Give and take
By the end of the two days I had coached 10 people. All of them 1 hour meetings. Understandably they were focussed, intense sessions. However rather than being like a fast …
Unconditional positive regard
On Sunday evening whilst you were tucked up in bed I was finishing a course I’ve helped deliver in California. There have been 3 modules of 5 days and with …
Coyote Medicine
“A stranger in a strange land” – that was me last week, 6 days in California will do that to you, leave you confused, bamboozled and yet somehow curiously uplifted. …
Instinct
They looked at me, then again at the flip chart and then back to me. They were confused. I understood their dilemma, here they were on a leadership and management course …
Century
I like cricket. There, I’ve admitted it. I can’t take it back. It’s too late now. Which begs the question, what is it that I like about the game? Well …
Really?
When I first started training to be a coach I was obsessed with having the right question, a killer enquiry which would lead to a huge breakthrough for the client. …
Wait and see
I’m glad that the NHS generally still refers to me as a patient. True, every once in a while I’m a “service user” and I “access care” for my mental …
F.E.A.R
They say you should never judge a book by its cover but I was in Poundland so I guess I had already put any expectations aside when I saw a …
Imaginaut
I’ve read that innovation is slowing, that we’ve invented most of the big things. From here on in the inventions will merely be refinements of existing knowledge or technologies. I …
Emptying my pocket
Monday saw me at a loose end. My therapist had to cancel and I was left with a hole in the middle of my carefully crafted morning. Rather than waste …