Your Coaching Journey

In a bid to help our coachees generate new thinking, it might be useful to introduce them to a coaching tool called 'The Six Thinking Hats', which was created by Dr. Edward De Bono, a Maltese physician who is probably best known for introducing the world to the concept of lateral thinking.

In this podcast episode we explore what 'The Six Thinking Hats' offers to the world of coaching and give our thoughts on why it is such a useful model to generate new thinking and new perspectives in the coaching room.

We even play out a little vignette of a coaching session for a GP looking to introduce a new initiative into her practice. I don't think we'll be winning any awards for our acting, but it might help to hear how the thinking hats could be used.

Edward De Bono's hats were, of course, metaphorical, but the use of actual hats is always optional.

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Helen:

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We believe that coaching is all about helping our coachees to generate new thinking. However, in order to generate new thinking, it's useful for our coachees to know what they're already thinking and what has led them to tell the stories they're telling.

There is power, wisdom and insight sitting within the stories our coachees tell, as well as contradiction, tension and dissonance, if only we took the time to really listen and be truly present.

Narrative coaching taps into our coachee's storytelling, seeking to uncover the beliefs, the assumptions, the internal struggles and the different parts that they are playing. Through this fascinating approach to coaching, we can start to explore the tales our coachee's tell and start to discern what is a helpful story and when, perhaps, a better, alternative story might be advantageous for the coachee to tell.

In this episode of our podcast, we explore what narrative coaching is, where it comes from and how it can be used when helping coachees to explore the situations they face and the stories they are telling themselves.

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Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

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We love that coaching helps our coachees to generate new thinking. If you're self-aware as a coach and continue to engage in reflective practice your coaching conversations are going to help you to develop your own thinking too.

But what happens when your unconscious thought processes start to get in the way of your own performance in the coaching room, and your coachee's unconscious prohibits their ability to think through their situation in an open and expansive way.

In this episode we explore unconscious bias and how the phenomenon might impact us as coaches, as well as limiting our coachee's ability to do some really good thinking. The problem with unconscious biases is that we don't know we have them, even though we recognise that other people are subject to them; a phenomenon known as the bias blindspot.

We believe that unconscious bias is a fascinating subject to shine a light on and to identify some rather interesting specific biases. So, we'll be doing a little bit of that as well as exploring how we, as coaches, can remain open to the possibility of us bringing our own biases into the coaching room. We'll also discuss how you are able to introduce the idea of unconscious bias to your coachees, allowing them to consciously bring some of their own biases to light and start to unpick them. Awareness is the first step to being able to mindfully dispel some of our more unhelpful unconscious thinking.

We hope you enjoy the conversation and that it starts your own journey of self-discovery around your unconscious biases.

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Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

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In this episode Tom will be chatting with Dr Jo Watkins.

Jo is a portfolio GP, adventure-loving mum of four, co-founder of an organisation supporting teenage girls and this year has started her own podcast.

Jo completed the Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma with us in 2022 and has been putting her learning to good use as a mentor and coach to other medics and health care professionals who are starting their own businesses.

Tom caught up with Jo to find out about her fascinating journey through the world of medicine and on to the world of self-employed coaching and supporting medics in starting their own digital businesses. Jo shares her favourite coaching tool, her favourite coaching question and shares her thoughts on what learning to coach has given her and why she finds coaching so empowering.

We even find time to talk about Jo's latest obsession, Nordic Walking!

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Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

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From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

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Resources:

You can connect with Dr Jo Watkins on Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jo-watkins-849195190/

And discover more about her work here: https://www.jowatkins.com/

Whether you're at the beginning of your coaching journey, or are a more experienced coach, there are always questions to be asked and answers to explore.

In this episode we are going to be talking about the first steps you will need to take when starting a coaching business, and we share our thoughts on business plans. plus we consider how you can help a client to stay positive and motivated to take the steps they identify as being required to achieve their desired outcome and what can help a people pleaser?

We love listeners' questions time, and always look forward to hearing from you. If there is something about coaching that you're wondering about, even if you've already taken it to your supervisor, it may be that others have similar concerns, so send us a message.

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Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

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From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.

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Our social connections are vital to our wellbeing as human beings. Every model of wellbeing has relationships as one of its components but it very rarely gets talked about directly with patients, clients or coachees. We talk about physical health and mental health, but social health tends to get overlooked.

Much of the deep thinking that's been dedicated to the issue, from Aristotle to Brené Brown, recognises that it's the deeper connections that we have with people that are the most important. But how do we talk to coachees about their social health and support them in giving thought to navigating their relationship landscape and strengthening some of those human bonds.

In this episode we explore some of the research and developing ideas around social health, We also discuss ways in which we might start to have meaningful conversations with our coachees about their own social health.

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Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

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Do You Have a Question?

From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

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Mindfulness has been a bit of a buzzword in recent years, however, the idea of mindfulness and the practice of meditation has been around for thousands of years. How does it fit in with coaching? And how can you utilise it in the coaching room, for your coachee or for your own benefit?

From stepping into a non judgmental space, creating a vision for the future, and generating new perspectives, meditation and mindfulness can be gently powerful.

Following on from episode 83 where we explored the Transpersonal Coaching approach, in this episode Helen will take us through some ideas to inspire you to try a bit of meditation and mindfulness in your coaching practice, and top tips to take on board as you get started.

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Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

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Do You Have a Question?

From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

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Transpersonal Coaching, which is often referred to as Spiritual Coaching, sits on the periphery of mainstream coaching, and is often regarded as a little bit too woo for some coaches to consider.

In this episode we explore what it is, what it's not and what it could be. We also consider why some people might choose to engage with Transpersonal Coaching, either as a coaching approach in its own right, or as an approach to borrow from, weaving elements of it into an integrated, holistic approach.

With a long held interest in exploring various spiritual philosophies, and developing her own beliefs and spirituality, Helen introduces the key themes of this approach and gives us her thoughts on it. Tom will offer his own perspective and some gentle challenges to the concept of Transpersonal Coaching.

Resources:

This is Helen's idea of the elements that make up spiritual or transpersonal coaching.

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Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

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From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.

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Having trained over 250 doctors to coach and with another 50 or so currently participating in our training programmes, we have noticed that they do have some wonderful transferable skills. We've also noticed that most of the doctors that come to learn to coach have some common challenges that crop up for them when it comes to learning to coach.

Some of these challenges stem from the personalities of our coaching doctors and some stem from their education, training and the constraints of the system they work within.

In this episode we follow up on Episode 78 of the podcast where we explored Personality Profiling. We talk through some of our observations of the challenges that stem from the personality differences and individual working styles of those that we train. Tom also has some interesting statistics to share about our coaching doctor population.

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Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

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Do You Have a Question?

From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.

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In this episode Helen chats with Dr Jo Hartley, a delegate on one of our early Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma courses.

Jo is a former Emergency Medicine Consultant now working as a career and life coach for doctors. She works with doctors in training in her local professional support and wellbeing service and runs a business delivering workshops and coaching for hospital consultants.

Helen caught up with Jo to find out about her journey into the world of self employed coaching, her favourite coaching tools and questions, and what learning to coach has given her. Jo also has the unique perspective of having trained with us whilst also participating in an ILM5 coaching course, and shares some of the differences that she found between the two.

Resources:

You can find out more about Dr Jo Hartley on her website: https://www.drjohartley.com/ or connect with her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jo-hartley/

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Contact Details

Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

Follow 'Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin:

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Do You Have a Question?

From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.

(If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)