I walk the path It appears before me: My fear Embodied. Real I’m scared But this one is different It’s really angry with me It’s really frustrated It growls Why are you scared? Can’t you see? I’m trying to awaken something within you! We fight We tussle I’m bruised,...
Describing coaching and the experience of a coaching conversation is notoriously difficult. So I wrote this poem for new clients. Maybe it speaks to you in some way? Amid the demands and desiresThe plans and the chaosThe haste and the stucknessThe excitement and...
Chaos: What’s happening?Confusion: Where am I? Not making sense of something doesn’t mean it’s senselessAnd in truth I always know exactly where I am;I might just not know where ‘here’ is in relation to anywhere elseFor a while How can I discover somewhere newUnless I...
Forgive and forgetThat’s what I was toldI struggle with thisIf I need to forget, I haven’t fully forgivenI’ve heard it saidForgiveness doesn’t change the pastBut it does expand the futureSo I seek to understandWhat happened for them?What...
The inner compulsion to be remorselessly busyTo be constantly wanting to get things doneTo be constantly wanting to be seen to be getting things doneTo be constantly wanting to ‘make the most of every moment’To feel the need to justify each day by the list of things...
In 2020 I shared a simple tool with an international group of coaches. We beta-tested it together. Then released it to the world. It invites people to make connections between what’s going on the world, and what’s going on within them, and their work, lives and much...
