The saying “Words Create Worlds” illustrates the importance of language choice in representing an individual’s opportunities or challenges they may be experiencing, whether it be at the conscious or subconscious level. And our role as a coach is to support clients to create greater conscious awareness of their current reality and open up new perspectives, and therefore more and new choices to move forward.
 
Metaphors are words, phrases, pictures, or gestures often used unconsciously by people to ...

Do you find your coaching conversations are too comfortable for your client?
Are you getting a sense you’re not stretching your clients to create meaningful breakthroughs?
Do you notice you hold yourself back from asking challenging questions?

Our role as coaches is to stretch our clients to move out of their comfort zone in relation to their goals. Clients will often come to a coach because they don’t know how to reach a goal, or they know how to achieve the goal, but something is stopping them fr...

What does vulnerability mean to you?

Do you associate it with fear, imperfection, criticism, loss or betrayal? Often those are those thoughts, emotions, habits come up when we allow ourself to vulnerable: to say something, do something or be someone visible to the world.

For far too long society has taught us vulnerability is weakness and something to be hidden from others. And as a consequence, too many of us erect barriers around us, afraid to take chances, to put ourselves out there for the wor...

Do you over-plan your life and dreams?
Do you worry about failing even before you begin?
Do you lose so much time waiting for the perfect opportunity that you don’t really get started?

The truth is that in order to achieve your dreams you must step out of your comfort zone and take action. In the end, it is results that matter. As Dr. Phil McGraw said, “Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value”.
 

 
So, how d...

As a coach do you find yourself and your client getting caught up in the details of their stories? Does this prevent you from achieving the breakthrough or transformation the client is seeking? Are you unsure - perhaps fearful - about how to stop your client when they are in the details of their story?

Allowing clients space to share and process what they are experiencing can be an important part of a coaching session if the client is sharing it for the first time. It can be very healing for th...