Your Coaching Journey
A podcast for doctors about coaching. Whether you are a coaching doctor; a medic who is learning to coach; or a doctor who'd like to build coaching into your professional life, then this is the podcast for you. Each podcast episode will explore a different aspect of coaching that will be helpful for you as you integrate coaching into your work and life. You'll be able to explore different approaches to coaching, assess coaching tools and techniques, hear interviews with coaching doctors; and examine topics that coachees might bring to coaching. Join coaching experts and leaders on the Doctor's Transformational Coaching Diploma, Tom Dillon and Helen Leathers as they discuss the world of coaching and how, as a doctor, you might choose to continue on your coaching journey. Produced by MonkeyPants Productions. Find out how we can help you produce your podcast by getting in touch at [email protected]
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Episode 90: Coaching Tools – Six Thinking Hats
01/10/2025
Episode 90: Coaching Tools – Six Thinking Hats
In a bid to help our coachees generate new thinking, it might be useful to introduce them to a coaching tool called ‘The Six Thinking Hats’, which was created by Dr. Edward De Bono, a Maltese physician who is probably best known for introducing the world to the concept of lateral thinking. In this podcast episode we explore what ‘The Six Thinking Hats’ offers to the world of coaching and give our thoughts on why it is such a useful model to generate new thinking and new perspectives in the coaching room. We even play out a little vignette of a coaching session for a GP looking to introduce a new initiative into her practice. I don’t think we’ll be winning any awards for our acting, but it might help to hear how the thinking hats could be used. Edward De Bono’s hats were, of course, metaphorical, but the use of actual hats is always optional. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcast. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 89: Coaching Approaches – Narrative Coaching
01/03/2025
Episode 89: Coaching Approaches – Narrative Coaching
We believe that coaching is all about helping our coachees to generate new thinking. However, in order to generate new thinking, it’s useful for our coachees to know what they’re already thinking and what has led them to tell the stories they’re telling. There is power, wisdom and insight sitting within the stories our coachees tell, as well as contradiction, tension and dissonance, if only we took the time to really listen and be truly present. Narrative coaching taps into our coachee’s storytelling, seeking to uncover the beliefs, the assumptions, the internal struggles and the different parts that they are playing. Through this fascinating approach to coaching, we can start to explore the tales our coachee’s tell and start to discern what is a helpful story and when, perhaps, a better, alternative story might be advantageous for the coachee to tell. In this episode of our podcast, we explore what narrative coaching is, where it comes from and how it can be used when helping coachees to explore the situations they face and the stories they are telling themselves. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast, it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcast. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time, we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 88: Coaching Challenge – Unconscious Bias
12/27/2024
Episode 88: Coaching Challenge – Unconscious Bias
We love that coaching helps our coachees to generate new thinking. If you’re self-aware as a coach and continue to engage in reflective practice your coaching conversations are going to help you to develop your own thinking too. But what happens when your unconscious thought processes start to get in the way of your own performance in the coaching room, and your coachee’s unconscious prohibits their ability to think through their situation in an open and expansive way. In this episode we explore unconscious bias and how the phenomenon might impact us as coaches, as well as limiting our coachee’s ability to do some really good thinking. The problem with unconscious biases is that we don’t know we have them, even though we recognise that other people are subject to them; a phenomenon known as the bias blindspot. We believe that unconscious bias is a fascinating subject to shine a light on and to identify some rather interesting specific biases. So, we’ll be doing a little bit of that as well as exploring how we, as coaches, can remain open to the possibility of us bringing our own biases into the coaching room. We’ll also discuss how you are able to introduce the idea of unconscious bias to your coachees, allowing them to consciously bring some of their own biases to light and start to unpick them. Awareness is the first step to being able to mindfully dispel some of our more unhelpful unconscious thinking. We hope you enjoy the conversation and that it starts your own journey of self-discovery around your unconscious biases. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcast. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 87: Interview – Dr. Jo Watkins
12/20/2024
Episode 87: Interview – Dr. Jo Watkins
In this episode Tom will be chatting with Dr Jo Watkins. Jo is a portfolio GP, adventure-loving mum of four, co-founder of an organisation supporting teenage girls and this year has started her own podcast. Jo completed the Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma with us in 2022 and has been putting her learning to good use as a mentor and coach to other medics and health care professionals who are starting their own businesses. Tom caught up with Jo to find out about her fascinating journey through the world of medicine and on to the world of self-employed coaching and supporting medics in starting their own digital businesses. Jo shares her favourite coaching tool, her favourite coaching question and shares her thoughts on what learning to coach has given her and why she finds coaching so empowering. We even find time to talk about Jo’s latest obsession, Nordic Walking! Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review . Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know) Resources: You can connect with Dr Jo Watkins on Linkedin here: And discover more about her work here:
