Coaching can be seen as a mechanism. A set-duration meeting between two people in which a framework, or curated space, is created for the problem-solving process of one of those people.
And this view of coaching is true enough, as far as it goes; the coaching session is indeed a core and vital part of…
I’m still taken by surprise by the power of coaching.
Usually it’s when I see a coachee make a particular breakthrough, or come to a realisation that had been lurking under the surface. But it’s useful sometimes to remind myself of what that feels like from the other side of the fence.
Recently I was…
Self care, like many aspects of working life, is not innate; it is a skill that needs to be nurtured as part of our professional development. Sadly, it is often also a skill that gets overlooked until we hit a crisis point.
When I first joined AWS I took an unusual tack in my interview.…
I’ve always been a diplomat.
I think it stems from childhood; as an eldest child in a sometimes fractious household, I often found myself cast in the role of mediator between arguing parents. It was my self-appointed job to calm things down, to find common ground, and to move things forward.
I took this…
I am so happy to feature Gabriela Alvarez on my blog page this month. Gabriela is a certified Somatic coach and qigong practitioner. She has been co-leading my seasonal wellbeing workshops this year.
Living at the frontier, between excitement and serenity.
Through the lens of Chinese medicine and Qigong.
“I have a commitment to being at the frontier,…
