Creators entice us to “scroll up, scroll up”, click for the magic beans of information and climb a monetization Real coaching gets to the heart of what matters to us What we find out about ourselves may surprise us Real coaches are trained to hold space for us to find what is meaningful to us not them. 4. Real coaches are trained to help us plan, act, reflect and iterate on what works well for us  and our Real coaching gets to the heart of what matters to us 4. Real coaching helps us get into action 5.

It's not about the methodology What some are calling the coach industrial complex, is a mixture of untrained Last month’s blog explored the idea that it’s not the tools and techniques but how we learn to show up Your client benefits when you learn to skilfully re-purpose your past and use it to feed the coaching Most advanced coaching courses focus on methodology and this can be a challenge for us to apply until We’re a pretty diverse group, but congregate around values about what coaching means for us.

At Bamboo Being, we believe that how we ‘show up’ either fosters co-creative relationships or gets in WHAT ARE SOME USEFUL DISTINCTIONS? upon or even with a client, but being better able to cultivate and access the foundational qualities Using prompts and questions to delve deeper into an understanding of our own way of being and how it TO WRAP UP?

WHAT ARE SOME USEFUL DISTINCTIONS? coaching Rather than seeing this as an “either/or”, how do we reconcile tools and approaches that allow us APPRECIATING (the parts): embracing opposing parts of what is uncovered and seeing creative potential of Pennsylvania, the research and tools of Positive Psychology TO WRAP UP? Reconciling different approaches allows us to work with a client in a more intentional and integrated

WHAT ARE SOME USEFUL DISTINCTIONS Is there a difference between ICF competencies in co-creating relationships That the ICF is mainly focused on supporting the client’s freedom of expression may be understandable stances that we can fall into, with examples from my own journey: Performer: focusing on mastering and using A coach used clean language techniques on me at a coach workshop recently. TO WRAP UP?

But what if you instead look up and across at who and what you love? Here's what our growing community of Integral Coaches in Asia and beyond have been up to: we just finished (Please forward to any Domestic Workers you know who might wish to sign up!) If you have been partnering with us in these endeavours, a big THANK YOU! And if you would like to join or work with us, scroll down to see what is coming up next and be in touch

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