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
Coaching
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
Exploring Coachability Review
Cultivating Coachability is available to purchase NOW (scroll down for all of the locations where you can pick up your copy). I’ve had a busy two weeks with three book launches and publication day. It already has its first 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 reviews from people who read it pre-editing. And on publication day, I put in an
The Big Day is coming: October 28th is publication day!
Due to some last-minute technical issues with the printers, the publication date for “Cultivating Coachability: How to leverage coaching readiness so thinkers can optimise value” has been moved to October 28th. But don’t let that dampen your enthusiasm – it’s just a little more time to build anticipation! If you haven’t already pre-ordered, now’s the
Personal Development Part Seven: Writing
Do you write? It might be jottings or articles or blogs or LinkedIn posts or books. Whatever it may be, how do you feel about it supporting your personal development, perhaps alongside your professional development? I’ve never been much of a diary writer except when I went travelling. I haven’t journaled much until recently either.
Personal Development Part Two: Therapy
“Learning can sometimes feel illusive, but comes in little epiphanies. Is that an oxymoron I wonder?” This is a note I made for myself after a Gestalt therapy session. I’m feeling something profound shifting in me, but I’m not trying to change. The little epiphanies are not actions. They are realisations. About who I am
Why am I writing this book?
This post is an extract from my Autumn release book about Coachability (title still TBD). It will give you a hint of what awaits you! I’m driven to innovate, to think afresh, to be a bit edgy and provocative. You might experience that provocation as you read this book. At the same time, I have
My purpose as a master coach, master mentor coach, coach supervisor and human
This post is an extract from my Autumn release book about Coachability (title still TBD). It will give you a hint of what awaits you! I’m here to make (organisational) life more human, one thinker or team at a time. I want to contribute to a world that fights less and loves more. You may
Intentional Learning
How intentional are you about how you learn? We can learn from the everyday of course – if we put our minds to it. Learning isn’t restricted to a classroom (face-to-face or virtual). You may have come across the 70-20-10 model of learning (Jos Arets, Charles Jennings, Vivian Heijnen), a special mix of 70% learning
My Coaching Journey
I am often asked about my journey into coaching. To save me repeating myself, but also to give myself a bit of reflective space to think about it, I thought I might capture that journey here for you. Maybe you are interested, maybe not. Maybe there is something for you to learn from this, maybe
Coaching in Education: Unlocking the Potential and the Power of Learning
May I introduce you to Leonie Hurrell, who works as a coach in the education sector. You’ll notice how similar the coaching issues are that arise in this industry; some of the systemic issues around lack of resources, lack of time etc are also similar to other industries. This highlights how important it is to
Supporting Midlife Women in the Public Sector
I’d like to introduce you today to Sarah Clein and her blog post that outlines her experience of working with mid-career women in the public sector. This is one of our series on coaching in different industries. I hope you are enjoying the different lenses through which my guest bloggers are seeing the power of
