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September 4, 2025

Reflective Practice in Coaching Supervision - a Solution Focused Stance

Reflection in Solution Focused supervision is not about dwelling on deficits but amplifying what works, deepening awareness, and generating fresh possibilities for coaches to grow towards their preferred professional future.

August 29, 2025

How learning to coach can make you a worse human

Learning coaching builds empathy, listening, and curiosity—but overdone, it risks cold self-reliance, fake technique, or hiding in the coach role. True kindness means balancing skill with humanity, friendship, and compassion.

August 22, 2025

The ethos of quality

Japanese “full-assed” ethos inspires me: grounded presence over shaky effort. In music, dance, cooking, or coaching, practice builds quality. Distinguishing practice from performance enables true co-creation.

August 15, 2025

The cobbler's shoes, the teacher's children, the coach's...

Even coaches struggle in their own fields. Does that make them frauds? This blog explores what coaches need to know, how personal stories matter, and how to market honestly without overpromising.

August 8, 2025

When the coaching client wants you to be directive

When clients want advice, it’s tempting to give it. Yet coaching shines when we explore together, share knowledge carefully, and leave responsibility where it belongs—with the client.

August 1, 2025

The three dimensions of trust in coaching conversations

This post explores three intertwined dimensions of trust in coaching—client-coach, coach-client, and client-self—highlighting how trust evolves moment by moment and shapes the depth of transformational coaching.

July 25, 2025

Coaching Agreements vs Coaching Assumptions: Knowing the Direction, Not the Destination

In coaching, clarity on direction—not rigid outcomes—guides meaningful challenge and acknowledgment. Agreements shape emergent conversations, prevent assumptions, and ensure coaches amplify what truly matters to the client.

July 18, 2025

Can AI replace human coaches

AI can support but not replace coaching. Unlike humans, it lacks embodiment, empathy, care, and the co-creation of meaning essential for dialogue. Coaching remains a fundamentally human, relational practice.

July 11, 2025

Book Review: Etica y Coaching Ontologico by Rafael Echeverr

A rigorous, philosophical exploration of coaching grounded in ontology, language, and ethics. Echeverría challenges individualism, reframes the soul systemically, and invites coaches into relational, transformative, and ethically grounded practice.

July 4, 2025

Group Coaching

Discover how to design impactful group coaching sessions using Solution Focused principles—emphasizing collaboration, flexible formats, visual tools, and peer coaching to foster insight, agency, and meaningful change.

June 20, 2025

Coaching competing clients – conflict of interest in coaching

A mindset coach in niche sports faces ethical dilemmas coaching competing athletes. Our meetup explored conflicts of interest, disclosure, confidentiality, supervision, and the coach’s responsibility—offering rich, thoughtful reflections together.

June 13, 2025

Book Review: The HeART of Laser-Focused Coaching by Marion Franklin

Kirsten reads "The Heart of Laser-Focused Coaching" by Marion Franklin. Look forward to Kirsten's thoughts on readability, academic rigor and practical usefulness for coaches.

June 6, 2025

Dream together - reflective practice inspired by Yoko Ono

In May 2025, Yoko Ono’s interactive Berlin exhibition “Dream Together” deeply inspired me with themes of peace, healing, and reflection—beautifully connecting art, coaching, and the power of participation

May 30, 2025

Book Review: Coach the Person, not the Problem by Marcia Reynolds

Kirsten reads "Coach the Person, Not the Problem" by Marcia Reynolds. Look forward to Kirsten's thoughts on readability, academic rigor and practical usefulness for coaches.

May 23, 2025

Stop activiating "underlying fears" in coaching

Coaches, beware the myth of “underlying fears.” Exploring fear as real cements its existence, ignores context, and reinforces individualism. Let’s shift focus to empowering stories and ecological awareness instead.