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.
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,
All of us at Barefoot keep learning. We regularly put ourselves in new learning situations – being coached, supervised, and attending courses as delegates. We do it because we believe you can’t facilitate someone else’s learning if you’ve stopped learning yourself. We are grateful to the International Coaching Federation (ICF),
Public speaking is a frequent yet challenging task for most. A 2023 poll found that nearly half of the British public (49%) fear speaking in front of people, and the public speaking training industry is booming in response. Yet, in today’s era of uncertainty and change, perhaps we should shift
Some years ago, I experienced a significant loss. Since then, I’ve spent my time learning about grief and loss so that I can provide grief coaching for individuals, and grief education for coaches and other professionals. Some call this ‘making your mess your mission’ or ‘turning your pain into purpose.’
Last week, we celebrated International Coaching Week 2025 – we took some time at Barefoot to pause, reflect and reconnect – with the roots of coaching, our own journey, and where we’re heading next. We started the week by exploring the history of coaching. From Socratic dialogue to the rise
Over the past couple of decades, the original term Impostor Phenomenon has mutated into being a syndrome. It feels very different to be told you have a syndrome than to learn you are experiencing a phenomenon. At Barefoot, we’ve been guilty of adopting the ‘S word’—but we’re now keen to
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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.
