Your Coaching Journey

In this episode Helen will be having a chat with Dr Rosie Khan.   Rosie is a G.P. and lifestyle, perimenopause and wellness expert who helps high-achieving women overcome symptoms such as anxiety, brain fog and weight gain. Using a unique combination of lifestyle medicine, clinical hypnosis and coaching, she supports women in taking charge of their physical and emotional health to thrive during th...

It's time for another set of questions sent in to us by listeners. In this episode we are going to be talking about helping clients to move on from past situations they find themselves ruminating over, how to improve your reflective practice as a coach, and how we feel about setting clients 'homework' or activities between their coaching sessions with us. We love to receive your questions about co...

Perfectionism is a phenomenon that can easily get in the way of our progress, and can certainly impact our sense of achievement, satisfaction and overall wellbeing.   For your perfectionist coachees, they are likely to see the drive to be perfect as a good thing that has rewarded them in the past. They probably thrived during their education and in their careers because they are high-achievers.  ...

In a bid to help our coachees generate new thinking, it might be useful to introduce them to a coaching tool called 'The Six Thinking Hats', which was created by Dr. Edward De Bono, a Maltese physician who is probably best known for introducing the world to the concept of lateral thinking.   In this podcast episode we explore what 'The Six Thinking Hats' offers to the world of coaching and give ou...

We believe that coaching is all about helping our coachees to generate new thinking. However, in order to generate new thinking, it's useful for our coachees to know what they're already thinking and what has led them to tell the stories they're telling.   There is power, wisdom and insight sitting within the stories our coachees tell, as well as contradiction, tension and dissonance, if only we t...

We love that coaching helps our coachees to generate new thinking. If you're self-aware as a coach and continue to engage in reflective practice your coaching conversations are going to help you to develop your own thinking too.   But what happens when your unconscious thought processes start to get in the way of your own performance in the coaching room, and your coachee's unconscious prohibits t...

In this episode Tom will be chatting with Dr Jo Watkins.   Jo is a portfolio GP, adventure-loving mum of four, co-founder of an organisation supporting teenage girls and this year has started her own podcast.   Jo completed the Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma with us in 2022 and has been putting her learning to good use as a mentor and coach to other medics and health care professionals...

Whether you're at the beginning of your coaching journey, or are a more experienced coach, there are always questions to be asked and answers to explore. In this episode we are going to be talking about the first steps you will need to take when starting a coaching business, and we share our thoughts on business plans. plus we consider how you can help a client to stay positive and motivated to ta...

Our social connections are vital to our wellbeing as human beings. Every model of wellbeing has relationships as one of its components but it very rarely gets talked about directly with patients, clients or coachees. We talk about physical health and mental health, but social health tends to get overlooked. Much of the deep thinking that's been dedicated to the issue, from Aristotle to Brené Brown...

Mindfulness has been a bit of a buzzword in recent years, however, the idea of mindfulness and the practice of meditation has been around for thousands of years. How does it fit in with coaching? And how can you utilise it in the coaching room, for your coachee or for your own benefit?   From stepping into a non judgmental space, creating a vision for the future, and generating new perspectives, m...

Transpersonal Coaching, which is often referred to as Spiritual Coaching, sits on the periphery of mainstream coaching, and is often regarded as a little bit too woo for some coaches to consider.    In this episode we explore what it is, what it's not and what it could be. We also consider why some people might choose to engage with Transpersonal Coaching, either as a coaching approach in its own...

Having trained over 250 doctors to coach and with another 50 or so currently participating in our training programmes, we have noticed that they do have some wonderful transferable skills. We've also noticed that most of the doctors that come to learn to coach have some common challenges that crop up for them when it comes to learning to coach.   Some of these challenges stem from the personalitie...

In this episode Helen chats with Dr Jo Hartley, a delegate on one of our early Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma courses. Jo is a former Emergency Medicine Consultant now working as a career and life coach for doctors. She works with doctors in training in her local professional support and wellbeing service and runs a business delivering workshops and coaching for hospital consultants. H...

It's listeners' questions time again, and thank you for sending yours, and thank you again to those listeners who have taken the time to get in touch to tell us how much they enjoy listening to our podcast.   In this episode we have been asked what to consider when choosing a coach training course and, once you've completed your coach training, where to look for good CPD opportunities.   We love t...

Values are an important aspect of coaching and integral to increasing a coachee's self awareness and sense of identity.   When responding to questions about values a coachee may not be able to tell their coach instantly what their own values are. It may take some reflection of them to come up with them. Their values may not become apparent until they are challenged or trampled on. Alternatively, t...

It's easy to think that everyone views the world in the same way that we do. Understanding that people have different aspects to their personality that might mean they think or behave in a different way is essential in gaining perspective on situations and relationships.   In this episode we explore the psychology behind a number of psychometrics that may prove useful in the coaching room. Asking...

We sometimes get asked if we teach NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) on our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma and the answer is mostly no, and also, a little bit, yes. For this reason we thought it would be useful to have a conversation about it on our podcast.   We are both trained and licensed NLP practitioners, and although we gained something from our training, neither of us actually...

As coaches we are having conversations that matter, and discussing topics that are important to our coachees. With any conversations of importance thought is required around how we hold that space for our coachees and how we show up as coaches. Coaching is an unregulated industry and it therefore falls to coaching bodies to try to ensure that its members act with professionalism, integrity and an...

In this episode Helen will be chatting with Dr SaraLou Wylie. A G.P. interested in a more holistic approach to wellness, SaraLou joined our diploma programme in 2023. She is nowcertified Women's life coach who specialises in coaching professional women with overwhelm, burnout and stress. SaraLou's holistic approach helps them regain control of their lives, feel like them again and live a life with...

From time to time we devote an episode to questions about coaching that have been asked by our listeners. And this episode is one of those, with a difference. We have been saving up some of the more personal questions that have been sent in and you can join us to find out a little bit more about us as coaches, including our biggest frustrations about coaching, what brings us joy, what inspired us...

On our podcast we regularly explore topics that coachees might bring to a coaching conversation.   One such topic is 'Wellbeing'. In the last 10 years, Wellbeing has become a huge topic for discussion in many settings, including workplaces, schools and GP practices.   Wellbeing is a hugely diverse topic with many different elements and meanings assigned to it. So, whether you consider yourself a w...

Back in episode 30 we spoke about using Transactional Analysis (TA) in the coaching room, and in episode 31 we explored one of the TA models, the Parent-Adult-Child model. Another coaching model that originates from TA is Karpman's Drama Triangle, so we thought it was time we introduced this model to you as well. The Drama Triangle offers another way to explore the coachee's perception of their in...

Our bodies provide the perfect vessel in which to hold our stress and we will feel all sorts of indications that this is happening for us when we're in struggle. But our bodies also offer us some insights into what else is going on for us. Somatic markers provide us with information that we will often ignore when it would be wise to be mindful of them. While we might not choose to act on a gut fee...

What is coaching supervision and why would I want to engage with it as a coach?   Coaching is an unregulated industry and, as we have discussed on previous episodes, it is down to coaching bodies and individual coaches to take responsibility for the professionalism and self-regulation of coaching as a whole.    Coaching supervision is one way of helping you as a coach to reflect on the quality of...

From time to time we devote an episode to questions about coaching that have been asked by our listeners.   In this episode we are discussing the difference between team and group coaching, whether a coaching approach would help if you're asked to facilitate with some mediation, and what to do if a client wants to end their coaching arrangement early.   If you have a question to ask about coaching...