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

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.

Coaching is sonar. Tune your depth, read the signals, and meet your clients where they are — then guide them where they’re becoming.

The ICF Code of Ethics continues to evolve—the 2025 update brings sharper standards, broader accountability, and guidance for modern coaching challenges.

The PCC markers give us a glimpse of what assessors look for—visible behaviors above the waterline that prove competency. With the 2025 updates, the invitation is to coach with broader awareness: noticing patterns, context, and identity as part of your client’s world.

Trust and safety are the secret sauce of coaching. Discover how this ICF competency brings depth, warmth, and transformation to every session.