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Evidence-based methodologies, standards, and protocols used by expert coaches worldwide.
A 12-principle framework for transformative coaching from Nick Bolton at Animas Centre for Coaching. Philosophy-first, identity-oriented practice.
1 program · 2 challenges
Read →The coaching application of Steven Hayes's ACT: values clarification and willingness. Helps clients choose what they'll stand for and carry the discomfort of moving toward it. Coaching scope, not therapy.
6 challenges
Read →The constructive-developmental theory of vertical growth in adulthood. Kegan's orders of mind and Cook-Greuter's nine stages anchor most contemporary vertical leadership coaching.
2 programs · 5 challenges
Read →William Bridges' three-phase map of psychological transition (Endings, the Neutral Zone, New Beginnings) and why change fails when transition is skipped.
3 challenges
Read →Peter Hawkins' five-stage session framework (Contracting, Listening, Exploring, Action, Review) and what its bookends add that GROW leaves implicit.
1 challenge
Read →iPEC's family of performance coaching methodologies. Applies the Energy Leadership framework to leadership, wellbeing, and transitions.
2 programs · 3 challenges
Read →Inayatullah's four-layer method for X-raying any issue or vision to its depth structure: litany, systemic causes, worldview, myth/metaphor. Works at individual and societal scale.
1 challenge
Read →Gallup's 34-theme strengths assessment and the philosophy beneath it: develop dominant talents, manage weaknesses. With a clear-eyed look at the science.
3 challenges
Read →A relational, transformative coaching framework from CTI. Built on four Cornerstones, five Contexts, and three Principles, and on the founding claim that the client is already whole.
1 program · 3 challenges
Read →A leadership framework built on Above/Below the Line, the Four Ways of Leading, and the 15 Commitments. Co-created by Dethmer, Chapman, and Klemp; taught by The Conscious Leadership Group.
2 challenges
Read →Collins & Porras's two-part vision framework: a fixed Core Ideology (values + purpose) paired with an Envisioned Future built on a 10–30 year BHAG. Preserve the core, stimulate progress.
1 challenge
Read →The nine-type motivation model: what it maps, why coaches use it, and an unvarnished account of its esoteric origins and weak scientific standing.
3 challenges
Read →The world's most widely used coaching framework. Four stages (Goal, Reality, Options, Will) that turn open questions into self-directed action.
1 program · 4 challenges
Read →The Japanese concept of a life worth living, and how its famous four-circle Venn diagram (a 2014 Western creation) differs from the authentic, gentler original.
2 challenges
Read →A developmental diagnostic process that surfaces the hidden competing commitments preventing change. Developed by Kegan and Lahey at Harvard.
1 program · 5 challenges
Read →Ken Wilber's AQAL meta-framework: All Quadrants, All Levels, All Lines, All States, All Types. Nests individual interior, behaviour, culture, and systems in one map. The skeleton of vision-at-scale.
Read →Boyatzis's research-based model of sustainable change, anchored in the Ideal Self and a positive vision of who you want to become. The empirical backbone of vision as a coaching skill.
3 challenges
Read →A non-pathologising parts-based model created by Richard Schwartz. Increasingly used in coaching for identity, transition, leadership, and relational work.
3 programs · 5 challenges
Read →David Kolb's four-stage learning cycle: experience, reflection, conceptualization, experimentation. The engine of how coaching turns action into learning, and reflective practice.
Read →Maslow's hierarchy of needs: deficiency needs versus growth needs, and self-actualization as the drive to become all one can be. A humanistic root of coaching's belief in an innate growth drive, with a candid account of the contested pyramid.
4 challenges
Read →A nine-part model of personality. Treats the mind as a council of biological voices to be heard, integrated, and led.
7 challenges
Read →McKergow and Jackson's solution-focused session framework: Outcome, Scaling, Know-how, Affirm & Action, Review. Built to walk past the problem.
1 challenge
Read →A systems coaching framework that treats the relationship, not the individual, as the unit of intervention. Co-created by Fridjhon and Fuller; taught by CRR Global.
3 programs · 1 challenge
Read →Dream Coach Match's diagnostic for coaching practices: five sequential links, one binding constraint, and an honest account of its limits.
Read →Carl Rogers's person-centered approach: the three core conditions (congruence, unconditional positive regard, empathy) and the belief that the client is the expert. The root of modern coaching's non-directive stance.
1 challenge
Read →Brain-based model by David Rock. Five social domains (Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness) drive social threat or reward.
2 programs · 2 challenges
Read →Deci & Ryan's evidence-based theory of motivation: humans need autonomy, competence, and relatedness. The empirical backbone for why some visions sustain energy for years and others collapse.
5 challenges
Read →Albert Bandura's research on self-efficacy, the belief you can do the thing, and its four sources. The empirical foundation under confidence, goal pursuit, and behaviour change.
2 challenges
Read →Senge's discipline of building collective vision a team truly owns; commitment over compliance, powered by Fritz's creative tension between vision and current reality. The team-and-organisation rung of vision.
2 challenges
Read →Tony Robbins's model of six core drivers behind human behaviour, with an honest account of its origins and its evidence base.
