how to say “life coaching” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

 

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אִמּוּן אִישִׁי

 

 

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In recent decades the helping professions received a new, now-popular member that arrived from the business world: life coaching. The Hebrew expression for this practice that helps people unleash their potential, is אִמּוּן אִישִׁי (ee-MOON ee-SHEE), which means, literally, personal coaching or training.


אימון is the noun form of the active-intensive פִּעֵל verb, to coach or to train: לְאַמֵּן (leh-ah-MEN). It is a modern application of the word for foster parent, אוֹמֵן (oh-MEN) in the masculine and אוֹמֶנֶת (oh-MEH-net) in the feminine, first appearing in Biblical Hebrew. The root is א.מ.נ (a.m.n), which may or may not be related to some other words, אָמֵן – amen (ah-MEN) and אֱמוּנָה – faith (eh-moo-NAH).

אישי, personal, comes from the word אִישׁ – man (eesh).
 
The word אימון is also used to create the names of other professions, such as:
 
אימון כּוֹשֶׁר 
personal training (literally, fitness training) 
(ee-MOON KOH-shehr)
 
אימון עִסְקִי
business coaching
(ee-MOON ees-KEE)
 
Here’s a video worth watching along the lines of life and business coaching, of the man who wrote the book, The 4-Hour Workweek. Although this video is in English, you can use it to improve your Hebrew by selecting Hebrew as the subtitled language towards the bottom-right of the player.
 
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