One of the more unkind things that I do during my coaching workshops is to ask people to find someone in the room that they don’t know very well and to sit facing them, as if for a conversation. By this stage, we will have covered body language and attentive listening and so the willing […]
The intimate space between two people Read More »
What used to matter was getting presents. The occasion didn’t matter so much, it might have been the eye-boggling pile of gifts under a sparkling tree or simply the return of my oldest sister from University bearing Clarnico Mint Creams (which required an exclusive eating technique to keep them soft throughout the period of consumption).
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A tremendous start to the week this week leading a two-day Manager as Coach workshop at United World College of South East Asia. Although I have led more of these events than I can number, across schools and corporates from the UK to Hong Kong and from the Philippines to Singapore, each workshop is different
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We tell so many stories about ourselves. We tell our remembered stories, we retell the stories that have been told about us and we tell of the stories that are yet to be told. To express that more simply: ‘I used to…she said I had…I’m going to…’ None of those stories are necessarily true. Certainly
Process and ritual. Never have I been more aware of the importance of these things than when I sat up into the night on 20th January 2021 to watch the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States. As I watched a ceremony that I have honestly never sat all the way through before,
