What is a balanced life? What a fun question to explore! During the initial coach training class, we practice exploring what a client wants in …
Creating a Balanced Life
Center for Coaching Certification Skills, Tools and Techniques
Skills Tools and Techniques
The How of What? When? How?
How will we determine our priorities for change? Priorities come from meaning, circumstances, barriers, opportunities, and passion. There are as many sets of priorities as …
The When of What? When? How?
When will we begin to understand? While many of us wish we had the ability to change history, what we can focus on now is …
Cultural Bios
Some of you are familiar with cultural bios and for others the idea is new. What is a cultural bio? It is a verbal or …
Resisting and Becoming
During the ACTO 2020 conference two questions were posed: What are you resisting? What are you becoming? The power of reflecting on these two questions …
Center Commonalities and Differences
At the ACTO 2020 conference, one phrase that was said stood out as a real opportunity: Center Commonalities AND Center Differences. What does this mean? …
Self-reflective Practice for Coaches
In the previous blog, the following was included: the ICF’s Core Competencies coaches learn during coaching certification, for competency number two say: 2. Embodies a …
Activity for Awareness
At the 2020 Association of Coach Training Organizations (ACTO) conference during one of the sessions, all of us who participating were asked to take a …
Name It to Tame It
At the Association of Coach Training Organizations (ACTO) conference the week of June 8 to 12, 2020 many fabulous presentations and discussions focused on the …
Common Mistake #3 of 3 – Lessons Learned from ICF Assessors
The first two of three common mistakes in the previous blogs, failure to have a clear agreement and leading, are closely related to the third …