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Episode 86: Listeners’ Questions #11
12/13/2024
Episode 86: Listeners’ Questions #11
Whether you’re at the beginning of your coaching journey, or are a more experienced coach, there are always questions to be asked and answers to explore. In this episode we are going to be talking about the first steps you will need to take when starting a coaching business, and we share our thoughts on business plans. plus we consider how you can help a client to stay positive and motivated to take the steps they identify as being required to achieve their desired outcome and what can help a people pleaser? We love listeners’ questions time, and always look forward to hearing from you. If there is something about coaching that you’re wondering about, even if you’ve already taken it to your supervisor, it may be that others have similar concerns, so send us a message. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcast. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 85: Coaching Topics – Social Health
12/06/2024
Episode 85: Coaching Topics – Social Health
Our social connections are vital to our wellbeing as human beings. Every model of wellbeing has relationships as one of its components but it very rarely gets talked about directly with patients, clients or coachees. We talk about physical health and mental health, but social health tends to get overlooked. Much of the deep thinking that’s been dedicated to the issue, from Aristotle to Brené Brown, recognises that it’s the deeper connections that we have with people that are the most important. But how do we talk to coachees about their social health and support them in giving thought to navigating their relationship landscape and strengthening some of those human bonds. In this episode we explore some of the research and developing ideas around social health, We also discuss ways in which we might start to have meaningful conversations with our coachees about their own social health. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcast. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 84: Coaching Tools – Meditation and mindfulness
11/29/2024
Episode 84: Coaching Tools – Meditation and mindfulness
Mindfulness has been a bit of a buzzword in recent years, however, the idea of mindfulness and the practice of meditation has been around for thousands of years. How does it fit in with coaching? And how can you utilise it in the coaching room, for your coachee or for your own benefit? From stepping into a non judgmental space, creating a vision for the future, and generating new perspectives, meditation and mindfulness can be gently powerful. Following on from episode 83 where we explored the Transpersonal Coaching approach, in this episode Helen will take us through some ideas to inspire you to try a bit of meditation and mindfulness in your coaching practice, and top tips to take on board as you get started. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcast. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 83: Coaching Approaches – Transpersonal Coaching
11/22/2024
Episode 83: Coaching Approaches – Transpersonal Coaching
Transpersonal Coaching, which is often referred to as Spiritual Coaching, sits on the periphery of mainstream coaching, and is often regarded as a little bit too woo for some coaches to consider. In this episode we explore what it is, what it’s not and what it could be. We also consider why some people might choose to engage with Transpersonal Coaching, either as a coaching approach in its own right, or as an approach to borrow from, weaving elements of it into an integrated, holistic approach. With a long held interest in exploring various spiritual philosophies, and developing her own beliefs and spirituality, Helen introduces the key themes of this approach and gives us her thoughts on it. Tom will offer his own perspective and some gentle challenges to the concept of Transpersonal Coaching. Resources: This is Helen’s idea of the elements that make up spiritual or transpersonal coaching. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcast. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 82: Coaching Challenge – Common Themes and Challenges
11/15/2024
Episode 82: Coaching Challenge – Common Themes and Challenges
Having trained over 250 doctors to coach and with another 50 or so currently participating in our training programmes, we have noticed that they do have some wonderful transferable skills. We’ve also noticed that most of the doctors that come to learn to coach have some common challenges that crop up for them when it comes to learning to coach. Some of these challenges stem from the personalities of our coaching doctors and some stem from their education, training and the constraints of the system they work within. In this episode we follow up on Episode 78 of the podcast where we explored Personality Profiling. We talk through some of our observations of the challenges that stem from the personality differences and individual working styles of those that we train. Tom also has some interesting statistics to share about our coaching doctor population. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcast. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 81: Interview – Dr. Jo Hartley
11/08/2024
Episode 81: Interview – Dr. Jo Hartley
In this episode Helen chats with Dr Jo Hartley, a delegate on one of our early Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma courses. Jo is a former Emergency Medicine Consultant now working as a career and life coach for doctors. She works with doctors in training in her local professional support and wellbeing service and runs a business delivering workshops and coaching for hospital consultants. Helen caught up with Jo to find out about her journey into the world of self employed coaching, her favourite coaching tools and questions, and what learning to coach has given her. Jo also has the unique perspective of having trained with us whilst also participating in an ILM5 coaching course, and shares some of the differences that she found between the two. Resources: You can find out more about Dr Jo Hartley on her website: or connect with her on Linkedin: Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review . Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 80: Listeners’ Questions #10
