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Psychological Contracting – Leanne Lowish Last year, I ran a teleconference call on psychological contracting with the current students on CSA’s Diploma in Supervision course. It was based on a chapter written by Michael Carroll and in it he says that:  ‘Individuals bring to their contracts and agreements their own assumptions, beliefs and expectations most of […]

You know how it happens sometimes. You go looking for a particular reference and come upon something else, totally unexpected, and it’s a little gift. That’s what happened to me this morning. I got two gifts in fact. I was asked to check a document for someone and there was a short quote from Maya […]

I am currently finishing an article on how some of our clients  – often the most successful ones – have a particular blindness regarding their behaviour and the enormous pressure they put on themselves and everyone around them. “Narcissism includes the inability to accept failure and it brings with it a marked need for power […]

It is amazing what insights emerge when we give ourselves time to notice and open our hearts to the work we do with others! This is what struck me when out walking on a beautiful dry, crisp, clear and sunny afternoon as I reflected on a piece of supervision I had recently held with a […]

Nourishment ‘Today, like every other day, We wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading Take down the musical instrument – Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are hundred of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.’ RUMI 2012 is a pivotal time. Whatever […]

Throughout this year Ian Mackenzie and I have been meeting with coaches and coach supervisors for a monthly lunch time hour of mindfulness in the Park. It has been a blessing that every single month the weather has given us the thumbs up with exceptionally attractive weather. I have really enjoyed coming back to the […]

  Cultivating mindfulness is essential now. Margaret Chapman writes: ‘Looking at the apparent speed by which mindfulness is crossing over from the clinical into the organisational field, it appears that being mindful is now the new yardstick by which pioneering organisations and their leaders are being judged. Today’s leaders not only have to be emotionally […]

‘Who you are is how you coach’….yes, I know that you have heard this before!  I know that because I keep bleating on about it.  This sentence popped out of my mouth many years ago in conversation with my good friend and colleague, Aboodi Shabi.  We were on our fourth cup of coffee and were […]

In coaching, we are rightly concerned with our personal development, our self-observational skills and our in-the-moment monitoring of our body/mind/spirit as we work with others. Indeed, this practice is evidence that we have got beyond the early stages of professional development and the attachment to our models. We can now notice who and how we […]