Coaching Presence

Sharon Jansen and Karen White join the conversation to talk about designing life after 'always on', and consider the impact of not switching off from work pressure and the online world. Karen discusses the role of language in our ability to respond to requests, Sharon talks about the importance of boundaries.

Mark offers a clearing conversation to help create the psychological safety needed in order to allow us to fully explore our biases and assumptions.

Amanda Scott shares her research into networks. She provides a framework 'personal boardroom' to help coaches and their clients build sustainable networks that serve a variety of functions. She also discusses how networks might need to develop in the 'new normal' of the Covid pandemic where virtual meetings have replaced traditional physical meeting opportunities. 

Sally Bendersky is a genuinely transformational presence. She joins the conversation from Santiago in Chile, sharing some of the techniques she has learned in her coaching practice and through her experience as a diplomat.   "We don't only have conversations in language - simultaneously we are always held by an emotion, and the emotion expresses itself in our physiology and our physical prese...

Anne shares the story of how she created Grace Trail.  From a 'life tsunami' she created a source of positivity that is now used by people around the world. There are five stages to Grace: Gratitude, Release, Accept, Challenge, Embrace. From these stages, Anne developed five questions: Even though life is really difficult, what can I be grateful for right now? What do I need to release to mov...

Jacob Morris is the creator of The Value Deck www.discoveryourvalues.com. Based on the work of Shalom H. Schwartz, The Values Deck is a useful tool for coaches wanting to help clients understand their values and the impact they have on motivation, decision making and other areas of life. The thousands of words used to describe our intrinsic motivations have been distilled down into 10 value themes...

Coach and author Wassili Zafiris talks about his latest book Happiness is Depressing. He shares the reasons why our societal pursuit of happiness is simply setting up an unachievable goal. By unpacking the semantics of the word 'happiness' Wassili then talks us through the importance of luck - and shares an inventory that will help our clients reconsider their life outcomes.

This discussion focusses on how as coaches we can help our clients orient to the truth in a rapidly changing environment. How we need to ascertain what is important and what we can rely on. The coaches play with metaphor during this conversation.

Coach and grief counsellor Mary Anna Trotman shares some learning from her world that may help as we come to terms with the Covid-19 pandemic. She references tools and frameworks that will support coaches and their clients come to terms with the impact on our daily lives of lockdown, quarantine and other losses.

Leon VanDerPol talks about transformational coaching. Author of Shift in Being, Leon VanDer Pol trains coaches keen to help their clients transform. In this episode, Mary Anna asks about the differences between awakening and transformation - and finds out embodied change. Leon shares an exercise to help coaches deepen their presence. 

Coaching Presence is a podcast for coaches who want to deepen their understanding of their work. In this trailer, Mary Anna Wright introduces the series and helps you understand what you can expect from listening in.