His personal approach is eclectic, drawn from his graduate education, life experiences and other professional training. After 16 years as a clinical psychologist, Pat joined CoachU in early 1996, graduating in 1997. He was recognized as one of the initial few as a Master Certified Coach from the International Coaching Federation in 1998. He has trained with Tim Gallwey (author of The Inner Game of Tennis and The Inner Game of Work) and John Whitmore (author of Coaching for Performance) utilizing coaching approaches from sports applied to business. He also trained with Iris Martin (author of From Couch to Corporation) on techniques for executive and corporate coaching, as well as Frederic Hudson's Life Launch Intensive Coach Training.In addition, he has had NLP training and began executive coaching with The People Business in Ft. Collins, Colorado in 1990. He is a seasoned coach who has participated in many of the personal development approaches of the last three decades. His Psychology training emphasized approaches and theories of Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, Roberto Assagioli, William Glasser, Victor Frankl, Virginia Satir, and other theorists of the Humanistic Psychology and Human Potential Movement. His doctoral dissertation was published as a textbook entitled Transpersonal Psychology and the Evolution of Consciousness. (out of print)
Since 1990, Pat has been a personal and business coach, working in partnership with individuals who want to live an extraordinary life. Most of his coaching is done by telecoaching (or weekly telephone sessions) with additional support through e-mail, fax, or additional phone calls as needed. The convenience of telecoaching allows him to have an international clientele. He specializes in therapists, attorneys, entrepreneurs, and executives and provides individual as well as group coaching to management teams, executives and professionals.
Pat presents workshops and speaks on a variety of topics related to personal and business excellence, and speaks worldwide on Life Coaching. He is a graduate and a former trainer with Coach University, one of the early coach training schools. In 1998, he recognized the need to provide training to mental health professionals who desired to add coaching to their business or who wanted to improve their therapy practice. He founded Therapist University (now The Institute for Life Coach Training), a "distance learning" forum with all classes taught by teleconferencing. His faculty are all seasoned therapists and successful coaches with varied backgrounds in formal Coach training. The curriculum for ILCT's Foundational Coach Training Program has been researched and drawn from Sports Psychology, Humanistic Psychology, NLP, Positive psychology, cognitive psychology, solution oriented theorists, and Corporate and Organizational Development as well as the growing body of Coaching Literature.
In all of his professional endeavors, Pat brings a whole-person approach to his work and presents himself with integrity, a deep sense of caring, and a lightness of spirit. His mission is to profoundly impact the lives of those he coaches and trains so that they may profoundly impact the lives of others.
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FOR ONLINE COURSES SEE: |
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Ofer Zur, Ph.D., Director
Sonoma Medical Plaza
E-mail: drzur@drzur.com
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