Resources for Coaches
Mentor Coaching: I am a certified ICF mentor coach.
If you need a coach with whom to work on your mastery of the competencies, let’s chat.
Many coaches have asked for the following resources. Below are the versions that I use in my own practice.
Special Offer: Far and away the most powerful (and popular, thank you, Google Analytics!) of these resources has been the Future Self Visualization. This came from the Coaches Training Institute, and my understanding is it is now in the public domain and you are welcome to use it. However, if you are a coach and have not experienced this powerful tool, I strongly encourage you to experience it yourself! I am happy to do a one-off session with you on it at the Professional Courtesy rate of $100 for the session. This is a deep-dive into the highest and best part of yourself — I think of it as a gift to my clients. I am most happy to offer it as a gift to my colleagues as well.
Here are some additional resources that have been requested over the years; feel free to use them as and when they serve you!
- Wheels of Life
- Resources for Highly Sensitive People, and Coaches (text & audio)
- Values Exercise
- Completion Session
- The ROI of Coaching
- Job Search Process
- Blocking Behaviors – where to go if you are seeing indications of these blocks in your clients
Other Coaching-related Resources
- Body-Centered Coaching: Developed by my gifted colleague Marlena Field, I trained in body-centered coaching because it taps the wisdom our bodies hold for us, to help us make decisions, resolve dilemmas, get out of our heads when they turn into continuous loops that take us nowhere.
- Coaches Training Institute: (CTI) the people with whom I trained in the client-centered approach known as CoActive Coaching, and from whom I earned my first certification, a CPCC (Certified Professional CoActive Coach).
- Get Clients Now! This is my go-to book for any new coach (or anyone, actually) starting a new practice or small business. Eminently practical, author C.J. Hayden takes readers through the practicalities of the dreaded discipline of Marketing, simplifying it and making it easy to craft your own plan for how best to let the people who need what you offer, find you.
- International Coach Federation: The professional organization from which I earned my second certification (PCC), and which sets international standards of practice.
- Shadow Coaching: Founded by Donna Karlin, Shadow Coaching both reveals our shadow side (where some of the most interesting and transformative information lives), and also involves observing clients in action, then helping them seeing what they can’t see, offering feedback in real-time, when it can have greatest impact. I am a trained Shadow Coach.
- TAI Group: I originally knew them as The Actors Institute in New York City, when they were running a workshop called The Mastery, powerful work that helped actors get in touch with their emotions to more authentically portray a character. I realized there was applicability to business, and started to incorporate pieces of their approach into my own work. Henry Kimsey-House, one of the founders of CTI, was involved with The Mastery at one time.
- Top Human: I took a trip to China in 2006 to find out more about the state of coaching in the most populous country in the world, and to train in an intriguing approach that incorporated Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. What I found was fascinating. My hosts were Top Human, who have unfortunately since closed. But coaching is certainly alive and well in China! See also the Asia-Pacific Alliance for Coaches (APAC).
- Bigger Game Company: Co-founded by Laura Whitworth and Rick Tamlyn, to bring Laura’s work around how to create powerful change into the world. Since her death, Rick has been taking it to new heights. I am a certified Bigger Game trainer.