Tag: EthicalCoaching
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Authority, Agency, and the Final Return to Choice This principle matters because growth is far removed from permission granted by others, and especially because the most enduring limitations are often borrowed, rather than inherent. In coaching conversations — and in professional development more broadly — external authority frequently becomes internal law. Opinions, assessments, projections, and comparisons…
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Why Competence Precedes Certainty. Confidence matters because paralysis is far removed from lack of ability, and especially because confidence is often misunderstood as something that must exist before action, rather than something that emerges because of action. In coaching development, confidence is frequently treated as a gatekeeper. Coaches believe confidence must arrive before clients, before visibility, before…
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The Invisible Barriers Before the First Client What stops coaches from starting matters because hesitation is far removed from lack of capability, and especially because many coaches delay beginning not due to incompetence, but due to unexamined belief, identity tension, and misplaced standards. In coaching development, starting is often framed as a logistical step. In reality,…
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Limiting beliefs appear at every stage of coaching practice. What changes is not their presence, but how they are recognised, held, and engaged. Early coaching and masterly coaching do not differ in intention. They differ in judgement, pacing, and depth of perception. This post clarifies that progression from a wholeness perspective.
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Limiting beliefs matter across all support disciplines, yet how belief is approached determines whether change stabilises or stalls. Generic coaching, other support disciplines, and wholeness-based coaching each engage belief differently. None are inherently wrong. Each operates from a distinct frame of purpose, boundary, and depth. This post clarifies those differences — not as hierarchy, but rather…
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When Borrowed Certainty Replaces Self-Trust. Reliance on advice matters because progress is far removed from access to information, and especially because excessive advice-seeking often erodes internal authority rather than strengthening it. In coaching conversations, advice can feel helpful, generous, and efficient. Yet when relied upon too heavily, advice quietly undermines the very capacity coaching aims to build.…
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Restraint as a Professional Skill. Knowing when to use tools matters because effective coaching is far removed from constant intervention, and especially because discernment protects the client’s process more reliably than technique ever could. At this stage of Chapter 3, tools are no longer the centre of gravity. Judgement and discernment are. This post clarifies…
