SERVICES
I offer a small range of services based on my core areas of expertise, drawn from extensive professional experience, robust training, academic study and research, and underpinned by significant personal inner work.
My approach is based on the belief that we have all the resources we need to achieve our goals, to be empowered and inspired.
My role is to create the conditions for you to release creativity, connect to a sense of meaning and purpose, and achieve your objectives through a calm confidential listening space, supported by insightful questions, effective feedback and thoughtful challenge.
COACHING
What is Coaching?
Simply put, coaching is a focused, intentional dialogue. Working with a coach can help you to achieve goals, gain clarity and make better decisions, find solutions to challenging problems, be more innovative and creative.
Talking things through and exploring your thinking with a skilled coach is one of the best ways to improve your effectiveness in any area of life, to take control of how you respond to events and to shape your destiny, both at work and in your personal life.
Working with a coach offers the opportunity to update and expand your thinking and open to a sense of possibility. Good coaching provides a sense of agency and empowerment.
My fundamental belief in coaching is that you already have all the resources you need to solve an issue, overcome a barrier or achieve your goal. My role as a coach is to sit alongside you, actively listening, offering effective feedback, asking insightful questions, and challenging deeply. I don’t need to have experience of your issue or your business. In fact, the fewer assumptions I have as a coach the better. Often the simplest questions are the most powerful.
Coaching is usually focused on specific issues and is time-limited (i.e. a fixed number of sessions).
SUPERVISION
How does it work?
I provide support through Practice Supervision to external and internal coaches, OD practitioners, organisational consultants and other change agents. I have a special interest in working with people working in complex systems. I aim to provide a safe reflective and learning space for practitioners to debrief and explore their work, work through ethical dilemmas, improve their practice and learn and grow as practitioners.
Supervision is usually ongoing, at an interval that suits your practice and development needs. I work one to one and run regular open and closed supervision groups. I pioneered the Supervision Café, which is a relaxed and creative group space for those new to coaching and supervision. Look out for the next Supervision café on LinkedIn.
LEADERSHIP/EXECUTIVE REFLECTION
How does it work?
I offer Leader and Executive Reflection to a range of senior people, usually at Director level, including CEOs and Non-execs – to explore organisational, systemic, relational, ethical and personal challenges in their work.
Executive reflection recognises that leadership can be a place of vulnerability and often loneliness.
I offer my expertise as a trusted expert partner, offering you a safe and confidential space for reflection.
Executive Reflection differs from coaching in that it is not restricted to a set number of sessions and is not focused on a narrow set of goals or objectives. Instead, it offers a regular space for deep, intentional enquiry into your work.
Reflective Partner Support – I offer specialised support as a reflection partner to political leaders who face a complex range of personal, ethical, organisational, social and systemic issues in their work. I also provide pastoral supervision/reflective practice facilitation to a wide range of people working in caring roles and professions, including spiritual leaders, clergy and laypeople involved in pastoral support roles.
I offer one to one and group reflective practice to support the development of people engaged in caring, spiritual and pastoral roles as reflective practitioners and to help them to explore issues arising from their work; additionally to support wellbeing and combat the stress and isolation that can sometimes arise in working in such roles.
FACILITATION, CONSULTANCY & TRAINING
How does it work?
I provide facilitation of groups, teams and organisations – from developing third sector boards, supporting strategy development in small business and working with dysfunctional teams in the public sector. I use an OD (Organisation Development) approach, co-developing solutions with you and your team, engaging staff and assets within your organisation to ensure ownership of solutions.
I offer a select range of training offers and masterclasses that are linked to my core practice of coaching, coaching supervision and reflective practice, which aim to develop, refresh and empower practitioners.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT WORKING WITH ME
CONTACT ME
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