Coaching Competency 4: Cultivates Trust and Safety

Trust and safety in coaching are neither requested nor given. They are built.

There are moments when we know whether we feel safe or not – and this is not because someone tells us so, but because we can feel it.

We feel that we are in a space where we can say something uncomfortable about ourselves without rushing to justify or defend it.

A space where we can be seen without being corrected or judged.

In coaching, this space does not happen by chance. It is intentionally created.