I knew things had taken a turn for the worse when I noticed on the shelf of my local supermarket that you can buy a marinade that only takes 30 seconds to do the job. I felt not a little disappointed, I have to admit. It seemed another step to even more things being done […]
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ICF Approved Coach Supervision Training
Our graduates say: “Prepare to be astonished….the journey with CSA has been inspiring, challenging, very hands-on, educationally rich and supportive……the Tutoring team are of an incredibly high calibre and share their rich experience generously. ” Dear Coaches, you may be considering training to be a coach supervisor. The CSA training programme, beginning in October […]
What are YOU reading?
Every since I was a child I was afraid that I would die before I read all the books I wanted to. Now I’m not afraid because I know it is true. A smart thing would be to stop buying books and read all the ones I have but somehow that doesn’t work out that […]
Working with collusion
When I hear the word ‘collusion’, I notice the temptation to want to deny or avoid or get confused or not look deeper and then I explore how this word impacts me and I recognise the situations in which a part of me responds “oh yes I know what you mean” or I think to […]
Relational Coaching (part 3)
Knowing You – the coachee There are several ways that we can deepen our understanding of the person in front of us. Broadly speaking, we use cognitive, intuitive and somatic data to know our coachee better. All of these functions operate naturally from the moment we first speak with a new coachee; using this data […]
Relational Coaching (part 2)
Knowing ‘us’ – the relationship When I meet the ‘other’, I enter a field of relational dynamics – some of which will be outside my awareness. Occasionally, coaches can feel intimidated by their coachees. One coach worked through this in super-vision, by first learning about the root of his habitual response to strong coachees. […]
‘Change happens in the crucible of relationship’ B Critchley
Coaches are in relationships every day. Coaches say things like: ‘It’s hard to be objective with him I love working with this client. When she’s angry, I freeze He makes me confused and feel stupid.’ While we are busy creating contracts, coaching leaders or raising performance levels, we do this within a web of relationships […]
Working with the Narcissistic Personality
A few blogs ago, I began to write about working with the Narcissistic Personality. Here’s some more information about how this shows up for coaches and how to approach it. EXAMPLE: Once upon a time, I worked with an executive coach who was deciding how to work with a client whose globe-trotting lifestyle was beginning […]
Disturbing your peace?
In an article I read recently the Bishop of Blackburn is quoted with saying that “education is settling the disturbed and disturbing the settled”. That got me thinking about whether I thought that was a reasonable definition (amongst many others I grant you). A long time ago, a new supervisee asked me to work with […]
Supervision – finding our internal plumb line
I am thinking about what listening is, from a transpersonal perspective, something I talked about the other day on the CSA Diploma in Supervision Training. The extract below captures it perfectly. To me it says something about how, as Coach Supervisors, it is so important to go inside a bit deeper and to listen out […]
