The Coaching Inn

While some professional bodies like ICF have a very pure definition of coaching, it's common for people coming to coaching to be unclear what we offer.  Sometimes the organisation has commissioned you to do a combination of coaching and mentoring. What's ethical? What's partnership? What's useful?    Today Claire is joined by Michael Kell who emailed info@3dcoaching.com with an idea to have this c...

Robbie Swale is back at The Coaching Inn today to think about the coaching business flywheel and how important it is to be open to tweak and learn as we grow a coaching business. This episode is full of ideas. Since their first podcast together, Claire and Robbie realised that they live near each other and now enjoy walking and talking in the Malvern Hills.  If you are or would like to be a member...

Claire saw a post about on Linked In from Kay Young about how Kay disliked the word mastery.  Sharing her dislike of the word, Claire invited Kay to The Coaching Inn to find out more.    Kay shares her experience of dialogue and relationship building in her recent accreditation with APECS . We talk about  the liberation that comes for coaches when they discover a sense of 'enoughness' rather than...

This week, Claire is talking to Michael Levitt.  A former Health Care leader, Michael burned out in 2009. He talks about lessons learned and some strategies to avoid burnout - useful for anyone encountering burnout themselves or with others.   Takeaways Invest in getting enough sleep and prioritize restful sleep for better physical and mental health. Be mindful of what you eat and consider getting...

Today, Claire is in conversation with Patrick Regan about the work he is doing with Brighter Days.  Find out about Patrick’s journey from working with young people in London, through his own experience of being broken, to the work he is doing now around mental health.   Patrick designed a wellbeing course, inspired by the Japanese art form Kinsugi, which emphasizes resilience, honesty, forgiveness...

Behind every athlete is a human.  Today Claire is talking to Elizabeth Egan about her journey into personal development coaching in sport.  Lots to think about this week around working with young people, and the differences between our work and sports coaching.   Elizabeth has written an excellent reference guide, with Rob Clift and Carly Jones that you can find on her website https://www.somuchmo...

At our last mentors meeting we thought it would be fun to invite you into our conversation from time to time.   Today, Claire Pedrick is in conversation with Ruth Bennett PCC and Zoe Dickinson PCC about what we are learning from technical check ins with coaches - looking at and listening to recordings of their work.   We talk about • Making the rightsizing questions normal • The Importance of Aski...

Today Claire is talking with Derek Hill about the research he has done into endings in coaching. At 3D Coaching, we find that this topic comes up more than almost anything else in our coaching supervision community.   We talk about intimacy and belonging, how different people engage in ending the relationship and Derek generously shares some of his learning. His Henley Insight Guide on Goodbyes is...

Sometimes the best learning about coaching comes when we talk about something else and then make our own meaning.  Claire met Kate Caroe at the Out of The Box/ Deep Talk conference in September 2023. Over coffee, Kate shared some of the connections she was making between Home Education and Coaching. So we invited her to come to The Coaching Inn and talk more.   Kate has home educated her 6 childre...

Claire is known for her opinion of much of the use of  tools and techniques in coaching. And she’s up to be challenged.  So when Joanna Lindenbaum from the Applied Depth Institute asked whether we wanted to talk about using resistance archetypes in coaching, we pulled up a chair at The Coaching Inn and said let’s talk!. We talk about resistance in coaching, and what you notice. There’s mention of...

Today’s guest is Virtual Assistant and author Kathy Soulsby.  Kathy has just published How to Work with a Virtual Assistant : Outsource Everything but Your Brilliance. If you are wondering about getting support and don’t know how, listen in! This episode is full of insights about what to outsource and how to do it. Kathy started as a VA in 2014 and now leads a team of 30.   Contact Kathy Soulsby t...

Today, Claire Pedrick MCC is in conversation with Melissa Hague who brings extensive experience in organisational life and a desire to support people to engage in their wor places with courage and vulnerability.    Melissa is a certified Dare to Lead facilitator, and has ‘Melissa-d’ her work by doing the inner work that enables her to facilitate other people to do theirs. If you’re interested in t...

