Coaching Presence

Alex van Oostveen and Andrew Matthews join a discussion on coach supervision. They share some theory, and talk through the practical implications - what actually happens in a coach supervision session and what being in supervision feels like.

Tara Nolan discusses Team Coaching, the key skills we need as coaches to work in this area. She talks about the challenges faced by leaders as many teams are housed virtually. Finally she gives us an overview of some of the key lessons from her Game of Teams podcast.

Penny discusses whether we are too reliant on words in coaching. She introduces techniques for work with objects and the foundations of her work with the Bead Trail. She closes with a visualisation exercise. 

In this episode Coach and Mediator Sharon Wakeford talks about her book Walking the Way - In Wonder and Words. A series of letters written to people she has encountered on the Camino de Santiago. Sharon shares some lessons from the pilgrimage, an unpacking of awareness and the chafing one can experience from our interpretations of others.

Niamh Hannan discusses the uses of mindfulness in coaching and shares a mindfulness exercise that helps balance our emotions when considering our clients.

Sharon Jansen and Karen White join the conversation to talk about designing life after 'always on', and consider the impact of not switching off from work pressure and the online world. Karen discusses the role of language in our ability to respond to requests, Sharon talks about the importance of boundaries.

Mark offers a clearing conversation to help create the psychological safety needed in order to allow us to fully explore our biases and assumptions.

Amanda Scott shares her research into networks. She provides a framework 'personal boardroom' to help coaches and their clients build sustainable networks that serve a variety of functions. She also discusses how networks might need to develop in the 'new normal' of the Covid pandemic where virtual meetings have replaced traditional physical meeting opportunities. 

Sally Bendersky is a genuinely transformational presence. She joins the conversation from Santiago in Chile, sharing some of the techniques she has learned in her coaching practice and through her experience as a diplomat.  

"We don't only have conversations in language - simultaneously we are always held by an emotion, and the emotion expresses itself in our physiology and our physical presence"

Sally is passionate about creating organisations that encourage human beings to access their full potential. She shares some key tools to enable this - through supporting the development of quality relationships.

Sally Bendersky is author of several books including Co-Creating Happiness and A Novel Entrepreneur: A Heart Centered Path to Fulfillment she also writes in Pebbles in the Pond: Transforming the World One Person at a Time.

Anne shares the story of how she created Grace Trail.  From a 'life tsunami' she created a source of positivity that is now used by people around the world. There are five stages to Grace: Gratitude, Release, Accept, Challenge, Embrace. From these stages, Anne developed five questions: