A Hearty Welcome and Invitation

Hello to you! Coach Dave here to welcome you to CoachVille… our loving and uplifting global community of growth-oriented champions of Human Potential…

This website is our energizing invitation for you to join us…

To participate with our global community of coaches and players of LIFE!

To participate in our high-vibe, super engaging zoom classes and gatherings.

Here you will learn and practice our PLAYFUL, PROACTIVE and EXUBERANT method of coaching based on the fundamental principle: coaching is guiding practice.

Our style of coaching is

LESS like an aloof therapist only asking questions trying to stay detached

LESS like an expert authority sending videos trying to scale for efficiency

MORE like a tennis coach, ON THE COURT, dynamically guiding practice of SKILLSETS, mindsets and strategies. Growing steadily and having FUN!

CoachVille was founded in 2000 to be a co-creative community. We have stayed on the leading edge through collective learning and proactively looking into “the future”. We see coaching as the leading edge of the Human Potential movement. If you LOVE Human potential and personal growth… you will LOVE it here.

What we see right now are DRAMATIC changes in our world caused by authoritarian regimes waging wars, vast wealth inequality empowering billionaires to act recklessly and the incoming AI “tsunami” about to replace most present-day work…

We can UPLEVEL our Human Family together…

We can COACH each other to rise up and restore hope!

We can LOVE UP our human potential.

We can UNLEASH our Human  “Superskillsets” of Consciousness, Connection, and Creation.

We can PRACTICE the yearned for skillsets and mindsets of FREEDOM, FRIENDSHIP AND PURPOSE.

We can PARTICIPATE in community supported businesses.

We can PLAY better together – with Human SOLIDARITY – to co-create a BETTER WORLD FOR EVERYONE…. FAST.

Whether you are just getting curious about coaching, had a coach before, or have been coaching for over 30 years… you will LOVE our uplifting community spirit… and our lively gatherings… and our distinctively PLAYFUL coach education programs!

It takes a village to raise a child…

It takes a village of coaches… to raise the world!

Please join us!

YOU… LIFE… COACHING… YOUR VILLAGE… and EVERYONE!

{LOVE} YOU

As a Coach, you have a deep LOVE for your SELF… and your fellow Humans!

Life Coaching is the leading edge of the Human Potential Movement. We love the Human Experience.

We believe that Human Nature is AWESOME!  We are all delightful in our uniqueness and joyful in our solidarity! But, then we are squashed by the Industrial culture’s Toxic Trio of Obedience, Control and Neglect.

NO MORE: I AM “ONLY” HUMAN.

NO MORE: Get your problems under control.

For too long the Human Potential Movement has stalled – even regressed – by attempting to fix or control the flaws of Human Nature.

We don’t need to be fixed or controlled… we need to be UNLEASHED from toxic industrialization!

Our shared mission as coaches is to unleash the HUMAN Superskillsets of Consciousness, Connection and Creation and transform them into the Human SKILLS that we all need to flourish together every day.

It starts with YOU!

YOU will love becoming the “loved up” version of you in our Community and Programs.

{LOVE} LIFE

We Coach Life because we LOVE Playing Life!

We believe that this amazing world of ours is a “Play Life Station”, and we are here to play together! 

As a coach you play your Dream every day with emerging Human SKILLSETS and MINDSETS… this makeS you wildly attractive to the people around you who also long to play their Dreams

As a coach… YOU… lead by example. 

NO MORE: “Life Sucks and then you die”.

NO MORE: Doom scrolling… or amusing yourself to death!

When you play your own dream of life with the world around you… you don’t seek distractions! … YOU LIVE… You grow… you GLOW!

WE BELIEVE THAT ALL COACHING IS LIFE COACHING!  Because every Dream in life will call for growth in the SKILLSETS of Human Consciousness, Connection and Creation!

As a coach you will transform your passions into the ability to guide a path of transformation for the people around you.

You will LOVE playing your Life the CoachVille Way!

{LOVE} COACHING

Coaching is a proactive relationship for guiding practice to embody transformation.

As a Coach, you have a SKILLS-BASED view of life. SKILLS, are the pathway to every dream and the solution to almost every problem.

YOU LOVE to practice… and when you feel even a little confident in your abilities in ANY SKILL… you love guiding practice with other people. You love to share what you have figured out AND you love to co-create with growth-oriented companions.

You LOVE seeing another person grow into the next version of their potential.

NO MORE: coaches mostly ask questions and stay detached like a therapist.

NO MORE authority expert coaches sending out videos and scaling like an Industrialist.

