Strengths in Action: Evoking Awareness of Client Strengths and Resources

Many coaching conversations explore challenges, obstacles, and goals. Of course, clients may also benefit from exploring their capabilities, qualities, experiences, and resources that have supported them throughout their lives and work.

In this interactive face-to-face session, we will explore coaching approaches that invite clients to reflect on their experiences, recognise patterns in their successes, and deepen their awareness of the strengths and resources available to them. Through a series of experiential activities, participants will practise strengths spotting, explore the stories that reveal strengths in action, and consider how coaching can support clients to uncover insights that may not yet be fully visible to them.

Designed for professional coaches, this session provides opportunities for reflection, coaching practice, and discussion. Participants will strengthen their capability in the ICF Core Competencies of Cultivates Trust and Safety, Listens Actively, Evokes Awareness, and Facilitates Client Growth by exploring how strengths may emerge through observation, inquiry, reflection, and client-led discovery.

Key Takeaways

• Explore practical approaches for noticing and reflecting on strengths that emerge within coaching conversations.

• Practise coaching techniques that invite clients to discover evidence of their capabilities, resources, and successful patterns through their own stories and experiences.

• Deepen understanding of how strengths awareness can support client learning, confidence, choice, and growth when aligned with the client's agenda.

• Reflect on how coaches can maintain a client-centred, non-directive stance while supporting exploration of strengths and capabilities.

About Brendon Le Lievre:

Brendon Le Lievre, ICF PCC, is an author, coach, facilitator, and former President of the ICF ACT Branch (2018–2020). With more than 10 years of experience in leadership development, he is passionate about helping coaches and leaders cultivate deeper presence, stronger relationships, and greater confidence in their practice.

Holding a Graduate Diploma in Organisational Coaching and Leadership and a Diploma of Coaching Supervision, Brendon brings both academic rigour and creativity to his work. His use of improvisational theatre techniques invites participants to step beyond familiar patterns, connect more authentically with others, and discover new possibilities for learning and growth.

A generous contributor to the coaching community, Brendon is known for creating engaging, safe, and highly interactive learning experiences. He is the author of The APS Recruitment Game who firmly believes that every great learning session can be enhanced by a well-timed Dad joke.