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When I am coaching I like to take my clients backwards and then forwards to their future. I invite them to enter a virtual time machine: my coaching ‘Tardis’ if you like – and I first invite them to seize the controls and take it back 10 years. And then I ask them, ‘How would you have introduced yourself ten years ago? What are you doing? Where are you living?’ What do you want for yourself ten years on? How would you describe your life looking forwards 10 years?

Earlier this year, the world’s first ‘virtual divorce’ thrust an intriguing debate into the limelight when Amy Taylor ‘divorced’ husband David Pollard after she discovered him cavorting with a prostitute in virtual reality game Second Life. The couple spent so much time playing the game, that when she found him at the computer watching his 3D character having sex, she considered his online infidelity as real as if it had taken place in the bricks and mortar world.

Pam Lidford, The Coaching Academy trainer has been an integral part of the tutor team for a number of years, presenting Accelerator days as part of the Personal Performance Coaching Diploma, Youth Impact Coaching Diploma and the CPD for Coaches program. We’ve put her on the coaching hotseat to answer your questions:-

If you find people glazing over at networking events when you tell them “I’m a coach”, you haven’t found your coaching niche. When you find it, and you tell people what you do, their eyes will light up and they’ll say “That’s me! I need some of that!” or at least “I know someone else who needs some of that!”. And you’ll get work as a result.

Life Coach Jenifer Harper shares her thoughts on why, NOW, at the age of 70, she decided to take up the idea of becoming a Professional Coach…

As a sought after speaker and workshop facilitator, Mike Blissett has worked in the UK and Europe, and has also helped train thousands of new coaches in his position as trainer with The Coaching Academy.

Duncan Gee, The Coaching Academy trainer as part of the Youth Impact Coaching Diploma and creator of “The M.A.G.I.C Programme” shares his top 5 Coaching Questions.

We’re very excited to announce that Bev James, MD of The Coaching Academy – the world’s largest coaching organisation – and Founder and MD of the Entrepreneurs’ Business Academy is now a new regular columnist for Startuptv.co.uk, an innovative new platform to find the products and services that will make your business thrive.

Was there a time when you once said ‘one day I am going to ….…’ and then didn’t get round to do whatever it was you said you were going to? Maybe that day has now come; when we set ourselves goals we face an interesting dilemma: do we make the goal small that it [...]

I am now in the fortunate position to be employed F/T as a Personal Performance & Development Coach within Student Health at the University of Otago, New Zealand. To my knowledge, I am the first life/study/work coach to be employed as a coach within a New Zealand university.
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