Oasis Podcasts

Challenging or difficult conversations are not something that most of us relish. Generally, none of us like conflict with others, and we tend to put off the challenging discussion that we might need. But what if we were able to say exactly what we need to say, clearly and straightforwardly to another person without destroying our relationship with them? However hard that may feel, there are ways of making it more manageable for yourself and more effective in creating the best solution in the long run.

In this episode, "The art of challenging conversations" you'll hear coach, facilitator and focused mindfulness practitioner Jane Bytheway in conversation with Oasis Co-Director, Glyn Fussell discussing what can help and how to approach more challenging conversations in ways that really work.

We are working In an age where old models of leadership around command and control are rightly becoming obsolete, with many organisations reassessing what they would like their culture to be. Are organisations that take a more coaching and enabling approach to leadership and management more likely to thrive and be better places to work? Does introducing an adult-to-adult approach and coaching as a skill set really help?

In this episode, “Leader as Coach” you’ll hear what author, coach and resilience guru, Jennifer Potter and Glyn Fussell, Oasis Co-Director think about introducing a coaching approach for managers and leaders.

When times are as uncertain as they are at this point in history and when people are unsure about the future, any sense of wellbeing can go out of the window. And yet, without a genuine focus on people and the strategies needed to build a core of resilience, organisations will fail to survive.

In this episode, entitled “Resilience &  Wellbeing, when yoga and a fruit box aren’t enough,” you’ll hear a conversation with author, coach and resilience guru, Jennifer Potter. Jennifer outlines some of the very practical things you can do at an organisational, team, and individual level to boost genuine resilience and wellbeing that makes a difference.

You could say that body has a wisdom of its own - beyond the chatter of intellect and words. It holds our history and, if we pay attention, it can help define our future paths. In working with others to help them learn, grow or heal the body can offer a rich source of data and insight. But what does this really mean to work with the wisdom of the body in practice? How as a coach, facilitator or therapist can you become more attuned to what is being communicated without words? In this conversation we will be exploring this territory from the perspective of two practitioners working in related and different ways to help people become more resourceful and effective.

This Podcast will be great for you if you are engaged in working with others and want to deepen and extend the approach you take.

At this point in time, how we regard ourselves as human beings and our sense of what it takes to live and work with others has never been more important. At the centre of all of this are our relationships with one another; what they mean now and what they will need to mean in an uncertain future where the potential for conflict is on the rise.

In this episode Glyn Fussell is in conversation with Marion Ragaliauskas who is a Co-Director of Oasis School of Human Relations. Over the last 25 years, she has been a key contributor to the development of a school of thought that places the people and their relationships with one another centre stage. Marion has worked extensively with individuals, groups and with whole organisations to help them become freer and more effective in the way they work with others.

Benita Treanor is an extraordinary practitioner, who has made it her life's work to bring a spirit of enquiry, rigor and authenticity into her work as an executive coach, a facilitator and as a coach supervisor. She is also an assessor with the Association for Coaching and a body-centered psychotherapist.

In this conversation Benita explains what coach supervision is, how she got into it, and how important reflection in a safe space is to help us connect when working with others.

Benita shares her belief that in order to meet others where they are, it is essential that we know more about ourselves.

This podcast will be of particular interest to both new and experienced coaches.

Jane Senior has worked extensively with individuals and teams across the world as a coach and in leadership development. She has helped people become more aware of the choices they have, or that they could have through looking at where their energy is best channeled.

After an extremely debilitating illness, she learned from personal experience the importance and value of managing your energy and is now committed to endurance sports, specifically competing internationally as a tri-athlete.

In this conversation, Jane Senior shares with us her research findings on the difference between time management and energy management, recognizing the signs of low energy, and strategies to put in place to help you become more energy conscious.

Carole Ann Jones and Glyn Fussell are experienced coach mentors and founders of the Oasis coaching programme. They are enthusiastic contributors to a school of thought which sees truly effective coaching as more than a set of clever techniques frameworks and approaches. In this podcast, they talk about how to work more deeply and courageously with your clients in a way that takes account of the relationship you have with them. Coaching and Mentoring with Head Heart and Soul is an exploration of what this means in practice and how you can bring more of yourself to your coaching work for your own fulfilment and for the benefit of your clients.

Claire Maxwell is Chair of the GRLI (Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative) and has worked extensively to help people become responsible, courageous leaders in a wide variety of different contexts around the world.

Experience has been Claire's dearest teacher, along with the ancient Greek aphorism "know thyself", including a willingness to dive into the more shadowy elements of the self.

In this conversation, she explores what leadership needs to look like during very uncertain times, the sort of attributes and skills leaders need and how to create an environment where these skills can be developed and valued.

Corinna is an experienced West End actor and also a coach. She has helped people all over the world to understand how to gain more confidence in themselves and to develop more of what is commonly called "presence."

Glyn is a trained actor, leadership coach and director at Oasis. He leads and facilitates Oasis programmes, and like Corinna, has many years' experience helping individuals to develop more presence.

In this conversation, Corinna and Glyn explore what having presence means, sharing some simple techniques to help achieve better presence. Corinna and Glyn have adapted and applied techniques learned as actors into supporting people to be more confident and therefore more present whilst in meetings, in presentations and simply when entering a room.

Their tips and advice demonstrate how relatively small changes can make a huge difference to how we are perceived. And they help us understand how the nervous system reacts when under stress, and how to work through that to ensure presence.