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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 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...
Reasons to Reflect after Delivering a Coaching or Therapy Session
Reasons to reflect after delivering a coaching or therapy session Jo Permaul When you are a student in whatever modality it is you have learnt, reflecting and evaluating is part of the process. It is from our clients that we learn, we make mistakes and then we think...
What is Resilience, and Why Do Wellbeing Professionals Need it?
by Jo Permaul (homoeopath, coach and tutor) I began to think about resilience in my career as a health professional 10 years ago when I discovered that treating others touched something in me. For every client that I found straightforward, another would test me...
5 Good Reasons for Life Coach Certification
You’re probably already using some life coaching skills and don’t even know it. For example, are you a good listener? Do you find people open up to you naturally? Can you help others find solutions to their difficulties? If you can listen well, build rapport and...
Video-Call Coaching
(Excerpted from Integrated Wellness Coaching by Laurel Alexander, published by Singing Dragon 2022) Advantages Reduces travel costs and time: Coaching via video-calls delivers communication without you or your client having to travel and allows all parties to reduce...
Psycho-Spirituality and Integrated Wellness Coaching
(Excerpted from Integrated Wellness Coaching by Laurel Alexander, published by Singing Dragon 2022) Psycho-spiritual insights tend to come from self-awareness, tenacity and self-compassion. As integrated wellness coaches, we need to be able to walk this spiral with...
Build Rapport
(Excerpted from Integrated Wellness Coaching by Laurel Alexander, published by Singing Dragon 2022) The best way to build trust between yourself and your client is to deepen rapport, remembering your view and mindset is distinct from the client and should be used to...
Boomer Sector and Wellness Coaching
(Excerpted from Integrated Wellness Coaching by Laurel Alexander, published by Singing Dragon 2022) Following World War II, Americans and Europeans were rebuilding their economies. In the years that followed (1946-1964) many babies were born who became known as...
Health and Wellbeing Trends
(Excerpted from Integrated Wellness Coaching by Laurel Alexander, published by Singing Dragon 2022) In the UK, the health and wellness industry was worth £23 billion in 2020 (Statista). Let’s look at some individual health and wellbeing trends. Nutrition...
