Author Archive | ednamurdoch

  I think we can agree that to reflect on one’s work brings benefit – yes??  CSA held a community day last week for our supervision graduates and we had the wonderful Jackee Holder (www. jackeeholder.com) inspiring us on the theme of using creative writing to aid reflection on our coaching. The group were suitably […]

We are inundated with information about the brain at the moment.  That’s because we are finding out much more about how it works and especially for us, how coaches and supervsiors can use our understanding of how the brain works to enhance our practice. In contexts such as decision making, creativity, creating a good learning […]

Recently I was delivering a teleforum  on the subject of contracting. Not just contracting, but psychological contracting; that is to say what goes on underneath the overt contracts we make and re-make with clients, stakeholders and sponsors. The context for this teleforum was one of our supervision training programs, the one currently running in Sydney […]

 I want to return to Linda Aspey’s article – see below – in which she questions our insistence on so many questions.  Much of what we are currently learning about coaching comes from the discipline of neuroscience and Linda illustrates succinctly why this new information is so important for us. She says that, “ there’s […]

Through the door …..   I imagine we’ve all experienced this, as a Coach or Supervisor. The time when we are totally in the flow, when there seems to be a shared space between us and the client, a joint exploration and co-creation. When I was training with the Centre for Transpersonal Psychology, we talked […]

An article last year  by Linda Aspey – see below – really caught my eye.  In it she explores our prized coaching tool- our questioning technique.  More than that, Linda alerts us to the way we coaches habitually question our clients and she invites us to consider the potential effects of relentless questioning: “Whenever we […]

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I sometimes wonder how often I see another human being. By which I mean, really see them. People are amazing – infinitely deep. complex and self-contradictory. It was that sense of the potential and rich variety in people that first drew me to coaching. As a Supervisor, I see the potential in Coaches and often […]