Coaching Articles, Insights & Resources
Explore expert articles, practical coaching tools, leadership insights and workplace coaching resources from the Barefoot team and our wider coaching community.
Whether you’re considering coach training, developing your coaching skills, or embedding coaching in your organisation, you’ll find ideas you can apply straight away.

International Women’s Day 2023
At Barefoot Coaching we are proud to call ourselves a community of continuous learners. One of our favourite ways to expand our thinking and challenge what we ‘think’ we know about the world, is through reading. The library at Barefoot HQ is full to the brim of books written by

Have I Told You About The Time I…?
Thoughts on the use of personal anecdotes and self-disclosure in Adult Learning by Kim Morgan, Barefoot Coaching Founder & CEO Some time ago I attended a course in which the facilitators told us up front that their teaching style would include anecdotes and personal examples. They had many years of specialist

Coaching Tool: Letting Go to Flourish
By Kim Morgan “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop” Rumi Are you someone who will always give people or situations ‘just one more chance’? Do you tell yourself, “I agreed to do this, so I will keep going”? Do you find yourself giving more than you

Coping with Loss, Change and Uncertainty
Change is an inevitable part of life and over the course of a lifetime, we will all experience several significant life transitions. Some of these will be initiated and planned for and others will be totally unplanned. In this feature, Kim Morgan looks at how we can help ourselves, and

Five Cost-Free Secrets to a Stressless Festive Season
It’s no secret that the festive season can be demanding, with studies even highlighting that the ‘Christmas hormone’ can cause significant fatigue. Combine that with the seemingly never-ending to-do list, and the ‘holiday’ quickly becomes an endurance test. But in a time where inflation stood at 11.1% in October, meaning

Catch Up On Our International Coaching Week Webinars
For International Coaching Week, we hosted three free-to-access webinars around really important topics if you’re keen to supercharge your coaching abilities. We heard from Jo Reeves and Andy Chandler, with some really important takeaways around reimagining your future, coaching tools for managers and self-belief and confidence. If you missed them,
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