Thinking about your Thinking (#TAYT)
Want to be more self-aware? Want to be more conscious about what makes you react the way you do? Want to know about being more...
Role play and realism in forming new habits
What are you like with role playing? How do you feel on team building days or other similar activities when an enthusiastic tutor...
The disruptive, communicative and authentic Mr Clegg
Last week a few unrelated threads of work and news combined, to prompt me into reflective mode. I was thinking about a workshop on...
From Delphic sayings to algorithms
I may be coming a bit late to the party but I caught up with the thinking of Yuval Noah Harari during an interview he gave on BBC Radio...
Truth telling or self serving?
I recently had one of those moments during a conversation where I had the strongest sense of agreement with a view being expressed to me....
The gifts of trust and 'not knowing'
One of the freedoms afforded to a coach, one not to be taken lightly, is the gift of ‘not needing to know’. Relevant knowledge is part...
Igniting with a Spark
I had a lot of fun with a group recently having a collective conversation with them about their Lumina Spark Profiles. As a Lumina Spark...
What Iffery, What Mightery, What Issery … and the Dutchman’s Pipe.
Recently I had cause to reflect on self-awareness and the importance of a coach having the opportunity to be coached themselves. A couple...
A gut reaction to some current thinking on mental health
It’s amazing how a change in language can open up new perspectives. I had reason to reflect on this while listening to a recent...
Is it too selfish to hope that some things will never change?
Having just closed the door on 36 years of full time PAYE employment and opened the one marked ‘self employed’ I find myself responding...