Your Coaching Journey

Episode 113: Episode 112: Topic: Leadership Coaching Part 2   In our last episode we explored how leadership might show up in the coaching room, even if we're not formally engaged in leadership coaching and why, as Transformational Coaches, we might choose to feel confident in coaching those in leadership positions.   In this episode we're putting  an element of theory behind the concept of leadership and in doing so, explore a number of different leadership styles; ten in fact. We discuss the pros and cons of each leadership style and when it might be useful to engage in each. We also offer examples of coaching situations where we have each discussed leadership styles with our coachees.   Join us in this episode of the podcast, where we complete our conversation on leadership in the coaching room.       Resources: For our Leadership Styles document visit: https://yourcoachingjourney.com/project/episode-113-topic-leadership-coaching-part-2/       Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

If you've coached an individual within the NHS there is a good chance that you have been called upon to have a conversation around leadership.   Not necessarily about the mechanics of the leadership role but perhaps around how the coachee shows up and how they interact with other people.   Leadership presents itself throughout organisations and often those without a defined leadership role are taking responsibility for heading up certain initiatives or leading on certain aspects of the culture.   Tom has been coaching leaders for 15 years and has found that the main topic of conversation in the coaching room for leaders is other people and the relationship dynamics that the coachee is experiencing and perhaps struggling with.   Beyond their people issues, leaders often use coaching as a safe space to explore their concerns, their worries and their insecurities. Being in a leadership role is often a lonely place and being able to have confidential conversations with someone you trust is invaluable.   Join us in this episode of the podcast, the first of two leadership episodes, where we explore why we, as Transformational Coaches, might choose to feel confident in coaching those in leadership positions.   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Following on from our previous podcast episode where we discussed why people might choose to avoid difficult conversations, in this episode we talk about the difference between having difficult conversations badly or having them well.   From considering the pros and cons of having a particular conversation; deciding whether to have the conversation or not; preparing for the conversation; and then managing the conversation, we've got it all covered.   Join us for this podcast, as we take you through some practical approaches that you might wish to explore with coachees who find themselves in a situation where it might be good to be having a difficult conversation.   Resources:   DODO - Preparing for a difficult conversation     DEER TRACK - Responding well to feedback     Taking the DESPAIR out of Difficult Conversations   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Your coachees may tell you about a sticky situation or problematic people that they have in their lives, and talk about the stress that this is causing them. Often, one of the options that the coachee has to help resolve the issue is to have a conversation with someone else involved, but they may be avoiding this option. Understanding why a coachee might be choosing not to have what they might perceive as a difficult conversation is useful and may help you to facilitate the coachee's thinking. This may well result in them deciding to have a crucial conversation with someone that improves their situation. So in this episode we start to explore the topic of difficult conversations, discussing why people might not be having them, and looking at what might help your coachee to see them from a new perspective. Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast. Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

If you listened to Episode 108 you will have heard Tom discussing the ways in which we might show up in the coaching room.   Tom made the point that an approach of judgement might be an easy way for us to show up in our coaching , but perhaps love might be a more useful way to be in order to draw out the real coachee sitting before us.   Well, one podcast episode didn't provide Tom with enough space to consider the fact that often either the coach or the coachee could show up in fear in the coaching room, for all sorts of reasons.   So this episode continues where Tom left off, and offers his reflections on fear and how an approach of love might dissolve the fear. There are some philosophical musings and even some poetry in this episode, so join Tom, flying solo once again, in another podcast focused on love in the coaching room.   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Just to avoid any confusion, we are not addressing the topics of romantic love, sexual attraction or attachment in the coaching room in this episode, although they might crop up in a future episode. Tom is on his own for this podcast and is offering some reflections on how we might show up as a coach.   It would be very easy for us to show up in judgement of our coachees and to prove our worth by pointing out the error of their ways. We're the experts after all. We know what's what.   Or maybe, just maybe, we can show up with love, and hold that loving space for someone whilst they explore their situation fully. In showing up with love, we allow the coachee to be their true, authentic self and to feel comfortable in being vulnerable and open with us in what is a protected space and a relationship of trust.   Join Tom in his musings about the nature of love in the coaching room. As he meanders through the podcast he'll be throwing in some reflections on his values and telling some stories to illustrate how love might show up in our coaching.     Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk     Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

