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Transformational Coaching – What You Need to Know
At Animas, we specialise in transformational coaching – and with good reason. In our experience, it facilitates growth and change on a more profound, and long lasting level, than other forms of coaching.
Categories: Coaching explained
Is Training Necessary to Become an Effective Coach?
Given that life coaching isn’t a regulated profession in the UK, it’s perfectly possible to set up shop with the sign ‘Life Coach’ above the door without any specific training. If you’ve got the confidence to do that – you could. However, that doesn’t mean you should.
Categories: Becoming a coach
Georgie Nightingall - Transformational Conversations, Talking with Strangers and TedX
In the latest instalment of the Animas Podcast, life coach, entrepreneur and founder of unique events business Trigger Conversations, Georgie Nightingall, talks about her work around getting people to have more meaningful conversations and move away from the repetitive mundanities of questions such as "What do you do?"
Categories: Coaching careers
Teresa Wilson - Coaching in Prisons, Authentic Selves and New Creative Pursuits
In this episode of the Animas Podcast, experienced coach Teresa Wilson talks about her work coaching in prisons, sharing reflections and insights from coaching in this unique environment. She also talks about the importance of authenticity and our 'true selves' in the coaching space, as well as discussing her upcoming book which focuses on creativity and coaching.
Categories: Working as a coach
What Does a Transformational Coach Do? | Animas Coaching
If you’re considering seeking the services of a transformational coach, or perhaps even considering it as a career, you might be asking yourself what does a transformational coach do?
Categories: Coaching explained
Animas Founder Lecture: Embracing the Journey to Coaching Mastery and Success - Nick Bolton
In this very special lecture, Animas Founder and CEO Nick Bolton gives his last, and most personal, talk to date as he explores what mastery and success look and feel like, and how the two are related.
Categories: Life as a coach
Nick Thorpe - Pacific Ventures, Animas Edinburgh and Male Rites of Passage
In this episode of the Animas Podcast, writer, coach and Animas trainer Nick Thorpe shares his journey of sailing across the Pacific Ocean as travel writer, to becoming a life coach and Animas Coach Trainer, as well as talking about male rites of passage and the exciting projects that are currently keeping him busy.
Categories: Working as a coach
What Type Of Life Coach Could I Be And How Do I Get Started?
When you’re just starting out on your journey as a life coach it can be a confusing time. What is the right avenue to go down? What type of life coach do you want to be? How will you win coaching clients? And which life coach qualifications are worth your time and money?
Categories: Becoming a coach
I’m a Psychologist, Psychotherapist or Counsellor. Will I Get Any Benefit Training as a Coach?
Given the growing trend of psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors adding coaching to their service, how important is coach training for them? Nick Bolton, CEO of Animas, shares the challenges and benefits professional people-helpers can experience as part of undergoing a coach training course and the questions they could helpfully ask themselves.
Categories: Coaching explained