In the final episode of 2023, Claire Pedrick MCC is in conversation with Samreen McGregor about her experiences growing up in Venezuela and the UK, the challenges of being a global citizen, a third culture child and mother and her work as a consultant and executive coach. This has given her a unique perspective to working on the margins of organisations. Samreen started in private banking and then...

In June 2023, William McKee came to The Coaching Inn to talk about psychometrics in coaching.  Here is is. It’s our second most popular episode this year and has received lots of feedback and evoked conversation. So we invited William back with some people who expressed interest in going deeper.  And that's exactly what we did! We explore the connection between the ethics of coaching and the ethic...

Today Claire is in conversation with Tuula Valkonen, the founder of Deep Talk. They met when Claire delivered the keynote address at the Deep Talk/Out of The Box conference in September and they made lots of connections between Tuula’s work and ours.  Today’s podcast is on our YouTube channel as well as our audio channels because there is much to watch as Tuula facilitates Claire to explore using...

Andy and Fi are both experienced interims working in many different roles across different organisations.  They are also both trained coaches.   They had each noticed how they used their coaching skills in different ways in their interim roles.  So Claire said ‘Come to The Coaching Inn and let’s talk more…’   We talk about knowing, about not knowing the back story and about not needing to find the...

Matt Abrahams contacted Claire via Linked In to say ‘Can we talk about my new book: Think Faster, Talk Smarter : How to Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot‘. It was a no brainer to say yes as we have been doing so much work on not knowing and how to speak when you don’t know what to say!   There are some great insights in today’s episodes including the value of what we do outside work t...

If you missed the live launch of The Human Behind The Coach at The Coaching Inn last week, here’s your chance to catch up. This week’s host is Alan Gyle - the voice of The Coaching Inn credits! Karen Foy interviews Claire and Lucia about the book.   This episode is also available in full on our YouTube channel   Check out www.thehumanbehindthecoach.com   And you can buy a signed copy - with a pers...

Today, Jamie Fiore Higgins joins Claire at The Coaching Inn.  Jamie worked as a Managing Partner in Wall Street for 20 years. After she left, she wrote: Bully Market - My story of money and misogyny at Goldman Sachs .   Jamie is now establishing herself as a coach. We talk about working with integrity and being human. We also notice a connection with William Bridges book Creating You and Company ....

"Give the world your message, and the right people come back to you. You'll be a magnet for the right person, the right clients."   This week, Claire talks with new coach and long time marketer Keeley Vuong White. Claire and Keeley first met on a coaches walk in the Malvern Hills**. Keeley talks about her year of experimenting and how you’re the brand and it doesn’t have to be corporate because br...

Sandhya Bhat  has come to coaching from an HR background. She lives in Pune in India and, having come from a structured background,  is interested in the role of not knowing in coaching.   We think about the common question: Why would I listen if I don’t need to understand? and recognise that there is a lot of magic in not knowing   Contact Sandhya through Linked In    Takeaways Embracing the unkn...

This week, experienced coach, coach trainer, and Shakespeare enthusiast Emily Walker joins Claire at The Coaching Inn after they had had an earlier conversation about the sound of coaching.  If dissonance and resonance matter in coaching, and if Shakespeare uses them well, what more useful stuff is there for us to learn as coaches? They explore the connection between coaching and Shakespeare's use...

"It's not about a destination. It's about how can you set yourself up for success in order to really be able to continue to show up as a founder, as an entrepreneur in the day-to-day grind of building a business." Today Claire is talking to Katie Lewis who, with Matthew Stafford, founded 9 others. They host dinners around the world asking people : what’s keeping you up at night?    We talk about w...

Long time friend of 3D and coach Rachel Erasmus joins Claire at The Coaching Inn this week to talk about being a coach and being a midwife. Lots of connections - sensing, walking, breathing. Find out more about coach as midwife. And midwife as coach.  And in the same way that not everyone women needs a midwife to birth a baby, not everyone needs a coach to birth their thinking.   Takeaways The con...

Just over a year ago, Katie Muldoon came to The Coaching Inn to talk about what she did in her first year of coaching. Listen back here .  And we agreed to do another episode a year on about what she did in her second year.   This is worth a listen and is full of surprises! Hear about being a body and having a mind, and lots about learning and integrating learning.   Takeaways The importance of in...