Bouncing Back

I’ve been researching and writing about resilience recently – the ability to bounce back from adversity. Some people seem to have innate skill here, others less so. Piques my curiousity. How is it that some people naturally interpret failures as...

Shame – friend or foe?

Like Dr. Brené Brown, I have a particular interest in shame. Perhaps because I know the terrain both personally and professionally, and perhaps because it’s one of those things we’re not supposed to talk about. I want to shine a light into any...

Pearl of Wisdom

In a moment of serendipity earlier this week, I reviewed notes taken at an Association for Coaching conference some years ago when I attended a lecture given by Chris Johnstone. Originally trained as a medical doctor, he went on to specialise in well-being, positive...

Prioritising

Many will undoubtedly read this interesting article about mother-of-nine Helena Morrisey with an eye to the proportion of women in the boardroom, that ongoing debate about equality and glass ceilings and so on. However, for me, I was struck by something else...

More about Bodywork

Describing the type of Strozzi Somatic bodywork I offer in the course of somatic coaching is a bit like trying to teach swimming from a book. Better to get in the water and give it a try! But I do understand the hesitation people have, especially in the UK, about the...
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