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
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.
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
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
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
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
Guest Blog: The Love in Me is the Love in You: Coaching as a Practice 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
Guest Blog: Love and Contracting in Coaching: Creating the Container for Discovery
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
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
Guest Blog: As a coach, it’s all about you
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 have invited those
Love in Coaching – Part Eight
Love Doesn’t Run Out The word “uninhibited” keeps coming up for me in therapy. We were talking about how I show up in my marriage when my therapist asked about being more uninhibited in the kindness that I offer. That question connected with something deeply buried inside of me. I’d already grown so much more
Love in Coaching – Part Seven
Being Authentic in How We Present Ourselves, with Love An aspect I’ve been contemplating lately is whether to explicitly include love in my coaching biography and marketing materials. Not as a niche, like a love coach or relationship coach might do, but as a way of being. There’s something powerfully authentic about stating upfront that
Love in Coaching – Part Six
Love’s Role in Psychological Safety The concept of psychological safety isn’t new—Amy Edmondson at Harvard has been researching it for decades in organisational contexts. And my new friend and colleague Will Parks has just published a book called Graceful Leadership, which has a whole chapter about psychological safety that is worth reading. Both Will and
Love in Coaching – Part Five B
Ethics as a Container for Love in Coaching In my previous post, I explored how supervision can serve as a loving container for coaching practice. Now I’d like to examine another professional structure that profoundly influences our work: ethics. Like supervision, ethical frameworks can either constrain or enable love’s expression, depending on how we approach
Love in Coaching – Part Five A
The Loving Container of Supervision In previous posts, I’ve explored what love looks like in coaching and the constraints that can limit its expression. Now I’d like to turn to two professional structures that profoundly influence our coaching practice: supervision and ethics. These structures can either constrain or enable love’s expression, depending on how we
