by Claire Pedrick | Oct 20, 2022 | ICF 08 Creating Awareness, ICF Coaching Competencies
Claire writes: “I’ve never been a fan of role play. In conversation, when the facilitator (coach or whatever is your role) invites the person we are talking with to role play a situation, we can get in a great big mess. We abandon the role we were in and start acting...
by Claire Pedrick | Aug 18, 2022 | ICF 04 Coaching Presence, ICF 08 Creating Awareness, ICF Coaching Competencies
Claire writes: “I’m just tidying up and found this quote from Einstein that I wrote down 15 years ago. “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.” As...
by Guest | Aug 11, 2022 | ICF 08 Creating Awareness, ICF Coaching Competencies
3D Coaching’s Su Blanch writes: “Out on a walk, and I was struck by the difference between perceptions of truth. Here are two versions of the truth. The land owner states clearly their version of the truth. And the dog walkers who would like to get from one field to...
by Rebi Hedger | Aug 4, 2022 | ICF 08 Creating Awareness, ICF Coaching Competencies
Rebi writes: “I absolutely love the STOKeRS questions – but I’ve always struggled with the ‘R’ – how are we going to do this?’. In some recent supervision I was reflecting on the need to be brave and have courage to bring a good level of challenge to my...
by Claire Pedrick | Jul 11, 2022 | ICF 04 Coaching Presence, ICF 06 Powerful Questioning, ICF 08 Creating Awareness, ICF Coaching Competencies
Claire writes: “Happy 1000th Birthday to the Blog. When I started writing every week at the beginning of the century, I wasn’t expecting to still be going after 1000 posts! I have been wondering what to write for this one – feels like a lot of pressure, so I...
by Claire Pedrick | Jun 20, 2022 | ICF 04 Coaching Presence, ICF 06 Powerful Questioning, ICF 08 Creating Awareness, ICF Coaching Competencies, Silence
Claire writes: “Thanks to my friend Jane Sandwith for sending me a brilliant quote that is worth a blog post all of its own… ‘The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking’ Phaedrus Many times people don’t need a question… they need...
