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.
If you’re enrolled on the PG Certificate in Business and Personal Coaching, chances are you’re juggling study alongside work, clients, and life. One of the biggest challenges students share in Write Club is that finding time and getting (re)started can be hard. Barefoot Write Club is designed to meet you
Grief Awareness Week (2–8 December 2025) invites us to recognise something profoundly simple yet often overlooked: grief comes to work with us. Loss, whether personal or professional, affects how we think, feel, connect and perform. Yet many workplaces still lack the language, confidence or structures to acknowledge it. We believe
Power, Presence, and Self-Awareness in Coaching How often do you stop to reflect on the impact you have as a coach? Not just the outcomes or insights your clients gain, but the felt experience of being coached by you. Even with the best of intentions, it’s possible that the way
(A nod to Monty Python – and a considered look at the role of tools in coaching) When we train coaches, we are often asked what coaching tools bring to coaching and whether they exist for the benefit of the coach or the client. There isn’t an easy answer to
This month the ICF published its updated Core Competencies for the first time since 2019, and we wanted to share what these developments might mean for you. Importantly, the update involves incremental developments; it is not an overhaul. Here are some answers to questions you might be asking yourself: What
Validation is a practical and fun guide to one of the most overlooked interpersonal skills: making others feel seen and understood. Drawing from her skills as a clinical psychologist, and with a focus on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Caroline Fleck dismantles the misconception that validation is simply agreeing or comforting. Instead,
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This pioneering programme builds the skills, insight, and empathy to coach clients through grief and loss in all its forms. Accredited with 40 ICF CCE points.
