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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

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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 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

Matt Wexler Guest Blog

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

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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

Helena Clayton Guest Blog

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

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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

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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

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