(Besides, the coaching Bots can do that better than you anyway)

The next generation of Life Coaching is engaged and exuberant and focused on unleashing and guiding practice of the MOST IMPORTANT SKILLSETS IN THE WORLD TODAY… HUMAN SKILLS!

You will LOVE coaching the CoachVille Way… and so will your players!

{LOVE} Your VILLAGE

Your neighbors need you!

They need you to champion their Dreams!

They need you to give talks around town about unleashing Human Potential.

They need you to host gatherings to practice Human SKILLS together.

They need to know they can hire you as a Life Coach when they are ready to grow… are facing a challenge… or are in a transition.

It might be business, leadership or personal… IT DOES NOT MATTER… because all human endeavors call upon the same Human Superskills.

NO MORE: sitting in front of your computer – niche-hunting – creating content for your ideal client avatar somewhere halfway around the world!

NO MORE: Home Alone Coaching in your PJ’s

They need you visible around town… approachable… knowable.

Like they say in Minnesota: “We all do better when we ALL do better”.

YOU can be the catalyst for everyone doing better as the coach of your village!

YOU will LOVE when they call you “Coach!”.

​{LOVE} EVERYONE

We believe in the Ripple Effect of Life Coaching!

Our Shared Dream as players and coaches of Life is A better world for EVERYONE.

This is what we are playing for… and we must win!

When our players’ Human SKILLS are “coached up”… when our villages are thriving with freedom, friendship and purpose… a better world for EVERYONE becomes possible.

NO MORE: Settling for inequality, injustice or exclusion.

NO MORE: Following influencers who tell us who to hate, degrade or dominate.

The number one issue of our time is this:

Can we – the Humans of Earth – come together in solidarity? … to stop war, to stop AI becoming a weapon, to stop climate destruction.

Can we disarm and defund the dictators, oligarchs and monarchs?

We CAN!!! ONLY when most of us have the Super SKILLSETS that we need to come together and co-create together thoughtfully and skillfully.

When we love our Neighbors… and Love ourselves… skillfully… we can do it.

YOU will love being a part of something BIGGER.

Transformation and the Dead Butterfly

The Truth Bomb… the choice…

To be a great coach – to be EPIC – you have to be WILLING to challenge your players and PRACTICE with them. As matter of fact, it is more than willing. You have to get really good at it!

We can start by challenging the popular dictum: “We have all of our own answers inside of us.” This is nonsense! We don’t have answers inside of us. We DO have natural abilities that we can transform into SKILLS with practice. But life, and our dreams, are a co-creation with others… and most of our answers come from other people. Guiding practice is the key to transformation.

The Story…

For coaching to thrive in the “After AI Economy” we must “Skill Up” from being “helpful” to being transformational.

The butterfly is the symbol of transformation. There are several aspects of the butterfly that we can use as a metaphor for Transformational Coaching!

The Caterpillar doesn’t become a butterfly by fixing it’s caterpillar problems!

If you “help” the butterfly emerge from the chrysalis, it will die.

SKILLS Coaching Philosophy

To thrive as a coach in the Human Connection marketplace, you need philosophy.

Philosophy is essential so that you can speak powerfully about what you do and why you do it that way.

To thrive as a professional coach you need a collection of things:

Starting with philosophy and then adding concepts, strategies, methods, skills of coaching, the skills you coach and techniques for practice. There is a chapter in the Primer that explains all of these elements.

For this audio… let’s talk about the Philosophy.

The Philosophy of Human Connection Power Coaching

Coaching Is…

.1. An epic, egalitarian, and personal relationship

.2. For Guiding Practice of SKILLSETS

.3. and Playful Co-Creation of MINDSETS

.4. To Facilitate Transformation

.5. For the Players Dream, and a better world for EVERYONE

Transformation and the Dead Fish

In this fun story about me and my mom, the music coach, you learn what we learned when a bunch of fish in our tropical fish tank died.

The WATER had become toxic.

This is a powerful metaphor for our lives as Humans. We absorb culture like fish absorb water.

So if several people have the same “problem”, like anxiety or self-doubt, it’s the toxic culture that is the cause.

Meanwhile, we have been taught that control is the solution to these problems.

Like: “How to get your anxiety under control”

But this is TOTALLY wrong.

Control is the cause of our problems.

Connection SKILLS are the solution to our many problems.

Treasure Map of Problems

There are two reasons why people hire a Life Coach:
.1. To pursue their dreams by practicing the SKILLS they need; Dreams like business, leadership, career, better health and personal growth.

.2. To find a creative solution to a recurring problem. Problems like self-doubt, anxiety, addiction, loneliness, frustration, apathy, not enough time (and so much more)

While coaching is NOT an intervention for problems, it turns out that Human Connection SKILLS are the path to “disappear” most human problems.

