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Staying Sharp, Safe and Sane: A Monthly Blog for Coaches – October 2026

Welcome to the eighth edition of this monthly blog, built around the framework from Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide: mentor coaching keeps us sharp; supervision keeps us safe and sane. Each month, I share reflections from my mentor coaching and supervision work, organised around those three themes. If you missed the first edition and want

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Staying Sharp, Safe and Sane: A Monthly Blog for Coaches – September 2026

Welcome to the seventh edition of this monthly blog, built around the framework from Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide: mentor coaching keeps us sharp; supervision keeps us safe and sane. Each month, I share reflections from my mentor coaching and supervision work, organised around those three themes. If you missed the first edition and want

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Staying Sharp, Safe and Sane: A Monthly Blog for Coaches – August 2026

Welcome to the sixth edition of this monthly blog, built around the framework from Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide: mentor coaching keeps us sharp; supervision keeps us safe and sane. Each month, I share reflections from my mentor coaching and supervision work, organised around those three themes. If you missed the first edition and want

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Staying Sharp, Safe and Sane: A Monthly Blog for Coaches – July 2026

Welcome to the fifth edition of this monthly blog, built around the framework from Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide: mentor coaching keeps us sharp; supervision keeps us safe and sane. Each month, I share reflections from my mentor coaching and supervision work, organised around those three themes. If you missed the first edition and want

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Staying Sharp, Safe and Sane: A Monthly Blog for Coaches – June 2026

Welcome to the fourth edition of this monthly blog, built around the framework from Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide: mentor coaching keeps us sharp; supervision keeps us safe and sane. Each month, I share reflections from my mentor coaching and supervision work, organised around those three themes. If you missed the first edition and want

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Staying Sharp, Safe and Sane: A Monthly Blog for Coaches – May 2026

Welcome to the third edition of this monthly blog, built around the framework from Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide: mentor coaching keeps us sharp; supervision keeps us safe and sane. Each month I share reflections from my mentor coaching and supervision work, organised around those three themes. If you missed the first edition and want

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Staying Sharp, Safe and Sane: A Monthly Blog for Coaches – April 2026

Welcome to the second edition of this monthly blog, built around the framework from Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide: mentor coaching keeps us sharp; supervision keeps us safe and sane. Each month I share reflections from my mentor coaching and supervision work, organised around those three themes. If you missed the first edition and want

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Staying Sharp, Safe and Sane: A New Monthly Blog for Coaches

Something new is starting here, and I want to explain what it is before diving in. For a while now, I have been thinking about the best way to share what comes up in my mentor coaching and supervision work. A lot of it ends up on LinkedIn, but things get missed there, and the

Love over Fear

Love over Fear

What an extraordinary series about love in coaching this has been.  I’d like to thank all my guests for their best thinking.  It’s certainly been shaping my practice.  How about yours? It’s also helped me to midwife my next book, working title Love as a Revolutionary Coaching Practice, which will be out in the Autumn. 

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Guest Blog: Love isn’t always soft: What it means to coach men with heart

Blakey and Day talk of the loving boot.  That’s what Craig White talks about here in this next post from my wonderful guest bloggers about love in coaching. It’s love that is “fierce and clear and grounded”.  I’m so enjoying reading how others express love in their coaching.  It feels useful for us all to

Amy Fox Guest Blog

Guest Blog: The Coach’s Inner Work as Preparation for More Loving Coaching

In our current context of a Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear and Incomprehensible world order, maybe, just maybe, love is the antidote.  I choose to believe that anyway.  And I choose to bring love to the fore in my coaching. I want to build momentum through this beautifully loving community, so I have invited those I have

Fran Fisher Guest Blog

Guest Blog: BEING the Space for My Client’s Greatness

Love is important to me, as you know by now if you’ve been following this blog series!  And it appears that I am not the only one who is sharing their love of love out loud and into this coaching space.  I want to build momentum through this beautifully loving community, so I have invited

Christopher Miller Guest Blog

Guest Blog: The Language of Love

Love is important to me, as you know by now if you’ve been following this blog series!  And it appears that I am not the only one who is sharing their love of love out loud and into this coaching space.  I want to build momentum through this beautifully loving community, so I have invited

Christi Byerly Guest Blog

Guest Blog: Co-creating a Space of Love and Belonging in a Community

Love is important to me, as you know by now if you’ve been following this blog series!  And it appears that I am not the only one who is sharing their love of love out loud and into this coaching space.  I want to build momentum through this beautifully loving community, so I have invited

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