years ago.  He specialises in personal development coaching and has coached over 350 clients from all walks of life and with a hugely differing array of goals and ambitions in mind, and it is this extensive experience that led to the development of our coaching practice and the foundation of "Holistic Life Coaching".

We also have a sister company that provides complementary therapies (www.holistic-lifebalance.co.uk) and the ethos of both companies is the same:

• To encourage, stimulate, and support personal development in its widest possible sense
• To make our services as accessible as possible to all, irrespective of any perceived barriers
• To provide professional services with reliability, honesty and integrity
• To educate and inform by increasing the levels of understanding of complementary therapies and an holistic approach to personal development

Above all else we work and live in the belief that everyone has the right and the ability to live their best life. That if we all fulfil our potential whatever gift, skill or job we have, we will play a part in not only achieving the best for ourselves but for every life we touch.

Why "Holistic" Life Coaching?

With the popularity of Life Coaching catching on in the last two-three years in the U.K. much of the "Life" aspect of Life Coaching has been lost.  Many employers now have staff called "coaches" who in fact coach specifically the work role and not the whole person.  Whilst many of these workplace coaches do a very good job it has led to some distortion of the term coaching.

For example the term coach in work related terms is often used in sales roles.  You need only search the larger Employment Agency websites or vacancy websites with the keyword coach to see how many positions listed are sales related.

The outcome of this is the wider public having a clouded view of what Life Coaching is, how it works and it's enormous benefits.

Defining "Holistic" Life Coaching

The terms Coach and Coaching have been used for many years in the sporting sector.  Coaching skills are a set of skills that everyone in any profession or field of work, in any aspect of everyday life in fact can develop and put to incredibly good use.  If coaching skills and approaches were used more widely then the world would indeed be a much better place.

Life Coaching however has to a certain extent lost it's place due to the broadening of the term coaching. There is a huge difference between coaching and life coaching with the latter supposed to include (as a fundamental principle) consideration of the whole person, not just one or two specific aspects and certainly not just their job.

In order to make clear our intent to "Life Coach" and not just coach, we were drawn to the word holistic because of it's true meaning - whole.  So for Holistic Life Coaching we mean a return to "Whole Life Coaching".

With all of the above in mind we have tailored our work and services accordingly.  Our approach to, and the services we provide in coaching, training and personal development are outlined in detail on the separate pages for each topic just click on the links above to the left.