Butterfly on the Wall Coaching Series

with Carly Anderson, MCC

Have you ever wanted to be a “butterfly” on the wall hanging out (inconspicuously, of course) while an experienced coach is coaching their client?

Here’s a very rare, unique opportunity to get an insider’s peek into the real relationship between a master coach and her client as it develops through 15 consecutive coaching sessions.

I first coached this client and we both enjoyed the experience so much we agreed to a longer engagement, which ended up being 16 coaching sessions in total, of which we recorded all except the final session.

These sessions were explicitly recorded for learning purposes, and I had no idea this would become 15 sessions being offered for coaches to learn from. The sessions were recorded using zoom audio-visual conferencing.

This is an ideal client for me; she is open, curious, and wants to be asked questions and offered observations that give her an opportunity to examine herself from different perspectives, that support her to have forward movement in meaningful ways for her.

The client has given her permission for the audio recording of these sessions to be offered for coaches to listen to and has approved this product offering. She has reviewed every page of this offering. I would not offer this unless she was 100% comfortable with doing so. I have chosen not to give her name in this public space, and only her first name is used when you are listening to the audio recordings.

The gift this client has given to the coaching community is priceless.

Most coaches have never heard a coaching engagement of this length.

This client is not a trained coach, and has not participated in coaching skills training. She does have a personal development mindset which means she wants to improve herself.

This client has lived in a Scandinavian country for around 20 years, is married to a Scandinavian man and they have two young teenage children. Her country of origin though is a Mediterranean country with a history of unrest, and there are often cultural differences at play for her. We began with a focus in her work and leadership settings, and the coaching expanded to more personal ways of expression, communication, effectiveness, and self-management. And happiness! All coaching is ultimately personal though, as there is always a “person” being coached.

The beautiful thing is most of the sessions are very relatable to most people; from exploring confidence, the value one brings to their work, exploring strengths, habits, the inner critical voice, managing emotions, speaking up in meetings, finding common ground, leading others, being a parent to teenagers, when is to stop doing more, enjoying life, judging others, and much more.

Each session is rich, with many metaphors and exploration of the client world of thoughts and emotions, of visual language and concepts. I’ve given each session a title and a short description to give an indication of the flavor of that session. No two sessions are the same and yet there is overlap between sessions, as the client explores more about a theme, or goes deeper into an area.

I’ve been an active ICF Assessor since 2005, regularly evaluating ACC, PCC and MCC recordings, called “Performance Evaluations” by the ICF. I’ve listened to over 2000 coaching sessions between ICF recordings, and coaching sessions that my mentoring clients review with me as part of the mentoring program I offer. More than 120 coaches I’ve mentored have passed the MCC performance evaluation exam and many more have passed their PCC and ACC exam.

While I always use my best understanding of masterful coaching skills, not every coaching session may meet criteria to pass an ICF MCC Performance Evaluation exam process.

I provide a detailed written Core Competency Worksheet (CCW) for each session, like I do for every coach I mentor using the ICF Updated Core Competency Model. This means I’ve listened to each coaching session recording, and objectively rated the coaching skills used, in response to what the client offered verbally and non-verbally. You’ll find an example on the Series One page, for Session One.

While the majority of the 15 coaching sessions would likely pass the MCC performance evaluation, there are a couple of the sessions that would be PCC skill level. I provide written insights into each coaching session, including strengths and development opportunities, along with the credential level that each session represents. I’ve used the Ten Characteristics of MCC Skill Level to offer distinctions from PCC, to MCC skill level.

Carly Anderson, MCC

My style of coaching may not be your preferred style and isn’t the only style of coaching. However you should be able to distinguish coaching skills from your personal preference. It’s easy to have “biased” listening if you are listening for what you like or don’t like. Instead, the invitation is to listen for coaching skills used in response to verbal and non-verbal information given by the client throughout each session, and across sessions.

Seriously, in my 23+ years as a professionally trained coach, as a trainer of coaches, mentor coach and ICF Assessor, I’ve never heard of being able to listen to 3 consecutive coaching sessions with a Master Coach, let alone 15 consecutive sessions. This is such a rare gift, where the circumstances aligned between coach and client.

You have the opportunity to purchase any one of the series (of three consecutive coaching sessions) for $395 USD, or the whole series for $1580 USD (a 20% discount). There’s a coach training provider payment option too.

Individual Coach Access

$1,975 USD$1,580 USD

To purchase an individual series, click Series links above.

Coach Training Provider Access

$3,750 USD$2,995 USD

To purchase an individual series, click Series links above.