If you are a Coach or a person who happens to have an interest in personal and professional development, I hazard a guess that you have heard of the Reptilian brainContinue Reading

Take ‘Imposter Syndrome’…if you read my recent diatribe against getting out of your comfort zone – you’ll know I promised I’d take this one on next. Continue Reading

Get out of your comfort zone. No!!! Don’t! It’s a terrible idea, especially the way in which this insidious suggestion is suddenly everywhere we look.Continue Reading

I wanted to ask you how you really are? Because I know I’m typing emails, having quick conversations with people, conversing with my family – all these things sometimes snatched in what feels like tiny moments of time in a household that in my case is full of people. So I wanted to really know...Continue Reading

I took part in a Facebook live event with Psychologies Magazine to discuss how we can all creatively ride this wave of uncertainty.Continue Reading

Last month, I did Jon McNestrie’s Visual Facilitation training with Barefoot Coaching – and feel compelled to share this secret with you – improving your visual communication is easier than you might think.Continue Reading

Safe space to explore Understanding self in service of others Pause with purpose Expanding our education Restorative in all manner of ways Vulnerable and willing to share Individual and shared experience See and be seen Integrity honoured Objectivity found Not alone Safe space to explore – there’s not a coach I’ve met who doesn’t care...Continue Reading

In the inimitable words of Leonard Cohen “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in”. Thoughts about broken pottery and the Barefoot Coaching Winter Conference… Last week a gathering of coaches at various ages and stages of their journey invested in a day together at the Barefoot Coaching annual winter conference...Continue Reading

If you know exactly what you’re doing and have it all sorted then don’t read on!  If you have some considerations, confusion, curiosity about what might work in building your business as a coach then basically read this book! If you are curious about what I believe the book might give you then read on…...Continue Reading

What does this picture say to you? Technicolor joy, fragmented and discordant, something else?  Families – their joys and challenges are as unique as the people in them.  The role of parent is undoubtedly my most challenging one.  I’m an only child, brought up in a single-parent family and now I have a partner, step-daughter...Continue Reading