How did I get into Positive Psychology and Coaching? The ever curious Melanie Dijkstra sat me down to hear my story and you can listen to it here: https://soundcloud.com/user-418469924/podcast-9-yannick-jacob I give you a personal insight into my journey and why I do the things I do.
I’m a little behind. Though I feel light years ahead of time. I had’t quite anticipated how seismic an event this wedding would be. I knew it was probably gonna be the most excited and happy I’d been in my life, but witnessing so many dimensions of awesome, so many people who didn’t know each … Read more
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]My first full length international publication, An Introduction to Existential Coaching: How Philosophy Can Help Your Clients Live with Greater Awareness, Courage and Ownership, has now been published by Routledge and is available on Amazon. Compared to previous versions of this book is has doubled in size and grown considerably with regards to resources, tools, … Read more
Time flies like an arrow (fun fact: this sentence actually has 11 possible syntactic meanings and having it pop up in my mind just now was a fantastic opportunity to refresh this questionably useful piece of information. And having gone on this detour before even starting to write the first Nugget also brought one of my all time … Read more
Coaching – It’s been taking the world of personal and professional development by storm and has become one of the fastest growing industries in the world with many coaches making six figures and many more struggling to enrol clients and eager to sharpen their skill set. In “Talking about Coaching”, I’m doing exactly what it … Read more
Coaching – It’s been taking the world of personal and professional development by storm and has become one of the fastest growing industries in the world with many coaches making six figures and many more struggling to enrol clients and eager to sharpen their skill set. In “Talking about Coaching”, I’m doing exactly what it … Read more
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What matters most to people? How can we be happy? What’s the meaning of life? How can we find answers to the big questions in life? In this guest lecture to students of the post-graduate certificate in coaching at Birkbeck University, London, I explain how the science of positive psychology and existential philosophy can work … Read more
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Over the years I’ve heard hundreds of people ask: “Are coaches crossing the line?” Students try to figure out how far they can take this coaching thing and clients want to delve deeper and deeper into their personal growth and development, often beyond traditional boundaries of coaching. But maybe before we ask whether coaches are … Read more
January – The month of new year’s resolutions, good intentions, re-orientation, realizing that perhaps what you thought you wanted wasn’t important enough to put the work in and generally a high time for coaches. Here are a few nuggets, short bursts of what’s been on my mind this month and what I’ve been working on. … Read more
It’s all started because I liked the ring of it, how it sounds. Cool Intentions. Possibly influenced by my youth and the similar sounding movie, but no relation. I love having meaningful conversations. And I like to get to know people at a deep level, find out what drives them, why they do the things … Read more
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