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Not All Engineers are Dull, Boring or Socially Awkward
In 2009, Dr. Puji Silva was working as a design engineer in Brisbane, Australia. He did not really enjoy his job, but he was still jolted when he lost this position in the global recession. During this time, Puji would explore and embrace his desire to help others and make a true contribution to the world. It would take another three years and the loss of his father before he decided to pursue coaching and enrolled in International Coach Academy’s certified coach training program.
Meet Dr. Puji Silva of Australia, International Coach Academy Student and Coach. -
ICA Graduate Opens Center for Transforming Lives
Our very own Ligia Houben, alumni and group leader of ICA's Grief Coaching Group celebrates the opening The Center for Transforming Lives, located in Miami, Fl USA. -
Can I Borrow your Mirror Neuron tool?
ICA student and coach, Himani Tyagi recently talked about this very topic as a guest blogger for the International Coach Federation...
Understanding empathy as a mirror neuron tool in a coach kit
There are numerous examples in our day to day life where we relate to other people’s experiences almost as if they were our own. A person watching a football game can feel the rush and excitement almost to the same extent as the players themselves. While watching suspense movies, we find ourselves totally immersed in the experience of the movie characters.
How one is able to tune into other people’s experiences, emotions and intentions so easily and instinctively?
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Research Paper: Life Partners Coaching Programme Coaching in Couples Applications
By: Oscar Osorio
Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences. Then they came to Earth and amnesia set in: they forgot they were from different planets. Extract from the book: Men are from Mars, women are from Venus” by John Gray Introduction The family is the society’s most important organization, although the smallest. And families are built from a couple that assumes the core role of the family. Therefore, if the couple’s relationship goes well, the family goes well, and if the relationship goes bad, the family goes bad. To constitute a couple, both sides should win and should lose. -
Power Tool: Recall vs Visualize – Recall the Past and Visualize the Future
By: Oscar Osorio Rivas
My power tool combines the act of recall (recalling the past) and the act of visualize (recalling the future). Based on the saying: “if you want to jump farther, it would be better to have a step backwards” and in the way flies the boomerang returning to the hand of the thrower, we work with our client trying to find some moment in his life when he reached an achievement similar to the one he wants to reach in the future, in other words, sounding out within his memories. -
Coaching Model: The Model of the Five Facets of Life
By: Oscar Osorio Rivas
FIELD OF ACTIVITY OF THE MODEL The proposed Coaching model, called The Five Facets of Life looks for reaching the following aims:- Identify, prioritize and achieve objectives related to any of the five facets of life
- Identify what our coachee wants to change or adjust in our personal styles, life’s strategies and habits
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Coaching Model: The Coaching Field -The Transformational Forest
By: Nicki McCluskyLife, Spirit & Voice Coach, UNITED STATES
The Coaching Field: The Transformational Forest The coaching journey is one of the most magnificent, empowering, sacred, fun and productive adventures you will ever take. You’ll create your “delicious life” according to your own design and you may grow beyond your wildest dreams! -
Power Tool: Staying Stuck in UAC’s vs Working Through UAC’s
By: Nicki McCluskyLife Coach, USA
As we know, coaching is all about change, growth, desired life design, building prospering businesses and creating joyful, spirit-filled lives. Sometimes we work with ease (or effort) to shift mindsets in order to live our life purpose(s), live from our values, and let our spirits soar. However, none of this is possible if we continually experience forces within that render us unable to manifest the change we say we want. Sometimes we cannot understand why we produce results in our lives that we say we absolutely do not want yet seem powerless to change. We, of course, are far from powerless. And yet we need the beacon or lighthouse of awareness to shine fully and illuminate that which trips us up. We open ourselves to inner inquiry, devoted to finding and seeing whatever it is that produces results we do not want and keeps us stuck. The place to look is within. That which we accept automatically and unconsciously will become a habitually acted-out commitment. Especially when we accept that which may be untrue (or may not have to be), we’re probably functioning in an area that needs both truth and light for accurate seeing. With clarity comes the possibility of profound change. -
ICA Shanghai Meet Up is a Dance of Celebration
Imagine a group of loving, old friends who share a common interest in coaching, meeting in a warm, cozy teahouse dancing passionately on a Saturday afternoon to celebrate and rejoice in their achievements of the year
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Three No-BS Reasons to Niche Your Coaching!
The idea of niching and whether it is necessary for a successful coaching practice has been debated since the beginning of professional coaching. Now in 2013, there’s no doubt that niching is winning the debate and here are three reasons why.
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How Long Should you Coach a Client for?
Although there are many different ways to structure your coaching contracts, most coaches structure them around weekly calls and charge a set monthly fee. This being the case, what is a good length of time to offer? Well, we believe 3 months or 90 days is the magic number. There is a lot of research that shows that anything les than 3 months and it is very difficult for a client to make substantial change. Wheras after 3 months most human beings have the ability to learn a new habit, or establish a new routine. Are you a coach? What do you think? -
Coaching vs Consulting – What is the Difference?
There are two words that help to different Coaching and Consulting. As a coach you are there to partner with your client's success and as a consultant you are there to advise you client. Typically a consultant is hired because they have achieved some level of success in their professional life and the client is there to do the same in their own life. Now there really is a hierarchy there where the consultant is on a pedestal advising the client on how to acquire that same skill or to achieve that same success.With coaching there is no hierarchy and if there was the client would be the one that is on a pedestal because as a coach we have a philosophy that clients are experts in their own life.
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