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The One Thing that changes everything

May 31, 2018 | holding space

In Soul-based Coaching, we work from the knowing that it is not up to us to change, heal or fix anything for our clients. It sounds good ~ especially the way it honours our clients’ sovereignty and autonomy. The way we trust their ableness, their power. The way we...

How perfect do you need to be as a coach?

May 9, 2018 | Coaching topics, holding space

When you think about maybe becoming a coach one day, do you hold back because coaches.. Should then always know what to do. Should know how to help their clients. Should know what is best for them. Should have their own life cleaned up. They should have: the perfect...

The Magic of Holding Space, in the words of Jeff Foster

Apr 26, 2018 | holding space

HEAVEN IS A LOVING FRIEND To be seen. To be met. To be held in a non-judgmental, warm and alive empathic Field of Understanding. To be heard. To be understood. By another or by yourself. This is Heaven. Heaven is not another ‘place’, but an alive and...

How you call in the sacredness in your work

Apr 6, 2018 | Coaching topics, holding space, Metaphor Magic

I am reminded again today of the sacred layers that we touch in this work. In a soul-based coaching session, we easily go deep. Not deep in analysis (never) or emotion (sometimes), but deep in the energetic layer of where meaning is created. The layer where old stuff...

Honour your longing

Mar 19, 2018 | Empowering, holding space

Dear you, Do you listen to the longing in your heart? Do you listen to what you would really like to have happen? It’s easy to let it be drowned by all the other voices talking inside you. ´No, it’s just not practical´ ´It’s not really that important´ ´It’s too ‘out...

You may stop now

Feb 23, 2018 | holding space

A short and important message: It is time to be gentle. Soft. To cherish yourself, exactly as you are. You spend so much energy working against yourself, against what is present in you. (We sometimes mistake this for what we are supposed to do in life.) What if you...