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26th June 2020

So I think I know me?

  I am delighted to be supporting Judy Ryde as she facilitates a 90-minute workshop on cultural assumption for APECS on 9th July at lunchtime (UK time). It is free and open to everyone, members and non-members so please do attend if you are able. The Indian philosopher Krishnamurthy said: “You might think you are […]

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5th January 2020

Systemic Coaching – Delivering Value Beyond the Individual

Peter Hawkins and I are delighted to announce the publication of our book, Systemic Coaching: Delivering Value Beyond the Individual with thanks to our publishers Routledge, our contributors through case studies and vignettes, our generous endorsers and to Jasmine Angell, the illustrator who designed the apt and beautiful cover. The book covers a range of […]

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2nd December 2019

What is the role of coaches in the climate crisis?

In early December political leaders and climate diplomats are meeting in Madrid for COP25, against a background described by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as “the point of no return is no longer over the horizon.”  With rising sea levels; a warming climate; melting ice caps; more floods, droughts, forest fires, cyclones; the loss of […]

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17th May 2019

The Manifesto for Supervision

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

The Launch of the Manifesto for Supervision – May 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

Coaching, supervising and ecology

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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