Why don’t you allow yourself to broaden your skills to connect? There are many ways to create an empathic space, inquiring about feelings and needs only being one of them. I want to introduce you to a playful, creative skill that engages the right brain hemisphere of the person you are sitting with. The right hemisphere or the relational brain is where the client can connect with what is alive in them.

Isn’t it so easy to know? To see what’s going on. To look at your client and think: “You need this piece of information!” But this is not what your client came for. Certainly not in Needs-Based Coaching. They didn’t book a session to get advice unless they really ask for this. They come to experience themselves, to connect with themselves, and not to walk away with a bag full of homework.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has entered the stage and will increasingly permeate our lives.

It is not in my power to oppose its advance. And, as a coach, I’m very curious to explore where and when it’s time to draw a line, and where I’d enjoy welcoming and recommending it.

What is the difference between Coaching and Psychotherapy? This is a question that always comes up during our coach education. There is no unambiguous distinction between the two. Although historically, there was. Let’s have a closer look.