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 Post: Love as a Force of Nature in Coaching
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
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: 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: 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 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
Making time for career conversations
Back in my corporate employee experience days, we carried out some research which showed that people prefer to talk to their friends and peers about their career, rather than speaking with their manager. Given that this should be a role that line managers fulfil, we wanted to understand what stopped people from talking with them. What do
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
Coaching and Innovative Thinking in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Today I’d like to introduce Alun Bedding, who has worked in pharma for many years, now as a coach. His post forms part of our series on the systemic impact of coaching across industries. When I started in the Pharmaceutical Industry over 30 years ago, I had no idea what coaching was. It was attached
Coaching in Healthcare has a Positive Impact
This is the second post in a series about the systemic impact of coaching in different industries. This week, I’d like to welcome Helen O’Grady, outlining coaching in healthcare. I was touched as I read it, considering the huge difficulties faced by our healthcare professionals. Before I became a coach, I was a paediatric nurse for 15
