The Lebenwell Scale: Metrics, Readiness and Action for the Good Life -- a Practical Tool for Life Coaches, Behavioral Health Counselors, and Self-help

By Christopher K. Johannes

This book offers a measure of "the good life" as well as practical resources, metrics, and guidance that can be used both for self-help and as a practical tool for life, wellness, and success coaches to help individuals successfully move forward in their lives from who and where they are to who and where they want to be. The LebenWell Scale (LWS) - the main feature of the book -- is a behavioral health assessment and goal planning tool based on the positive psychology and wellness literature consisting of a comprehensive 61-item self-assessment of current life satisfaction (yielding a composite score of "the good life" --successful living and well-being-- and time-bound metrics of current status and desired outcomes for each component item) useful for stimulating insights and reflective thought, crafting vision statements, goal setting, and action planning. The user amendable scale flexibly integrates domains that cover life satisfaction, emotional and social intelligence, quality of life, mindfulness, life skills, effective living, health and well-being. The scale offers the user the opportunity to individualize each of the component constructs and target domains with personally meaningful and culturally sensitive terms to suit aims. The book chapters feature: the LWS scale; a separate graphic measure of well-being only; reflective journal prompts for metric insights, vision statements, and goal planning; a preliminary action step readiness tool (stages of change); links to free skills development resources and online guided practices (e.g. mindfulness, self-regulation); and links to several free online assessments known to facilitate personal development and the life success experience. Overall, the scale, reflective prompts, and suggested exercises are designed to assist clients in gaining clarity on where they presently are in life in relation to where they really want to be, helping them with readiness and goal planning, and creating focus for initial action steps that align with a compelling vision. Coaches, in particular, will like the flexible and practical value of the LWS (for use in practice), the readiness planning checker (and potential ancillary goal work) consistent with Prochaska and DiClimente’s Transtheoretical Stages of Change Model, the action step worksheet, the coach ready assessments and skill building links, and all the coaching prompts and questions. An additional bonus for those seeking personal coaching services is offered in the Appendix.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christopher K. Johannes
• Release date: Jun 23, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463637029

Christopher K. Johannes

German-American psychologist, life coach, health & wellness coach, educator (higher ed - TESOL, ESL/EFL, Psychology, Integral Health), integrative behavioral health professional.

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Introduction

This book is for anyone wanting to live a more effective, meaningful, and fulfilling life, and for those that support them on that journey. Tony Robbins, respected, among other things, as the founder of personal life coaching, reminds us time and time again in his inspirational and life-changing events you can’t manage what you don’t measure. This book is a practical resource for taking stock of important areas of life and living —the typical ingredients of The Good Life (TGL), or eudaimonia— and then using those metrics to help you plan and take action to get from where you are to where you want to be.

To take those measures, based on experience, research findings, and the positive psychology/happiness, coaching, wellness, personal development, and peak performance literature, I created the 61-item LebenWell Scale, which gives you a self-assessed measure of how well you are living overall, and how well you are living in each of the 61 individual areas of life the scale references.

The LebenWell Scale (LWS) integrates known metrics of quality of life, emotional and social intelligence, well-being, life skills, and life satisfaction in flexible ways that can be tailored to suit coaching and personal development needs. The total score the LWS yields is your current TGL measure, and the 61 component measures represent individual metrics known to contribute to living well. The LWS includes a target outcome metric for each item, a graphic measure of Well-Being, a vision and goal directed readiness planning exercise (based on the Transtheoretical Stages of Change Model by Prochaska and DiClimente), reflective prompts and focus questions for integration and planning, and some guiding prompts on taking action—your important initial steps.

For a healthy adult at some transition point, some level of stuckness or stagnation, some feeling of wanting more out of life, some desire for greater fulfillment, this scale can assist with the project of coming to terms with who and where you are relative to who and where you would like to be in life. Too often, we see that chasing after goals frequently fails—even when the goals are achieved—because they are not built on a clear, congruent, and measured foundation; or we see that we have climbed a