We consider the coaching space a sacred one. It is a safe, welcoming, confidential and non-judgemental space that allows the coachee to engage in conversation in an authentic, open and honest way. It is a space that fosters trust and connection.   That's the space that we, as coaches, are looking to create in the coaching room and that requires some presence on our part. But what do we mean when we talk about coaching presence?   In this episode we explore what coaching presence is. We also explore how we might create the optimal conditions for an open and honest coaching conversation that generates new thinking on the part of the coachee.   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

It is always wonderful when we hear about the different ways in which our coaching doctors are using their skills, so when Dr Jo Hacking told us about the retreats that she is running, and how impactful adopting a coaching approach on them has been, we thought we really ought to find out more   In this episode Helen catches up with Jo to do just that. Jo has a background as a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine but experienced burnout in 2017/18. She stepped away from medicine completely in 2022 to focus on her family, and her business. Listen in as Helen finds out about Jo's transformational coaching and retreats.   Resources: You can find out more about Dr Jo Hacking's work and retreats  here: https://aboutwellbeingltd.co.uk/ Connect with Jo here: Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/jo-hacking-about-wellbeing Facebook:https://m.facebook.com/woodlinesreset/ Instagram:  @woodlinesart Youtube: @JoHacking   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Emotional Intelligence is a relatively new phrase but not a new concept. The Greeks and the Romans were giving thought to the problems we all have with our emotions thousands of years ago. The fact that we're all still struggling to master our responses to events that produce emotions suggests that we haven't evolved very much emotionally in the last few millennia. So, Emotional Intelligence is definitely a concept worth exploring. Which is exactly what we're doing in this podcast. Turning to the granddaddy of modern Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman, we're exploring the different domains of his model and giving thought to how Emotional Intelligence shows up in the coaching room.  So, join us for a fascinating discussion about how we might help our coachees to be more emotionally self-aware; better able to manage their responses to emotions; more aware of other's emotions and more accomplished at managing their relationships.   Resources   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Transformational Coaching is all about helping our coachees achieve a change in their lives, whether that be in terms of making lifestyle changes, changing the dynamics of a relationship, or the coachee just changing their perspective.   Change is at the forefront of everything we do and in this podcast episode we're exploring another model, which might just help us to explore the change process with our coachees. The Transtheoretical Model of Change has been used for half a century in the medical world in conversations around change.   Originally used in the context of addiction, the model is commonly used by medics exploring behavioural change relating to health. It also has its place in the coaching world when we're trying to understand where our coachee is on the journey to making the changes they want to see.   Resources:   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma   Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

To borrow some words from a famous philosopher, ‘No coachee is an island'.   We all exist within some kind of system, whether it's in the workplace, within our social lives, or within a family. In the coaching room there will always be influences and echoes of the coachee's system as they talk through their situation, their experiences and their desired outcomes.   In Gestalt we talk about the contact boundary, where we meet our environment and where our environment meets us, and there is a constant interplay between the two. One cannot fail to have an impact on the other.   In this episode, we take a look at systemic coaching, an approach that acknowledges and explores the dynamics of the systems within which the coachee resides.   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Do you worry about your coaching crossing over in to therapy? We tend to find that our coaching doctors worry about this, perhaps more so than non-medical people who enter the world of coaching.   In this episode we explore the grey area on the borders of counselling and coaching, including how to navigate it. We will share our own experiences of situations in the coaching room where something other than coaching is required. We hope to set your minds at rest, and provide you with some more understanding, or at least to shine a little light into the grey.   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

