When the Wind Whispers: How Intuition Guides Great Coaching

Coaching with Intuition is Like Feeling a Shift in the Wind

You know the moment. You’re in a coaching session, and suddenly, something shifts.

The words stop mattering so much. Logic takes a back seat.

You sense something—an opening, a pause, a flicker of emotion your client didn’t quite say out loud.

That’s your intuition stirring. Not loud. Not logical. Not linear.

More like… wind. Sometimes it arrives as a gentle breeze nudging you toward a question you hadn’t planned to ask. Sometimes it rushes in like a gust, blowing the session off your neatly mapped agenda—and straight into the real stuff.

The Co-Active Coaching model highlights intuition as one of five coaching contexts—a vital sense that emerges not from deduction, but from presence. Intuition isn’t about being right; it’s about being tuned in. It’s the art of noticing what’s just beneath the surface, of allowing insights to arise without grasping for them. When you coach from this place, transformation happens not through explanation, but through exploration.

The best coaches know how to feel that wind. Trust it. Move with it. Because in coaching, the most powerful moments rarely come from what’s said. They come from what’s sensed.

In this article, we’ll explore how to recognize those subtle shifts, how to use your intuition without sounding like a mystic with a crystal ball, and why the most transformative coaching happens when you learn to trust the signals you can’t see. 🌀

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