Insights for coaches building thriving practices
A practitioner guide to narrative coaching: White and Epston's roots, Drake and Stelter, the core moves, the honest evidence, a full session with dialogue, cautions with painful stories and training.
A practitioner guide to emotional intelligence coaching: Salovey, Mayer, Goleman and Boyatzis, the three models, the training evidence, a full session with dialogue, assessments and cautions.
A practitioner guide to cognitive behavioral coaching: Ellis and Beck's roots, the ABCDE model, thinking traps, behavioral experiments, the trial evidence, scope lines and training routes.
A practitioner guide to positive psychology coaching: Seligman's origins, PERMA, the honest effect sizes, a full session with dialogue and 12 questions, the toxic positivity trap and training routes.
A practitioner guide to ontological coaching: Flores, Echeverría and Olalla, the observer-action-results model, the six speech acts, new trial evidence, a session with dialogue and training routes.
A practitioner guide to Co-Active coaching: its founders, the four cornerstones and designed alliance, the thin but useful evidence, a full session with dialogue, and the CTI training pathway.
An honest guide to NLP coaching: origins, the main techniques, what studies found, which tools are worth keeping, a session with dialogue and 11 questions, and how to judge certification.
A practitioner guide to somatic coaching: Strozzi-Heckler's roots, the evidence on breath and posture, a step-by-step session with dialogue, scope cautions and training routes.
The ICF Code of Ethics section by section: core values, all 24 standards in plain English, the 2020 changes, other coaching codes and six real situations worked through.
The 2025 ICF Core Competency model: eight competencies in four domains, exactly what changed, what each looks like in a session, practice drills and how ICF assesses them.
All seven questions from Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, with how to ask each one, follow-ups, a 30-minute session structure and how the questions map to GROW.
Sixty motivational interviewing questions organized by Miller and Rollnick's four processes and by type of change talk, with the importance and confidence rulers, reflections and a worked dialogue.
How do you challenge a client’s thinking without arguing? Use 24 Socratic coaching questions, a worked dialogue and practical limits for guided discovery.
When should a coach wait through a pause, clarify the question or speak? Seven practical decisions for silence in coaching, with examples and client-choice checks.
Choose procrastination coaching questions by the actual obstacle, then turn the client’s answer into one small experiment and a useful review.
Nine practical ways to respond when a coaching client says I don’t know, with sample questions, worked dialogue and clear boundaries around pressure.
Coaching and mentoring overlap, but they promise different kinds of help. Compare seven differences, choose the right role and make an ethical switch between them.
Use motivational interviewing in coaching without pushing clients: OARS examples, change talk, sustain talk, a worked conversation and clear professional boundaries.
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