In June, I ran a workshop and “experiential” on coaching walks for the Coaching Network. This built on the coaching walks I had run with coaches a couple of years ago, celebrating International Women’s Day and Mindfulness practices . We worked in triads, with a coach, a client and observer. The coach & observer […]
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The Gift of Coaching Presence
The Gift of Coaching Presence Coaching Presence is a key competency in ICF accreditation and is defined as ‘the ability to be fully conscious and create a spontaneous relationship with the client, employing a style that is open, flexible and confident’. Furthermore, when a coach has coaching presence they: Are present and flexible during […]
The Dog Whisperer and Coaching?????
I attended the Coaching At Work conference this week. Conferences give a clear picture of what is current in the field of coaching and provide the perfect setting for meeting new colleagues. We had a packed day and one of the highlights for me was attending Dr Eunice Aquilina’s workshop on ‘Coming Back to the […]
NEW: Telephone supervision group. Mindfulness and Presence focus.
The significance of Mindfulness and Presence as essential elements of coaching is more and more widely acknowledged. This group will introduce a model linking mindfulness and presence and explore how we can use mindfulness and meditation to: · Be present and attentive to our clients – with the confidence to lay down our tools and […]
The Capacity to Notice
The Hawkins and Shohet Seven Eyed Model is a familiar and central feature of the CSA’s approach to Coach Supervision. But in a supervision session, with so much happening, seeing with seven eyes can be quite a challenge. As Supervisors, we are required to notice at many levels, but most of our training and discussion […]
Writing For Reflective Practice
This blog post follows on from Edna Murdoch’s blog post on the 25th May where she wrote about the important of how and where we resource ourselves as coaches. This comes at a good time to link with a recent CPD day I facilitated as part of one of the CSA Community Development days for […]
Listen more………..
Many of my supervisees and coaching colleagues, are noticing that they are working less in the area of leadership development these days and more in areas of resilience and resourcing. There seems to be an increasing trend in which clients want their coaches to support them to carry increased workloads and manage stressful work situations. […]
Thinking…thinking…thinking….
I am enjoying revisiting an excellent book on coaching supervision: “Coaching and Mentoring Supervision” Ed. Bachkirova, Jackson, Clutterbuck (2011). In particular, I have enjoyed Clutterbuck’s chapter ‘Using the seven conversations in supervision’. This chapter opens up an area that is most useful to coaches in supervision – looking at the dialogue that goes on inside […]
MakeSense — writing your way to clarity
MakeSense — writing your way to clarity. After submitting my learning log for CSA supervisor re-accreditation last year, I realised that it was time to change my haphazard way of recording my learning. I’m not a natural writer and though reflection is an important part of my practice, physically writing in a journal is not […]
Making transformative conversations possible
Currently, I am interviewing executive coaches for CSA’s coaching supervision programmes. Some of these conversations truly catch fire and are as memorable for me as they are for our course delegates. I notice too how supervisees will sometimes say that ‘time stood still’ in their sessions with a particular client or that at some point […]
