Coaching Presence

Lyssa deHart MCC shares insights into the neuroscience of metaphors and describes how they light up the brain of our coaching clients.

Christi gives useful insights into the ways neurodiversity may affect coaches and their clients. She shares personal experience and argues the reasons why she believes people with neurodiversity make great coaches.

Mary Berkery talks about the coaching work she does facilitated with horses. She discusses the evolution of the horse, how as a prey animal they have a heightened sensory system - meaning they can be mirrors to our human emotions. Mary recognises that we don't always have easy access to horses - and suggests ways we might replicate some of this work in other ways.

Joseph O'Connor discusses how an understanding of the brain can help our work as coaches. He talks about the neuroscience of goals, how we might notice our client's thinking patterns. He also shares why a mindfulness practice is important for coaches.

Tünde Erdös shares insights from her research into coaching presence. She offers some surprising findings and suggests ways we can deepen this essential competency.

Katerina Kanelidou discusses the ICF Team Coaching Competencies. She shares the key differences with the ICF Competency Framework, some specific considerations and complexities when working in this area.

Dr Clare Beckett-McInroy shares her experience of using cards in coaching. She considers different ways of working with them, ethical considerations, best practice and gives a practical demonstration of their use in a live mini coaching session.

Elaine discusses the principles of reflection and shares some ideas for reflective practice. She dips into the choreography of her book Reflect to Create and her campaign to encourage reflective practices that are light and creative.

Lily describes the difference between supervision and mentoring and shares the benefits coaches can experience by being in supervision. She then gives some ideas for how to prepare and how to max the experience

Dr Samantha Graham shares the importance of 'rolling up the scroll', staying present rather than dwelling on our pasts or trying to predict what might happen in our futures. With her company State of Mind, Sam trains leadership teams and sports teams with a suite of 22 tools to help them build mental muscle and resilience to improve performance and wellbeing. Same shares some of these tools with us, and discusses how we might use them when feeling overwhelm.

Sharon Jansen and Karen White join me to talk about what is means to coach courageously. How we know when we are coaching with courage? How our intuition and body wisdom might help us.

Linda shares her experience of coaching across cultures in the Middle East, Africa and South America. She discusses the competencies needed to work in a cross-cultural arena and considerations we should take into account.

Karen Pratt talks about Transactional Analysis - why this psychological model is so useful to coaches and how we might work with it

In this interview with Vanessa Talbot, Mary Anna Wright sets out the Five Duties of being a professional coach and how understanding them, using them to plan and track your work can help you thrive. Originally aired in Vanessa's Coaches, Changemakers: Step into the Spotlight! group

Interview series for Coaches, Changemakers - Step into the Spotlight. Vanessa Talbot interviews Mary Anna Wright asking why coaches need an holistic approach to their work.

Mary Anna Wright is interviewed by Vanessa Talbot for her Coaches, Changemakers: Step into the Spotlight! facebook group. Mary Anna shares information on The Five Duties and some tips for deepening competency.

Karen White joins to review the year

Alex van Oostveen and Andrew Matthews join a discussion on coach supervision. They share some theory, and talk through the practical implications - what actually happens in a coach supervision session and what being in supervision feels like.

Tara Nolan discusses Team Coaching, the key skills we need as coaches to work in this area. She talks about the challenges faced by leaders as many teams are housed virtually. Finally she gives us an overview of some of the key lessons from her Game of Teams podcast.

Penny discusses whether we are too reliant on words in coaching. She introduces techniques for work with objects and the foundations of her work with the Bead Trail. She closes with a visualisation exercise.