You decide . . .
“To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to achieve your own dreams.”Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, 09/11/2016
Category: coaching
Different together . . .
A major belief of Gestalt theory is that of something existing both as a whole and of its interacting parts that can be separated and analysed. And Edgar Rubin’s discovery (1915) of figure-ground perception in Gestalt psychology, leads us to those puzzling images where some of us see one thing, some another, and some of us… Read More Different together . . .
The more the merrier . . .
I was lucky enough to be part of hosting a truly collaborative day at work recently, and some brilliant work took place between internal and external learning and coaching professionals. I floated home on such a high: the experience had entirely ticked all my need-for-positivity boxes and panglossian tendencies. In the middle of it all,… Read More The more the merrier . . .
Another take on change . . .
“Most of the changes we think we see in life are merely truths going in or out of fashion.” (Robert Frost) Hard to keep up though sometimes, isn’t it.
A spring in your step . . .
Little by little . . .
I learnt this today: The Chinese word for coaching is 陪導 (pei dao), made up of two separate words – path or journey, and inch. So, literally . . . “Journeying together, one inch at a time.” This reminds me of so many good, positive thoughts around coaching . . . of rapport-building, of developing, of working… Read More Little by little . . .
Choose well . . .
“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.” Patrick Ness. Choice over what’s happened to us? Probably not. Choice about the response we make? I think so.
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