A Conversation Called Coaching

A Conversation Called Coaching

There are a lot of interpretations of what coaching is and isn’t these days. It has become fashionable to say one is a coach even when most people have difficulty saying exactly what a coach is. I find an analogy with nursing helpful. Any person can support someone to...
There’s No Avoiding Shame…

There’s No Avoiding Shame…

and that’s a good thing. This week I lived through a personal experience that exemplifies to me how the ontological interpretation of emotions is useful for understanding and navigating life. The event that put things in motion was that an organizational client...
A Good Conversation is a Great Thing…

A Good Conversation is a Great Thing…

and we never know where we’ll end up. One of the great things about true conversations is that we end up learning things and exploring places we had no idea existed before. Sometimes they change the way we think and sometimes they reinforce it but somehow we see...
Dignity

Dignity

Recently this email arrived from a former student and coach: “Thanks so much for your email. I cried when I read it but, this time, the crying was good – felt nourishing. The emotion of ‘dignity’ feels very right. I was trying to get to “hope”...
Growing Awareness

Growing Awareness

I’ve always thought about awareness as something a bit mystical and difficult to pin down. It seemed like a good idea but I had put it into the “either you have it or you don’t” column. I’d come to think that either people “were” or “were not” aware. Very...