Our new DEEP IN DIALOGUE Blog series launches with Edna Murdoch talking to Elaine Patterson and Jo Birch to mark the launch of CSA’s International Centre for Reflective Practice. Read on to find out what they said: 2016.06.07 Deep in Dialogue The Edna Murdoch Interviews _ With Elaine Patterson & Jo Birch
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Building the Internal Supervisor
What is the Internal Supervisor? The term is used to describe perspectives and skills that are available to a capable practitioner as they work with clients. In essence, the practitioner will be tuned to the entire range of their body/mind information during each coaching moment; they can then respond to what they ‘pick up’ internally. […]
FACING UP TO SHAME
Zoe Cohen Executive Coach, Team and Board Coach, and Coach Supervisor We have all felt shame at some point. It is integral to our learning, yet it can block it too. Zoe Cohen considers shame within coaching and supervision and why it matters so much Shame is a universally experienced human emotion and therefore, by […]
Working globally in organisations as a leadership supervisor
Jackie Arnold COACH4EXECUTIVES As many of you may be aware I use clean language methodology in my supervision sessions. I also impart some of the questions to the leaders I supervise as they usually find this very helpful when working with their own teams. A Clean Supervision Case Study Recently as part of my supervisor […]
Bare Listening
I’ve been thinking (yet again) about listening, catalysed by two experiences: resisting the four levels of listening of Otto Scharmer’s Theory U; and being drawn towards the premise of listening to connect, proposed in Judith Glaser’s Conversational Intelligence. As I pondered the roots of my aversion to one idea, and my attraction to the other, […]
Understanding what we mean by ‘WHO you are is HOW you COACH, SUPERVISE or WORK’
by Edna Murdoch and Elaine Patterson Abstract Coaching supervision enables coaches and people professionals to creatively reflect on WHO and HOW they are being in each moment and to become intelligent about the potential impact of ‘self’ in every coaching, chemistry, contracting, business or leadership conversation which they hold. As coaches and people professionals, […]
Reflect to Create
The Gateway to New Possibilities and New Worlds The Business Case for Reflection from Findings from Original Research Elaine Patterson Introduction The “Reflect to Create” campaign aims to bring reflection out of the closet; and to make reflection and reflective practice the key to leading, working and practicing with clarity, courage, compassion and wisdom. The […]
Introducing the “Tree of Executive Coaching” By Elaine Patterson
Introducing the “Tree of Executive Coaching” ..An Organic Framework For Enabling Inspired Coaching Conversations… by Elaine Patterson I qualified as an Executive Coach with The OCM in 2006, went on to qualifiy as a Coach Supervisor with the Coaching Supervision Academy in 2009, and became accredited as an EMCC Master Practitioner in 2010. But my […]
You are..FILL IN THE BLANK!
Your are …………Fill in the Blank I so clearly remember one of my very early coaching sessions, and the lasting lesson I learned by getting it wrong. My coachee and I were reviewing the results of his 360-degree feedback report. One of the positive messages in the data was around his communication. I asked him […]
The Coach and the Expert
The Coach and The Expert Dr. Barrett McBride “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.” Rumi I have a contingent of coach-clients who have played—or are continuing to play—an expert role in another occupation. For example, I supervise health and wellness coaches who have transitioned from clinician […]
