Category: About Coaching

Animas founder, Nick Bolton, explores the boundary between empathy and collusion and provides a way for coaches to think about these two ways of relating.

In part 2 of “Can Coaches Ever Be Truly Non-Judgemental?”, we explore a number of key factors around what we judge, who we judge and how we can become less judgemental.

Can coaches ever be truly non-judgemental? Nick Bolton shares 7 Levels of Judgement and Non-Judgement which he proposes we operate from as humans and which dictate the level of non-judgement we can achieve.

Variations on this question pepper our social media threads from time to time and I find myself answering them with some degree of sympathy for their underlying challenge.

If you’re looking to embark on a journey to become a coach, we believe it is vital to understand what’s expected of you and what it means to be joining the coaching profession.

There is a good chance that you will have heard of life coaching, and might have an idea of what it involves, but are you really familiar with the benefits of having a life coach yourself?

It is, perhaps, no surprise that many coaches have images of butterflies on their websites. The journey of the humble caterpillar into majestic butterfly is an obvious trope for what coaching seeks to do – bring about change.

At its most basic, coaching is a powerful collaborative process between coach and client that aims to improve the client’s life. Yet within the overall broad umbrella term of ‘coaching’

Finding a life coach that is right for you can be challenging. Once you’ve made a decision that you’d like to work with one, or at least explore the possibility, you then have to go out and actually find one!

Times change and thoughts shift. Whatever your profession or career, it is highly unlikely that it will stay in a static state, unchanged forever. The world is perpetually changing, and as it does many aspects of our lives change with it. We adapt our mindsets