I can help. I help my friends and family all the time. I’m their shoulder to cry on and I’m good at it. Well… that’s wrong thinking. While being in the place of a “helper” is something which we all naturally do when it’s coming to help friends and family, and while some of us …
Student T was very frustrated and wrote this in her reflection form: “Some stories are complicated in the client’s head too? I wonder how to keep that on track…” Here’s part of what we answered in the reply email, and she was very thankful: You’re right that many stories are complicated in the client’s head …
First let us say that it’s OK to be concerned. Especially when you’re drawn to service, to helping people. It’s also OK not to be perfect in the coaching course. Here are some of the big fears we hear: “And what if I’ll harm someone while working as a coach?” “And what if I …
I’m sharing with you my answer to an email I received from one of the potential students to the coaching course we are opening soon. I thought that it’s a very good one, and I’m sharing here exactly what I answered her. She wrote: “I’ve one last question before I decide to take the course: How …
No, it’s not a beginning of a joke (although we love jokes). These are just the people that took advantage of the discounted early registration period. We also have a social worker, an English teacher, an editor and a media expert. We have people coming from far (Belgium and Austria) and near (The Hague …
You may have heard about shorter coaching courses… we simply don’t believe you can gain the knowledge and experience you need unless you invest the time. Becoming a good coach is a journey, a process. Just like running a half-marathon, or even 10K, will not just happen from zero to accomplished after one long …
I never wanted to be a coach. I wanted to really help people through a meaningful deep process, and come on, this can’t be the work of a coach! This was my attitude when I started my professional helping career, and I geared myself to specialise in supporting people who experienced a lost pregnancy or …
Many of our students on the Coaching training are taking the courses while working in a full-time job and having a family to care for. Not always easy to juggle. But I believe that life shouldn’t interfere when fulfilling your wishes. On the contrary: I say “Make those wishes part of your life”. I did it …
“I would like to ask: Will you be teaching us enough tools to use when we coach people?” This question came as a concern from one of the people inquiring about the International Coaching Diploma Course. Tools can be very useful. But before we’ll get to the tools in the course, we’ll work well and …