One thing Iâve noticed over the years of mentoring coaches toward their ICF credential, and listening to many hundreds of coaching sessions as an ICF Assessor, is that you can have hundreds or even thousands of coaching hours, and not...
Category: Coaching Mentoring Tips
True North – The Coaching Agreement
In our mentoring program, The Mentor Coaching Group, we focus on teaching coaches the importance of Establishing the Coaching Agreement (ICF Core Competency #2). In fact, this competency is so vital to master that Carly has created an extensive product...
Applying the fundamental coaching model
Coaches I'm mentoring often ask me how to demonstrate the ICF Core Competency of Planning & Goal Setting in a coaching session. Well here's how, and it's simple! When Iâm listening to a coaching session as an ICF Assessor for...
The power of making distinctions
Iâm a regular Bikram Yoga student, and recently one of the teachers said the following, âMake sure you are working to your bodyâs edge, while listening to your bodyâs limits.â This was such a great distinction and had me stop...
Listen spaciously to your client
One of the most respectful and powerful coaching skills we have available to us as coaches is the ability to listen. Just listen. Listen with a lot of silence, and with a lot of quiet, yet present, spaciousness. Do you...
Coach the Human Being of your Client not just their Content
One of the best gifts a masterful coach can bring to their client is a different perspective, without interpreting through their beliefs. We donât live in our clientâs skin, think their thoughts, believe what they believe, or have the exact...
Bikram Yoga and the Coaching Mastery Journey
This article recently appeared in the ICF Global Blog When I was a newer coach, I remember thinking, âWhen will I be âthere?â When will my coaching skills be integrated so that I donât have to consciously think about what...
The Difference between a Teacher and a Coach
by Karen Boskemper, PCC, Co-Leader of The Mentor Coaching Group, and ICF Assessor I was recently reading a Facebook post by spiritual teacher, educator and writer, Nithya Shanti (http://www.lovingsilence.org/), whose life work is committed to supporting those who wish to...
Ways a Coach completes a session
My last blog article was on âWhen a coaching session really begins.â In this article, I want to address the ways a coach completes a coaching session with their client. Here are five of the main ICF core competencies most...
When a Coaching Session Really Begins
A coaching session is a structured conversation so both coach and client know that this is a coaching conversation that has a purpose, versus just having a nice conversation. Thereâs a definite beginning and an ending to a coaching session,...