Coaching Unbound Series

Coaching Unbound - A Provocation 

Beyond technique. Beyond structure. Coaching Unbound is a call to soften our attachment to what coaching ‘should’ be. This 5-Session Series invites you to reimagine the edges of the profession to appreciate the living, dynamic heart of coaching. 

Through bold inquiry, inspired discussion, storytelling and discovery, playful exploration, reflective dialogue, and shared wisdom, we’ll uncover how coaching mindsets support deeper connection, fairer conversations and agency across different domains of life. We’ll rethink what coaching can mean in today’s world.

Beyond the Profession

What is possible when you unbind yourself as a coach? Coaching qualities increasingly show up in unexpected contexts: parenting, leadership, community hubs, activism, education, healthcare, charities and diplomacy. The skills of listening, questioning, witnessing, holding space, evoking awareness, and facilitating decision-making and action have become essential for change-makers and collaborators, sometimes unbeknown yet highly impactful. 

Coaching Unbound investigates these intersections - what we can learn, and unlearn, from how coaching shows up in the everyday fabric of humankind, and how coaching principles might help build more intentional relationships in society.

Both Open and Anchored

This Series isn’t about discarding what grounds us. It’s about asking: what else might be true? 

• What new meaning could unfold if we question the assumptions beneath our practice?
• How do the Arts surface what words cannot?
• What does it mean to coach with ethical responsibility and creativity?

Perhaps vitality will surface when we dance outside of the worn lines. Coaching Unbound encourages a coaching ethos that is expansive and profoundly human.

Returning to the Essence

Across the 5 Sessions, we’ll touch on the ICF Core Competencies, and through distinct lenses offer them not as fixed structures but as elastic containers from which we can be fluid, natural and unbounded as coaches, in leadership, and with presence in complex systems - personal, organisational and ecological. We will rediscover what makes coaching what it is.

A Call to the Curious

Whether you’re simply curious about coaching, newly trained, or a mature practitioner, Coaching Unbound beckons you to see your work, and yourself, anew. It’s an opportunity to observe, gain fresh perspectives, greater flex, and a renewed audacity to bring into diverse landscapes.

Coaching Unbound - An Open Invitation

This Series is about noticing what constrains and what expands. The invitation is straightforward: to engage with coaching as responsive and evolving - it is not about testing the limits of boundaries for its own sake.

We welcome you to choose your stance on boundaries, shedding what confines, and cultivate what is both grounded and spacious. Join in, to cross thresholds of habit and certainty to meet yourself with a way of coaching that is alive and attuned to what is asked of us.

Kirsty Knowles - UK ICF Director of Professional Development 
Krisztina Wighardt - UK ICF Associate Board Member of Thought Leadership

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