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Second to last day and everything is falling into place. This morning four delegates completed their assessment. This consists of an hour coaching session whilst viewed by three other delegates and assessor. After the session is over the other delegates and assessor give feedback, and both the coach and the coachee give their thought on…

Well yesterday we explored coaching and walking and sandplay this was led again by Erica Hurley. I really enjoyed coaching and walking as I felt a real connection with the coachee, this really appeals to my kinsethic side. The walking allowed my coachee to move through the motions and I believe actually aided the thought…

The sixth day and we have been looking at the psychometric Extended DISC for me this was really useful as I had undertaken the psychometric before, at this time I had just come out of a job with a really stressful work environment and looking at the psychometric now it is now clear to me…

So today involved language, which involved looking at presuppositions, mind reads, organ language and of course clean language. The majority of the afternoon focused on using clean language in coaching, I found it especially interesting to learn about the life, journey and teachings of David Grove in addition to the work James Lawley and Penny…

Wow what a day, I can’t believe it is only day four, I feel like I have already come so far and learnt a wealth of information. I think today has been my favorite day of the course so far, for many reasons but the main reason would be my introduction to archetypes which I…

Today we had Erica Hurley (a tps associate) as our trainer taking us through the skills of coaching this included building rapport, questioning, and both the GROW and SCORE models. What was really useful was the various different exercises that helped put our learning into practice. I especially enjoyed practicing the technique of centering as…

Day two covered various elements of social psychology and their uses in coaching. I have to say that my favorite part of today was learning about life scripts. Before today I really hadn’t thought about have much scripts can inform our responses in certain situations, and learning more about them has made me question certain…

Over the next nine days I am attending The Performance Solution’s Higher Professional Coaching Certificate Level 1 course, and as I am fairly new to the world of coaching, I decided it would be a good idea to share my thoughts on how my introduction into the coaching arena progresses throughout the course. So over…