Episode #149: Coaching Doctors: Introducing Dr Lisa Clift
Release Date: 02/27/2026
Episode #157: Some Psychological Terms To Help Raise Awareness of Your Coaching
Your Coaching Journey
In this episode we are exploring four different psychological phenomena that might just show up in the coaching room. They are concepts that originate in the world of psychoanalysis and therapy, and whilst their presence may well have been seen as problematic, they are also commonly occurring phenomena for ordinary people and information for us in the coaching room. The four concepts that we discuss in this episode are transference, counter-transference, projection, and parallel processing. Join us for this fascinating dive into some...
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Episode #156: Coaching face to face versus online
Your Coaching Journey
Whether you are with your coachee or not when you’re coaching them will depend on a number of variables, but there’s a good chance these days that you are more likely to be in a virtual coaching room than sitting face to face with your coachee. Some telephone coaching still happens but not so much, these days. In this episode, we discuss the pros and cons of both ways of working, and some things to consider as a coach. Whether you prefer to be in the room where it happens or you embrace the efficiency of being coaching online this conversation provides you with the opportunity to...
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Episode #155: Belbin Team Roles
Your Coaching Journey
If you’re talking to coachees about their role, their career or their work colleagues, you may find that they have quite narrow ways of viewing what works and what doesn’t work in their team. They may view the way they go about things as the right way and can’t understand why other team members don’t just behave in the way that they do. They may express concern, or frustration, at their team members’ varying attitudes towards the work that needs to be done. In this episode we explore why it’s important to have some diversity of thought and behaviour within...
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Episode #154: Topics for Coaching Goalsetting and Planning
Your Coaching Journey
As transformational coaches we very much focus on self-exploration and self-acceptance for the coachee; challenging their current thinking and helping them explore new perspectives; supporting them in finding new ways to go about doing things and encouraging them to become more who they really are. That said, sometimes coachees may want to work towards a specific tangible goal, develop a realistic strategy or map out a practical plan, and, of course, we will look to coach them in planning and actioning their project and achieving their goal, whilst also inviting them to step back...
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Episode 153: Hope
Your Coaching Journey
Hope is one of the 24 VIA Character Strengths identified by Martin Seligman and Chris Peterson back in 2004 and included in the Values in Action inventory that they created. In this episode we explore how Seligman and Peterson defined Hope. We also introduce Rick Snyder’s ‘Hope Theory’ and discuss other ways that we might consider the concept and how it relates to coaching. Tom provides a very personal account of his own relationship with Hope and his VIA Character Strengths report as life has unfolded over the last 7 years. We hope that our...
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Episode #152: A Review of Coaching Tools #2
Your Coaching Journey
Back in Episode 132 we revisited some of the tools that we had already explored on earlier episodes of the podcast. That episode went down very well, particularly among our own alumni, who found the episode to be a wonderful reminder of some of the tools that they learned on our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma. In looking back we realised that we’ve explored around 30 different tools on the podcast in the last 3 years. So we thought we’d have a conversation about another batch of the useful coaching tools that we’ve explored on the podcast. In...
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Episode #151: The Four Discourses of Coaching
Your Coaching Journey
When it comes to the way that coaching is approached and then discussed, there have traditionally been four different discourses that have become embedded in the coaching world. Simon Western, a leadership and coaching academic, identified the four discourses back in 2016 as being: - The Managerial approach The Psychological approach The Soul Guide approach The Network approach In this episode we explore the advantages and disadvantages of each approach and consider what other discourses have arisen in the last decade since Simon Western identified these four ways of...
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Episode #150 - Coaching Topic: Time Management
Your Coaching Journey
It is said that you can’t manage time, you can only manage yourself, but we know that some topics brought to the coaching room, like overwhelm, making difficult decisions, unrealistic expectations, and boundaries, can often look like a time management issue. In this episode we talk through how we might help someone in the coaching space, and explore two activities that might be useful to undertake with our coachees. Hopefully, investing your time in listening to the podcast will be a worthwhile enterprise and leave you feeling more equipped to have time-management conversations...
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Episode #149: Coaching Doctors: Introducing Dr Lisa Clift
Your Coaching Journey
We love the broad spectrum of doctors that come through our coaching programme. In this episode, Helen is chatting to Dr Lisa Clift who has a background in Paediatrics and General Practice. Lisa now splits her time between roles as a doctor in adult prisons and children’s secure homes, and her work in a private Lifestyle and Obesity Clinic. Join Helen and Lisa on this episode of the programme as Lisa shares how she came to join our coaching diploma, and how she is utilising her coaching skills now. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would...
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Episode #148 - Coaching Tools: The ABCDE Model
Your Coaching Journey
Coaching conversations are a great space in which to support individuals in engaging in a spot of meta-cognition; doing a little thinking about their thinking. With a little help, our coachees can explore their potentially unhelpful thinking around a scenario that is proving difficult for them. There are different ways of approaching such situations and various tools that we can utilise, as coaches, to support our coachee’s thinking. One such tool is the ABCDE model, which has its origins in the work of one of the founders of the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy approach, Albert...
info_outlineWe love the broad spectrum of doctors that come through our coaching programme. In this episode, Helen is chatting to Dr Lisa Clift who has a background in Paediatrics and General Practice. Lisa now splits her time between roles as a doctor in adult prisons and children’s secure homes, and her work in a private Lifestyle and Obesity Clinic.
Join Helen and Lisa on this episode of the programme as Lisa shares how she came to join our coaching diploma, and how she is utilising her coaching skills now.
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