Is this coaching?
“I was rather taken aback, the client talked a lot about her current relationship difficulties and seemed to want to focus on that, is that coaching? It felt more like counselling”. The implied question seems to be that if this is the content, is that still coaching? For me, the answer is yes. I also …
Longing for apology
I have recently read a remarkable book, The Apology, by Eve Ensor. in this short book she writes the apology she would have liked her father to make to her for the years of sexual and emotional abuse he subjected her to. When I saw her being interviewed she said she had written this as …
Coaching to Change Lives
Gabor Maté, in a recent talk on Healing as a Subversive Act identified the major health indicators in our society are rapidly growing. In those indicators he includes autoimmune diseases, mental health, and addictions. The number of prescription medicines taken also increasing at an alarming rate. In coaching we meet those with depression, anxiety, other …
Talking about suicide: a survival strategy in response to psychological trauma
Suicide has been in the news recently, with the deaths of two high profile people and a series of deaths at the University of Bristol. Those who lose someone close through suicide often ask “why?”; “why now?”; “ “what signs were missed?”. Some feel guilty or angry, and all feel the empathetic pain of someone …
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Coaching and Trauma – the shadows of the past in the present
I’ve been engaged in several things this week. I am preparing for our two day workshop in June, writing a chapter of my book on Coaching/Therapy boundaries in relation to working with trauma, and writing up my notes from reading ‘In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts’ by Dr Gabor Maté. They are all interweaving in …
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The Traumatised Self
As I sit here, in the light of bigger skies in the south of France, where I have come to focus on a number of writing commitments, I am thinking of February and beyond. Imagining what might be helpful and interesting for the APECS session and how best to form a bridge between the world …
What has trauma got to do with coaching? Or coaching got to do with trauma?
Integrative executive coaching: exploring the interplay between psyche, role and environment I have been involved in the Coaching explosion and fragmentation (life coaching, executive coaching, business coaching, health coaching, spiritual coaching) for 25 years. It has been interesting to see the rapid growth and appeal. I have also been a supervisor of coaches for some …
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