Your Coaching Journey

We do like to catch up with doctors who have been through our programme and to find out how they are using coaching in various ways in the real world. In this episode we meet up with Dr Natasha Holmes, who leads an extremely full working life. Natasha is a locum paediatric doctor, life coach, well-being workshop facilitator and mental health advocate. She is co creator of “The Fully Well Doc Pod” podcast which aims to inspire and empower doctors to make changes in their personal and working lives for greater happiness and fulfilment whilst having genuine conversations about the challenges faced by those in the medical profession. Listen in as we ask her how she is using coaching since she qualified with us, and find out her favourite tools and questions to use with clients. Resources: You can listen to Natasha’s podcast here: https://thefullywelldocpod.podbean.com/ Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk 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)

Coaching often revolves around helping someone to raise their self-awareness, and really start to understand their personality, their values, their patterns of behaviour, their emotional responses, their strengths, as well as their vulnerabilities and weaknesses. Coaching is also commonly focused on the coachee’s interactions with others, what they choose to share with those around them, how they are perceived by others, and how they navigate their relationships in an authentic way. In this episode we explore a tool that might help us facilitate this exploration for our coachees. It is a model that supports coachees as they develop personal insight and become aware of how they are perceived. Join us as we take a look through the Johari Window. Resources: Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching 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)

On our podcast we regularly explore the topics that coachees might bring to a coaching conversation. One such topic that shows up a lot in our coaching is motivation or, more specifically, a lack of it. Coachees are often asking how they can feel more motivated, or how we can motivate them. What we often find is that those same coachees who are struggling with their motivation will provide us with evidence of actions that they do feel motivated to take. Sometimes uncovering the motivation they say they’re lacking is just a matter of increasing their awareness and developing their understanding of what’s going on for them. In this episode we journey through some of the psychological theories and frameworks around motivation and explore how they could be useful for our coachees, and also for us as coaches. Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk 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)

Metaphors are an aspect of language that most of us will happily use until the cows come home. However, because we are so used to building metaphor into our speech it passes us by, uncovered, and we are denied the lightbulb moments that might guide us if we were to wake up and smell the coffee. In this episode, we serve up a way of plucking metaphors from a coachee’s language and putting them under the microscope, thus adding colour to our coaching tapestry. This may allow our coachees to mine a rich vein of awareness that could have remained buried without this approach. Personal transformations will bloom, hurdles will turn to stepping stones, and new thinking will percolate as we shine a light on the metaphors within our coaching conversations. Watch Caitlin Walker’s Ted Talk on the way she introduced clean language to the world of teenage education. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVvcU5gG4KU&t=768s Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching 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)

We regularly see psychological and coaching models being shared on social media, in blogs and discussions, and sometimes the sharing sets our teeth on edge. We’ve mentioned this before when we explored the myth of Ikigai, and in this episode, we’d like to air some thoughts on a model often shared on social media, Kübler-Ross Change Curve. In this episode we would like to engage in a little mythbusting around where this model comes from, why it’s unhelpful to call it the Kübler-Ross Change Curve, and under what circumstances talking about change in terms of curve may, or may not be useful. Resources: Not The Kubler-Ross Change Curve Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk 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)

We can’t quite believe that we’ve arrived at the milestone of recording 50 episodes of the Your Coaching Journey podcast! We thought we might run out of things to say to one another after half a dozen, but here we are, still having great conversations about coaching almost a year on from recording our first episode. We’ve loved every minute of it. More than that, we’ve loved hearing from you that you love it too. As it’s our 50th episode we thought we’d indulge in a little self-promotion, which we seldom do, so this week we’re talking about how our Transformational Coaching Diploma programme came to exist, what makes it different to many coaching courses and what we love about running it. If you would like to find out more once you’ve listened to this episode, do get in touch, or if you have a colleague who is interested in learning to coach just direct them to our website https://yourcoachingjourney.com/ Resources: Listen to and read testimonials from our graduates: https://yourcoachingjourney.com/testimonials/ Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review on your regular podcast platform Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk 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)

From time to time we devote an episode to questions about coaching that have been asked by our listeners. In this episode we explore whether, as a new coach who hasn’t quite got all the tools at your fingertips, you can still be a great coach. We also chat about pricing, whether it’s worth being accredited as a coach, and what you need to think about if you’re working in an organisation and they are paying you to coach a member of their staff. If you have a question to ask about coaching and would like us to answer it for you on the podcast, do send us your questions, or even drop us a voice note of your question, and we’ll feature it on a future episode. Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter 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)