11/01/2024
Episode 80: Listeners’ Questions #10
It’s listeners’ questions time again, and thank you for sending yours, and thank you again to those listeners who have taken the time to get in touch to tell us how much they enjoy listening to our podcast. In this episode we have been asked what to consider when choosing a coach training course and, once you’ve completed your coach training, where to look for good CPD opportunities. We love to receive your questions about coaching so do keep sending them to us. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcast. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 79: Coaching Topics – Values
10/25/2024
Episode 79: Coaching Topics – Values
Values are an important aspect of coaching and integral to increasing a coachee’s self awareness and sense of identity. When responding to questions about values a coachee may not be able to tell their coach instantly what their own values are. It may take some reflection of them to come up with them. Their values may not become apparent until they are challenged or trampled on. Alternatively, they may be keenly aware of their most important values and actively seek to live a life aligned with them. We know that working with a coachee around understanding what their values are and how they are showing up in their life, can have a dramatic impact on their views of the world, and themselves, as well as the coaching outcomes they achieve. In this episode we explore what values are, why they’re important, and how to work with them in the coaching room. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcast. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 78: Coaching Tools – Psychometrics and Personality Profiling
10/18/2024
Episode 78: Coaching Tools – Psychometrics and Personality Profiling
It’s easy to think that everyone views the world in the same way that we do. Understanding that people have different aspects to their personality that might mean they think or behave in a different way is essential in gaining perspective on situations and relationships. In this episode we explore the psychology behind a number of psychometrics that may prove useful in the coaching room. Asking a coachee to complete a personality questionnaire and then working through their report with them can be a great way to increase their self-awareness and also their awareness of the individual personality differences that others might have. Tom has a degree in psychology and is trained in a number of different psychometric profiling tools so is well placed to steer this discussion and help us to gain some new insights about the topic. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcast. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 77: Coaching Approaches – Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
10/11/2024
Episode 77: Coaching Approaches – Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
We sometimes get asked if we teach NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) on our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma and the answer is mostly no, and also, a little bit, yes. For this reason we thought it would be useful to have a conversation about it on our podcast. We are both trained and licensed NLP practitioners, and although we gained something from our training, neither of us actually practise NLP. We do, however, weave some of our learning into our individual ways of working and include some elements that you might find on an NLP course in our own training, although we credit the original source of those elements which, more often than not, is not NLP. In this episode we explore what NLP is; its limitations; its uses in the coaching room; and, as always, our own thoughts on the subject. approach within our programmes. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcast. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 76: Coaching Challenge – Ethics
10/04/2024
Episode 76: Coaching Challenge – Ethics
As coaches we are having conversations that matter, and discussing topics that are important to our coachees. With any conversations of importance thought is required around how we hold that space for our coachees and how we show up as coaches. Coaching is an unregulated industry and it therefore falls to coaching bodies to try to ensure that its members act with professionalism, integrity and an ethical approach. In this episode we explore the subject of ethics and what an ethical approach might look like to coaches within their own practice. We make reference to the Global Code of Ethics, which many coaching organisations are signed up to. The code offers some guidance to ethical considerations that coachees might be grappling with. Resources: You can find out more about and download the latest version of The Global Code of Ethics for Coaches, Mentors, and Supervisors here: https://www.globalcodeofethics.org/ Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcast. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 75: Interview – Dr. SaraLou Wylie
09/27/2024
Episode 75: Interview – Dr. SaraLou Wylie
In this episode Helen will be chatting with Dr SaraLou Wylie. A G.P. interested in a more holistic approach to wellness, SaraLou joined our diploma programme in 2023. She is nowcertified Women’s life coach who specialises in coaching professional women with overwhelm, burnout and stress. SaraLou's holistic approach helps them regain control of their lives, feel like them again and live a life with joy and presence. Helen caught up with SaraLou to find out about her journey into the world of self employed coaching, her favourite coaching tools and questions, and why she loves coaching. We are sure that her enthusiasm and passion will jump out of the speakers as you listen along to SaraLou sharing her thoughts and experiences. Resources: You can find out more about Dr SaraLou Wylie on her website: Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review . Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 74: Listeners’ Questions #9
