Personal Growth

ICF Coaching Snapshot: Coaching and Well-Being Executive Summary 2024

Explore the role of coaching in mental well-being with insights from ICF’s 2024 Coaching Snapshot.

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How to Boost Ecological Well-Being Through Coaching

From Buddhists to theoretical physicists, the idea that everything is ultimately connected in an all-encompassing “web of life” has been around for millennia. Today, ecological well-being, which describes the harmonious…

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Prioritizing Purpose: The Essential Role of Coaches in Complex Decision Frameworks

Navigating life’s choices is often like choosing between chocolate, strawberry, or vanilla ice cream. That was the challenge our grandparents faced when selecting ice cream at the local market. Yet,…

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How to Improve Your Mindfullness and Wellbeing

A coach’s state of mind may have an impact on the conversation between the coach and the client. Therefore, a coach needs to learn how to manage their state of…

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Empathy is Overrated: How Not Understanding Strengthens Your Practice

My private consulting business was thriving. I loved the work. I relished the flexibility. I assessed, advised, reported, and left. My clients were not accountable to me, nor was I…

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Navigating Life Transitions

We have all experienced a disruption in the flow of our lives that has shifted us into a season of uncertainty. We find ourselves in a space where we must reorient, learn, rise and transform.…

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How Mindfulness Can Improve Your Wellbeing in Challenging Times

During these unprecedented times, you can be forgiven for feeling anxious and overwhelmed. In such circumstances it’s very difficult to be fully present for yourself, let alone with your clients. But with…

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How Behavioral Patterns can be Exaggerated Under Stress

My friends and family would tell you I’m typically a very calm, laid-back person. That is, until I’m triggered and experiencing emotions of uncertainty, anxiety or panic. Then my behavioral style looks more…

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Overcoming Self-Sabotage

It may be hard to believe, but many respectable and self-confident people have experienced times when the conscious and subconscious levels of their mind ran counter to each other. This contradiction is called self-sabotage, which hinders a person from reaching…

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Lead with Greater Ease: Go Below the Waterline

Challenges at work (and in life!) are inevitable: tight deadlines, budget demands, relationship challenges …the list goes on. As a leader, you already know that the question isn’t about what…

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