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Recording: Live Q&A with ICF UK on Coaching the Human #1: Love

Posted by Ross Nichols on Monday, September 13, 2021, In : Coaching

This is an audio recording of a live Q&A from 03 August 2021 with me (Ross Nichols), hosted by ICF UK: ICF - Event (coachingfederation.org.uk)

The topic is a discussion of my 3 articles published by ICF UK June-August 2021, which are also available on this blog:

Coaching the Human #1: Love
Coaching the Human #2: Shadow
Coaching the Human #3: Being

Coaching the Human #3: Being

Posted by Ross Nichols on Tuesday, July 13, 2021, In : Coaching

Further to my previous articles in this series, ‘Coaching the Human #1: Love’ in early May; and ‘Coaching the Human #2: Shadow’ in early June, here is the third article, ‘Coaching the Human #3: Being’, which was published in early July as part of the ICF wellbeing series. These 3 articles form a trilogy of what I’ve learned on this amazing journey that we share as coaches.

COACHING THE HUMAN #3: BEING

The Importance of Being

We are known as Human Beings yet most of us in the...

What Is Coaching?

Posted by Ross Nichols on Friday, October 26, 2018, In : Coaching

During a coaching session yesterday, I was asked what I thought coaching was. The session was recorded (with mutual consent) and the client transcribed my answer and emailed it back to me later. I share it here as it feels appropriate.
For context my coaching style is 'Transpersonal': working with the client's values, energy, vitality and spirit in an intuitive way. I coach for business, career, wellness and cancer and I'm drawn to coaching with the client's shadow side, which I've previou...

Coaching With the Client's Shadow

Posted by Ross Nichols on Friday, March 9, 2018, In : wellbeing

I find myself drawn to my client’s shadow side. What is the client’s shadow? It’s their dark side, the place inside they don’t want to look at, that’s often been suppressed for many years, unacknowledged but hanging over them and casting a shadow over their life. The shadow holds powerful emotions that are hard to live with, such as guilt, grief, shame and fear – is it any wonder that people don’t want to go there? And yet the unresolved shadow always follows them, holding ...