Talk:Life & Personal Development Coaching

Merger Proposal

I believe "Life and Personal Development Coaching" is the same as "Life Coaching", the former being UK denomination and the latter being American. --Dwarf Kirlston 15:25, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're correct. This should be deleted or merged. Doesn't look like there is even much here to merge though. Rray 01:02, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

After I've taken a closer look, there seems to be a larger issue. For some reason, despite there really being little to no difference between the many ""types"" of coaches we have coaching life coaching, Life & Personal Development Coaching, business coaching, executive coaching, systemic coaching, dating coaching... This is a mess! I have just edited the disambiguation page to include the various "types" of coaching. I personally think Coaching suffices, most of the information in the other ones is repeated over and over like "coaching is not therapy nor consulting" and sound like advertising.--Dwarf Kirlston 17:21, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you, although I think there is a distinction between this kind of coaching and sports coaching, for example. But I think lumping executive, business, and life coaching all into one article makes excellent sense. Rray 18:32, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This one at least should be merged with life coaching and yes it is called that even in the UK, not 'life and PD coaching'. The dating one could go in there too. I don't know whether you'd succeed in merging 'executive' etc coaching in, but I'd suppoort that. Sports coaching is a different, older thing I think.Merkinsmum 13:16, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed! Merging is justified. Said: Rursus ☻ 15:44, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would suggest leaving it under "coaching" since coaching is an umbrella for different types of coaching, i.e. life, business, executive, etc. When people talk about sports coaches it is usually self understood or at least understood in the context. It would be easier then to link the different types of coaching within the "coaching" page. Nick Zart, 11/5/07.

I couldn't agree more. This seems like a mess. I just finished cleaning up the executive coaching page, but it seems rather short. I think a merge would be highly appropriate. Business coaching and Executive coaching seem to be about the same thing. --Anonymous--

I agree with the need to merge life & personal development coaching with life coaching, however, I feel it would detract from Wikipedia to try to fit all forms of coaching under the coaching umbrella, as this is simply too generic. Marksharratt (talk) 18:23, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]