Episode 34

Ep 34: How Reflective Practice Improves Coaching Presence, Supervision and Client Impact

Published on: 11th June, 2025

What does it really mean to engage in reflective practice as a coach and why does it matter at every stage of your coaching journey? In this episode of The Coaching Catalysts Podcast, hosts Rebecca Daniel and Sarah Bramall explore the art of reflection, sharing honest insights from their own experiences and exploring how reflective practice goes beyond technical skills to include our responses, patterns, and growth as professionals and human beings.

Don’t miss the practical tips shared in this episode to help you elevate your coaching through intentional, holistic reflection.

Here are the Highlights:

00:00 Introduction

04:06 Honest reflection is crucial for effective coaching

08:29 Reflecting on the need to trust listening skills and not capture everything during client sessions

10:54 Feedback sensitivity can affect coaching presence.

15:39 Celebrating growth through reflection

16:51 Reflective practice is crucial for development.

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The Coaching Catalysts

Welcome to The Coaching Catalysts Podcast, the go-to place for coaches and professionals to elevate your coaching practice. Whether you’re just starting out as a coach, an experienced coach looking to deepen your skills, or you’re creating coaching cultures within your organisation - we've got you covered.

Co-hosts Sarah Bramall and Rebecca Daniel are highly experienced Accredited Coaches with thousands of hours of coaching experience, Coach Trainers for leading organisations and Coach Supervisors, supporting coaches via their supervision and coach development service and community.

As former teachers and leaders, with a combined thirty years’ experience in education, Sarah and Rebecca are uniquely positioned to support coaches in professional development and ethical practice, in a fast emerging industry.

With a wealth of experience, Sarah specialises in Leadership and Executive Coaching, Career coaching, confidence and Imposter Syndrome, and effective communication.

With a broad range of expertise, Rebecca’s coaching specialisms encompass leadership, neurodiversity, DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), mindset, resilience, and communication.

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Website: https://www.thecoachingcatalysts.com

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Sarah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahbramallcoaching/
Rebecca: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielrebecca/

FREE Supervision Experience for Coaches: Listening Partnerships, register here: https://bit.ly/supervisionexperience

Find out more about our supervision service here: http://bit.ly/coaching-collective

For ICF mentoring see here: https://bit.ly/catalystsmentorcoaching

To book a call: https://tidycal.com/coachingcatalysts/explorationcall

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Rebecca Daniel

‘The Coaching Catalysts’ was founded by Sarah Bramall and Rebecca Daniel. As Qualified Coaches, accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and trainers for lead coach training organisations, Sarah and Rebecca are highly qualified and experienced coaches, coach supervisors and trainers.

With a combined thirty years’ teaching and leadership experience in the education sector, they create change through transformational coaching, supervision and training.

Sarah and Rebecca’s aligned passion for impact enables them to work with coaches and professionals to support them to excel personally and professionally, while developing their mindset and prioritising wellbeing in order to feel fulfilled in all aspects of their lives.