The end of the year is always a good time to reflect. My 2025 was a year of growth and adventure, but also challenges. Here are some questions I am asking myself. I hope you find them useful, too. Looking back on 2025 The here and now Looking ahead to 2026 Bonus questions I can’tContinue reading “Reflective questions to review and plan your year”
Category Archives: learning
On the power of not teaching
This week my coach challenged me: “Thierry, you just said ‘maybe’ three times.” “Did I? Wow… Maybe I need to commit!” “You just said it again!” I was dumbfounded. And something clicked. First, I had just had a major insight about a personal issue I was discussing with my coach. Second, only a day earlierContinue reading “On the power of not teaching”
On noticing progress
Wow. It’s not everyday I receive this kind of client feedback. Especially the cool basssterd 😂 (which is how they pronounce it up north) This week I facilitated a 5 day client-centred development programme for a group of internal coaches and leaders. Feedback like this makes me realise how far I have come in theContinue reading “On noticing progress”
On transferrable skills
A geologist, a psychotherapist and her client walk into a bar. Actually, no – they walk into the hills. Also, the geologist and therapist are the same person: Ruth Allen, author of Weathering, a beautiful book I enjoyed reading this summer. If you’re passionate about the natural world – and personal development – then youContinue reading “On transferrable skills”
Seeing with new eyes
“How will you look after yourselves this week?” our coaching supervisor asked. It was a fair question. My co-facilitator and I were about to deliver a client-centred leadership programme at a hotel by an industrial estate outside Birmingham. It’s a full week with few opportunities to venture further afield. This is difficult for me asContinue reading “Seeing with new eyes”
Learning through play
Learning in action: as the day progressed, the table got messier 🙃 Today I had great fun workshopping with the latest PhD cohort at the EPSRC CDT in Geospatial Systems at Newcastle University. In this innovation and enterprise workshop students learned about starting with the problem – not the geospatial solution – and crafting aContinue reading “Learning through play”
Celebrating a milestone as coaching supervisor
This morning I’m celebrating my final Level 7 coursework submission in Coaching Supervision with the Academy of Leadership & Management. A great milestone after working as a coaching supervisor for 18 months… yet the learning never ends 🌳
“The best training I’ve ever attended”
Want to develop your human leadership and engagement skills? Last week a senior leader told us this was the best training he had ever attended. Interested? Read on. It’s all about the messy stuff of leading, managing change, and supporting people in a way that is truly authentic and empowering. Universally applicable, at any level,Continue reading ““The best training I’ve ever attended””
Mutual learning in practice
I am writing this having just wrapped up my first leadership development programme of the year for a major aircraft manufacturer. What clearly dropped out for me this week is the necessary dance between leaders and facilitators where each of us are learning from each other. Time and again, I see that the best leadersContinue reading “Mutual learning in practice”
On mutual learning
Yay! I just submitted a 20,000 word assignment reflecting on my work through the lenses of adult learning, humanistic psychology and systemic thinking. Most inspiring here is that I have come to fully realise that my ongoing learning is a necessary condition for helping my clients learn and grow, too. As a coach, facilitator andContinue reading “On mutual learning”
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