Month: November 2019

An Agile Approach to Coaching – Scrum, Sprint, and Story
Nov 30th 2019 • 9 min read

An Agile Approach to Coaching – Scrum, Sprint, and Story

Agile is a process that was launched in 2001 publicly for software development. It is now used as a project management tool in several other...

Coacharya Coaching Competencies
Nov 19th 2019 • 5 min read

Coacharya Coaching Competencies

Coacharya Coaching Competencies International Coaching Federation, European Mentoring & Coaching Council, and Center for Credentialing Education, as globally renowned coach credentialing institutions, all have different…

Ho’oponopono Meditation
Nov 19th 2019 • 14 min read

Ho’oponopono Meditation

We discussed Ho’oponopono once before in these pages. We will do that again, deeper this time, because there has been great interest in this beautiful...

Perceptual Positions in NLP Explained
Nov 19th 2019 • 6 min read

Perceptual Positions in NLP Explained

‘Empty Chair’ in Gestalt and ‘Perceptual Positions’ in NLP are powerful processes that help the coach to partner with the client empathetically.  This process is...

Words Can Lie, But The Body Never Does
Nov 19th 2019 • 5 min read

Words Can Lie, But The Body Never Does

The 101 lie detector test in Kinesiology works like this. You hold one arm stiff, the tester asks you if you are your ‘real name’...

Do You Engage People Through Feedback?
Nov 18th 2019 • 7 min read

Do You Engage People Through Feedback?

Feedback is one of the critical elements in corporate communication, not that it is not important in other life conversations. People's engagement or lack thereof...

Transformative Listening
Nov 18th 2019 • 12 min read

Transformative Listening

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Coacharya (@coacharya) on Nov 20, 2019 at 6:16am PST The journey to becoming a coach is...

Mindless Meditation
Nov 18th 2019 • 7 min read

Mindless Meditation

In Mindless Meditation, we combine the Buddhist practice of Vipassana with the Hindu practice of Yoga Nidra as a simple and effective pathway to mindless...

Using the NLP technique of TimeLine in Coaching
Nov 17th 2019 • 5 min read

Using the NLP technique of TimeLine in Coaching

The NLP technique of Time Line is generally considered a therapy as it delves into experiencing one’s past to overcome memories of trauma stored in...

Core Transformation: Is pain good for you?
Nov 16th 2019 • 3 min read

Core Transformation: Is pain good for you?

Buddha did say that life is full of sorrow and implied that it was painful. He didn’t say it was necessarily good for you. His...

SET to Impact Others With What You Intend
Nov 15th 2019 • 3 min read

SET to Impact Others With What You Intend

More often than not what we intend to convey is not what we say. The attempt and the outcome can be poles apart. In fact,...

Impact of New ICF Core Coaching Competencies
Nov 14th 2019 • 3 min read

Impact of New ICF Core Coaching Competencies

ICF just launched an update to its Core Coaching Competencies model. The rollout of the new model will happen over the next year, and we...

ICF Core Coaching Competencies
Nov 14th 2019 • 9 min read

ICF Core Coaching Competencies

When you start researching becoming a life coach or executive coach, sooner or later you'll come across the term coaching competencies or core competencies. Usually,...

How to Coach in Clean, Non-Violent and Generative Language
Nov 14th 2019 • 4 min read

How to Coach in Clean, Non-Violent and Generative Language

Coaching institutions specify active listening as a core competency. Some add powerful questioning too. This may not be enough. Questioning, according to globally renowned experts...

Dissolution of Mind: Vigyana Bhairava Tantra
Nov 13th 2019 • 4 min read

Dissolution of Mind: Vigyana Bhairava Tantra

What is Vigyana Bhairava Tantra? Vigyana Bhairava Tantra is part of the ancient Hindu Agama literature, on meditation related practices for awakening deeper levels of...