Bookings have opened for the 2025
Accredited LightWalker Coaching programme.
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Bookings close on 28 Feb 2025 or when we have 18 bookings
12% Earlybird discount for payments before 16 March
Payment plans (2, 4, 6 or 10 instalments) available.
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Help bring the Life Force back into the workforce.
This is your invitation to join the growing network of accredited LightWalker coaches.
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Coaching is a worldwide growth industry
As of June 2024, stats suggest that the coaching industry worldwide has grown over 60% since 2019 (despite a pandemic getting in the way), with a worldwide turnover of $4,5-billion. That’s nearly the GDP of eSwatini (Swaziland) and twice the GDP of Lesotho. Industry analyst Robin Waite says it’s 20% higher —at $5,34-billion.
Coaching is well accepted in the English-speaking world.
There are around 110,000 coaches in the world. South Africa is ranked 7th in the top 10 countries with the highest number of coaches. Other front runners are the US, Australia, the UK and Germany. The website https://blog.gitnux.com/business-coaching-statistics/ has lots more information if you’re interested.
Coaching is well accepted in the English-speaking world.
There are around 70,000 business coaches in the world. Of the 18,000 coaches in Europe, 80% operate in the UK and Germany.
(Source: https://blog.gitnux.com/business-coaching-statistics/ )
There were only 1,600 coaches operating in South Africa in 2018
According to Stats SA, there are around 25,000 businesses with 50 employees or more.
In 2018, Frank Bressner estimated there were only 1,600 coaches operating in South Africa, which is 70% of Africa's total number of coaches.
No matter which way you look at it, South Africa is under-served when it comes to coaches.
Coaching is increasingly accepted in SA Business. The demand for coaching is growing.
Leaders are being asked to develop coaching skills
In business, 70% of people feel that their leaders should act as coaches.
Who is LightWalker Coaching for?
If you are a leader, a qualified coach or identify as a healer, and you want to deepen the impact you have on your team, clients or patients, LightWalker coaching is for you.
Anybody who wants to work holistically, with clients’ physical, emotional, mental and spiritual selves and develop integrated coaching skills, either to build and extend their existing coaching practise, or to lead their teams in a more effective way, will be drawn to this programme.
What will I get from LightWalker Coaching that I can't get anywhere else?
Archetypes
Sometimes we are "performing" life instead of living it.
That's when we and our clients are trapped into scripts that we didn't write.
When you can step back and explore the part you and your client play in the world, you can empower your client to re-write their own script and direct their own life.
Intuition
As a coach you know how powerful your intuition is.
Sometimes it's tough to trust the intuition because its voice is so soft.
LightWalker coaches receive specific training in listening to their intuition and how to separate their intuition from their projections, fears or doubts.
They also receive a deck of LightWalker cards that sharpen their intuition.
Surrender
You've had clients who get in their own way.
You've wondered why people are sometimes their own worst enemy.
Wu-Wei is the idea of "doing without doing." When your client's being is 100% aligned with their action, they can live in the flow of life to experience joy and connection. At LightWalker we call this "Surrender," and we have a seven-step framework to implement it consistently.
Emotion
The ability to deal with difficult emotions is the key to unlocking your own and your clients' transformation.
Most coaches are never given specific training or tools to deal with emotions, because it feels too close to psychotherapy.
Coaching is not therapy. But coaching can be therapeutic. Coaching can be a healing space. And it can only be a place of healing if coaches are willing to understand the gift of powerful emotions, and are able to harness their strength for the benefit of the client.
Can a LightWalker coach bring life-force into the workforce?
Here's what we value...
Wholeness and integration
Everybody has a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual experience of life.
As a LightWalker coach you will gain deep insight into these four dimensions and how to support your clients in healing and aligning all four of these bodies.
Intuition and truth
Intuition is a powerful tool to connect with. We each have an inner knowing and internal guidance system that is profound and supportive.
As a LightWalker coach you will learn how to tap into the power of your intuition and how to help your clients do the same. You will discover how intuition is different to instinct, projection, mind-reading and being psychic.
Compassion and care
We have all experienced pain, loss and trauma, and this has translated into various coping mechanisms to survive. These coping mechanisms are held tightly in place by powerful emotions.
The LightWalker coaching journey is an emotional masterclass. As a LightWalker coach you will know how to work with emotions and support clients to shift their patterns permanently.
Authentic power
As a LightWalker coach you will discover how to bring the internal self (feelings, thoughts and beliefs) in alignment with the external self (behaviours, expression and actions). This alignment is the source of authenticity and integrity.
About Taryn Sydow and LightWalker Consulting
I was head of Finance and Operations for a merchant bank, working all hours and hardly seeing my family when my coach asked me the question that transformed my life: She said: "Is your life getting in the way of your work?"
I realised that my job had stopped being a source of joy and fulfilment. Instead it was exhausting and relentless.
Not long after that conversation, I left the bank and started a successful coaching business.
I still work hard, but the difference is that my work is a source of joy and fulfilment. Every day, I'm honoured to work with leaders and organisations to bring the life-force back into the workforce.
One way to achieve that goal is by accrediting more coaches in LightHearted Leadership.
Use these links to download the brochure or fill in the application form.
About Erich Viedge
I was running a boutique strategy consultancy and decided I needed big-business experience.
I took a role to head up the African operation of an American non-profit organisation. I was the leader of 2,500 people in over 120 locations in nine countries.
My team and I led the organisation to more than 12% growth in a single year, a record which still stands as the organisation's best year since 1983.
The strategy tools I applied were useful, but I realised it was my coaching approach to leadership that made the difference.
I joined forces with Taryn, became an accredited LightWalker coach, and now share the leadership lessons and coaching techniques that accelerate business success, personal growth and healing in the workplace.