{"id":8683,"date":"2020-05-04T09:03:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T09:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=8683"},"modified":"2021-04-12T21:06:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T21:06:57","slug":"discovering-the-coach-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/discovering-the-coach-within\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering the Coach Within"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8684 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Martin-Laramie.png\" alt=\"Martin Laramie\" width=\"134\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Martin-Laramie.png 150w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Martin-Laramie-58x60.png 58w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/>by Martin Laramie<\/p>\n<p>Martin Laramie, an experienced coach and leadership trainer, approaches the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/en\/about\/faqs\/how-to-become-a-coach.html\">coaching<\/a> role from the perspective of a journey to authenticity from within. The following excerpt from his work explains this transformative process:<\/p>\n<p>When a coach is coaching from their center, each session can be very transformational for the coaching client.\u00a0 An inexperienced coach will often try to emulate some other successful coach or try to work through scripted coaching sessions.\u00a0 As time goes on, a coach learns to find their voice, gain self-awareness of who they are, coach in the moment, and hold the space for the client to set the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Authentic coaching only occurs when the coach has traveled the journey toward authenticity, competency, and credibility.\u00a0It is only then that they can look in the mirror gaining a deeper awareness of who they are and what they have to offer.<\/p>\n<p>The coach who exudes credibility from an authentic center will be able to establish rapport with the client and build a trusting relationship.\u00a0 The client will resonate with such a coach sensing they are in a safe place to share concerns and work out goals and objectives.\u00a0 The client will rely on the coach to hold them accountable and want to achieve success in the endeavor.\u00a0 The coach \u201ctalks the talk\u201d and \u201cwalks the walk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For further reading, you may purchase a copy of the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/en\/resources\/recommended-reading\/coaching-perspectives-series-by-the-center-for-coaching-certification-and-more.html\">Coaching Perspectives IX<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Martin Laramie Martin Laramie, an experienced coach and leadership trainer, approaches the coaching role from the perspective of a journey to authenticity from within. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,470,471,16,40],"tags":[265,48,50,592,269,586,1268,1141,491,250,1142,1143],"class_list":["post-8683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-and-resources","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-authenticity","tag-coach","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-perspectives","tag-competency","tag-credibility","tag-discovering","tag-discovering-the-coach-within","tag-journey","tag-leadership","tag-trainer","tag-transformational","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8685,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions\/8685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}