Why Mindfulness is the Coach's Super-Tool and our Clients' Super-Fuel | By Delaney Tosh CPCC, PCCPlus 3 Ways Mindfulness Practice Supports Coaching! For coaches, our presence is our power. It's what we strive to achieve in our coaching mastery. It's also one of the fundamental principles we help guide our clients towards. When present we are more aware, focused and calm. Yet many of us are distracted by our internal dialogue worrying about the past or future, and are not fully engaged in the here and now. The benefit to our clients of being...
5 Incredibly Helpful Coaching Questions to Add to Your Toolkit - and Why! | By Ruby McGuireI don't know about you but when I first started out as a coach I was on a never-ending quest to find THE best coaching questions. I would scribble them down when I was reading books, or being coached myself and remember having a HUGE list of questions on paper when I did my first coaching calls. Prior to that there were scraps of paper, post-it notes and index cards all over my desk. I remember complaining to my own coach about it and she could s...
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3 Easy Mindfulness Exercises to De-Stress Your Clients | By Delaney Tosh CPCC, PCCA colleague once described her experience of a stressed, overwhelmed client as being "so caught up in a noisy vortex of competing pressures, anxieties and judgments" that the coaching sessions were getting bogged down. When our amygdala (the emotion processing and "fear centre" in the brain) becomes hyper-engaged, we lose access to the finesse of our prefrontal cortex (our "logic centre") operations. This means that when clients are "in the vorte...
"The Artistry of Celebrating" | *AUDIO Podcast* | From Ben Dooley's Coaching Skills ForumThis month's "Coaching Skills Forum" call from Ben Dooley's Archive was chosen to help you and your clients celebrate the year! Ben is a Master Certified Coach, a popular contributor to this blog and he is all about making growing as a coach fun! As a mentor coach he has helped countless coaches improve their skills and get ICF certified ...and I'm personally a big "Ben" fan! Ben Dooley, "Coaching Skills Forum" Podcast Archive Topic: The Artistry...
7 Coaching Questions to Celebrate YOUR Achievements! InfographicUpdated For You to Enjoy & Share! We made this Infographic for you (and for ourselves too!). Take 20 minutes of quiet time to give yourself a pat on the back and reflect over the past year before setting goals and moving into the new year! And if you like it, we'd love you to "Pin" or "Share" using the buttons below! If you liked this info/graphic with great questions to help you celebrate yourself, you may also like: Ask These 7 Coaching Questio...
5 Great Coaching Exercises to use with Empty Nesters and RetireesWith the end of the school year approaching fast, and many children graduating and setting off to make their way in the world, many parents are experiencing "Empty Nest" syndrome. In addition, summer is a time that many people retire to enjoy the warm and sunny weather. What these two types of coachees have in common is: An excess of time on their hands. A potential loss of focus and/or meaning in their lives. So, below are 5 great coaching exerc...
5 Surprisingly Effective Steps to Set Your Goals (in 90 Mins or Less) | By Ruby McGuireAs coaches, we love goals. They're exciting, fun and they stretch us and our clients. The problem is we can end up setting goals for the sake of setting goals. And let's be honest, there are so many things we could do or want to do that it's easy to get stuck. In this article I share a 5 Step Process for you to set some fabulous, meaningful goals. You'll need a pen, some paper or your journal and a timer. STEP 1. Do A Mini Review (10 mins) When s...
The Wheel of Life: Romance is Dead, Long Live Self-Love!Why I've Removed "Romance" from the Wheel of Life! Recently I had a very interesting discussion with a forward thinking divorce lawyer, mediator and life coach (let's call him John). John shared a recent experience which led me to remove "Romance" from the "Significant Other/Romance" category description on The Wheel of Life Tool. But first, we had a spirited discussion over email... To learn everything you need to know about this powerful coachi...
Be Brave – Be Authentic – Be Fabulous! | By Ruby McGuireYou'll often hear me say the phrase, 'Be The Fabulous You'. Being the FABULOUS you means showing up - authentically. We all know how exhausting it can be when we try to keep up the façade of being the person we think others want us to be, in life or business. We see how other people behave online, hear lots of stories about who we think we should be - and that can make us feel that we need to adopt a new persona in order to fit in. But authentici...
