Four coaching doorways—limiting beliefs, saboteurs, assumptions, and perspectives—shape the choices clients (and coaches) can make.

Your coaching philosophy is your fingerprint: the unique pattern of values, beliefs, and commitments that guide your coaching. Learn how to define and share it with clients in line with the 2025 ICF update.

Your map and compass for the 2025 ICF updates: simple tools, clearer routes, better coaching. Coaching evolves; so do the rules of the road. In September 2025, the ICF gave the Core Competencies a tune-up —not a remodel, a refinement. Think sharper edges on a familiar tool. If you’ve been practicing inside the 2021 model, you’re still on home turf. The map didn’t change; the legends got clearer. What Stayed vs. What Shifted What didn’t budge first: the backbone. We’re still w

When clients bring up the past in coaching sessions, how do you avoid slipping into therapy territory? This article shows coaches how to honor stories from the past without analyzing them, staying focused on the present impact and future growth. Includes sample questions for ACC, PCC, and MCC levels, plus a checklist of red flags that signal when you may be crossing the line.

True coaching isn’t glitter on the surface—it’s gold at the core. Explore what makes coaching genuinely transformational.

Mentor coaching isn’t just for credentials—it’s a creative studio where coaching craft gets sharper, deeper, and more uniquely yours.

Open Skies Coaching takes you beyond performance mode into real partnership, where trust and transformation soar to new horizons.

That voice in your head saying "you're not ready"? That’s the Saboteur. Here’s how to call it out—and take back the wheel.

Coaching supports a hero’s journey—your client faces the dragon, you offer the tools to help them rise, grow, and return transformed.

Help your clients turn the page and design powerful session topics that focus the conversation and reveal the story beneath the surface.

Explore how metaphor awakens insight in coaching—where imagination meets language, and new perspectives unfold through the power of symbol and story.

Reflect like a still pond, summarize like a map. Learn when and how to mirror back what matters most in your coaching conversations.