PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL COACHING
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​​Coaching conversations offer a confidential space and empathic thinking partner to focus on what really matters to you.
By slowing down, being curious, noticing and reflecting with an empathic and responsive other, you empower your own creative thinking, deeper understanding and ability to plan strategically for what to do next.
TESTIMONIALS FROM COACHING CLIENTS
Coaching and supervision may bring many benefits, including:
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An opportunity to focus deeply on yourself, a current situation or a particular issue.
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Empowering your own imagination and creative solution finding.
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Exploring feelings of 'stuck-ness', overwhelm or burnout and drawing upon your whole self to find solutions or ways forward.
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Identifying your true values so that you deepen your motivation and sense of purpose.
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Building resilience and resourcefulness.
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Creating, developing and practising perspectives and strategies that will sustain you in your day to day experiences.
KEY ELEMENTS IN MY COACHING APPROACH:
A CONFIDENTIAL, PERSONAL SPACE
Coaching offers you a confidential space to slow down, notice, feel and think with an empathic and responsive other. It is an opportunity to pause, to reflect, gain a fresh perspective and then return to the world again with renewed energy and insight. The session can be varied and there may be laughter, emotion, the use of coaching 'tools' or periods of silence to think and process. It is always focused upon and individual to you. You set your own goals and are in charge at all times of what you do and don't want to discuss.
A PROCESS OF
REFLECTIVE ENQUIRY
You may bring a particular issue, theme or question to explore and this is where we will begin. As we explore it together, this question sometimes changes, produces other questions or ideas, or deepens as the conversation progresses. At other times, there may simply be a need to unpack whatever is present for you in the moment. By noticing, reflecting and being curious together, the process supports a resilient, forward-looking approach and empowers your own 'observer mind'.
EXPLORING YOUR OWN DEEPER UNDERSTANDING
Coaching conversations are an opportunity to consider carefully whatever arises. Moving through the initial 'not knowing' with curiosity and compassion, expanding your awareness of yourself, accessing your own deeper understanding and increasing the range of choices that you have. Coaching is an approach based on the belief that, with space to think and feel with an attentive other, we are each creative, resourceful and whole.
I have a particular interest in coaching older people and those who are focused upon their later life experiences.
Contact me if you would like to arrange an informal 20 minute online conversation, without obligation, to find out more about any aspect of coaching with me.
Some reduced fee sessions are available for those on limited incomes.
ABOUT ME
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I am an Associate Accredited Coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and I abide strictly by their code of ethics.
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Undertaken professional coach training with the well-respected Barefoot Coaching Ltd.
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Independent consultancy and support in children's services since 2013 and adult social care fields since 2018.
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Seven years experience of leadership and management in early education and the creation and development of Sure Start Children's Centres.
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National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership.
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Online, current, enhanced DBS for vulnerable adults and children
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Skilled at working independently to develop initial ideas and plans, whilst holding an awareness of the bigger picture.
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Passion for quality. The aesthetics and subtle details that have a fundamental impact on our quality of experience, well-being, environments and relationships. Small things add up to a big difference.
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A strong interest in ideas about the future of work and ways of working together that promote systemic, shared and collective leadership.
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Flexibility of working. My work with organisations has spanned from 2-3 days to nearly 2 years.
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Sensitive approach to working with others and in team development. Able to care, support and challenge appropriately and always with a focus on approaches that enable sustainability, responsibility and awareness.
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