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Meet Career Coach Alumni, Sarah Cottrell
The Academies is pleased to introduce you to an alumnus of our neuroscience-based coaching courses, Sarah Cottrell. Sarah is founder of Former Lawyer LLC. She earned her ICF ACC Credential as part of our Level 1 ACC Career Pathways program, where she completed the...
Interconnection: Grounding the ICF Competencies in Neuroscience, Part 1
Take a Deep Dive Into Neuroscience-Based Coaching Deepen your knowledge and understanding of the relationship between neuroscience and coaching in this article written by Susan Britton, MCC, and Jessica Burdett, BSc, PCC, and published in, and reproduced with...
Mastering ICF Performance Evaluations and Conquering Self-Doubt
Welcome back to our three-part Encourage Your Brain series highlighting my recent MCC (Master Certified Coach) credentialing journey. Today, we’re concluding this series by exploring the Performance Evaluation portion of the ICF Credentialing Exam. Before we jump in,...
Conquering the ICF Credentialing Exam: Navigating Setbacks
Welcome back to our three-part Encourage Your Brain series highlighting my recent MCC credentialing journey. In the first segment, I talked about earning my MCC (Master Certified Coach) Credential from the International Coaching Federation (ICF). I alluded to a couple...
Achieving an ICF Milestone: Susan’s Journey to Becoming an MCC
Welcome back to our corner of the coaching world! My brain is encouraged by the latest spark in my career as I proudly announce that I have earned my Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential with the International Coaching Federation (ICF)! The journey to this summit...
The Neuroscience Behind Our New Year’s Resolutions
It's that time of year again! The calendar is turning to a new year and, like clockwork, the whole of human consciousness seems to be attuned to where we are in the timeline of our lives. With that attunement, we often consider New Year's Resolutions. We resolve to DO...
The Neuroscience Behind the What and How of Psychological Safety
Today we're talking about psychological safety. There's been a lot of discussion around this topic in recent years — certainly in coaching — because it's one of the ICF Core Competencies. But in addition, it's also made its way into many corporate and organizational...
The Neuroscience of Attention and Focus in Coaching
Today we're talking about the neuroscience of attention and focus, where our attention goes, and our energy flows. Joe Dispenza, the author of Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself has a beautiful phrase: “Where you place your attention is where you place your energy.”...
The Power of Predictions: How the Brain Anticipates Change
The human brain is a remarkable prediction machine. It is constantly assessing the probability of future events, making anticipated, educated guesses, and sometimes, not so educated guesses, to prepare us for what's to come. When it comes to setting and achieving...
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