As I shared in the Dead Fish Story… MOST human problems are not personal, they are caused by the toxic culture of control, neglect and obedience which has the effect of stifling our Human Nature and stunting the growth of our Human Connection SKILLS.

The “Treasure Map” is a great tool from our Coach Education program that helps the coach and player see what SKILLS they can practice together to “disappear” a problem by getting their Power Back!

The SKILL of choosing companions can disappear loneliness.

The SKILL of self-determination can disappear self-doubt.

First we practice in a safe space with a coach and then we bring our new skills bit by bit into the world around us. Like I said in the Dead Fish Story… We have to Change the Water… metaphorically… by that I mean we have to change the culture around us.

ZERO Competition

Can you make money as a Professional Life Coach? YES.

YOU are surrounded by amazing people with Dreams – for business, leadership, career, personal growth; for freedom, friendship, purpose, creative self-expression, belonging, self-confidence – who need MORE Human Connection SKILLSETS and MINDSETS to realize their Dream.

YOU are surrounded by amazing people who are suffering with problems – like self-doubt, anxiety, loneliness, frustration, even addiction – that “got into them” from our toxic Industrial Culture of control, neglect and obedience. They would LOVE to pursue a creative new way to “disappear” these recurring problems.

YOU can be the first, next or best Life Coach

For everyone you know and anyone you meet!

As a Human Connection Power Coach… you are surrounded by potential players.

You DON’T need to go to the toxic online spaces with your “ideal client avatar” and compete with thousands of (also toxic) “influencers” for attention. BLAGH!

When you go into your local community, you have ZERO competition!

When you reach out to the amazing people you already know, you have ZERO competition.

You just need to practice the Human Connection SKILLS of meeting people, growing relationships, co-creating inspiring experiences and enrolling players for transformational coaching… to GET THEIR POWER BACK!

Every  SKILL that you need, we will practice – over and over again – in every CoachVille program. If you keep practicing and then playing in the world… YOU WILL LIVE YOUR DREAM.

With what you learn in our program you start with 1-1 coaching. Then, you add Human Connection Group Coaching, talks, playshops and retreats.

With a little hustle, YOU can be the leader of the Human Connection Movement in your community

YOU WILL SUCCEED.
YOU WILL BE EPIC!

We Love Venns!

At CoachVille we have a long tradition – going back to founder Thomas Leonard – of sharing concepts with visual models. And Venn Diagrams are a favorite.  They are insightful when several concepts converge into a powerful new “thing”.  Often the circle overlaps are where the juicy ideas are hidden!

Team Play for SKILLS Transformation

It takes a village to raise the world… a village of coaches.

This is a little riff on the Ethiopian proverb: It takes a village to raise a child.

Both speak to the importance of community in the path of Transformation.

In the primer I share a venn diagram called: How Transformation Happens… It has three overlapping circles: coaching, concepts and community.

In the audio I  share with you how you can greatly expand the value of your coaching with the concepts and community available on the CoachVille App.

When you do a CoachVille program as a coach, there is a complimentary Player Program for your players.

In the player program on the app, your players will have access to the player playbook and audio for each of the 12 sessions in the journey.

They can listen to the player prep audio to learn the new concepts and the practice techniques for the session.

Concepts are the pre-cursor to new MINDSET.

And if you remember from the Dead Fish Story… we need a place with a healthy culture to absorb the good vibes of Human Connection.

On the CV App we co-create this healthy culture/community. Then, together, we can make a better world for EVERYONE.

The Path to Coaching Power!

The CoachVille Community is designed for you grow the belief that YOU CAN get your power back and then coach others to get their power back as a Human Connection Power Coach.

Community Membership Includes…

The Get Your Power Back Program: 18 hours of uplifting audio where you listen to “Player Prep Audio and then REAL coaching sessions. You will observe the power of practice as an awesome player gets their power back.

The Coaching Primer: 24 provocative lessons going deep into the philosophy, methods, concepts, skills and techniques of Human Connection Power Coaching.

The Dream Activation Experience: a live 2-hour zoom where you will experience coaching and practice in a fun group environment.

The Taste of Thomas: Audio from the CoachVille archives of Thomas Leonard, the founder of Professional Life Coaching.

And More! Including Coach Dave Go Lives and Coach Deanna Deep Dives.

Once you have belief… we will show you how to get set up for school and certification.

Coach Dave Buck,

Master Certified Coach,  MBA

Founding Member of the Transformational Leadership Council

Morristown, NJ, USA