For coaches, it’s hard to know what to learn and more importantly, as we add to our toolkits, how to HOW DO WE TAKE AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO COACHING? Key techniques in the integral coaching approach that help here are: drawing a strong ‘Golden Thread’ The garden is already producing fruit and flowers and is a habitat for creatures. EXPLORING (the whole): investigating widely, deeply and holistically how an issue/goal fits into a client

However supervision goes further that only normative work. we may be impeding ourselves and how we might develop greater capacity. A HELPFUL METAPHOR? Here's the ICF's take on supervision from the ICF website with some follow-on reading Here's the Association Join a supervision group or engage a supervisor to see how you might benefit.

If there is imminent danger of someone harming themselves or others, you have a duty to call the emergency /herself that they would benefit from seeking more specific help. In the time that I have been mentoring or training coaches, many have voiced concern about working with the help they may need. A HELPFUL METAPHOR?

Firstly, as Integral Coaches, we learn the huge role language has in shaping human experience. Having a name for it helped us better relate to the experience, allowing us to explore and ultimately Coming from the highly regulated legal profession, I was initially aghast at how easily one could 'become coachee understands him or herself. A HELPFUL METAPHOR?

Now the world and her wife are ‘coaches’. Not to mention AI coaching. Real coaching helps us get into action With information so widely and freely available, how do we choose bestseller, “Atomic Habits”. Real coaches are trained to help us flourish after the coaching has ended, not keep us coming back for Real coaching gets to the heart of what matters to us 4. Real coaching helps us get into action 5.

industrial complex, is a mixture of untrained 'coaches' and graduates from a forest of different schools who have Last month’s blog explored the idea that it’s not the tools and techniques but how we learn to show up Does the methodology embrace the full biological, social and philosophical aspects of being human? his precious time is actually more challenging than most demo coaching. Since then I have attended numerous trainings, workshops and retreat and learned that, however great

At Bamboo Being, we believe that how we ‘show up’ either fosters co-creative relationships or gets in The big distinction here is the difference between focusing on what we are doing versus how we are being is drawn from diverse fields like linguistics, developmental psychology, and philosophy to explain how A HELPFUL METAPHOR? How we show up to our clients is central to co-creating relationships in which clients feel safe How

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT James Flaherty, the founder of Integral Coaching, writes in his book “Coaching, Hence rubrics like W.A.I.T. (”Why Am I Talking?”). Arguably this is a much higher bar than displaying coach professionalism or competence. do you know if the coaching has gone well?” From the world of education, the work of Parker Palmer, his book “A Hidden Wholeness” has a lot to say

In China and Japan, the beginning of May is known as "Golden Week" due to the practice of workers having It's also a day recognising the dignity of human labour and the struggle for human rights, something If you sometimes feel at a loss to know how to respond to crises on seemingly every level, know that Here's what our growing community of Integral Coaches in Asia and beyond have been up to: we just finished If you have been partnering with us in these endeavours, a big THANK YOU!

Daniel Siegel busts a number of commonly held myths about adolescence—for example, that it is merely of “immaturity” filled with often “crazy” behavior Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman In the highly System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobell Have you ever: Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn’t worth it? But by knowing what they are and how to spot them, we can avoid them and make better decisions

How Emotions are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett What if what you think you know about why you feel what Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson In Hold Me Tight, Dr. How can couples therapists help de-escalate the battles? for thousands of years about the human heart with what has only recently been learned about the primitive functions of the human brain.

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