by Claire Pedrick | Aug 26, 2024 | For Coaches, ICF C5 Maintains Presence, ICF C6 Listens Actively, ICF C7 Evokes Awareness
Claire writes: “I am absolutely loving working with Andy Cain as he delivers our online training about Coaching with Presence. I found him when I did his online improv training for fun! So, I have now had two lessons in gibberish with Andy – where two people...
by Nathan Whitbread | Jun 5, 2024 | For Coaches, ICF C4 Cultivates Trust & Safety, ICF C7 Evokes Awareness, ICF Coaching Competencies
Nathan writes, “I recently participated in a walking coaching session. It highlighted my difficulty with time awareness, and walking added to the challenge, as I didn’t want to keep checking my watch. As I reflected on the coaching session, I realised we were...
by Guest | Jun 5, 2024 | For Coaches, ICF C7 Evokes Awareness, ICF C8 Facilitates Client Growth
This week’s guest blogger is Kim Witten who has been helping Claire simplify even more! Kim writes: “We want our questions to make people think, but about what? When we ask questions that make people think too hard or about the wrong things, we inadvertently use up...
by Claire Pedrick | Jun 5, 2024 | For Coaches, ICF C2 Embodies a Coaching Mindset, ICF C6 Listens Actively, ICF C7 Evokes Awareness
A noun or a verb? Claire writes: “On a recent podcast, former actor Mark Bixter talked about how much he loved acting, and how he had fallen out of love with being an actor. It reminded me of a conversation I had with coach and supervisor Jeff Matthews. Jeff...
by Claire Pedrick | Apr 15, 2024 | For Coaches, ICF C1 Demonstrates Ethical Practice, ICF C2 Embodies a Coaching Mindset, ICF C3 Establishes and Maintains Agreements, ICF C4 Cultivates Trust & Safety, ICF C5 Maintains Presence, ICF C6 Listens Actively, ICF C7 Evokes Awareness, ICF C8 Facilitates Client Growth, ICF Coaching Competencies
Claire writes: “I can’t be the only person who dislikes difficult encounters or hard things at work. I still don’t like them, but since I have realised that everyone or every situation is our teacher, it’s felt less worse! Mostly, and not always, that means that...
by Guest | Apr 15, 2024 | For Coaches, ICF C2 Embodies a Coaching Mindset, ICF C3 Establishes and Maintains Agreements, ICF C4 Cultivates Trust & Safety, ICF C5 Maintains Presence, ICF C7 Evokes Awareness, ICF C8 Facilitates Client Growth
This month, our guest blogger is Naomi Regan, co-founder of CAPE. Naomi writes: “Early on as a coach one of the big tension points for me was how to support a new (first-time being coached) person to think about what to bring to a session. I was conscious of...
