Six Tips for New Health & Wellbeing Coaches
1. Diversify. You can't exist in the coaching business today without embracing an eclectic approach to your delivery. Deliver on and offline. Deliver 1:1 and in groups. Create coaching programmes, educational opportunities and information products. 2. Keep up to...
Stress and Human Spirituality
This article is an excerpt from Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water: Reflections on Stress and Human Spirituality Brian Luke Seaward, Ph.D., M.S.(Health Communications, Inc.) A crimson sunset. A hot bath. A monarch butterfly. The reassuring voice of a good friend....
Your Hands of Healing
Healing, using the palms of the hands, is almost instinctual, and is becoming a growing technique, especially with Reiki as an easy way for anyone to tap in and develop healing skills. When you begin, focus on the palms of your hands, relax, and slowly feel the higher...
Benefits of Group Coaching for Clients
Kinds of clients who would benefit from group coaching: Individuals who already know what their blocks are and therefore don’t need so much exploration. These guys know the problem and want the solution. People who want to increase their commitment to their goal but...
Key Characteristics of Resilience
Resilience involves a range of behaviours, thoughts and actions, all of which can be learned and developed. These factors which contribute to resilience (taken from my latest publication Resilience Coaching Toolkit published by Pavilion Publishing and Media) include:...
My Vision of Integrated Health & Wellbeing
This is my vision of how an integrated health and wellbeing approach with clients could look: Lifestyle - To facilitate a clients awareness of the different aspects of their life e.g. friendships, creative expression, work, intimate relationships, material resources,...
My Biggest Challenges in Business (and how I work with them)
One of my biggest challenges just has to be impatience. On one hand it's a blessing as this quality has driven me forward into successful businesses. On the other hand, I can often overlook the detail or miss opportunities. An example is my writing practice. One of...
Walking the Spiral Path
From magnetic fields and plants to galaxies swirling in space, spirals can be seen in every aspect in nature including the horns and shells of animals which grow in spiral formations. The visual motif of the spiral is one of the oldest and most enigmatic sacred images...
Creating Sacred Space
CREATING SACRED SPACE When someone said the term “sacred space” to me, it used to conjure up images of lofty churches, swinging incense or a temple. Then over time, I thought about it. Space is all around us. It can be full of things or empty of things. A garden,...
Coaching Boundaries
With any helping professional such as coaching, we the professional, need to be always mindful of client/coach boundaries. Here are six areas you might find challenging: Your time-keeping - You are responsible for starting and finishing the session at the agreed...
The Purpose of Repurposing
Repurposing, in a business sense, is the art of using one piece of material for several different marketing strategies or products. For example let's say you're a personal trainer and wellness coach and one of your niche markets is helping women who have given birth...
Bach Flower Remedies
Bach Flower Remedies are a form of energy medicine and act by working with subtle energy in the body. According to the concept of energy medicine, disease manifests in the physical body only after energy flow in the subtle body (chakras and auric field) has been...