Episode 125: Interview: Introducing Dr. Sarah Coope
Your Coaching Journey
We often collaborate with the team at Wild Monday, the organisation responsible for the ‘You Are Not A Frog’ podcast. Both of us have been lucky enough to have chatted to Rachel Morris on their podcast. This week we returned the favour and invited one of their team, Dr Sarah Coope to have a conversation with Helen. Sarah, a former GP, is now an executive coach with a focus on conflict resolution and burnout prevention. She’s also now the head of live training at Wild Monday. Listen in to find out more about Sarah’s journey from doctor to coach and trainer, her favourite...
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Episode 124: Challenges in Coaching: When is attention not attention?
Your Coaching Journey
Is the universe conspiring to bring us what we want in our lives? Probably not! Are we able to focus our attention so that we notice previously unnoticed objects and information. Most certainly! Does the Reticular Activating System guide our attention to the elements that are important for our lives. Contrary to popular opinion, absolutely not! In this episode Tom airs his frustrations about an often referred to part of the brain called the Ascending Reticular Activating System, or the RAS for short. This brain region that sits in the brain stem does have an important function...
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Episode 123: Coaching Approaches – Parts Work
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Having different internal parts of our psyche has been provoking interest in great thinkers for thousands of years. The Greeks and the Romans had the theory of us all having different humours Freud had his id, ego and superego, and psychologists ever since have been playing with different theories about the different parts that we may possess and how best to integrate them into our overall identity. In this episode we explore what Parts Work is, the journey that it has travelled over the last 50 years and the different ways in which we might approach the concept. Tom has...
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Episode 122: To interrupt or not to interrupt, that is the question.
Your Coaching Journey
You may have heard us talk about interrupting coachees on previous podcasts, but we see and hear so much from other coaches talking about this topic online that we thought we’d set our stall out in a more thorough and robust way. We have also noticed an increase in very visible coaches rebadging interrupting as interjecting, and saying that it’s ok, even necessary. So, we thought we’d talk through what we see as the subtle differences between interrupting and interjecting and share our perspectives in this dedicated episode on the topic. In this episode, not only do we...
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Episode 121: Critical Thinking
Your Coaching Journey
We believe that one of the most important aspects of coaching is the generation of new thinking on the part of the coachee. Before we get to focusing on the options that the coachee has, or how they might forward, we need to explore their situation with them and allow them to assess it in an objective and coherent way. In order to do that we will probably need to challenge the client to engage in some some critical thinking around the thoughts they have already had, what the reality of their situation is, and the viability of all of the options they have available to them. Only then is...
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Episode 120: Easy Change and Hard Change
Your Coaching Journey
Not all change is created equal. Some change is easy and some is hard. All qualified coaches should be well equipped to support coachees when they are contemplating easy change. When it comes to hard change, coaches adopting straightforward coaching approaches might not cope so well with facilitating this change for coaches who are finding change more of a struggle. What makes the difference between easy change and hard change is going to depend from coachee to coachee and we have to be agile when approaching the coaching room and what the coachee brings. Sometimes, we...
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Episode 119: 360 Degree Feedback
Your Coaching Journey
What is 360 Degree Feedback and how might we use it in the coaching room? In this episode, Tom shares his wisdom and experience of 360 Degree Feedback, sometimes called Multi-Source Feedback. Tom has been working with this type of report for the last 15 years and has sat alongside hundreds of clients as they have received their feedback. Tom understands the very human reactions that individuals have to receiving feedback in this way. He has some thoughts on how we can help to facilitate the coaching conversation with clients, supporting them in reviewing the feedback and...
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Episode 118: 4,000 Weeks is a Short Time in Which to Live Well.
Your Coaching Journey
According to the author Oliver Burkeman we each have approximately 4,000 weeks to run around on our planet. Some people will get a few more weeks and some will get a few less, but Burkeman’s point is that our time to enjoy life is finite. In this episode we dive into Burkeman’s thought-provoking book 4,000 Weeks: Time and How to Use It. Join us as we explore its main themes and how they might assist us in the coaching room. The title of the book makes it sound like a time-management tomb, but in reality it is more of an existential reflection on our relationship with...
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Episode 117: Time to Say Goodbye
Your Coaching Journey
We know that contracting at the beginning of a coaching relationship is vital and an integral part of our coaching. It sets the parameters within which we will work with our clients. Ending the coaching relationship should be seen as another vital and integral stage in a coaching journey. The ending may, however, raise some questions, cause some confusion and may even result in some discomfort. How do we know when it’s time to say goodbye to our coachee? How do we end the coaching ethically and with compassion? What if our coachees don’t want to say goodbye? In this episode...
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Episode 116: Interview with Dr. Hannah Coysh
Your Coaching Journey
Tom was delighted to have the opportunity to interview Dr Hannah Coysh, who completed our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma a couple of years ago now. Tom thoroughly enjoyed the conversation, and you’ll understand why when you listen to the podcast and experience a taste of Hannah’s infectious enthusiasm for life. Hannah is a Frailty GP, A Lifestyle Medic and Coach, a New to GP Coach and Mentor, a Medical Student Tutor, and also offers coaching to those experiencing pregnancy loss, holding a safe space for them and helping them to find a way to move forward. Hannah...
info_outlineWe’re delighted that our Transformational Coaching Diploma for Lifestyle Medicine has resonated with so many doctors that have an interest in bringing about lifestyle change for their patients and coaching clients.
In this episode Tom chats with Dr Becky Howie, a delegate on the first cohort of our Transformational Coaching Diploma for Lifestyle Medicine.
Becky is a GP, a GP appraiser, a lifestyle medicine doctor, a transformational health coach, a women's health columnist, a group consultation advocate. And as if that wasn't enough, in 2024, she entered the world of television with regular appearances as a medical expert on Scotland Tonight.
Tom caught up with Becky to find out about her journey into the world of lifestyle medicine and coaching; her approach to coaching; her favourite coaching tools and questions; and what learning to coach has given her. Becky also reveals a big career decision that she has recently taken and tells us which reality TV show she’s most likely to appear on.
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You can find out more about Dr Becky Howie on her website: https://maldodlife.co.uk/ or connect with her on Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-becky-howie-29212529b/
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