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January 6, 2023

Selfies on the bridge

Our life often feels like a bridge. It can be wobbly. It can be scary. And yet, it can also be fascinating and amazing. As coaches, how do we work with this metaphor?

December 30, 2022

Coaching with confidence

Are you sometimes not feeling confident in your coaching? In this post, Kirsten shares a valuable lesson from her experience.

December 23, 2022

Conversations at eye-level

Would you like to act at eye level with your fellow human beings? This is usually more difficult than we imagine. In this blogpost, you can learn how to treat our conversation partners as equals in 4 typical situations.

Can you listen to what the client does not say?

Can you really listen to "what the client does not say"? In this Blogpost Kirsten explores communication as information transfer vs. communication as co-creation and shows you examples of how this makes a difference.

August 12, 2022

Feeling overwhelmed?

What can we do to handle a period of overwhelm? Kirsten is sharing her personal tips from a very demanding time and also talks about what best to avoid.

December 1, 2022

Holistic coaching - what it really is

Many coaching approaches claim to be holistic – but are they?. Most marketing language around holistic coaching begins by separating a human being into different spheres: physical, spiritual, mental, emotional, for example.

November 25, 2022

Keeping track of client progress

How do you keep track of client progress? Do you keep track of client progress as a coach? How can we encourage our clients to keep track themselves?

November 18, 2022

Forget the coaching competencies

Yes, actually, why not try that for a moment. Forget that coaching competencies ever existed. Forget everything you know about coaching and mentoring. This is not easy to do, but a very useful exercise.

October 28, 2022

Rocks in the swamp

Recently a coaching colleague shared a case where she was wondering what to do when a client just wants to talk and talk and talk about a problem

October 21, 2022

Curiosity killed the team coach

Of course, not! Curiosity is the life-blood of the team coach. And curiosity is a strong preference for social-constructionist, Solution Focused, narrative

October 14, 2022

Solution Focused – Solution Forced?

This week I came across the following quote by Simon Western: “The solution-focused approach, by refusing to talk about problems, uses the signifier ‘solution’ as a substitute

October 7, 2022

Coaching and Cynefin

A few days ago, during a coach training session with a nice group of agile coaches, an interesting discussion emerged regarding the possibility of being able to identify the most functional coaching approach

September 30, 2022

Coaching F***-Ups: Not mentioning the obvious

I have seen advertisements of “F***-Up Nights” in my social media. Apparently it is a mini-conference, where people get on stage to speak about their failures and what they learned from them.

September 23, 2022

3 myths about body language in coaching

The discussion on the importance of “body language” has experienced a renaissance with the advent of online coaching. Many coaches studied in schools

September 16, 2022

Does the client really want what the client says they want?

This headline could read like we should assume to know better than the client, what they really want to achieve. Well no, that would be leading.