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.
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
“In my early professional years, I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”
“In provocative therapy you play devil’s advocate with the client. It’s like the affectionate teasing banter between close friends” – Frank Farrelly
Are you like this or do you know someone who is like this? Do you walk, talk, work and even eat quickly? Do you hate waiting or queuing? Have you experienced road rage? Do you prefer reading summaries, to reading the whole material?
It is now widely accepted that coaches need to be able to work with the whole person and this includes any limiting beliefs and assumptions which are holding their clients back from achieving what they want. Delegates on our Postgraduate Certificate in Business and Personal Coaching are often concerned about whether this is straying into the domain of therapy.
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