The New ICF Competencies: #5 Maintains Presence

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If you struggle with being present during coaching sessions, then tap into a coaching style that is open, flexible, grounded, and confident. You really can stay focused and remain fully conscious with your clients during each session, and today, we’ll show you how. Not only will you benefit from maintaining presence throughout coaching sessions, but also your clients will reap great rewards from what you sow.

Lean in and learn:

• How you can be fully present and tuned into your client’s agenda so you can hold the coaching process while your client determines his or her progress.
• In/outs of creating and allowing space for comfortable silence so you and your client can hear what’s not being said as well as important nuggets of truth crucial to the coaching conversation.
• The benefits of curiosity, stability, and security that come when the coach manages his/her emotions while remaining focused and observant with empathy and responsiveness.

About Pamela Mertz

Pamela Mertz, CPLC, ACC is the President and Founder of BluePrint Life Coaching, LLC. She is a Leadership Life Coach, trained at PCCI and serves on faculty.  She is also IEHSS Team Coach, certified in Quality Improvement Coach for healthcare, and a certified Strengths Finders Coach.  Her passion to see people living in the abundant “zoe” life, that Jesus came to bring us, led her to volunteer and now serve on staff at Promised Land Living. She has also served in women’s ministry leadership for over 20 years and is a licensed pastor in Minnesota. She does inner healing prayer ministry with her husband. She has 3 adult sons and lives in St. Michael, MN with her husband, Lou.

Her leadership in for profit and nonprofit sectors has brought her much experience and national networking.

Pamela is an active member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and Christian Coaching Network (CCNI) and sits on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota/Dakotas CFF Board as well as Promised Land Living, a nonprofit, national ministry.

She has coached CEOs, entrepreneurs, teams, and many groups over the 7 years she has been coaching. Prior to coaching she had a 30+ year career in technology industry, with her own company.

Writing is a passion of Pam’s and she has a workbook that will soon be available.  It is The Truth About Church Wounds. She is also working on a book that will be out in 2021 as well, a detailed journey of intimacy with the Father.

Learn more about Pamela at www.BluePrintLife.net.