Articles for Adults
6 Things I Wish I Knew When Starting My Coaching Business
I remember my very first day of coach training so vividly: I’d packed my pens, notebooks, water bottle and snacks the night before, so I’d be ready to jump out of bed and head straight to day one of Module I. That morning I arrived early and took my seat, practically buzzing with excitement—as a lover of learning, I was
From Clear to Compelling: What Makes a Coaching Message Truly Land | by Cindy Schulson | The Launchpad
What’s Changed in Today’s Coaching Space The coaching space is more crowded than it’s ever been, which means your coaching message matters more than ever. But what matters more is how people are responding to that. Clients are more selective about who they hire, and more skeptical of anything that feels generic or overly polished. You can feel it. Messages
8 Suggestions for Grieving Together as a Family
The apostle Paul knew that believers can be different in personality, expectations, past wounds and experiences, and how they express themselves, so he provided helpful instruction for how to maintain unity. I find his instruction especially helpful when it comes to the different ways family members grieve. In Philippians 2, he told believers to make his joy complete by “being
How Coaching Research Evolved and Why It Matters for Your Practice
For many years, coaching developed faster as a profession than as a research field. Organisational consultants, leaders, psychologists, and educators were using coaching style conversations to real effect – long before anyone had the data to explain why they worked. The practice was established. The evidence came later. This is a common path; many professional fields begin with practice wisdom.
7 Reasons Why the Silent Treatment Isn’t a Godly Response to Conflict
Godly responses to conflicts include communicating, sharing your concerns, listening to the other person’s concerns, including God in the situation, and working toward a solution that honors God. The silent treatment will destroy any efforts at ever coming to a conflict resolution. It will cause pain, hurt, and disorder. The damage that is inflicted on others through the silent damage is long-lasting. As
The Coaching Tools Company and the ICF: More Than a Partnership | The Launchpad
International Coaching Week is a good moment to pause. Not to market, not to promote. Just to reflect on what we are actually doing here, and why it matters. Coaching is a young profession As a skill, coaching has ancient roots. Socratic questioning, reflective dialogue, the kind of conversation that helps someone think more clearly: these are not new. But
Why Human Services Require a Human Connection
A familiar moment in human-services work: the second hour of an afternoon session, one partner tightening at the shoulders, the other looking somewhere just past her ear. The clinician can feel what has shifted in the room — the empathy that brought her into this work is fully present. The question, as it tends to be in moments like these,
Finding the Right Online Therapy Format for Your Relationship
By 2024, online therapy had moved from emergency option to default category for many couples. The question that persisted under all the convenience — does the format actually work as well as the in-person version — was being studied even as couples were already using it. Some of the recent answers, including a 2024 Norwegian study of the Gottman Seven
The Good and Bad of Resilience Gottman Institute
Given enough years, the unlikely tends to happen. A serious illness arrives. A parent slips into decline. A career bends in a direction nobody predicted. Most relationships meet at least one of these, and many meet several. The capacity to keep moving through them, and to stay turned toward each other while doing so, is what most people seem to