1st July 2019
There are a couple of places left for this week’s Coaching at Work conference in London, at the Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury. The theme is Excellence in Organisational Coaching and Mentoring: Empowering, engaging and inspiring people at work. The conference is always thought-provoking, enjoyable, very well organised and attended, with a mix of internal and […]
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29th May 2019
An excellent new book on coaching supervision has just been published and is highly recommended. Coaching Supervision Advancing Practice, Changing Landscapes, edited by Jo Birch and Peter Welch, has an impressive collection of contributors such as Katherine Long, Elaine Patterson, Alison Hodge and David Clutterbuck and covers a range of subjects from the unconscious mind, […]
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17th May 2019
The Manifesto for Supervision is a “call to arms”: it promotes the importance of supervision in coaching, examines its history, why it is important, summarizes main models and research, considers ethics in supervision and calls for collaboration between industry stakeholders. Written by Peter Hawkins, Eve Turner and Jonathan Passmore, it is jointly published by Henley […]
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10th April 2019
Supervision has a key role to play in coach development, linking theory and practice through the whole action learning cycle and is the core of quality reflective practice. On Wednesday 15th May the Association for Coaching is holding a Master Class to launch a manifesto for supervision in Canary Wharf, London with speakers including AC […]
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22nd March 2019
In the last few weeks I have been reading some very interesting and challenging posts about the future of our planet and the living beings on it. One was written by coach Neil Scotton and considered fracking as a metaphor (drilling into the earth and fracturing rock using a pressurized liquid to release gas) and […]
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12th February 2019
I am delighted to recommend a new book on coaching, called Mastering Executive Coaching. It is edited by three leaders in the field: Jonathan Passmore, Brian Underhill and Marshall Goldsmith and is in 4 parts: Mastering themes: contracting, ethics and evaluation Delivering value to clients: behavioural change, organizational change, exploring meaning, purpose, values and strengths, […]
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