CSA CPD Day London 28th June 2014 Have you ever taken a walk around a garden with your supervisee and explored the different seasons and their effects on the mind, body & spirit of supervision? At the recent CSA CPD day we were invited into a very special supervision garden by […]
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MINDFULNESS FOR COACHES
Mindfulness for Coaches Transform your Personal and Professional Life As busy professionals working in complex client settings there are frequently multiple demands on your time, effort and attention. How do we replenish ourselves before, during and after each session to help ourselves develop resilience and resourcefulness to meet challenging issues? Mindfulness provides a systematic approach […]
Wheel Of Life Tree Playbook and Life Audit
The moment you stop doing what you are doing and start reviewing your life or career, is the time you begin a process of change. – Jackee Holder When I started out as a coach in 1996 the wheel of life model was one of the first coaching tools my then coach introduced […]
RE-PARENTING SELF: A KEY COACH SKILL
( A follow up blog to REPARENTING SELF : A KEY LEADERSHIP SKILL). If leaders need to have the skill of reparenting themselves then, arguably, that also applies to coaches. This is for several reasons : a) Leaders often have a coaching role; this indeed may increasingly be the case. b) Coaches may […]
Key Leadership Skill: Re- parenting Self
KEY LEADERSHIP SKILL: Re-parenting Self This blog draws its rationale from the transactional analysis concept of the Parent ego state. That part of ourselves with which we seek to manage our lives through the beliefs, values and ‘shoulds’ about self, others and the world. Leaders may be seen as having a particular role and responsibility […]
Resilience revisited
Much has already been written about the need to develop resilient and confident leaders. But this is starting to feel very tired and hackneyed. Instead I am wondering if there is another way of looking at resilience, which is more enabling, empowering, and helpful. Defining “Resilience” The definition of resilience is to withstand. According to […]
What’s wrong with chat-up lines?
I spotted this great blog from Aboodi Shabi this week and we are delighted that he has given us his permission to use it here. The blog brilliantly explores the importance of relationship in our work. As you may know, this is a key understanding in CSA’s work. Edna Murdoch What’s wrong with chat-up lines? […]
DEFINING THE “REAL WORK” OF LEADERS February 2014
Every day we are confronted with news stories, which catalogue our collective failures to respond to what is happening to ourselves, to our communities, to our planet. In last weeks Richard Dimbleby Lecture, Christine Lagarde, Director of the IMF outlined the causes of our current global economic crisis and inequalities. “The Francis Inquiry – One […]
CSA graduate Jackie Arnold: NEW BOOK on supervision!
Crown House Publishing Limited Coaching Supervision at its B.E.S.T. Jackie Arnold ISBN: 9781845908621 Available February 2014 £9.99 Coaching Supervision at its B.E.S.T. contains clear strategies and real life case studies and can be used in all settings where there is a need for effective and efficient coaching supervision. The specific clean questioning technique allows the […]
“Mirror, mirror on the wall….?”
Getting the Most from Your Super-Vision “Learning is experience. Everything else is just information” Albert Einstein Discovered on a greetings card in the Victoria and Albert Museum What is Super-Vision? “Super-Vision” occurs when a practitioner (the supervisee) brings their work to a Supervisor in order to learn from their experiences and […]