If you’re a regular listener to our podcast you will have noticed that we regularly discuss how we might deal with different topics that show up in the coaching room. This week we discussed working with coachees around meaning and purpose. Coachees may not always come to coaching asking for support on finding meaningful purpose, but often they’ll talk about feeling stuck, feeling lost, or feeling as though they’re in a bit of a rut. At these times a conversation around what their purpose is and what is meaningful to them can encourage them to generate some new thinking about what might add more meaningful purpose to their life. You might well have had times in your own life when you’ve had similar feelings and struggled to find a way through that time. Coaching conversations provide the perfect opportunity to open up this deeper thinking for the coachee. In this episode we explore the concepts of meaning, purpose, and meaningful purpose, and what elements might contribute to the notion of living a meaningful life. Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk 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)

Whilst journalling isn’t a tool that you would necessarily wish to use in the coaching room, it can still be a useful concept to introduce to your coachees. Well, Helen thinks so anyway. Tom isn’t entirely convinced, but has his own ideas around when journalling might be useful. In this episode Helen shares some reflections on journaling and also describes her own experience of keeping a journal. She also introduces a journalling method that she would happily invite her coachees to try out. While not entirely on board with the idea of regular journalling, Tom shares some insights into an alternative form of expressive writing that he has used with some success. As you will hear, we don’t always entirely agree on the topics we discuss, and think it would be rather strange if we did. We know that our differences make life in general, and our podcast conversations in particular, a little more interesting. Hopefully, our differences of opinion will generate some new thinking on your part too, as you explore coaching topics for yourself and settle on your own views. Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching 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)

In our journey through the different approaches to coaching, we’d like to introduce you to Transformational Coaching. Transformational Coaching is a flexible and integrative approach that allows coaches to explore a variety of topics and concerns with their coachees and to be agile in the coaching room. This agility enables coaches to move smoothly between different ways of being with their coachees as required. The integrative nature of Transformational Coaching provides a variety of tools and techniques that have their roots in psychology, are often evidence backed and encourage coaches to create their own unique approach to coaching. In this episode, we will share what Transformational Coaching means to us, what it involves, and why we offer this approach in our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma. Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching 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)

We regularly see psychological and coaching models being shared on social media, in blogs and discussions, and sometimes the sharing sets our teeth on edge. “What’s the cause of this mild irritation?” you may ask. Well we like to try to get our information sharing right and we carry out plenty of research around the subjects we talk about on our podcast. But we know that not everyone does the same. So when we know that information is being misrepresented or misinterpreted in some way, we have a slight reaction to it. Ikigai is one of those models that has become a phenomenon online in a way that’s not particularly helpful. In this episode we would like to do a little mythbusting around Ikigai and help to ensure that you, as a coach, are sharing the right information with your clients. We will talk about the origins of the diagram, why it’s not Ikigai, and what Ikigai actually is. Resources: Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk 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)

From time to time we devote an episode to questions that our listeners have asked about coaching. In this episode we explore how to handle a coachee who doesn’t seem to be taking action between coaching sessions; what support we should expect to provide a coachee between sessions; how to explore whether our coaching is effective and receive feedback on our coaching; and what insurance you need to think about as a coach. Do send us your questions, or even drop us a voice note of your question to be featured on a future episode. Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching 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)

If you’re a regular listener to our podcast you will have noticed that we regularly discuss how we might deal with different topics that show up in the coaching room. We recognise that everyone will have experienced some negative thinking about themselves from time to time and that’s just part of the human condition. For most people this can be a little annoying or frustrating, and doesn’t cause too much of a problem for much of the time. But there are times when, for some coachees, the inner voice becomes louder and more persistent. At times like these, this inner dialogue can become a barrier to a coachee’s personal or professional growth and often has an adverse impact on their self esteem. This phenomenon is often termed the ‘Inner Critic’. In this episode we explore the concept of the Inner Critic; what it is, how we might spot it coming up for a coachee, and what tools and techniques might be useful in the coaching room to help to quieten this unhelpful voice and allow other parts of our coachees’ inner dialogue to be show up more often and be more noticeable. Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter 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)

Following on from our episode about neuroscience in coaching in this episode we focus on the SCARF model, which has its origins in social neuroscience. SCARF was developed as a model by leadership expert David Rock and helps us to focus our attention on an organising principle in the brain; to minimise threat and maximise reward. Rock’s assertion is that this principle leads us to move away from threat and move towards reward. Furthermore Rock identifies five domains that produce either a threat or reward response in individuals within any social group, Assisting a coachee in exploring their situation through this model can help them to gain new perspectives, understand themselves and their reactions better, modify their own thinking and behaviours, and understand the responses of others. Resources: To watch the monkey video mentioned in this podcast visit: https://youtu.be/meiU6TxysCg?si=Zm1lo_R-LculFpoF To view the SCARF+ model visit: https://yourcoachingjourney.com/the-scarf-model/ Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching 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)

