Tag: GROWModel


  • Introduction to Chapter Three: Coaching in Practice

    Chapter One taught the origins. Chapter Two revealed the architecture. Chapter Three moves into practice — the lived skill, the applied craft, the coach in motion. This is where coaching stops being understood and starts being embodied. The list below represents the spine of all foundational coaching skill

  • Alignment: The Fifth Mechanism of Coaching

    Awareness reveals truth. Responsibility activates agency of said truth. Possibility opens the field using that cultivation. Integration stabilises identity arising from that field. Alignment is the turning point where inner coherence becomes outer movement – others begin being influenced. It is the moment when intention, belief, behaviour, and energy begin pointing in the same direction. Alignment…

  • Integration: The Fourth Mechanism of Coaching

    s shows what is true. Responsibility activates choice(s) from said truth(s). Possibility expands the field of said choice(s). Integration is what turns all of that into identity. Without integration, change remains temporary. With integration, change becomes self-sustaining. Integration is the mechanism through which new behaviours become natural, new perspectives become stable, and new identities become lived…

  • Possibility: The Third Mechanism of Coaching

    Awareness reveals what is. Responsibility decides what will be chosen. Possibility opens what could be created. Possibility is the most expansive of the coaching mechanisms — a widening of perspective that dissolves limitation and invites imagination back into decision-making. Without possibility, responsibility becomes obligation. With possibility, responsibility becomes creativity. Applied wholeness needs both.

  • Responsibility as Freedom: The Second Pillar of Coaching Mechanisms

    If awareness is the first medicine in coaching, responsibility is the first movement. Awareness shows what is true. Responsibility decides what to do with that truth. Responsibility — in its coaching context — is far removed from blame, pressure, guilt, or punishment. Responsibility is agency. Responsibility is choice. Responsibility is freedom. Coaching evolves humans by strengthening these muscles one…

  • Awareness as the First Medicine: The Hidden Engine of Coaching

    Every coaching model, no matter how complex or elegant, is built on one foundational element: awareness. Before strategy, before planning, before action — awareness is the first medicine. It restores clarity. It shifts identity. It reconnects the human system to its own intelligence. Without awareness, no coaching model can function. With awareness, even the simplest model…