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The gifts of trust and 'not knowing'
One of the freedoms afforded to a coach, one not to be taken lightly, is the gift of ‘not needing to know’. Relevant knowledge is part...
Igniting with a Spark
I had a lot of fun with a group recently having a collective conversation with them about their Lumina Spark Profiles. As a Lumina Spark...


What Iffery, What Mightery, What Issery … and the Dutchman’s Pipe.
Recently I had cause to reflect on self-awareness and the importance of a coach having the opportunity to be coached themselves. A couple...
A gut reaction to some current thinking on mental health
It’s amazing how a change in language can open up new perspectives. I had reason to reflect on this while listening to a recent...


Is it too selfish to hope that some things will never change?
Having just closed the door on 36 years of full time PAYE employment and opened the one marked ‘self employed’ I find myself responding...


A momentous moment...
A momentous moment for me passed quietly at the point where March became April in 2018. It was the point at which I went from being a...
What goes around comes around
Crikey - I woke up a couple of weeks back to the news that Glaxo SmithKline are buying up Novartis’ consumer health division and was...
Charisma and counting
I recently read a great book about big data called Everyone Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. At the time I had been talking with...
How can you resist a jelly bean with a propeller?
Back in the mists of time, I was a research chemist for a large pharma company. I worked on anti infectives (mostly antibacterials) for...
Soul music and our perception of time
Over the last couple of years I have been doing quite a lot of coaching in the evenings with a consequence that I find myself driving...
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