Coaching Uncaged

In this episode, Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by coach, trainer, supervisor, facilitator and trainer of the Animas Accredited Certificate in Group Coaching, Emma Dempsey.  Emma shares her background that brought her to coaching, touching on the previous work that she did with groups around community development, bringing people together and nurturing groups within communities...

In this episode of Coaching Uncaged Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by coach, consultant, supervisor, author and co-founder of the Climate Coaching Alliance, Dr. Alison Whybrow. Alison shares her journey, one which might be familiar for many listeners, that started with a realisation that the climate emergency isn’t under control and evolved into a questioning around what if coa...

In this fascinating episode of Coaching Uncaged Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by neuroscientist, money mindset coach and founder of The Empowered Mind Academy, Sarah Asquith-Vallance as they delve into neuroscience, neuroplasticity and its relationship to changing habits, patterns and beliefs. Sarah shares her journey from studying neuroscience to working with special needs ch...

In this episode, the second instalment of our ‘behind the curtain’ conversations Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by Founder and CEO Nick Bolton as they share what’s been happening behind the scenes at Animas, reflect back on 2020, and some of the exciting things that are in the plans for 2021. Nick and Robert recap on their last ‘behind the curtain’ conversation back in August a...

In this fascinating episode of Coaching Uncaged, Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by Author, global lecturer and Co-Founder of the Happiness Studies Academy, Potentialife, Maytiv and Happier.tv , Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar. Tal delves into the science of happiness, sharing his fascinating background around the subject, the scientific data that sits behind living happier, healthier and mo...

In this brilliantly insightful conversation, Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson explores mentor coaching with coach, mentor, supervisor and author of ‘Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide, Clare Norman, PCC. Clare shares the differences between mentor coaching and supervision for coaches and touches on some of the many benefits of mentor coaching to both coaches and their coaches. Clare explai...

This is a conversation that actually took place before the relaunch of Coaching Uncaged earlier this year, but it has so much valuable information around mindfulness and what it can bring to our practice as coaches that we thought with our Mindfulness CPD coming up this weekend (28-29 November), it’s a great time for it to debut on the podcast! In this engaging conversation Animas Centre Director...

In this conversation Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by Positive Psychologist, Existential Coach, Trainer, Supervisor Yannick Jacob to dive into the world of positive psychology, and its relationship to coaching. Yannick shares how he works with positive psychology, some of the benefits of bringing positive psychology approaches into the coaching space, and how you can begin to...

In this fascinating episode of Coaching Uncaged, Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by coach, creative, author and trainer Andréa Watts as they explore the use of collage and creative imagery in the coaching space. Andréa shares her background around this creative approach to coaching, and where her own interest around working with collage stems from as well as the benefits it can...

In this fascinating episode of Coaching Uncaged, Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by Culture and Relationship Coach Lou Chiu, and counsellor, therapeutic coach and supervisor Myira Khan for a roundtable discussion exploring the concept of intersectionality and its relation to coaching and beyond.  Myira and Lou share their backgrounds around this interesting framework, highlighti...

In this episode, Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by coach, Animas trainer, author and mindfulness and wellbeing practitioner Emily Johnston as they explore Youth & Education Coaching. Emily shares the work she does in this area, some of the things she brings to the space that makes her work so tangible and relatable for the young people she works with and her background work...

In this brilliantly engaging episode of Coaching Uncaged, Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by coach, author, speaker, leadership trainer, and the founder of the first executive coaching directory shining a light on Coaches from Black, Asian and Minority backgrounds, Jenny Garrett. Jenny shares her journey to coaching, and the multitude of things that she is doing now as a result...

In this captivating conversation Robert Stephenson is joined by trauma psychotherapy practitioner, supervisor, executive coach and author Julia Vaughan Smith to explore how trauma shows up in the coaching space and how coaches might better work with clients around it. Julia shares how she has seen trauma emerge into the coaching space amid the challenges presented by Covid-19, her thoughts around...

In this episode, Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by transformational coach, community builder, engagement strategist and founder of global fitness brand ‘Too Fat to Run’, Julie Creffield. Julie shares her background from rebellious student with a passion for drama to her time spent working as a project manager at the olympics before becoming a coach and turning her plus-size run...

This week’s episode of Coaching Uncaged is here! 🙌💥 Back in early February, before the challenges presented by the pandemic and subsequent lockdown, we recorded a new series of in-person podcast episodes with a handful of our brilliant alumni! It hadn’t felt like quite the right time to share them, but having shared the first two episodes in the last fortnight, here’s the third episode of our bo...

Back in early February, before the challenges presented by the pandemic and subsequent lockdown, we recorded a new series of in-person podcast episodes with a handful of our brilliant alumni! It hadn’t felt like quite the right time to share them, but having shared the first one last week, here’s the second episode of our bonus series titled “Alumni Conversations”. In this episode Animas Centre Di...

Back in early February, before the challenges presented by the pandemic and subsequent lockdown, we recorded a new series of in-person podcast episodes with a handful of our brilliant alumni! It hadn’t felt like quite the right time to share them, but having taken a break last week, we feel that now is the time, and as a result we will be sharing these episodes across the next 4 weeks as part of a...

In this episode, Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by Founder and CEO of Animas Nick Bolton as they share what’s been happening behind the scenes at Animas, and some of the exciting things that are on the Horizons for the rest of the year and beyond! Robert and Nick dive into all of the things that are both exciting and challenging us at the moment, as well as sharing the current...

In this episode of Coaching Uncaged Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by Director of the Personal Well-Being Centre, programme leader of the Masters in Integrative Counselling and Coaching at the University of East London, and founder of the Personal Consultancy model Dr. Nash Popovic.  Nash explains his three-part Personal Consultancy model that integrates counselling and coachin...

In this thought-provoking episode of Coaching Uncaged Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by coach, experienced executive leader, chairperson for multiple organisations and Founder of Full Colour leadership specialists Srabani Sen as they explore leadership and organisational approaches to greater diversity and inclusion.  Srabani maps her journey from 30 years in executive leadersh...

In this fascinating episode of Coaching Uncaged Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by coach, author and Founder of Narrative Coaching Dr. David Drake as they dive deep into the narrative coaching approach and what it brings to the coaching dynamic. David shares how his narrative coaching approach grew out of a fascination with the hidden potential in the stories our clients tell us...

In this thought-provoking episode of Coaching Uncaged Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by executive coach, coach trainer, author and creative Jackee Holder as they explore Jackee’s life experience and background that has led her to the work that she does now, and how this journey and experience interacts with coaching and the impact of diversity in our here and now.  Jackee share...

In this episode of Coaching Uncaged Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by executive coach, gestalt trained psychotherapist, author and Ashridge faculty member Simon Cavicchia as they explore Simon’s work around gestalt and relational approaches to coaching.  Simon shares his journey from coach and management consultant to gestalt psychotherapist and executive coach, highlighting th...

In the third episode of Coaching Uncaged Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by executive coach and author Dr. Catherine Sandler to explore psychodynamic approaches to coaching.  Catherine shares her experience of coaching leaders for 25 years and her journey to the work that she is doing now around psychodynamics. She explains what is meant in practice by a psychodynamic approach a...

In the new episode of Coaching Uncaged, Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by author, professor, thought-leader and founder of Analytic-Network Coaching Ltd & Edgy Ideas Podcast, Dr. Simon Western, to explore how we might create better organisations, cultures, relationships and leaders, with Simon advocating a shift towards Eco-Leadership (Western S. 2019).  Simon shares his pe...