One afternoon a few weeks ago I was reading and a sentence jumped out at me. No matter what came after that my eyes kept travelling back to those words as it registered its impact on me. I noticed how it kept showing up again and again in my work with coachees, supervisees, and […]
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Showering alone!
I came across this recently: ‘When you are taking a shower, check and see if you are in the shower. You may already be in a meeting at work. Maybe the whole meeting is in the shower with you.’ Jon Kabat-Zinn It made me smile – it is an elegant way to bring to our […]
Context, context, context.
This week, I am delighted to hand over the blog space to Aboodi Shabi whose Weekly Coaching Reflections arrived in my inbox this morning. I love what he wrote and wanted to share it with you. Edna Murdoch “As I write the draft for this newsletter, I am preparing my keynote speech for the EuroCoachList conference at the weekend (it will have happened […]
Detached or not detached??
I am posting a short piece that I sent to a coaches list to-day. You might find it useful….. Since I believe that ‘who you are is how you coach’, I think that having total detachment from clients and their issues is an impossibility – a fiction which our profession gets caught in. We […]
OUR BOOK CLUB – we want to tell you a story…..
Ros Starkey, Clare Neal and Rosalind Maxwell- Harrison met on the CSA 2010 supervision course and fellow coach, Sue Stafford, a 2009 CSA graduate, joined OUR BOOK CLUB in 2011. Together, we have continued meeting “virtually” on a regular basis for over 4 years. To find out why, read our stories. Clare’s story During the […]
Grandmother wisdom…….
Dede is a student on CSA’s, US supervision program; she is also a grandmother. A Transformation in My Thinking: I can consider myself a novice in training with respected elders, medicine women, shaman, healers and grandmothers to join with the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers in healing the world as it is and helping lead others […]
The History Of Creative Writing For Reflective & Transformational Supervision Master Class
The History Of Creative Writing For Reflective & Transformational Supervision Master Class Jackee Holder Saturday 26th October 2013 In April of this year I facilitated a half-day workshop for coach supervisors as part of the Coaching Supervision Academy Community along with a workshop for the BACP Coaching division http://bacp.co.uk as part of the monthly network development sessions. The […]
A great week!
I had a great week – attended two excellent conferences: Relational Coaching at Ashridge and the Supervision Conference UK in Bristol. A rare feast! Three things stand out for me: 1. Peter Hawkins’ grandchildren 2. Gianpiero Petriglieri and ‘nomad professionals’ 3. Susan Boyle…again! In Bristol, Peter Hawkins did an excellent job of enabling […]
Living Relationship
I was delivering a virtual class yesterday to our US supervision students on the topic of Psychological Mindedness – see Psychological Dimensions of Executive Coaching by P Bluckert. We had a great time exploring what that makes our professional relationships work well. We went from looking at some classic psychology concepts, to the language of […]
More from FULL SPECTRUM SUPERVISION……
As promised in my last blog, a glimpse inside our new book! Here is an excerpt from ‘Full Spectrum Supervision’. One of the chapters, ‘Mindfulness and Presence in Supervision’ by Ian MacKenzie, looks in great detail at both mindfulness and presence and distinguishes between them. Here are some quotes, resources and comment on presence […]
