Thsi is the blog presentation of Richard Battista about the need for more life coaches in Turkey. Richard Battista is a long-time life coach himself and encourages individuals to look into that profession, as they are needed and the job can be extremely rewarding.

1. Life Coach Growing in Demand in Turkey
BY RICHARD BATTISTA

2. According to an article recently completed by
Today’s Zaman, the number of self-proclaimed life
coaches in Turkey is always increasing—growing
quickly as a new profession.

3. However, according to
Esra Doyuk, a life coach
herself, many of her
clients don’t even really
understand or know
what it means to be a
life coach.

4. Doyuk is a graduate of Bilkent University, making
her among the meager fifty to fifty five life
coaches in the country with proper and official
training for the profession of life coach; Doyuk
acknowledges that, while the profession is
steadily growing more popular, and demand for
the service in the country is increasing, not many
practicing the profession have adequate training
to really embark on the career.

5. This is changing, however, as the Official Gazette
of Turkey declared life coaching as an official
profession on the twenty ninth of June in 2013.
The United Nations has also listed the job as one
of the most promising professions of the next
decade.

6. However, showing a mere interest in the
profession does not equip one to tackle it; there
are many misinterpretations of the career
circulating in Turkey.

7. Doyuk claims that her
profession is often
confused with the roles of
mentors, therapists or
consultants—various
professionals who focus
on past problems, as
opposed to building
bright futures.

8. To Doyuk, it is the latter that is the focus of a life
coach’s job; the coach is to help in calling forth
their client’s own potential by asking focused
questions. The proper life coach, to Doyuk, also
believes that anyone can get what he or she
wants; if one person can achieve a certain goal, it
can be done again, by someone else.

9. Fundamentally, life coaches help their clients
answer their questions of “how?” Coaches never
tell their clients what to do; instead, they focus in
on the expressed wishes, and help the client find
a way of making it become a reality.

10. Specifically to Doyuk’s practice, questions were
asked as to how her religion plays a roll in her
duties as a life coach; she is the only coach in
turkey to wear her religious head scarf. Doyuk
says coaching and religion fit well together—that
coaching urges not to judge or force one’s own
morality on a client, just as her religion preaches.