1 program · 4 challenges
Read →Graves, Beck & Cowan's model of how human value systems develop in people and societies. Explains why people hold radically different visions, and why your stage bounds what you can conceive.
Read →Prochaska and DiClemente's model of how people move through readiness to change, from precontemplation to maintenance. The map beneath Motivational Interviewing.
3 challenges
Read →Moran & Lennington's execution system that redefines the year as 12 weeks: periodization that turns a long-range vision into a focused goal, weekly plan, and measured accountability rhythm.
2 challenges
Read →Joseph Campbell's monomyth: the universal story arc of departure, initiation, and return. The narrative map beneath transformation, transition, and identity coaching.
1 challenge
Read →W. Timothy Gallwey's Inner Game: Performance = potential minus interference, the two selves (Self 1 and Self 2), and non-judgmental awareness. The origin of modern coaching and the direct ancestor of the GROW model.
1 challenge
Read →Jack Bauer's integrative model of flourishing (happiness, love, wisdom, growth), built on a self-identity that steers life toward growth. The eudaimonic backbone beneath much vision work.
Read →Bill Sharpe's transformational futures framework: H1 present system, H3 emerging future, H2 transition zone; for holding present and transformed future at once. Scales from team to society.
2 challenges
Read →BJ Fogg's B = MAP model and the Tiny Habits method: why motivation is the least reliable lever, and how tiny, anchored, celebrated behaviors actually stick.
3 challenges
Read →Oettingen's evidence-based goal-pursuit strategy: Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan. It turns a wish into action by contrasting the desired future against the obstacle in the way.
5 challenges
Read →The canonical coaching life-audit: a circle of 8–10 life areas each rated for satisfaction, turning a vague sense of imbalance into a clear picture. Created by Paul J. Meyer in the 1960s.
6 challenges
Read →Malcolm Knowles's theory of how adults learn: self-directed, experience-rich, problem-centred, internally motivated. The foundation of coaching stance, program design, and coach education.
Read →Cooperrider and Srivastva's strengths-based approach to change: the 4-D Cycle of Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny. Inquire into what works, not what's broken.
1 challenge
Read →An evidence-based coaching methodology that adapts cognitive behavioural therapy for non-clinical use. Founded by Stephen Palmer, Michael Neenan, and Windy Dryden in London.
1 challenge
Read →Burnett & Evans's Stanford method for applying design thinking to your life: five mindsets, three Odyssey Plan futures, and prototyping your way forward instead of waiting for one right answer.
2 challenges
Read →Csikszentmihalyi's research on flow: the state of complete absorption in an activity. The challenge-skill balance and nine dimensions behind engagement and peak performance.
2 challenges
Read →Fritz Perls's here-and-now, awareness-based approach, the root of somatic, presence, and experiential coaching. Contact, the cycle of experience, unfinished business, and the empty chair.
1 challenge
Read →The Gottmans' research-based approach to couples: the Four Horsemen, bids and repair, and the Sound Relationship House, plus a clear-eyed look at the famous prediction claims.
1 challenge
Read →A 12-category life-design methodology built on the principle that clarity of vision in every domain of life is the prerequisite for living deliberately. Founded by Jon and Missy Butcher.
1 program · 2 challenges
Read →Viktor Frankl's meaning-centered approach, the root of all purpose and life-design coaching. The will to meaning, the freedom to choose one's attitude, and meaning found even in suffering.
Read →A clinical conversation method by Miller and Rollnick for evoking change talk. Used widely in coaching for health and behaviour change.
2 programs · 8 challenges
Read →Marshall Rosenberg's compassionate-communication model: Observations, Feelings, Needs, Requests. The root of conflict-resolution, relationship, and communication coaching.
1 challenge
Read →A philosophical-existential coaching methodology rooted in language, emotion, and the body. Founded by Flores, Olalla, and Echeverria; taught principally through Newfield Network.
1 program · 1 challenge
Read →The scientific study of human flourishing. Foundational research base for strengths-based, wellbeing, and happiness coaching.
3 programs · 9 challenges
Read →A future-oriented, evidence-based coaching methodology that builds solutions rather than analysing problems. Pioneered by de Shazer and Berg; adapted for coaching by Berg and Szabó.
1 program · 3 challenges
Read →An executive coaching methodology developed by Marshall Goldsmith. Behaviour change measured through structured stakeholder feedback over 12–18 months; signature pay-for-results contracting.
2 challenges
Read →Otto Scharmer's MIT methodology for letting a new future emerge: a U-shaped journey through co-sensing to presencing (letting go of the old, letting come the new) and back into action.
1 challenge
Read →Eric Berne's model of Parent, Adult, and Child ego states, the root of relationship, communication, and leadership coaching. Transactions, strokes, games, and life scripts.
2 challenges
Read →The conduct standard for EMCC-accredited coaches, mentors, and supervisors. The third-edition (2021) joint code that defines ethical practice across the European coaching field.
7 challenges
Read →The conduct standard adopted by the International Coaching Federation. The 2025 Code defines ethical practice across the entire ICF ecosystem.
Read →The eight skills the International Coaching Federation considers foundational to professional coaching. The field's de facto skill standard.
1 program · 7 challenges
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