Your Coaching Journey

Your coachees may tell you about a sticky situation or problematic people that they have in their lives, and talk about the stress that this is causing them. Often, one of the options that the coachee has to help resolve the issue is to have a conversation with someone else involved, but they may be avoiding this option.

Understanding why a coachee might be choosing not to have what they might perceive as a difficult conversation is useful and may help you to facilitate the coachee's thinking. This may well result in them deciding to have a crucial conversation with someone that improves their situation.

So in this episode we start to explore the topic of difficult conversations, discussing why people might not be having them, and looking at what might help your coachee to see them from a new perspective.

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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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If you listened to Episode 108 you will have heard Tom discussing the ways in which we might show up in the coaching room.

Tom made the point that an approach of judgement might be an easy way for us to show up in our coaching , but perhaps love might be a more useful way to be in order to draw out the real coachee sitting before us.

Well, one podcast episode didn't provide Tom with enough space to consider the fact that often either the coach or the coachee could show up in fear in the coaching room, for all sorts of reasons.

So this episode continues where Tom left off, and offers his reflections on fear and how an approach of love might dissolve the fear. There are some philosophical musings and even some poetry in this episode, so join Tom, flying solo once again, in another podcast focused on love in the coaching room.

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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.

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Just to avoid any confusion, we are not addressing the topics of romantic love, sexual attraction or attachment in the coaching room in this episode, although they might crop up in a future episode. Tom is on his own for this podcast and is offering some reflections on how we might show up as a coach.

It would be very easy for us to show up in judgement of our coachees and to prove our worth by pointing out the error of their ways. We're the experts after all. We know what's what.

Or maybe, just maybe, we can show up with love, and hold that loving space for someone whilst they explore their situation fully. In showing up with love, we allow the coachee to be their true, authentic self and to feel comfortable in being vulnerable and open with us in what is a protected space and a relationship of trust.

Join Tom in his musings about the nature of love in the coaching room. As he meanders through the podcast he'll be throwing in some reflections on his values and telling some stories to illustrate how love might show up in our coaching.

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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]

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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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We consider the coaching space a sacred one. It is a safe, welcoming, confidential and non-judgemental space that allows the coachee to engage in conversation in an authentic, open and honest way. It is a space that fosters trust and connection.

That's the space that we, as coaches, are looking to create in the coaching room and that requires some presence on our part. But what do we mean when we talk about coaching presence?

In this episode we explore what coaching presence is. We also explore how we might create the optimal conditions for an open and honest coaching conversation that generates new thinking on the part of the coachee.

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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]

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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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It is always wonderful when we hear about the different ways in which our coaching doctors are using their skills, so when Dr Jo Hacking told us about the retreats that she is running, and how impactful adopting a coaching approach on them has been, we thought we really ought to find out more

In this episode Helen catches up with Jo to do just that. Jo has a background as a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine but experienced burnout in 2017/18. She stepped away from medicine completely in 2022 to focus on her family, and her business. Listen in as Helen finds out about Jo's transformational coaching and retreats.

Resources:

You can find out more about Dr Jo Hacking's work and retreats here: https://aboutwellbeingltd.co.uk/

Connect with Jo here:

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/jo-hacking-about-wellbeing

Facebook:https://m.facebook.com/woodlinesreset/

Instagram: @woodlinesart

Youtube: @JoHacking

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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.

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Emotional Intelligence is a relatively new phrase but not a new concept.

The Greeks and the Romans were giving thought to the problems we all have with our emotions thousands of years ago. The fact that we're all still struggling to master our responses to events that produce emotions suggests that we haven't evolved very much emotionally in the last few millennia. So, Emotional Intelligence is definitely a concept worth exploring. Which is exactly what we're doing in this podcast.

Turning to the granddaddy of modern Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman, we're exploring the different domains of his model and giving thought to how Emotional Intelligence shows up in the coaching room.

So, join us for a fascinating discussion about how we might help our coachees to be more emotionally self-aware; better able to manage their responses to emotions; more aware of other's emotions and more accomplished at managing their relationships.

Resources

Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.

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)

Transformational Coaching is all about helping our coachees achieve a change in their lives, whether that be in terms of making lifestyle changes, changing the dynamics of a relationship, or the coachee just changing their perspective.

Change is at the forefront of everything we do and in this podcast episode we're exploring another model, which might just help us to explore the change process with our coachees. The Transtheoretical Model of Change has been used for half a century in the medical world in conversations around change.

Originally used in the context of addiction, the model is commonly used by medics exploring behavioural change relating to health. It also has its place in the coaching world when we're trying to understand where our coachee is on the journey to making the changes they want to see.

Resources:

Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.

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.

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To borrow some words from a famous philosopher, 'No coachee is an island'.

We all exist within some kind of system, whether it's in the workplace, within our social lives, or within a family. In the coaching room there will always be influences and echoes of the coachee's system as they talk through their situation, their experiences and their desired outcomes.

In Gestalt we talk about the contact boundary, where we meet our environment and where our environment meets us, and there is a constant interplay between the two. One cannot fail to have an impact on the other.

In this episode, we take a look at systemic coaching, an approach that acknowledges and explores the dynamics of the systems within which the coachee resides.

Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.

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)

Do you worry about your coaching crossing over in to therapy?

We tend to find that our coaching doctors worry about this, perhaps more so than non-medical people who enter the world of coaching.

In this episode we explore the grey area on the borders of counselling and coaching, including how to navigate it. We will share our own experiences of situations in the coaching room where something other than coaching is required. We hope to set your minds at rest, and provide you with some more understanding, or at least to shine a little light into the grey.

Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.

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:

www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/

www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/

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)

In the last episode we were celebrating our first 100 podcast episodes with some reflections on the coaching tools that the coaching doctors we have interviewed love to use. We had great fun reminding ourselves of the wonderful coaches that we have talked to on the podcast over the past two years.

We had intended to include their favourite coaching questions too, but we got a bit carried away with ourselves and ended up running out of time.

So, this week we are revisiting our coaching interviews and reflecting on the coaching questions that our coaching doctors find most useful in their coaching conversations.

Resources:

Find one of our Transformational Coaches: https://yourcoachingjourney.com/certified-transformational-coaches/

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Contact Details

You can click on the following links to find out more about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma and our Transformational Coaching Diploma for Lifestyle Medicine

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:

www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/

www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/

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)