09/20/2024
Episode 74: Listeners’ Questions #9
From time to time we devote an episode to questions about coaching that have been asked by our listeners. And this episode is one of those, with a difference. We have been saving up some of the more personal questions that have been sent in and you can join us to find out a little bit more about us as coaches, including our biggest frustrations about coaching, what brings us joy, what inspired us to be coaches, books we are reading, and we talk a bit about using psychometric testing in the coaching room. If you have a question to ask about coaching and would like us to answer it for you on the podcast, do send us your questions, or even drop us a voice note of your question, and we’ll feature it on a future episode. Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review . Contact DetailsFind out about our Connect with the hosts:Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question?From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.(If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 73: Coaching Topics – Wellbeing
09/13/2024
Episode 73: Coaching Topics – Wellbeing
On our podcast we regularly explore topics that coachees might bring to a coaching conversation. One such topic is ‘Wellbeing’. In the last 10 years, Wellbeing has become a huge topic for discussion in many settings, including workplaces, schools and GP practices. Wellbeing is a hugely diverse topic with many different elements and meanings assigned to it. So, whether you consider yourself a wellbeing coach or not, you are likely to come across clients who want to explore it in some way as a topic for coaching. Join us as we discuss what wellbeing is, or could be, and how you might explore it with a client in the coaching room. And, once you’ve listened, if this conversation has whetted your appetite for further exploration of Wellbeing in Coaching, then book yourself a place to join us at our Wellbeing Virtual Conference in October, when we will be running five different workshops around different aspects of wellbeing. You can book your place by clicking on this link. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcast. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 72: Coaching Tools – The Drama Triangle
09/06/2024
Episode 72: Coaching Tools – The Drama Triangle
Back in episode 30 we spoke about using Transactional Analysis (TA) in the coaching room, and in episode 31 we explored one of the TA models, the Parent-Adult-Child model. Another coaching model that originates from TA is Karpman’s Drama Triangle, so we thought it was time we introduced this model to you as well. The Drama Triangle offers another way to explore the coachee’s perception of their inter-personal relationship dynamics and behaviour patterns. It is an extremely useful model to be aware of as a coach, and to introduce to your coachee to help raise awareness about their view of their situation. It is useful to demonstrate some caution when using the model in the coaching room, but it is a great way of helping the coachee gain a new perspective on the roles they’re playing in their relationships. In this episode we explore the Drama Triangle and how we might use it to its full advantage in the coaching room. Resources: Enjoying the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review . Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 71: Coaching Approaches: Somatic Coaching
08/30/2024
Episode 71: Coaching Approaches: Somatic Coaching
Our bodies provide the perfect vessel in which to hold our stress and we will feel all sorts of indications that this is happening for us when we’re in struggle. But our bodies also offer us some insights into what else is going on for us. Somatic markers provide us with information that we will often ignore when it would be wise to be mindful of them. While we might not choose to act on a gut feeling, noticing what we notice about our physiological sensations can become an important part of our decision making process, and can be so too for our coachees. In this episode we take a look at somatic coaching, or embodied coaching, in which coachees are encouraged to go within, to the wisdom held in their own body. Somatic coaching can be practised on its own, or as part of an integrative approach, to great effect. Listen in to this episode of the Your Coaching Journey podcast for some ideas on how you could use somatic coaching with your coachees and how that might improve their outcomes for them. Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review . Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 70: Supervision
08/23/2024
Episode 70: Supervision
What is coaching supervision and why would I want to engage with it as a coach? Coaching is an unregulated industry and, as we have discussed on previous episodes, it is down to coaching bodies and individual coaches to take responsibility for the professionalism and self-regulation of coaching as a whole. Coaching supervision is one way of helping you as a coach to reflect on the quality of your coaching, your own professional development and your progress in the world of coaching. Coaching supervision is a protected space for confidential and supportive conversations about your role as a coach and your interactions with coachees. Join us in this episode to find out more about supervision, why you might want to engage with it, and what the practice of receiving supervision entails. Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review . Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 69: Listeners’ Questions #8
08/16/2024
Episode 69: Listeners’ Questions #8
