University of Oxford – Advanced Coaching Course – Summer 2018

Absolutely delighted that the Oxford University Advanced Coaching course is being repeated again this year; for our third year!  I am very much looking forward to working with the 2018 cohort. The programme no happens in the Autumn (Michelmas) term,… Continue reading

Oxford University – Group Coaching Course 2018

Delighted to say that the 2018 University of Oxford “Group Coaching” course is now open for applications. The course is running over two consecutive weekends in Oxford – 24/25 Feb 2018 and 03/04 Mar 2018.  The course attracts transferable credits for… Continue reading

University of Oxford – Advanced Coaching Course – Summer 2017

Absolutely delighted that the Oxford University Advanced Coaching course is being repeated this year. The feedback from the students last academic year was fantastic, and I am looking forward to working with the 2017 cohort. We’ve moved the programme from… Continue reading

Finding better ‘quality’ information on the internet

Let’s be clear – I am not suggesting that the myriad of opinion editorial pieces, lists of ten most amazing skin conditions, ten-step programmes to a better marriage, or photo-collages of the best dressed man’s daily sartorial selections, are NOT… Continue reading

Oxford University – Group Coaching Course 2017

Very excited to have heard, this week, that the brand new University of Oxford “Group Coaching” course has already got sufficient students enrolled for it definitely to be going ahead! The course is running over two consecutive weekends in Oxford… Continue reading

What swimming coaching can tell you about… well, life actually!

In life, as in almost everything, we depend on models. Not specifically the plastic kits, Meccano sets, or nearly anonymous cat-walk stars. We DO depend on them but they are each just one variety of a much larger phenomenon. Models… Continue reading

Oxford University – Introduction to Coaching courses 2016

I am absolutely delighted that applications for the redesigned, University of Oxford “Introduction to Coaching” course are now open! The course is running in BOTH Oxford and Reading Universities this Autumn – take your pick!  It will be the same… Continue reading

Laying people off? What would their relatives’ impact statements be like?

This might seem a strange thought, but bear with me a moment. When someone is murdered, we tend to focus on them, their life, their killer, and their motives for the killing. What is rarely seen is the impact on… Continue reading

Does name dropping really impress or turn people off?

At a conference recently, I sat listening to someone who might have been very interesting, but unfortunately, in the first two minutes he’d dropped so many names that he’d lost any credibility that he might have had. So, how many… Continue reading

Positive psychology

For a decade or so, there has been a fairly dramatic shift in the way in which psychologists look at the human condition. For the last hundred years or more, they have based most of their understanding on our problems…… Continue reading