Seminars: A Cork man is set to bring a series of life coaching seminars to Ireland. This emerging industry is currently worth an estimated $1 billion globally and is set to double in the next two years, according to the Economist magazine.
Noble Manhattan Coaching is hosting the seminars at various venues from Saturday, March 27th to Wednesday, March 31st.
Chairing the seminars will be Bantry-born coach Gerard O'Donovan, who is promoting life coaching as a career option.
"People who seek out coaches are frequently not sure what they want out of life and coaches help them identify and then put in place the steps needed to realise their dreams," he explained. "Using a coach is rapidly becoming a preferred way of making often dramatic changes in attitude, performance and well-being."
After many years in the Royal Marines, Mr O'Donovan started his own life assurance business. The tough demands of the job created the need for self-improvement. After testing a number of disciplines, he found life coaching to be "the hub that held the rest of the disciplines together".
With a masters degree in psychology and having completed a course in life coaching, he founded Noble Manhattan coaching, which has trained more than 1,000 coaches since 1992.
Mr O'Donovan, who is president of the European Coaching Institute, an accreditation body, said anybody can become a life coach. "For those who hope to guide people who have big plans about who they want to be and what they want to become, yet never actually do anything about it, life coaching can be the alternative career move."
Seminars are taking placing in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Belfast.
Further information is available from: tel: 0509-37145 or lawrencewgreene@eircom.net