Articles
Checking in with my own resilience
How resilient are you exactly? How might you know if you need to build more resilience in to your world?
Resilience as a term is banded around especially in this post-covid world, often meaning needing to draw on our own inner resources, to get past obstacles and to have a steadfast quality to us that can handle whatever life throws our way. As a global community we have certainly had to adapt in the past 3 years to many changes, many new experiences, hardships, restrictions and been pushed both mentally and emotionally out of our comfort zone.
What is workplace wellbeing?
Wellbeing Beyond Benefits: Cultivating a Fulfilling Work Environment By Amy Thwaites In today's fast-paced and competitive work environment, fostering workplace wellbeing is not just a nice-to-have but a crucial element for both employees and employers. A culture of...
5 Benefits of Reiki to Enhance Your Wellness Coaching
There are many benefits of adding Reiki to your Wellness Coaching session and in the world of holistic wellness, curiosity often arises when I mention Reiki as one of the modalities I incorporate into my practice. Allow me to introduce you to the captivating world of...
Boundary Setting for the Student Coach
by Jo Permaul I wanted to share some thoughts about an issue that lies at the heart of our practice and comes up often in an SSD workshop: finding harmony between boundaries and empathy. As coaches, we understand the power of empathy in building connections and...
Turning Adversity into Opportunities – How coaches help people.
By Melissa Clerc Life is full of challenges and adversity. As coaches, we know firsthand the struggles and hardships our clients go through. But what if I told you that your own experiences of adversity can be transformed into powerful tools for helping others? In...
How to Look After your own Wellbeing as a Coach!
 By Amy Thwaites We are the people who support others, who want to pour our hearts and souls into making others feel better and making the world a better place. But as the popular saying goes ‘we cannot pour from an empty cup’. So how do we support ourselves so we can...
9 Tips to Help You Avoid Burning Out While Building Your Business
By Alison Wilson Maybe you love your job and want to build your coaching business alongside. Or maybe you need to keep working in your job for now and can't afford to drop your hours just yet. Whatever the reason for embarking on this adventure, you are wondering how...
How Wellness Coaching Can Support Mental Health
By Angelina Nizzardi I graduated from Wellness Professionals at Work in 2017, completing the diploma in wellness coaching skills. This was my first foray into coaching, an experience that has formed the foundation of my future work. I now work in private practice...
Lessons in Self-employment
By Jo Permaul In 2010 I began my journey into the world of wellbeing; I'll be honest with you, I thought that when I got to that moment of qualification I'd have people knocking at my door. After all, my passion was infectious, I was brimming with case studies and...
3 Ways Coaching Changed My Life
By Melissa Clerc I have been working as a holistic life & mindset coach for about 3 years and my life has drastically changed since I embarked on this journey. It has expanded in ways I could have never even imagined and I attribute the transformation to switching...
What is Life Coaching?
 By Michael Laffey PART 1: What is Life Coaching? It’s a natural question, ‘What is Life Coaching?’ My elevator pitch is: The nearest analogy I can draw is that it’s a massage for the mind, removing stresses or blockages to optimise your potential and allow...
My Experience as a Student by Breanne Cook
By Breanne Cook The Decision I knew I wanted to be a coach. When I started looking for a course, it was very confusing; I had no idea what course would result in appropriate accreditation and credibility. I wanted a course that was specific to the area I was...
Is Your Client Coaching Ready?
By Emma Quansah, Coach and Ambassador. Is your client coaching ready? Emma, experienced coach and alumni of Wellness Professionals At Work, talks us through this important question. Part of your skill as a coach is to undertake the discovery of whether a client is...