21 rue Lamartine - 75009 Paris - Tél. : 01 56 62 24 24
21 rue Lamartine - 75009 Paris - Tél. : 01 56 62 24 24
Criteria for a successful coaching intervention : Michel NAKACHE
Multicultural coaching
The assessment of coaching
Coaching and image : Sandrine VINSON
Coaching for Mid-Life : Tristan De FEUILHADE
Coping with turning 40 and more…..and making the most of it
Professionally at 45 you’re classed as a ‘Senior’, that’s when experience tends to outweigh potential.
For those who have a job, the No. 1 aim is to keep up to speed, and to stay employed by the company. You have to put up resistance to those old prejudices, more deeply-rooted in France than in any other European country.
For those who have lost their job, the thing is to find another one, and to hang on in there until you retire, or even beyond retirement age if you want to keep working.
On a personal level, you have to accept that you’re going to put on weight, you recover less quickly after a party night-out, you start getting wrinkles and spots on your skin, your limbs ache more often, you have to look out for your cholesterol level and your sugar intake, finally decide to give up smoking, slow down a bit when you play tennis or jog… in a word, you have to accept to get older!
For plenty of people this mid-life crisis leads to angst of almost existential proportions, fuelled by fear of getting old and the obsession of ‘staying young’.
Mid-life coaching is there to help those, both men and women, who are having trouble going through this stage. The coach helps his client stand back a bit from the situation – all things are relative. Age does have some advantages, both personally and professionally, as long as you accept it and know how to make the most of it.
Life coaching, or personal coaching, is practically unknown in France and is still seeking its own identity, somewhere between counselling and psychotherapy. But this form of coaching can be necessary particularly for those who don’t wish to go into psychotherapy.
Some people simply want to take stock before taking decisions, either personal or professional. They need help in choosing a direction, and sticking to it in spite of all the ups and downs.
The aim of the ‘Mid-life coaching’ working Group is to better understand where its boundaries lie, and to make it more widely known and recognised.
- What are the characteristics of a « mid-life crisis » ?
- What is the mission of the mid-life coach ?
- How to make this type of coaching more widely known?
- What are the differences between coaching, personal coaching, mid-life coaching, counselling & psychotherapy ?
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