As a coach, have you ever found yourself frustrated by the very framework designed to support you as a coach? Many practitioners - whether newly trained or working towards advanced credentialing - admit they sometimes experience the coaching competencies as limiting.

In our mentoring and supervision practice at Empower World, we often hear comments like: “I feel like I’m just ticking boxes,” or “The competencies don’t fit my style. I don't feel free to coach naturally."

When coaches are pushin...

What if the greatest shift you could make in your coaching or leadership practice wasn’t about more strategies, but about how you relate to uncertainty itself?

Uncertainty is often viewed as unwanted: unpredictable markets, organisational changes, shifting responsibilities. Yet as Joe Pane, highly experienced coach and trainer, shares, "Uncertainty is the precursory seed. It's the fabric of life. It's a requirement of life for us to grow. It is like the nutrition that you give a tree or a plant...

You’ve trained for many hours. You’ve studied the skills, you've earned your certifications, and you love coaching. Assisting people grow lights you up. And still many coaches quietly admit that finding clients feels harder than the actual coaching.

You may resonate with this: posting on social media, attending networking events, and maybe you've even built a website, and yet, the inquiries don’t come. You may feel deflated, lost and it seems like you are blending into the online ‘noise'.

The ...

We live in a world where we often assume reality is what we are experiencing. Yet the truth is: each of us is only ever encountering our own unique 'map' of the world around us. This distinction is captured in the well-known phrase: “the map is not the territory.”

Our 'map' consists of our beliefs, values, past experiences, culture, energy, environment, and personal meaning-making. And the 'territory' is the reality itself: the facts, events, the things that happen outside of us.

Two people ca...

As coaches, we often only get 30 minutes to meet in a chemistry or intake session or discovery call to assist a prospective client decide whether we are the right partner for their coaching engagement. It can feel like a test. A moment where we’re “chosen” or not.

These moments can leave us with a sense of I’m not good enough or wondering what I might be doing ‘wrong’ that can lead us not getting the client work. But what if we reframed these beliefs?

'No Such Thing As Not Being Good Enough, O...

At Empower World, we believe coaching is one of the most powerful catalysts for conscious change as the impact of climate change intensifies. As uncertainty grows, there is an urgent need for new ways of thinking, leading, and being, and coaching must also evolve to support individuals and systems to adapt, thrive, and lead in service of a better world.

The climate crisis is not a problem to be solved in isolation: it’s a complex, dynamic challenge that requires emotional resilience, collaborat...

In coaching, the agreement is often seen by coaches as a practical step - a necessary piece of structure before “the real work” commences. But when we slow down and bring presence, curiosity, and trust from the outset, the agreement becomes far more than just a formality: it becomes the doorway to profound transformation.

Establishing and maintaining agreements is a foundational coaching competency, which can be interwoven throughout the coaching session at any point - particularly when the goa...

There is a quiet tragedy unfolding inside many of us. It is not an outward catastrophe, but something that happens silently within. It's the tendency to overlook our own greatness: to hide from our full selves, and ignore what we do not like or understand about who we are.

Dasha Dare - coach and photographer - says, "Photography has always been about seeing greatness, the essence in another human being." She also shares not everyone is capable of seeing their authentic selves: both the greatnes...

As coaches, we often encounter clients who have achieved external success yet feel profoundly unfulfilled. Perhaps they've climbed the ladder, accumulated wealth, built relationships, and checked all the boxes society told them would bring happiness and success. And they may wonder in a coaching session with you, is this all there is? Or they may say, I’m interested in creating something deeper in my life. Or they may even ask what’s the point of all that I have achieved?

These moments may call...

Coaching skills are leadership skills which can support powerful learning and outcomes for the client (or reflective partner). But what often gets overlooked or pushed aside in the profession of coaching is the role of who the coach is being in their practice in partnership with their client.

Taking care of our 'instrument' - our being as a coach

Coaching isn't just about the processes we use or the presence we offer others, it's also about the presence we hold with ourselves and our own self-...