On April 7, 2022, ICF sent an email announcement to all ICF credential-holders with an update on the ICF Credentialing Process for ACC, PCC and MCC applications received from August 1, 2022. This includes changes to coach training education and...
Category: MCC Skill
Train like an Olympian
The Winter Olympic Games 2022 have been underway for about 11 days so far, with about 5 days remaining. Every 4 years feels like a treasure chest to me, watching the best athletes in the world compete against each other...
Practices to Develop and Maintain Presence
What is it about some people that has you feel immediately at ease in their presence? What has you trust one person and not feel safe with another? Who do you trust to share your depth of emotion, feeling, yearning,...
Butterfly on the Wall Coaching Series
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...
Celebrating Master Certified Coaches
Every year, our professional association, the International Coaching Federation (ICF) puts focus on the positive impact and power of coaching skills, and of course, coaches in the world. This year, International Coaching Week (ICW) is from May 17-23, 2021. This...
Improv-ing to better coaching skills
I wasn’t sure what I was going to write in this blog article. I had a general idea, and I trust the process of starting to type into a Word Document, with the intention of writing a short article that...
Strategies for coaching verbal processor clients
I added a new article that adds to this article, called Coaching verbally expressive clients I’m pretty sure every coach has had a client who speaks a lot. And then speaks a lot more. And then some. You may have...
Surrendering the mind
There’s a paradox present for coaches; simultaneously to know and practice good coaching skills, and yet not knowing how those coaching skills will best serve our client, in this coaching session. I’m working from the premise that we believe that...
Why am I still writing?
When I first began coaching 20 years ago, I was like every other new coach; trying to figure out how to use questions as a main way of drawing out knowledge from my client. This was so different than the...
Flossing the mind
For many coaches, recording coaching sessions to submit to the ICF can bring up anxiety and stress-filled thoughts, and scary feelings of inadequacy. This is ‘normal'; we are exposed to school exams in childhood, and we are either an A...