What is trauma? The word trauma comes from the Greek for wound and whilst physical trauma leaves visible wounds and scars, psyche-trauma does not. What we experience instead is the behaviours of the people or person who has trauma.
The tightening vice of my personal limits
I have found myself overwhelmed many times by the ‘to do’ lists of work through this pandemic. My thoughts and emotions battling it out leaving me with tensions coursing through body and mind. I have literally felt the limitations of mys
Supervision – a cornerstone of great practice
I have always had supervision. It was part of my qualifying process back in 2005 and has been ever since. I have had group supervision, one to one supervision and peer to peer supervision. All have added something to my practice and I have both enjoyed and gained many benefits from the variety.
Art based group supervision in lock down
When we were first locked down like many coaches I realised the enormous impact it was going to have on my practice, my clients and myself.
ART in Coaching Newsletter – A Virtual Special
Art has definitely gone virtual and it is popping up everywhere giving us all lots of opportunity to look, listen and try it out for ourselves. Why are we turning to art? More and more people are turning to art at this time whether it is poetry, music, dance or the imag
Virtual Group Art Based Coaching – my top 5 tips
In my last blog I shared my top 5 tips for art based one to one coaching within a virtual space. In this blog I want to expand on those tips and share my learning from working with virtual groups.
Virtual 1:1 Art Based Coaching – my top 5 tips
In this blog I want to share with you my top 5 tips for one to one virtual art based coaching. They come from my own learning of working virtually with art in both coaching and supervision.
Art and Coaching with Covid-19
Coaching client's image In February of this year, before Covid-19 made its presence felt, I started a series of blogs about the very real and complex challenges the changing world is bringing both clients and coaches. These blogs now seem even more relevant than ever.
ART in Coaching Easter Newsletter 2020
In this Easter newsletter, whilst we are all staying indoors and social distancing, I have included fun creative things to do for children of all ages! I hope you have some fun with them.
Covid-19 Coaching and supervision continuing as normal
In these times of uncertainty we all find ourselves working our way through, I wanted to re-assure you that my coaching and supervision continues as normal to support you. Now that we can't meet in person we can meet through virtual sessions, both one to one and in groups.