De-Stress Series: What a Chinese Finger Trap Teaches Us About Stress! | By Ben Dooley Reading Time: 2 min 30 sec The Chinese finger trap? What's that? Well, it's something I remember from my childhood, perhaps you've seen it. It's a rather innocent looking tube that's just wide enough for you to stick your two fingers... Read More...
Coaching Tools 101: How to Create More Joy in Life with the What Makes My Heart Sing? Exercise Reading Time: 4 min "What Makes My Heart Sing?" is one of my absolute favourite coaching exercises. I've used it with individual clients and in innumerable workshops. It's a powerful tool for awakening and happiness—and it's... Read More...
9 Real-Life Examples of Eustress - Stress Your Clients May Need MORE of! Reading Time: 3 min 26 sec Usually when we use the word 'stress' we're referring to so-called 'bad' stress or DIStress. But did you know there is a name for good stress? Eustress, pronounced YOU-stress, is a term coined by... Read More...
How Serious IS Your Client About Their Goals? Here are 5 Quick and Fun Tests! Reading Time: 2 min 30 sec Especially when our clients have BIG goals in mind, it's important to help set them up for success by exploring if they really want their goal - and how committed they are. Not only that, but sometimes... Read More...
Here are 15 Ways to Turn "I Don't Know" into an Aha Moment! Reading Time: 3 min 56 sec Often when our clients say "I don't know", they really do know - they're just unwilling to acknowledge or face the answer. If it was was easy to say aloud they would have done so. There can be many... Read More...
The Assumption Iceberg: A Powerful Model to Ease Difficult Conversations | Plus 5 Conflict Tips Reading Time: 4 min 10 sec The Assumption Iceberg Conflict in life is inevitable, whether it's how much we spend on the kids, what solution is chosen at work or returning an appliance to the store. These conflict tips - and the... Read More...
*UPDATED* 7 Fun Coaching Ideas to Push Your Coaching Edge & Get Results! By Emma-Louise Elsey Reading Time: 3 min The best results from coaching come when WE take risks with our clients, when we PUSH the edges of what we might normally ask or say. Of course our clients must do the work and challenge themselves to... Read More...
7 More Career Coaching Tools and Ideas for Clients Who Have Absolutely No Idea What They Want! Reading Time: 4 min This is Part 2 of the article 7 Career Coaching Tools & Ideas for Clients who have absolutely no idea what they want! And here are 7 MORE Career Coaching Tools and Ideas For the client who wants a new... Read More...
Why Am I Unhappy? 7 Examples of How We Get Disconnected from our Values and Ourselves! Reading Time: 4 min Our values represent who we are. When we don't honour our values we actually disconnect from our 'selves' - what we're saying is I'm not important and this can leave us feeling angry, dissatisfied, sad and... Read More...
A 3 Step Model to Help Your Client Work Through Difficult Feelings and Emotions Reading Time: 4 min How many times have you watched a client, friend or loved one do (or not do) something that's clearly going to cause them difficulty later on? Could this be because we live in a society that believes that... Read More...