Conceptualising Self-Awareness for Coaches and Coaching: And why we never fully attain self-awareness!

07/01/2025

As coaches, coach trainers and coach supervisors we often talk about self-awareness and why it is important to ourselves and our clients.

Why Reflection is the Superpower Every Leadership and Executive Coach Needs for Growth

04/12/2024

As leadership and executive coaches, we’re often encouraging our clients to reflect - to pause and dive into their experiences to discover deeper insights and awareness. But how often do we, as coaches, take the time to reflect ourselves?

Help! Is wanting to help as a coach helpful?

12/11/2024

Coaching is called, along with others, a “helping profession” which according to the American Psychological Association (APA) can be classified as a job or position that offer “health and education services to individuals and the community”.

What is a self-reflection journal? Why is it useful in supporting your coaching journey? How do you do it?

25/09/2024

A self-reflection journal is a powerful tool to support you in your journey through the coaching experience. If you invest some time and effort recording your plans, actions and responses (see How do you do it? below) you will be on the road to....

Therapeutic Coaching - Bridging the Divide

17/09/2024

In the last 10 years there has been quite a shift in how we view coaching and psychotherapy. Therapists and coaches are increasingly using theories, tools and techniques from both professions to better support their clients.

Supervision: A route to self-awareness or self-delusion?

06/09/2024

Coaching Supervision is increasingly perceived to be essential to coaching best practice, it is widely required by the coaching bodies as a mandatory element of continuing professional development and accreditation, and recent surveys (ICF, 2018) show that there is a wide…