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Why Coaches Find it ‘Hard to Find Love’ By Christine Ramsay
During my fantastic training with Animas, I had dozens of conversations with coaches and coaches-in-training about their challenges in the dating department. I also had the privilege of working with an incredible group of Animites...
Categories: Student Stories
Choosing the Right Coach Training for You
The best clients, the ones who fit your style of coaching, as well as your personality, who engage proactively with the work, are going to be interested in exactly who you are as a coach. You can ‘sell’ yourself in all manner of ways, from adverts and word-of-mouth, to your web site, but without substance your sales approach will fall on deaf ears. A coach training brings substance to who you are as a coach.
Categories: Coach Training, Transformational Coaching
Poems for the Coaching Journey by Ross Nichols
I had been musing for a while on my use of poetry in my coaching practice. For most of my life, poetry largely passed me by. I had childhood favourites and I still recall some poems I enjoyed while studying English at school, however these were more about rhyme or story telling than finding meaning or feeling the poem…
Categories: Student Stories
Sarah Speziali – Combining Therapy with Creative Coaching
Sarah believes in the power that working as a coach at a ‘micro’ level in supporting youth and adults to cultivate wellbeing and find meaning in life, has on a ‘macro’ level in today’s society. The ripple effect that one person’s empowerment can have on his or her environment is what drives her work forth.
Categories: Coaching in the world
Your Coaching Business: Where to Start?
Let’s start with this premise: not all UK coaching businesses are created equally. Being a largely unregulated profession, we have to accept that there are inexperienced, untrained coaches on one hand, and highly-skilled, widely experienced coaches on the other. This article is aimed at those wishing to make a success of their coaching business in a professional and self-regulated way, so that you can add value to the clients you see.
Categories: Business of coaching
Mindfulness in Coaching - Collaborative Practices
When I first came across coaching during my own self-development journey, it occupied a space in my mind that was a long way from mindfulness and meditation. Coaching seemed to me to be about getting somewhere. It was about...
Categories: Life as a coach, Student Stories
Existential Coaching: Working with Values, Imagery and Narratives
In this video Sasha explores the way in which existential practice can not only help to illuminate our values, but identify the often concealed impact that they have on our choices.
Categories: Animas Videos, Coaching in the world
From the Bottom of the Barrel by Pete White
I guess you could say my coaching story started nine years ago. February 1, 2009 at 8am to be exact, the moment I joined the Royal Air Force.
I was twenty-one and embarking on what I thought would be a life long career as an...
Categories: Student Stories
Decoding The Matrix: Ready to Take the Red Pill? By Marcie Boyer
Few events in life can profoundly change you as a person. When they happen, you feel it. The earth shifts, and they transform the way that you perceive life.
Categories: Life as a coach