Reflections Upon My Mindsets Towards Health, Disease and Wellness
Daniel Gifford (Diploma in Wellness Coaching Skills) Reflection 1 Wellness is the harmonious integration of our body mind and spirit, disease is a sign that we are out of alignment somewhere and some self correction is required, the more balanced we are within...
From Coaching To The Couch And Vice-Versa: Perspectives From A Counsellor
By Su Orosa Major Differences Between Counselling and Coaching As a counsellor, I have often wondered where the distinction between counselling and coaching lies. At certain points in the process, I sometimes find myself tempted to work in a more...
Drawing From Metaphors: How to Better Understand Our Ego-System
By Michael Laffey Introduction In this chapter I want to create a greater appreciation of the metaphoric space we use. My understanding of how insightful metaphors can be comes from three linked strands of psychotherapeutic work originated by David Gove and continued...
How I Experience Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Rebecca Rose (Diploma in Holistic Life Coaching) Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a model that I first became aware of during my A level Sociology course around 16 years ago. At that time, I accepted most of what I was taught without question out of respect for the...
The Importance of The Mindbody Connection in Health
Samixa Shah (Diploma in Wellness Coaching Skills) Wellbeing is the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit - the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being. Greg Anderson What to do when you are...
Coaching The Coach: A Developmental Journey
By Rachel Rose Coming from a background of working with vulnerable adults, I have always considered the experience of coaching from the coachee’s perspective, and implemented coaching skills within my practice. When doing so my thought has been, ‘What question can I...
The Role of Integrated Resilience and Wellbeing Coaching in Long-Term-Condition Management
Anna Cleary Ikin (Diploma in Life Coaching Skills) In England about 15 million people have a long-term health condition. Long-term conditions or chronic diseases are conditions for which there is currently no cure, and which are managed with drugs and other treatment....
My Mindful Eating Journey
Amy Whistance (Diploma in Holistic Life Coaching Skills) I am going to be recording my mindful eating journey. This is something that I started last month due to the recognition that I was struggling to gain control of my weight gain and after completing a...
Resilient Mindsets
By Graham Barkus In 2012, the World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted Resolution WHA65.4 on "the global burden of mental disorders and the need for a comprehensive, coordinated response from healthcare and social sectors at the country level."[1] Since then, much...
The Mind-Body Connection
Rachel Withers (Diploma in Wellness Coaching Skills) The mind and body connection is an incredibly complex study that has been going on since the beginning of time, or at least since the dawn of critical mind and human intelligence. Ancient philosophers believed...
Mindfulness Practice
Linden Skermer (Diploma in Holistic Life Coaching Skills) For this assignment, I will be exploring and evaluating the use of a mindfulness practice for a period of two weeks. Mindfulness is about us being present; in the moment. There is a belief that thinking...
Research into the Mind-Body Connection
Kay Brass (Integrated Diploma in Resilience and Wellness Coaching Skills) The mind-body connection means that thoughts, feelings, beliefs and attitudes can positively or negatively affect a person’s biological functioning. In other words, a person’s mind can...