This is the last guest blog in this series about love in coaching, and Rishi Rongala takes us by the hand into a more spiritual contemplation on love. This is where my own explorations have taken me, and I rather envy Rishi’s clarity in articulating this, which I find so difficult to pin down in
For coaches
Guest Blog: Love is Acceptance. Love is a Catalyst.
I saw a wonderful New Year’s message on LinkedIn last week that I’ve adapted: Wishing for a year in which we, as a collective humanity, have the courage to act for love, justice, fairness and peace. With that in mind, we have two more guest posts about love in coaching and then a wrap-up post
Guest Post: The Essence of Coaching with Love
Something different this week… I’ve been asking my coaching connections to share their thoughts about love in coaching. You’ll have seen a number of blogs preceding this post on my website and shared also through my newsletter. Instead of the written word, this time we hear from Executive coach and coach supervisor Neel Arya. Neel
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: 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: Gestalt: A Homecoming Journey of Healing, Wholeness, Connection and 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 have invited those
Love in Coaching – Part Four
Finding Freedom to Express Love in Coaching In my previous posts, I’ve explored what love looks like in coaching and how it spans the spectrum from heartfelt compassion to challenging confronting. Now it’s time to address a question I posed earlier: “In what ways do you feel cramped in your display of love?” This question
Love in Coaching – Part Three
The Spectrum of Love Through to Tough Love Last time, we explored how love struggles to find its place in business language. Today, I’d like to examine how love actually manifests in coaching relationships, especially in the context of the question I posed at the end of the last post “Where are all the coaches
Love in Coaching Series – Part Two
Reclaiming Love’s Language in Business Last time, I ended with some questions for you about love in your coaching, and I promised to follow up with my answers. Not that mine are any more correct than yours; these are my answers and they may inform your views, but I hope you had the chance to
Love in Coaching Series – Part One
Bringing Love Out of the Shadows: A Coach’s Journey I come from a corporate background, where love was a bit of a dirty word. Or at least, it was side-stepped with more businessy wording, like the taglines of “every life has a story” or “truly human”. Even those seemed pretty revolutionary at the time. I’d
My Journey into Coaching
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
The noise… it bothers me
Ten years in business. And three and a bit more years ahead of me until my intended retirement date. Some people say I won’t do it, that I can’t do it. Can’t stop. I know I am a doer. So I understand that perspective. How can someone so driven simply step off and away? Maybe
The Significance of Ten
Ten is meant to be a symbol of perfection or completeness, according to Pythagorean philosophy. As I pass through my tenth year in business, I don’t really feel that perfection or completeness. You may know that I am more guided by 80/20 than by perfection. But completeness is a draw to me. Rounding things out,
Celebrating ten years in business
I cannot believe where the time has gone. I am so very proud of myself for sticking at this business-building thing through all of that time. It might look as though I have it all sussed out, but it’s not been plain sailing (and still isn’t). And it’s taken a lot of effort behind the
