The Protective Mind: Why Reflective Learning and the Coach’s Mindset Matter Now
by Dr Ben Koh, Founder of Coach Masters Academy I Master Certified Coach I Global Top 50 Coaches Expert in transformational coaching psychology and reflective development. Abstract: This article examines a coaching moment in which a client recognised the source...
The Fallacy of Incompleteness: Understanding the Limits of Knowing
Introductory Note This essay extends the reflection from the blog – The Wisdom of NOT Knowing Yet.Where that piece invited a personal pause — to notice how certainty forms in daily life and leadership — this essay turns toward the...
When Change Doesn’t Move: What’s Really Happening Beneath the Surface
You’ve likely seen this moment. The issue is clear. The options are on the table. And yet — there’s no movement. It’s not confusion. It’s not resistance. It’s something quieter: a kind of hesitation that doesn’t show up in logic,...
Coaching Beyond Solution-Creating Or Problem-Solving
Most coaching begins with a question that matters: What problem are you trying to solve? And rightly so. Coaching must help people navigate challenges, make choices, and move forward with clarity. The ability to think through a problem — to...
The Future Coach: Shaping Change in an Unfinished World
If You’re Still Coaching for Performance, You’re Behind the Curve. Coaching is often understood as the act of asking questions to help others find their solutions. While this holds a partial truth, it underrepresents the professional discipline coaching is becoming...
When Helping Isn’t Enough: How Coaches Think Differently
Most people think coaching is about helping — offering guidance, giving clarity, or solving what seems unclear. Yet the real power of coaching begins where helping ends. It’s not about doing for others, but about thinking with them. When we...
Mastering Mindfulness in Coaching
As a lifetime Social Worker, who also experienced living in a contemplative convent for over two years, I was intrigued by how I could bring this two world together. So I dedicated my career to training as a Certified Coach...
Where Awareness Begins: Coaching as the Practice of Transformation
Every moment of change begins in awareness.Before any new action, there is a subtle shift — often quiet and often unseen — where a person begins to notice how they have been thinking, interpreting, or relating to their experience. This...
The Discipline of Transformational Coaching: Trusting Awareness, Curiosity, and Bold Inquiry
As the field of professional coaching continues to grow, so do the interpretations of what coaching is meant to achieve. Many practitioners begin their journey believing coaching is about helping others solve problems or make better decisions. Yet those who...
Why Proper Accredition is Important for Professional Coaching?
Twelve years ago, the coaching profession was new. When I introduce myself as a coach people would usually ask, ‘for what sport?’ Now, profession coaching is an emerging career and people looking for a coach are far more likely to...