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Mentor coaching

I truly love my work as a coach. It feels like a calling – and I feel very lucky to have found my metier. I feel so passionate about what coaching offers the world, that I also love the work I do as a ‘mentor coach’ – supporting other coaches in deepening their coaching practice, confidence and mastery.

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Sometimes this happens in the context of meeting the requirements to maintain or advance International Coaching Federation (ICF) Credentials. I am an experienced mentor coach, and have worked with coaches maintaining their ICF ACC Credential, or moving from ACC to PCC level.

What is mentor coaching?

Mentor coaching is a process of exploration and learning for practising or developing coaches to enhance their coaching skills and confidence, through the support of an experienced mentor coach. The mentor coach should have 500+ hours of coaching experience, and appropriate professional coaching qualifications. The mentor coaching will often take place as part of the mentee meeting the requirements to gain/renew coaching credentials with the International Coach Federation. If so, the mentor coaching will usually focus on developing skills in relation to the ICF’s core competencies.

The mentor coaching process with me

In mentor coaching, I follow the core principles that apply in a conventional coaching relationship:

  • The coaching relationship is a co-designed alliance between me and you, working as equal partners. We will therefore agree between us the parameters for our work together.

  • You set the agenda, decide the content for exploration, identify goals and measure progress. I hold the process, checking in with you regularly throughout the process that it is working for you in meeting your goals and aspirations.

  • Any structures and supporting tools for our sessions can be agreed at the outset, and reviewed throughout the process. (In mentor coaching, you may wish initially to set a framework for focusing on different particular ICF core competencies in each session.)

 

So my primary role is to create the best conditions – through my presence, listening, and questions – for you to achieve your own insights and learning. Based on this facilitated learning, you will set yourself – with my support and witnessing – any actions for future implementation or experimentation.

 

Mentor coaching also explicitly recognises the different levels of coaching experience of the mentor coach and the client. As such, I have a secondary role: to support the growth and development of your coaching skills by sharing openly my own coaching knowledge and experience. However, this should never get in the way of you discovering and enhancing your own unique coaching expertise and approach. Therefore I am always transparent about when I feel that it would serve you best for me to fulfil this secondary role, and I will always ask your permission to do so.

 

My overall approach to mentor coaching aims to combine robustness and clear insight with warmth and sensitivity. This enables you to relax into the work, gain quick insights into yourself, and take courage to take risks in your coaching practice. I also use mindfulness-based approaches: working intuitively with what's alive for you in the moment – in your mind and body – helping you to access your deeper drives and values, and then to work creatively with these.

My coaching credentials and experience

I am a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF) – the leading worldwide professional coaching body. I have accumulated 2,000+ client coaching hours over 12 years of full-time coaching.

WHAT MY CLIENTS SAY

"Tim's expertise and how he seemed to live and breathe his  coaching made a profound impact on me."

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"Tim is extremely knowledgeable and operates in a very open, accessible and helpful manner. I would highly recommend his mentor coaching to those who wish to reflect and deepen their presence both in their coaching sessions and in life in general."

     

"I felt incredibly supported and 'well-held' in the experimental space. Thank you Tim!"

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