We all deserve to do nourishing work. This work nourishes me as much as it nourishes my clients. Together, we ‘still’ time in order to ensure it is all lining right up and that my client is really listening to themselves and what their past is telling them. Autonomy, mastery and purpose hold so much […]
My love of empowering people began in my early twenties when I became a Team Leader for the Prince’s Trust. I witnessed, over and over, the profound impact that ‘opportunity’, presented compassionately to individuals, could have on lives. The challenges we confronted together enabled them see themselves from a totally new perspective. From this place […]
Birthing The Daemon Career Coach: Beltane 2015: One Year On. During an interview last week I was asked “who was actually part of my business?’. The simple answer is of course, that as a sole trader, this business entity is ‘Just Me’. The real answer however has so much more depth and breadth. My first […]
Ethical & Professional Careers I have realised that this is exactly what I do. I enable other people to choose their own ethical careers. Not because I manipulate coachee’s into choosing to be ethical but because ethical decisions are a natural consequence of the journey we embark on together Something profound happens when we […]
Facing Ethical Conflict in Business Having taken myself right out of my comfort zone in a business sense last week I have learned stuff. It often takes us humans being out of our depths to really register where what is important. When we are doing something unfamiliar, something new, something ‘out of character’, this is […]
The best way I have found of restoring my confidence in my professional ability is the get right out and do the work. It is easy to procrastinate when we are fearful of a blank canvas. What if we begin in the wrong place or if we make a bad mark or if we look […]
When you’re tired, remember to rest. It Sounds so simple as to be almost imbecilic, however it’s flippin easy to forget, ignore or believe we are immune to this fundamental truth. Many demands are made of us in a day. Work, home, play. Many distractions pull our attentions off and away into our heads, diverted […]
It can be painful when we have prepared for an interview and not got the job. We are bound to take it personally if a career development plan doesn’t work out immediately. Our ego will certainly suffer if we gather all our reserves to do a presentation and yet don’t get the credit for doing […]
There’s nothing quite like making a mess of something to motivate us into taking action. I may have mentioned that I ‘failed’ at something yesterday… And as my husband has rightly pointed out, I am “not used to being told ‘no’” and I’m not too comfortable with it either! But, the reality is, we will […]
I failed at something today. I don’t much like failing. And to be honest I’m pretty ungraceful when I do. I’m not yet even in that place where I can identify the good bit that came out of it….. but…… As I have failed before, I know that I will live. As I have failed […]