A group of coaches who have been working together on the Shifting Stories ideas got in touch recently to ask me for clarification about...

As part of a Leadership Team Coaching programme that I am doing at present, we were asked to think of the best and the worst teams we...

For Christmas, I was given With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an age of Denial. It is a fascinating book, written by...

The title of this blog post, whilst accurate, is perhaps a bit overstated: the international athlete concerned is my youngest daughter...

I had a very interesting coaching session with a client recently, who we’ll call Jane, as that’s not her name. She had found it very...

Today I came across an interesting article on the TED site about a book and TED X talk by Dr John Sharp. Essentially, he is describing a...

There’s been an extraordinary news story in the US recently that seems to me to illustrate some of the ideas sitting behind the ManyStory...

One of the projects I have been working on recently, with my excellent colleague Jan Allon-Smith, has been resolving and long-standing,...

Further to my last post on this, there is one story I want to explore a bit more; and that is Believe Women. My suspicion is that this...

Before the summer break, I was on Jury Service. It was a fascinating, if harrowing, experience, not least from the point of view of the...

I wrote this essay as part of the qualifying process to be a Thinking Partnership Coach, and thought that it might be of interest to...

In Current Psychotherapies, Raymond Corsini recounts what he calls 'the most successful and elegant psychotherapy I have ever done.' It...

On my main blog (here) I have written about my recent experiments with the Visual Explorer images/cards which I bought recently. In...

As part of my qualifying with Nancy Kline's organisation as a Time To Think Coach, I am writing an essay comparing Coaching in a Thinking...

The much-viewed and much-commented-on interview of Jordan Peterson by Cathy Newman (which can be seen here) is very interesting as an...

I have been thinking further about the stories we tell in organisations. I blogged recently about my four box model, considering aspects...

One of my unhelpful stories about myself is that I am lazy. It is not a story without some foundation, as well. However, it is unhelpful,...

This question was famously posed by the cynical, political Pontius Pilate. In my previous post, I suggested drawing a distinction between...

I have long been a fan of four box models: whether the Eisenhower (urgency/importance) grid, the very useful conscious/competence model...

Today, Professor Mark Reed publishes his latest book, The Productive Researcher. It's a good book: he has interviewed many successful...