Interview Skills Coaching
A competency-based interview is one in which you are asked questions phrased in a specific manner to gather information from you about your past achievements, actions or tasks. Competency-based questions can be phrased in several ways however they almost always start...
Differences Between Coaching and Therapy
Coaching and therapy presume that we experience events that wound us psychically when we are young in the natural course of life. As we grow, some people’s wounds remain raw and painful. Those people often act defensively, protecting their wounds from further injury....
My Experiences With Online Art Classes
(Elizabeth, Diploma in Resilience Coaching Skills) "Anything that engages your creative mind — the ability to make connections between unrelated things and imagine new ways to communicate — is good for you” (Girija Kaimal) Having initially selected another topic for...
How My Self-Esteem Has Changed Over The Years
(Elizabeth, Diploma in Resilience Coaching Skills) My self-esteem has been chatting away for years. Healthy self-esteem comes from being grounded, self-aware and intentional in the way we live. However, when we rate our competence and worthiness predominantly against...
Doorknob Disclosures
As a coach, it is highly likely you will come across the ‘doorknob disclosure’ at some point in your practice. This is when you’re ten minutes away from the session ending and you ask the client ‘We’ve ten minutes left, what might you like to discuss?’ Never ask this...
Four Resilient Mindsets
(Suzi, Integrated Diploma in Wellness and Resilience Coaching) According to Tugade and Fredrickson (2004), resilience is characterised by, ‘the ability to bounce back from negative emotional experiences and by flexible adaptation to the changing demands of stressful...
Impact of Wellness Coaching on Dementia
(Lynda, Diploma in Wellness Coaching Skills) For this assignment I have chosen to research the impact of health and wellness coaching on dementia. This is a long term condition that I hold close to my heart, as I have recently started caring caring for my aunt who has...
Psychophysiologic Disorders (PPD)
By Suzi, Integrated Diploma in Resilience and Wellness Coaching Skills Mainstream Western medicine has largely ignored the role of the mind-body connection in health, pain and illness. However, recent research shows certain conditions can actually be attributed...
Four Breathing Techniques
SQUARE BREATHING Square breathing is a breathing exercise, which is easy to follow and understand. Our breathing process can break it down into a number of parts/sections. Square breathing amplifies these parts or segments. The exercise allows us to slow our breathing...
Impact of Health Coaching on Arthritis
By Ann Langford (Integrated Diploma in Resilience and Wellness Coaching Skills) Introduction: Why Arthritis? In this assignment I explore how arthritis sufferers could benefit from health coaching. My primary motivation stems from arthritis’ growing prevalence with...
Long-term Conditions and Wellness Coaching
Keely Stucke (Integrated Diploma in Wellness and Resilience Coaching) I decided to research the impact of wellness coaching on cancer patients, as cancer is so common. Cancer is being seen increasingly as a chronic rather than terminal illness due to rising...
Mindful Nordic Walking
Mindful Nordic walking is a moving meditation that helps you create your own fluid pace that harmonizes mind and body. We spend a great deal of time thinking of the past or future, planning or daydreaming. Paying attention to the body, and getting away from your...