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

If you were really, really confident, how would you be?

04/05/2021

Recognising it’s tough out there and that confidence is down, I’ve been running weekly sessions on Zoom about how to protect your confidence in tricky times. So how do you be really confident? I believe confidence is the lifeblood of one’s business and, when it’s…

Who is the world calling you to be?

04/01/2021

What a year 2020 has been! How do we begin to find purpose and meaning in a year which, on the surface, has brought so much uncertainly, chaos and anxiety to so many people around the globe? It is easy to look back and be grateful for the times that bring joy and…

What is the essence of coaching?

30/09/2020

I’ve got this big idea. It involves articulating coaching and then training it at scale. Why? Well at the most basic level, I believe that if I know something will make a massive difference, it would be unethical not to share it But first I have to articulate coaching.…

Once upon a time...

09/10/2019

As coaches we need to build a strong working alliance with our clients so that they trust us and feel safe to be vulnerable and explore aspects of themselves that they may have been unwilling or afraid to examine or that they were unaware of. When we show genuine empathy,…

Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow

30/09/2019

By Dr Joan van den Brink In coaching situations it’s easy to experience some performance anxiety; we want to do a great job and help our clients to unlock solutions to whatever personal situation they have come to us to resolve. I have found myself wanting to be the…

What can a box of buttons do for your client?

11/02/2019

You’d be amazed I always am. It’s incredible what clients do with a button. All of a sudden the button takes on a persona, an emotion, a hurt, a meaning, a frustration. It can be tapped, and stroked, rubbed between thumb and fingers. It can be held up close and it can…