MakeSense — writing your way to clarity. After submitting my learning log for CSA supervisor re-accreditation last year, I realised that it was time to change my haphazard way of recording my learning. I’m not a natural writer and though reflection is an important part of my practice, physically writing in a journal is not […]
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Making transformative conversations possible
Currently, I am interviewing executive coaches for CSA’s coaching supervision programmes. Some of these conversations truly catch fire and are as memorable for me as they are for our course delegates. I notice too how supervisees will sometimes say that ‘time stood still’ in their sessions with a particular client or that at some point […]
Accredited Supervision Programmes in Singapore and Sydney – booking now.
For coaches in Asia and Australasia – CSA’s Accredited Coaching Supervision programme is now running in Singapore and in Sydney both in July 2013. There is a 10% discount for booking before May 1st so only 9 DAYS LEFT. This programme is well established, accredited by EMCC and approved by ICF. The programme will be lead […]
Reflections…..
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 […]
Check your Over and Under-functioning!
I got myself into a bit of a pickle the other day. I was part of a small committee looking into ways we could raise money to support our local sports club. Everyone thought it was a good thing to have but no one seemed to want to take the lead on the project. In […]
Creativity and the brain
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 […]
Contracting – ‘who you are is how you contract’
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 […]
Neuroscience……questions
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…..
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 […]
To question or not to question…….
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 […]
