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
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
