Damion Wonfor
In this blog post, we explore what happens when a coachee poses the question “Is this therapy?”
To support you in the run up to Christmas, here are our recommendations for some mindful activities that you can build into your day.
In this post, we explore how focusing on the positive can lead to greater happiness and build a greater capacity to deal with adversity.
In this post, we explain the value of listening in coaching and how doing this right can bring about significant change for a coachee.
We explore why giving advice may have become a hardwired conversational habit — and what we can do to shift from “doing” to “being” in a coaching conversation.
An exploration of how the ‘I’m OK, You’re OK’ approach can help in difficult coaching contexts.
More and more, our coaching clients come to us in a state of overwhelm. In this post, we explain our approach to supporting them.
Misunderstandings and disconnections, known as “ruptures,” are almost inevitable in coaching. In this post we discuss how they can be used to enhance the coaching relationship.
In this post we discuss how coaches can avoid the negative impact of dual relationships.
In this post, we highlight how professional coaches can evaluate and improve their coaching practice over time.
In this post, we discuss the concept of burnout and explore the key ways that you can avoid it.
Many are familiar with the “fight, flight and freeze” reactive patterns, but there’s also the “fawn” response to consider. In this post, we shed light on its origins and implications.
As summer arrives, we share a number of our favourite CPD resources that we have created over the past few months. These aim to resource and support you within your coaching practice.
In this post we share a list of our favourite CPD resources that we’ve produced recently — and help support your coaching work in 2024.
In this post we discuss how embracing impermanence can lead to coaches developing greater resilience and peace of mind.
In this post, we explore the online disinhibition effect and how it affects the coaching relationship.
We share resources to celebrate International Coaching Week 2023 and support your development as a coach.
We share 10 characteristics of an impactful leader as coach – one who will inspire and guide their team members towards achieving their goals.
In this post, we outline the components of a great coaching relationship.
Take a look at all the Continuing Professional Development opportunities available from Catalyst 14 in 2023.
To help you to pause and reset, we will be providing a free guided online mindfulness practice every Monday.
In this post we discuss the positive impact that practising an attitude of gratitude can bring to your coaching — and to your life as a coach.
We share our latest CPD resources that are designed to help you develop as a coach.
In this post we share some resources to provide you with CPD opportunities over the summer and during the year ahead.
In this post we discuss our use of transformational coaching – working with a client in a way that moves beyond the surface of the presenting topic.
In this post we discuss how note-taking can affect a coaching session.
Access the recent masterclass on Leader Performance Coaching with Myles Downey to celebrate the 5th birthday of Catalyst 14.
In this post we share some videos, blog posts and mindfulness sessions to support coaches through the difficult start to 2022.
To help you to pause and reset, we will be providing a free guided online mindfulness practice every Monday.
In a year that has been full of threats, triggers and challenges, how might you pause and really take in the good?
In this blog post we look at how creative methods can be successfully introduced into a coaching session.
In this post we look at what happens when emotions arise within the coaching session – and how to manage them.
In this post, we discuss how you can identify and deal with situations where the boundaries between coaching and therapy start to overlap.
Catalyst 14 will be supporting World Mental Health Day by offering you the chance to join a free guided mindfulness practice.
Some useful CPD resources for coaches to prepare you for the coming Autumn months.
Following a successful 2021 Catalyst 14 Gathering event, we share some of the key learning points from each of the sessions delivered.
Insights on how we can realise when our inner critic is at work — and ways to use this to our advantage.
To further your CPD, we’d like to share some recordings of our recent webinars with you.
As the early months of 2021 bring another lockdown, we will again be offering free mindfulness sessions throughout it — to help you find a regular space to support your self care.
In this post we look at the concept of ‘following your bliss’: listening to your heart, your truth and trusting the deep impulse within you to live a life that truly makes you feel alive.
In this blog post, we consider the impact on the coaching space that ‘compassionate listening’ can create.
At the end of 2020, you may be pausing and considering how you will ‘sharpen your saw’ next year. To support you and our Alumni, we want to share some resources and options for your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) with us in 2021.
“Our mind becomes more spacious, more open, and happier as we move past our avoidance and denial to see what is true.” — Joseph Goldstein As England moves […]
A blog post containing some useful free CPD resources on coaching supervision and reflective writing.
In view of our own and clients’ current contexts, we want to offer you a free grounding exercise to support you being present in how you are showing up in your work and life.
To support you during the current crisis, we’re pleased to extend our free mindfulness sessions in June 2020.
As lockdown continues, and the psychological impacts of isolation and staying at home start to be felt by us all, we want to continue to support your personal wellbeing.
In these challenging times, we want to provide additional support to you by offering a series of free mindfulness group sessions.
In this post, we look at nine key principles of mindfulness practice.
In this post we look at ways you can make space for reflection and practise self-care; we also explore the benefits of doing so.
Based on our experiences as coach trainers, along with real-life experiences from coaches that we have trained, we’ll explore how you can unlearn, and then relearn, being directive in a coaching conversation.
Damion Wonfor and Monica Ross discuss the personal and professional benefits of attending a retreat.
In this blog post we look at self-compassion as an important way of building resilience, and share an audio exercise to help you practice it.
When we are lost in our negative thoughts, leaders’ ‘buttons’ often get pushed and they start to react – or over-react – before being consciously aware of it. In this post we discuss how attaining a habit of pausing during the day provides us with the opportunity to wake up from autopilot and develop a more conscious style of leadership.
This time of year and the season of winter symbolically provide us with an opportunity to take an important pause, a time for personal contemplation and reflection, a chance to go within and dwell in some silent introspection. In this post we share a useful guided exercise with you to help you reflect on where you’ve been and where you want to go.
In this post we define mindfulness, explore some common myths associated with it and give some practical tips on how to introduce mindfulness to your everyday life.
In this blog post, we discuss some key things to consider when setting up a formal mindfulness practice, including location, posture and habit formation.
In this article we discuss how you can snap out of automatic pilot, and embed a mindfulness practice in your daily life.
This blog post aims to enhance your current knowledge on presence in coaching by sharing some research on the topic. In addition, it aims to provide you with some development strategies to enhance your current coaching practice.