Beyond Empathy: Breathing Love into the Heart of Conflict?
At this particular time, I meet many people who find themselves disturbed and distressed by watching the news, as global events erupt around the world. In many of my global talks, feelings of overwhelm, powerlessness, disturbed sleep with disturbing dreams, anger, depression, despair have all been shared.
Start Before You’re Ready: Practising Systemic Coaching Early in Your Training
One of the things I often hear from people starting their Systemic Team Coaching® journey is a quiet, almost embarrassed question: “Should I really be working with clients when I haven’t finished all the training?”
It’s a completely understandable hesitation. You want to honour the depth of the work, not overstep, and you’re probably feeling the weight of doing it ‘properly’. I’ve seen this in almost every cohort I’ve supported, and I remember that same feeling myself.
The Power of “La Pausa” in Team Coaching: Center and Enter
In team coaching, the ability to pause and be fully present isn’t just a skill—it’s a strategic advantage. Recently, while teaching timeouts (or as some prefer, La Pausa) to a global cohort of team coaching practitioners, the phrase “center and enter” surfaced as a guiding principle.
Christmas Crackers 2024
13 new crackers for Systemic Team Coaches®. Thank you to all those who came to the Book Launch for my new book “Beauty in Leadership and Coaching: And Its Role In Transforming Human Consciousness”. If you purchase it from Routledge directly, you can use..
Beyond Psychological Safety to Collective Psychological and Relational Maturity
I was working with an action learning group of very senior partners in one of the world’s leading professional services firms. They were all sharing how “Time-poor they were”, how their week was over-filled with meetings and incessant e-mails…
From Grumble to Gratitude – four steps to align with life’s agenda
I was working with an action learning group of very senior partners in one of the world’s leading professional services firms. They were all sharing how “Time-poor they were”, how their week was over-filled with meetings and incessant e-mails…
Is Your Inner Team more than the sum of its parts?
In coaching teams over the last forty years in many parts of the world, I have realised that one of the teams that most needs coaching is our own ‘inner team’. Each of us has many different roles which are matched by different sub-person…
Dancing on The Learning Edge
The dance of renewal, the dance that made the world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the foggy coast.” Ursula Le Guin (1989)
-All Coaching, Team Coaching, Team Meetings, Conferences are most creative when they quickly travel to the ‘Learning Edge’ and discover how to be creative t…
Transforming David Kantor’s Four Player model of Team Roles
The late David Kantor (17 December 1927 – 28 March 2021) made a very valuable contribution to exploring different roles and communication patterns in teams. His “Four Player” model, proposed that there are four different roles team memb…
How do I increase my ‘Confidence’ as a team coach?
What do we mean by confidence? Where does the word come from? The prefix con, in Latin means ‘with’ or ‘connected to’. Fidence, also comes from the Latin, and is connected to ‘fides’ which can mean either’ to have trust in,’ or ‘to have faith that’.
