Category: For Coaches
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My First Year as an ICF Singapore PD Ambassador
In this post, I look back on my first year as an ICF Singapore Professional Development Ambassador. Through coordinating professional development workshops and working alongside experienced coaches, I gained valuable insights into leadership, learning design, and community stewardship within the coaching profession.
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Coaching the Open Wounds
At the heart of it all, coaching clients with open wounds is not about fixing them. Rather, it is about faithfully walking alongside them. It’s about creating a space where the hurting feel seen, not scrutinised; heard, not hurried; held, not handled.
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Learning Coaching from the Psalms: Psalm 41
Psalms is a book packed with personal feelings and emotions from a psalmist. Most of them are tied to other biblical stories in other parts of the Old Testament, but the Psalms provide a unique insight into the psalmist’s heart. Reading the Psalms is like piercing into the heart of a coaching client who is…
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Coaching Through Hurt
Coaching people who are hurt is tricky. When someone opens up about their pain, our instinct is often to share something from our own lives. “I’ve been there too,” we say. We try to connect through our wounds. But as well-meaning as this might be, it’s not always the most helpful thing. In fact, if…
Sim Chen Xing 