Book review – Pause for Breath

Title Pause for Breath – Bringing the Practices of Mindfulness and Dialogue to Leadership Conversations Author Amanda Ridings Publisher Live It Publishing ISBN 978 19069 5423 9 Usefulness 5/5 For leaders, coaches, mentors and supervisors, conversation is the unseen...

This way out

The psychodynamic approach to executive coaching helps clients understand complex emotions and change their behaviours – even ingrained, unhelpful ones. Catherine Sandler explains how Human beings find change difficult. We want it, yet we fear and resist it. It is the...

In good form

Coaching interventions are becoming more widespread in UK education. Schools have been taking the lead but Further Education is fast catching up, as BHASVIC’s initiative shows, reports Karyn Prentice An initiative to embed coaching at Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth...

Supervision, lives and audiotapes

What might be done to enhance learning, and add variety to and rejuvenate supervision sessions that feel like a duty rather than a joy? How can we get around the problems of limited and selective recall? Audiotapes may be the answer, say Liz Wiggins, Andrew Atter and...