by Anthony Eldridge-Rogers in
Coaching, Coaching Skills, Inspiration

Practice Practice Practice

As a skills based professional job, coaching at all levels is best developed through practice. Working with people is not something that can be developed as a thinking process based on knowledge only. Knowing theories and being able to compare different approaches in your mind can inform understanding of clients’ situations, but it can never take the place of the vital skills that are needed. Coaching skills are developed out of practice, so it follows that practice is a must for any coach. But it’s all about how you practice

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Coaching, Comment, Inspiration

If we are successful in our mission we will put ourselves out of business

I remember being very struck by something that I read by one of the pioneers of the green movement, Jonathon Porritt.He wrote about the fact that the political movement that he was part of, and had started, only needed to exist because there was a set of problems to solve.He suggested that if they were successful in bringing about a change of our relationship to the natural world and environment then the political movement could disband as it would no longer be needed.I love this idea and have often thought

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Coaching, Coaching Skills, Inspiration

Are your clients Goals Meaning Centred or Fear Centred?

One of the real challenges most people who want change face is actually getting change to happen and stay happening. Most of us a good at getting started, the tough part is keeping it up and making it something that does not absorb all our energy and grind to a halt. This is especially a challenge when people are primarily motivated to change through fear or anxiety (which if they are presenting a problem is usually the case ). No one wants to stay anxious for long and certainly making

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by Anthony Eldridge-Rogers in
Coaching, Inspiration

Are your clients living “post truth” lives?

Post-truth has become a popular phrase, rolled out as a part insult, part excuse and part blame for many of our perceived social and political problems.On reading a definition of post-truth, I was struck that this described how many people I have coached over the years approach their lives. It might be a part of the natural human condition. The Oxford Dictionary says Post Truth: “Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief” Here is my

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Comment, Inspiration

Listen to your intuition and follow your own wisdom

Yes, I am starting with that old wisdom that is also a cliche.So here is what I don’t mean.It is not a good idea to make up that you know what you don’t know.People have a bias in that way that we can reach for certainty when, in fact, is it not available.It’s a little like the weather. I get up in the morning and one of my kids tells me it’s going to be a nice weather day. I ask her how she knows and she tells me she

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by Anthony Eldridge-Rogers in
Coaching, Inspiration

The only way is in

Material circumstances come and go.Health comes and goes.Money comes and goes.Lives come and go.Desires for success ebb and flow Love and success in relationships come and go.Everything we hold dear in life and love is impermanent. Most people I have met live their lives as if these facts are not true.That the world and a life, their life, can be permanently shaped into something where they will be able to dictate what changes and what does not.This is the greatest stupidity that we have ever perpetrated on our lovely human

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For Organisations, Inspiration

Creativity cannot be divorced from life itself

‘The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable’ ….Robert Henri This is a photo of Minu. She is one of three kittens we gave away some five weeks back, Minu to a family in town who live in an apartment. We were a bit apprehensive as Minu was born in our tool shed and had spent her first two months of life playing amongst the flowers in our garden.

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