New beginnings need coaching!

An opportunity

• John Constable, Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow

The challenge

• Cildo Meireles, Babel

Solutions focus inquiry

Naum Gabo, Standing Wave

Conversations with magic

Subverting and challenging

From problems to solutions

1. What is the problem?

2. How long have you had it?

3. How did it arise?

4. Who or what do you think is to blame?

5. What’s your worst experience in dealing with this problem?

6. Why haven’t you solved it yet?

1. What outcome are you hoping for?

2. How will you know when you’ve got it?

3. What might others notice?

4. What will be better?

5. What resources or experience do you already have that might help you solve the problem?

6. What is going to be your first step?

Anchoring my development

Cultivating presence

Committing time and energy to

active reflection Actively

seeking feedback

from colleagues, clients and

friends

Living life fully

Investing in a broad

worldview

Experimenting with new ways

of being

Continuing to work

unresolved issues and unfinished business

Tolbert & Hannafin 2006

My coaching foundations: Questioning*

• What makes a

good question

• How much do you

prepare

• Intention

• In the moment

• Put lists away

This and following 6 slides are based on Coaching Fundamentals by Ana Karakusevic, Roffey Park

Institute

My coaching foundations: listening

• Is a coach the same as a

good listener?

• Listening as presence

• Listening to ourselves

• Connection, possibility and

co-creation

My coaching foundations: feedback

• Give or offer?

• Lightness

• Non-righteousness

• Exploration

• How we receive it

My coaching foundations: trust and boundaries

• Takes a long time to build

• Self-awareness

• Is it counselling?

• Is it mentoring?

• Trust own self and hunches

• Whole person

My coaching foundations: Imagery

• Metaphors and

language

• Images and

imagination

• Powerful change

makers

My coaching foundations: presence

• A coach not as mirror but equal partner

• Presence of mind

• ‘the next question’

• Growth is not a linear path

My go-to questions

1. What outcome are you hoping for?

2. How will you know when you’ve got it?

3. What might others notice?

4. What will be better?

5. What resources or experience do you already have that might help you solve the problem?

6. What is going to be your first step?

My go-to quote

‘That’s a way to see it and

there is also another way

to see it.’ Insoo Kim Berg