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I believe in putting your thoughts, questions and experiences out there. You never know what these ripples may turn into or who you might connect with as a result.

You can lead a horse… wait, where’s the water?

“You can lead a horse to the water, but you can’t make it drink”, as they say since the year 1175. But in order to lead one to the water,

The power of incremental learning

Can you do a backflip? Have you ever tried? Too risky? Might get hurt? Not gonna try? Yeah I get it. It took me ages to find the courage to

Psychodynamic Coaching with Julia Rogers (Lab Report #37)

Yannick’s Coaching Lab features guest coaches from a broad variety of approaches, who showcase how they work as part of a live 45min coaching session, followed by reflections and Q&A with

The end of life as we know it

Existentialists have a reputation to love talking about death. And in a way that’s true, in that “endings” matter greatly. Our relationship with time, temporality, endings and, yes, death, are

Extraordinary expectations – extraordinary results?

I’m still drawing from my recent Coaching Lab session with Siawash. One question he asked me at the very start of the session was: “What would

Break through?

Coaches often talk about “breakthroughs”. I remember watching the Tony Robbins docuadvertmentary on Netflix a few years back, amazed and somewhat concerned about how everyone in it was talking about

High Performance Business Coaching with Siawash Zahmat (Lab Report #36)

Yannick’s Coaching Lab features guest coaches from a broad variety of approaches, who showcase how they work as part of a live 45min coaching session, followed by reflections and Q&A

How to partner with an AI as a coach

Artificial intelligence will be an inevitable part of our work and life. Following up from my recent Nugget on ChatGPT, I wanted to share a few promising ways in which coaches may

Should/can coaches stay neutral?

Have you ever heard the voice of your inner activist? The part that tells you that “we really need to fucking do something about this!”? In the face of the

Everything we’ve been taught was a lie?

In 1969, a healthy 39-year-old man pretended to hear voices and got himself admitted to a closed psychiatric ward in a US hospital. Subsequently he acts normal but struggles to

ChatGPT: Threat or ally?

Advances in Artificial Intelligence are going to cause the next major paradigm shift. A bit like the Internet changed everything, but on a much larger impact scale, and much faster!

Jungian Coaching with Daniel Lev Shkolnik (Lab Report #35)

Yannick’s Coaching Lab #35 — Daniel Lev ShkolnikLab Report by Natalie Fraser Summary Daniel is an old friend of Yannick’s, who has previously written the reports for Yannick’s Coaching Labs. He