ICF Core Skills for Educators

This book, which is very close to being published, started as an idea in 2006, just as I was learning to be a coach, and was a member (Chapter Host) of ICF Gothenburg.

The idea was that coaching benefits teachers and students. I sought to explore that idea by examining the ICF Core Skills from a teacher's point of view.

I published the brief texts as pages on a website and invited my (tiny) network to read what I had written. About 20-25 people did so.

In an effort to attract more people I recorded an audio course closely based on the texts. It had little effect on the number of visitors to the website.

Later, I moved on to writing books. When I realised that my first book "A Coaching Approach to Education" was helping me to become known around the world, I wanted to write a second book based on the ICF website. I soon discovered that I had moved on, and was no longer 'new to coaching' as my audience would be. So I asked the Universe to "send me an experienced teacher / headteacher, who is new to coaching". And 3 days later, I received an e-mail from Andrea Robson. The rest, as they say, is history. Or it will soon will be.

Stages of development and production

1. Idea (coaching benefits teachers and students)
2. Website (a dozen short texts)
3. Website Audio Course (link)
4. Half a book
5. Real Stories from Andrea Robson
6. Book "Bringing coaching competencies into the classroom"

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