What it Takes To Be a Professional Coach
The International Coach Federation (ICF) recently shared that 30,000 people now have a coaching credential. What an incredible milestone. There are still a lot of folks out in the world calling themselves coaches, many who have little to no training. There is a...
Embodying a Coaching Mindset
A lot of professional coaches are in the middle of a shift. The International Coach Federation (ICF) has updated the Core Competencies; those pillars that indicate if you are professionally coaching, as opposed to consulting or counseling. There has been an additional...
From ACC to MCC: Developing a Coaching Mindset
I didn’t know it yet, but my mindset was about to shift significantly into a coaching mindset. If you had asked me in 2014 what I would do after being a Therapist, I would have said, “I haven’t a clue.” I’d been a Therapist since 1995...
If You Have a Brain, You’re Biased
We all have biases, and they have a way of popping up and derailing situations. A bias is a powerful belief or a preconceived opinion about something or someone. A bias can be for or against an idea, an ideology, a behavior, a culture, or even ourselves. As our brain...