bearing witness

One of the greatest joys of coaching for me is the opportunity to bear witness to another person’s ‘a-ha!’ moment, the privilege of witnessing the birth of a new insight, way of being and looking at the world.  And all it takes on the part of the coach is the ability to sit still, patient [...]

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the power of Kit-kat

A few weeks ago, I was waiting in the reception of a large consultancy, together with a few other people…  We were sharing our space in that typical big-city way, where the done thing is to avoid eye contact, and stare pointedly at a newspaper or one of the free magazines on offer, while waiting for [...]

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If everybody’s talking, who’s listening?

Just read an interesting article – online of course – in Wall Street Journal about the end of the e-mail era, to be replaced with more instant, one-to-many ways of communicating, such as Twitter, Yammer and Facebook.  And it made me think: if all of us are Tweeting away and updating our status on Facebook with [...]

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A digital cigarette

I’ve set up this blog as a moment of reflection in the daily grind of busy-ness and action, as a way for me to ponder mindfully on some of the thoughts and ideas constantly streaming through my brain, and then by sharing them with others, hopefully to link to a bigger community of bloggers, thinkers and [...]

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