Firstly, just to be clear, we are not neuroscientists! However, we do know that having some awareness of key elements of neuroscience can help us to support our clients well. In this episode we explore our understanding of the disciplines that underpin neuroscience and the complex nature of the interactions of a number of different elements of our physiological neural make-up. We take a look at how we might use some awareness of the brain and body’s reactions to events and how we might conduct a little neuro-education with our coachee around the topic. In this very brief overview of neuroscience, we provide a taster on the subject to whet your appetite so that you are inspired to explore the subject further. We also share our thoughts on the very limited number of neuroscience research studies available to us involving coaches and what they might be telling us. Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching 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)

Coaching is so often seen as an intervention that supports the achievement of goals, and in this podcast we would like to challenge this belief. We will explore the idea that, whilst coaching is often concerned with goals, there is some much richer territory available to us in the coaching room. A great deal of coaching training tends to start with goals and helping move coachees towards them and organisations tend to have a focus on goal achievement when commissioning coaching. In the coaching room, the coachee may bring a goal to coaching and may want to be coached around creating a plan to achieve the goal, but we have an opportunity as coaches to explore the ‘WHY?’ that sits behind the goal . Beyond this the coaching space will hopefully evolve into a transformative space where new thinking can happen about deeper aspects of the coachee’s world. If you think you need a goal to come to coaching you could be missing out on some powerful personal work. And if you’re a coach who would like to help people make bigger changes in their life, listen in as we explore this topic and discuss where we think the power of coaching truly sits. Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching 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)

In this episode we are interviewing a coaching doctor, Dr Amy-Jo Farrow. Amy-Jo Farrow is an Occupational Health Physician and a Coach for Doctors. Her coaching work focuses on supporting doctors to recover from burnout, return to work, and craft a more sustainable future. Listen in to find out what inspired Amy-Jo to start coaching, find out more about her personal approach to coaching, her favourite coaching tool and her favourite coaching question. Resources: You can contact Amy-Jo here: Website: www.dramyjofarrow.com Email: hello@dramyjofarrow.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dr-amy-jo-farrow-3b9612279 Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching 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)

It’s not often that people come to coaching because they’re an introvert, but it is an aspect of personality that can surface in a number of different ways, or sit behind some of the issues that coachees might want to tackle with you. In this episode we explore what introversion is, how you might recognise an introverted client and what some of the challenges might be for your introverted coachees. We talk about how you might work with someone who has an introversion preference and even have some strategies for thriving as an introvert in the workplace. Also, if you’re an introvert, we will explain some of the reasons why you might have a headstart in becoming an excellent coach. Resources: Here’s the TED talk that we referenced in this episode: https://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching 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)

Following on from our exploration of Gestalt coaching in our previous episode, in this podcast we explore one of the models that originates in Gestalt, the Cycle of Experience (CoE), in greater detail. The CoE is a Gestalt model that illustrates how individuals move through their experience of a situation. The model incorporates different stages that people might move through in order to complete the cycle and move on to a different experience. On this podcast we explore the CoE model and identify each of the different stages that someone could be at when they arrive in the coaching room. Having an awareness of the CoE helps coaches to meet coachees where they are and work with them at that stage of the cycle. Increasing a coachee’s own awareness of where they are in the CoE and inviting them to really take notice of what they are experiencing in the here and now of a coaching session can be really powerful. The CoE is also useful in helping coachee’s to understand why they might be ‘stuck’ at one of the stages of the cycle and struggling to move forward. If you’re interested in helping coachees to understand their situation better and to increase their awareness of how they are connecting with their world, the CoE model could be really useful. It will also help you to support your coachees in gaining an acceptance of who they are in the current moment and exploring how they might move forward towards completing the cycle of experience. Resources: Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching 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)

On our transformational coaching diploma we explore many different approaches to coaching and the Gestalt approach is one of them. It is an approach that lends itself to working in a transformational way with the coachee and is very much about helping them to become more who they are. In being more who they are, the coachee can start to bring about the change they wish to see more easily. And if they bring about the change they would like to see in a way that is aligned with who they are, the coachee is likely to find that their life makes a lot more sense to them. In this episode we explore what Gestalt Coaching is and when it is useful to use a Gestalt approach. We will also be taking a look at some of the Gestalt techniques that are used within the coaching room. Resources: Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching 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)