From time to time we devote an episode to questions about coaching that have been asked by our listeners. In this episode we are discussing the difference between team and group coaching, whether a coaching approach would help if you’re asked to facilitate with some mediation, and what to do if a client wants to end their coaching arrangement early. If you have a question to ask about coaching and would like us to answer it for you on the podcast, do send us your questions, or even drop us a voice note of your question, and we’ll feature it on a future episode. Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review . Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 68: Interview – Dr. Liz Donovan
08/09/2024
Episode 68: Interview – Dr. Liz Donovan
In this episode we are joined by the delightful Dr Liz Donovan who has had a stellar career as a paediatric consultant and neonatologist, as well as being the Director of Medical Education at University Hospital Southampton. Liz came out of retirement to return to Southampton to work on a very special project, supporting medics through a coaching programme. The Doctors’ Development Unit offers support to senior clinicians within the trust. A pool of consultants have been trained as coaches by us here at Your Coaching Journey and are making good use of their coaching skills in their work with their consultant colleagues. Liz has been heading up the coaching consultant team at Southampton, and has been delighted with the results of the coaching that has been conducted there. An independent evaluation of the effectiveness of the coaching within the trust has recently been carried out. The evaluation revealed some remarkable findings in terms of the social return on the investment that has been made and the efficacy of the coaching. Liz will be sharing some of the report’s findings with us, along with her own reflections on the art of coaching. Resources: You can contact Liz about this research by emailing her at [email protected] Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review . (link to apple podcast) Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 67: Coaching Topics – Burnout
08/02/2024
Episode 67: Coaching Topics – Burnout
On our podcast we regularly explore topics that coachees might bring to a coaching conversation. One such topic is ‘burnout’ and as with many topics that arrive at the door of the transformational coach, this is an important topic that affects many members of the medical community. Burnout is a complex phenomenon, and we might well be coaching individuals who are at different stages in the burnout journey. They may be feeling stressed and concerned about ending up burnt out; they may be at the point of almost burning out; or they may have already burnt out. There is a place for coaching in all of these situations and in this podcast we begin to explore the concept of burnout, how it is defined and measured, and how we might go about supporting someone around their relationship with burnout. Join us for a fascinating conversation about burnout and how coaching might provide a useful intervention for those who are experiencing the symptoms that arise at the different stages of burnout. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcast. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 66: Coaching Tools – How do we use them in the coaching room without being directive?
07/26/2024
Episode 66: Coaching Tools – How do we use them in the coaching room without being directive?
Here at Your Coaching Journey we believe that the primary role of a coach is to facilitate the coachee’s own thinking around their situation, allowing them to gain new perspectives and consider their options for moving towards their desired outcome. Coaching is about encouraging the coachee to find their own answers, rather than the coach providing them with them. So how do we square the non-directive approach with the concept of the coach introducing coaching tools, models and exercises. In this episode we explore the idea of being directive about the coaching process without being directive about the way that the coachee is thinking. We have no wish to advise the coachee about their situation, the options they have, the decision they might make, or the options they might take. What we are interested in is deepening the pool of meaning for the coachee, widening their perspective and offering models and exercises that generate new thinking. In this episode we discuss how we might go about achieving this fine balance of managing the coaching conversation, introducing the coachee to new concepts and remaining non-directive with regard to the content of the coaching conversation. Enjoying the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review . Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 65: Coaching Approaches: Clean Language
07/19/2024
Episode 65: Coaching Approaches: Clean Language
In Episode 52 of the podcast, we talked about using metaphor in coaching and briefly touched on the coaching approach known as Clean Language. In this episode we take a deeper dive into the ‘Clean Language’ approach and explore its origins. We also take a look at what distinguishes it from other coaching approaches and explore some of Clean Language’s strengths and weaknesses. We know that reflecting back the coachee’s own words in a coaching session often proves more powerful than paraphrasing, and the ‘Clean Language’ approach takes this approach to another level. In using the client's own terminology, a clean language coach builds on their choice of words to elicit metaphors and a metaphorical landscape. In this way they allow the coachee to think differently, and gain new insights, about themself and their situation. During this conversation we will explore what the ‘Clean Language’ approach sounds like, how it is constructed and what we might draw from it to weave into a more integrative approach to coaching. Resources: Link to YouTube video of Dave Grove https://youtu.be/gdMRqXjESbI?si=9tbrojdgrd_twxBn Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review . (link to apple podcast) Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time, we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 64: Transformational Coaching for Lifestyle Medicine. What is it all about?
