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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Life on shuffle

… or the importance of being pleasantly surprised! Since Apple introduced the ingenious Shuffle button, enabling mp3 players to mix up tracks from your downloaded choice of music, rather than following an obvious pattern such as listening to the whole album, or many songs by the same artist, or the same genre, my experience of listening [...]

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Nancy Kline and the art of listening

I’ve just returned from a coaching workshop given by Nancy Kline, who is one of my coaching heroes, particularly influential for her Time to Think approach.  What Nancy writes about – and, based on tonight’s experience – also exemplifies, is a full coaching presence in the service of the client: not so much clever questions, or [...]

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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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