Your Coaching Journey

If you're a regular listener to our podcast you will have noticed that we regularly discuss how we might deal with different topics that show up in the coaching room.     We recognise that everyone will have experienced some negative thinking about themselves from time to time and that's just part of the human condition. For most people this can be a little annoying or frustrating, and doesn't cau...

Following on from our episode about neuroscience in coaching in this episode we focus on the SCARF model, which has its origins in social neuroscience.     SCARF was developed as a model by leadership expert David Rock and helps us to focus our attention on an organising   principle in the brain; to minimise threat and maximise reward. Rock's assertion is that this principle leads us to move away...

Firstly, just to be clear, we are not neuroscientists! However, we do know that having some awareness of key elements of neuroscience can help us to support our clients well.     In this episode we explore our understanding of the disciplines that underpin neuroscience and the complex nature of the interactions of a number of different elements of our physiological neural make-up. We take a look a...

Coaching is so often seen as an intervention that supports the achievement of goals, and in this podcast we would like to challenge this belief. We will explore the idea that, whilst coaching is often concerned with goals, there is some much richer territory available to us in the coaching room.     A great deal of coaching training tends to start with goals and helping move coachees towards them...

In this episode we are interviewing a coaching doctor, Dr Amy-Jo Farrow.     Amy-Jo Farrow is an Occupational Health Physician and a Coach for Doctors. Her coaching work focuses on supporting doctors to recover from burnout, return to work, and craft a more sustainable future.   Listen in to find out what inspired Amy-Jo to start coaching, find out more about her personal approach to coaching, her...

It's not often that people come to coaching because they're an introvert, but it is an aspect of personality that can surface in a number of different ways, or sit behind some of the issues that coachees might want to tackle with you.   In this episode we explore what introversion is, how you might recognise an introverted client and what some of the challenges might be for your introverted coache...

Following on from our exploration of Gestalt coaching in our previous episode, in this podcast we explore one of the models that originates in Gestalt, the Cycle of Experience (CoE), in greater detail.     The CoE is a Gestalt model that illustrates how individuals move through their experience of a situation. The model incorporates different stages that people might move through in order to compl...

On our transformational coaching diploma we explore many different approaches to coaching and the Gestalt approach is one of them. It is an approach that lends itself to working in a transformational way with the coachee and is very much about helping them to become more who they are. In being more who they are, the coachee can start to bring about the change they wish to see more easily.   And if...

We will regularly be devoting a podcast episode to discussing some widely held coaching beliefs, common coaching practices and coaching challenges that are often pondered and debated.   In today's episode we are talking about contracting. We will be exploring whether it is always necessary to contract with coachees, and if a coach is doing so, when they might contract and how they might go about i...

In this episode we are interviewing another coaching doctor, Dr Caroline Walker. Caroline completed the Transformational Coaching Diploma back in 2020 as a member of the first cohort to train on the programme with us.   Caroline is an expert in doctors' wellbeing and an international role-model for doctors living with mental health problems.   As a psychiatrist, therapist and coach she has first-h...

If you've ever looked for demonstrations of coaching online you may have noticed that there aren't many particularly good ones out there.     When looking for great examples of coaching, the two of us are always looking to see exquisite attention and lots of lovely space. We're hoping to hear crisp open questions, accurate summarising and reflecting back and the coach resisting being directive. We...

Some coaches are more comfortable with addressing relationship issues with coachees than others, but the topic is bound to come up eventually in the coaching room.     Whether it's managing a tricky relationship at work, or navigating our communication with those around us, relationships will surface in the coaching room and it's useful to think about how we will handle them as a coach.     We are...

Following on from our last episode on Transactional Analysis, this episode focuses on the key model from the Transactional Analysis approach to coaching; the Parent – Adult – Child Model. This is a model that will help us, as coaches, to understand the ego states that our coachee might be entering into at certain times during interactions with others. It may also help us to talk to coachees about...

Transactional Analysis is a psychological theory that can help us to understand and explore human interactions and relationships.   In this episode we explore, what it is, where it comes from, and how it can be a useful approach to use in the coaching room. We also share two models, The Parent - Adult - Child model, and the Drama Triangle, that might prove useful in the coaching room. Both models...

We will regularly be devoting a podcast episode to discussing some widely held coaching beliefs, common coaching practices and coaching challenges that are often pondered and debated.   Today we are talking about challenging our coachees. Coaching is a supportive space and we engage with our coachees with empathy and positive regard. So, what place does challenge have in the coaching room? Should...

Mindset is a term regularly used within coaching but what exactly is it? How might we encourage someone to reflect on their own mindset in the coaching room? How might we work with coachees to adapt fixed ways they have of thinking about certain areas of their life and allow them to develop and grow.     In this episode we explore the work of Carol Dweck and her Growth Mindset theory. Complete wit...

Following on from our podcast episode about Positive Psychology ( Episode 25 ) we thought it would be helpful to introduce you to a model created by Martin Seligman, the grandfather of Positive Psychology; The PERMA Model   Since its original creation PERMA has been expanded by other positive psychologists to create the PERMAH model, and in this episode we'll be exploring a tool based on this mode...

In this episode we are interviewing another coaching doctor, Dr Sherina Fernandes:   Since completing the Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma with us, Sherina up her own coaching business called Renew Lifestyle, and is passionate about empowering people to take control of their health through coaching around common-sense practical lifestyle changes.    Sherina's current portfolio of roles i...

Positive Psychology is a relatively new branch of psychology and is underpinned by a vast body of research studies. It is a huge topic, so in this episode we will be starting at the beginning and offering an introduction to positive psychology and its relationship to coaching. We'll also be exploring three important elements of positive psychology; positive emotions; working with strengths; and th...

We will regularly be devoting a podcast episode to discussing some widely held coaching beliefs, common coaching practices and coaching challenges that are often pondered and debated.   Accountability is often something that is referred to by coachees as a reason for having coaching; so their coach can be their accountability partner and hold them to account. In this episode we will be exploring a...

Resilience is a favourite topic of Tom's. So much so, he has explored, researched, taught, and written about resilience for a number of years now. So, what better person to ask about how we might explore resilience, or a perceived lack of resilience, when our clients start discussing it in the coaching room? In this episode we explore the various forms that resilience might take; what it might loo...

Whether we view tension within a work or social relationship as conflict, or just the other person being awkward, we will all have our own way of approaching these potentially difficult situations. In this episode we explore how you might help your coachees to understand their approach to difficult situations with others.       A great tool to use when discussing conflict styles with your coachees...

In this episode we are interviewing another coaching doctor, Dr Michelle Gooding.     Since completing her Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma with us, she truly has transformed her working life. She is a coach at The Joyful Doctor and runs her own business, 'The GP Coach' coaching doctors around their wellbeing.   Find out what inspired Michelle to start learning about coaching, and how sh...

In this episode we will be talking about an intervention that represents a bridge between medical consultations and the coaching world: Motivational Interviewing (MI).     MI is a technique that most medical professionals will have some awareness of, as it has its origins in the treatment of alcohol addiction.     We'll be exploring what it is; what are the potential benefits; and how it might be...

We will regularly be devoting a podcast episode to discussing some   widely held coaching beliefs, common coaching practices and coaching challenges that are often pondered and debated. In this episode we will be exploring emotions, and asking the question, Do they belong in the coaching room? Some people worry about what to do when a coachee becomes emotional, or have concerns that it might a nee...