07/12/2024
Episode 64: Transformational Coaching for Lifestyle Medicine. What is it all about?
Here at Your Coaching Journey, we have been training doctors to be transformational coaches on the Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma for the past five years and this continues to be our flagship training programme. More recently we have adapted our learning offering and created a Transformational Coaching Diploma for Lifestyle Medicine. On this programme we train doctors who are interested in lifestyle medicine and health coaching to become transformational coaches. This course has an emphasis on working with people around behaviour changes that lead to improved health and wellbeing. The programme has proved tremendously popular, and we have new cohorts starting regularly throughout the year. In this episode we provide a brief introduction to what common benefits the two programmes have for learners and set out elements that differentiate the two courses. Resources: Further Information on the Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma can be found by clicking on the following link: Further information on the Transformational Coaching DIploma for Lifestyle Medicine can be found by clicking on the following link: Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review . Contact Details For more information about our training, our podcast and our other coaching services visit our website at Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 63: Challenges in Coaching: Accreditation - ‘What is it?’ and ‘Why would I want to apply for accreditation?’
07/05/2024
Episode 63: Challenges in Coaching: Accreditation - ‘What is it?’ and ‘Why would I want to apply for accreditation?’
Accreditation - ‘What is it?’ and ‘Why would I want to apply for accreditation?’ These are questions that we are asked from time to time, and so we thought that we’d offer our thoughts on the matter in this episode of the podcast. While it’s not essential to be personally accredited as a coach, there are some real benefits for those who do apply for accreditation. In her role as an accreditation assessor with the Association for Coaching, Helen is well-versed in the assessment criteria that applicants are expected to meet. She is, therefore, well placed to answer your questions and concerns about accreditation and the accreditation process. During this episode. Helen will provide the benefit of her wisdom and experience. She will also be offering you the inside track on how our Transformational Coaching Diploma supports you in the process of becoming accredited and will also let you have her top tip on getting started on the road to accreditation. Resources: Helen has created an online mini-masterclass on accreditation which you can find out more about here. While this is designed for our own graduates coming out of our Transformational Coaching Diplomas, much of it will be of use if you have qualified elsewhere. Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review . Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 62: Listeners’ Questions #7
06/28/2024
Episode 62: Listeners’ Questions #7
From time to time we devote an episode to questions about coaching that have been asked by our listeners. In this episode we are discussing the requirements around supervision for coaches, tools you can use to explore a coachee’s core values, and what you would need to consider when thinking about group and team coaching, as opposed to one to one coaching. If you have a question to ask about coaching and would like us to answer it for you on the podcast, do send us your questions, or even drop us a voice note of your question, and we’ll feature it on a future episode. If you’d like to purchase a copy of the values coaching cards you can find them at the following link: Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review . Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 61: Interview – Dr. Nikki Paul
06/21/2024
Episode 61: Interview – Dr. Nikki Paul
Join us today as we have a fascinating conversation with coach and paediatrician, Dr Nikki Paul. We caught up with Nikki to find out what she had been doing since she successfully completed our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma in 2023. As well as having a role as a paediatrician Nikki is also a mum and a widow. Since completing the coaching diploma Nikki has seen it as her mission to help widowed mums process their grief and learn to love their life. Her company, ‘The Grief Coach’ supports widows by coaching them as they journey through their grief and find a new path forward. Nikki is actively involved in educating the public about the realities of grief. Resources: You can connect with Nikki via her instagram account: Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review . Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: [email protected] Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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