The Making of a Coach
The Making of a Coach
Podcast Description
The Making of a Coach takes you on the paths of succesful Coaches, Facilitators and People Developers. Learn how they turned their passion into profession.
Take inspiration for your own journey as a coach by listening in on deep conversations on how they became who they are, how they made coaching their business and the methods they use to help people grow.
Tobias Weghorn, co-founder of the global brand metaFox Coaching Tools, dives into coaching practice as well as pricing and positioning, taking a look behind the practice of successful coaches.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes of coaching methodologies, personal growth, and business development within the coaching sector. Specific episodes delve into topics like outdoor coaching experiences, leadership development, multicultural influences in coaching, and the use of personality tools such as MBTI, with examples including walk-and-talk coaching and unique pricing strategies.
The Impactful Coach is a coaching podcast for coaches, facilitators, and people developers who want to make their coaching sessions more impactful.
On the show, metaFox Co-founder Tobi Weghorn interviews experienced practitioners to unpack concrete coaching skills, practical methods or even hops into the client role for hands-on coaching demos. Learn coaching from real coaching conversations and deep dives into Mindset, Methods, Skills & Tools.
More on https://metaFox.eu/podcast
A coaching podcast with Ram Ramanathan and Tobias Weghorn exploring why “not knowing” can be a stronger coaching stance than problem-solving, especially when clients are stuck in stories and perceptions. In this somatic coaching demo, Ram guides Tobi through a short, practical process that blends a body scan meditation for coaching with the sensory energy awareness model to access what’s actually happening in the body. You’ll hear how simple breathwork, sensing in the trunk (throat to belly), and metaphor work can shift a client’s state without needing the full backstory. The episode also touches on clean language coaching, NLP-style anchoring, and how to bring chakra-based coaching concepts into sessions with very cognitive, science-minded leaders.
Key Learnings:
- Use a short somatic coaching demo flow to move clients from “fixing” into awareness: anchor a resourceful state, then scan for sensations in the trunk before asking any meaning-making questions.
- Apply the sensory energy awareness model by tracking sensation qualities (location, temperature, shape, movement) and letting them shift through attention and breath—before you go back to action steps.
- Borrow from clean language coaching: invite metaphor and imagery (or visual prompts) to help clients describe the felt sense precisely, while keeping you in “not knowing” and the client in self-discovery.
Resources:
- Ram Ramanathan’s Website: https://www.coacharya.com
- Ram Ramanathan’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramsramanathan/
- Coacharya (YouTube Channel): https://www.youtube.com/@coacharya
- Clean Language (David Grove): https://cleanlanguage.co.uk/
- Nonviolent Communication (Marshall Rosenberg): https://www.cnvc.org/
- Find your Coaching Tool: https://metaFox.eu
- Try the metaFox Strengths Discovery: https://strengths-discovery.com
- Connect with Tobi on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tobiasweghorn
Episode Chapters:
00:00 Coaching As “Not Knowing” Vs. Problem-Solving
01:00 Introduction: A Somatic Coaching Demo With Ram Ramanathan
04:10 Why Cognitive Coaching Can Miss The “Raw Data”
10:00 From “Is It True?” To “Is It Useful?” (Energy, Language, And Practice)
14:50 Body Scan Meditation For Coaching: Centering And Anchoring A Resourceful State
23:00 Sensing In The Body: Emptiness, Fog, Temperature, And Metaphor
27:00 Breathwork Shifts The Felt Sense (Observer Effect)
30:00 New Image, New State: Safety, Community, And Belonging
37:00 Chakra-Based Coaching And Left/Right Nostril Breathing
45:00 Bringing Somatic Work Into ICF-Style Coaching Without Needing The Story
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