In the last episode we were celebrating our first 100 podcast episodes with some reflections on the coaching tools that the coaching doctors we have interviewed love to use. We had great fun reminding ourselves of the wonderful coaches that we have talked to on the podcast over the past two years.   We had intended to include their favourite coaching questions too, but we got a bit carried away with ourselves and ended up running out of time.   So, this week we are revisiting our coaching interviews and reflecting on the coaching questions that our coaching doctors find most useful in their coaching conversations.   Resources: Find one of our Transformational Coaches: https://yourcoachingjourney.com/certified-transformational-coaches/   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details You can click on the following links to find out more about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma and our Transformational Coaching Diploma for Lifestyle Medicine   Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

We're pretty amazed that we have managed to produce 100 episodes of this podcast, and even more impressed that so many of you are listening to us rambling on every week. It seems that we accompany many dog walks and morning runs. It fills us with joy every time we receive a message from someone letting us know how much they've enjoyed and benefited from listening. In this episode we take a moment to celebrate, and to reflect. We've gone back through the archive of interviews with our coaching doctors that we have had the pleasure of creating over the last two years and remind ourselves of the variety of coaching tools that they love to use.   Enjoy the look back!   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details You can click on the following links to find out more about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma and our Transformational Coaching Diploma for Lifestyle Medicine   Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

We're delighted that our Transformational Coaching Diploma for Lifestyle Medicine has resonated with so many doctors that have an interest in bringing about lifestyle change for their patients and coaching clients.   In this episode Tom chats with Dr Becky Howie, a delegate on the first cohort of our Transformational Coaching Diploma for Lifestyle Medicine. Becky is a GP, a GP appraiser, a lifestyle medicine doctor, a transformational health coach, a women's health columnist, a group consultation advocate. And as if that wasn't enough, in 2024, she entered the world of television with regular appearances as a medical expert on Scotland Tonight. Tom caught up with Becky to find out about her journey into the world of lifestyle medicine and coaching; her approach to coaching; her favourite coaching tools and questions; and what learning to coach has given her. Becky also reveals a big career decision that she has recently taken and tells us which reality TV show she's most likely to appear on.   Resources: You can find out more about Dr Becky Howie on her website: https://maldodlife.co.uk/ or connect with her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-becky-howie-29212529b/   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details You can click on the following links to find out more about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma and our Transformational Coaching Diploma for Lifestyle Medicine   Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

We fully recognise that you don't learn to coach by reading a book; you have to practice coaching to improve your craft. However, we have both read a vast array of coaching books and have another sizeable collection on our Kindles, waiting for us to find the time to explore. We also have our favourites that we continue to dip into to remind us of theories, tools and techniques that we have encountered. In addition, we love a good book recommendation, and are often asked for them by our trainees. So, in this episode, we are exploring some of the books that could be added to your ‘to be read' list, in relation to different coaching approaches - and we throw in a few extra tombs that aren't really coaching books, but we love them!   Resources: How To Coach by Bob Thomson https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-to-coach-first-steps-and-beyond/bob-thomson/9781526484789 Time To Think; Listening to Ignite The Human Mind by Nancy Kline https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/time-to-think-listening-to-ignite-the-human-mind-nancy-kline/355555?ean=9780706377453 Solution Focused Coaching in Practice by Bill O'Connell, Stephen Palmer, and Helen Williams https://www.routledge.com/Solution-Focused-Coaching-in-Practice/OConnell-Palmer-Williams/p/book/9780415447072?srsltid=AfmBOoptL9YtDyG1IIbQoWoJGMjsXcLttj57nYnBAkZnyrd4MKv5Mwh3 Positive Psychology Coaching in Practice Edited by Suzy Green and Stephen Palmer https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/positive-psychology-coaching-in-practice-suzy-green/3996488 Positive Psychology: Theory, Research and Applications by Ilona Boniwell and Aneta D. Tunariu https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/positive-psychology-theory-research-and-applications-ilona-boniwell/371360 Cognitive Behavioural Coaching Techniques For Dummies by Helen Whitten https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-for-dummies-3rd-edition-r-willson/170340 Transactional Analysis Coaching; Distinctive Features by Karen Pratt https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/transactional-analysis-coaching-distinctive-features-karen-pratt/4842715 The Fertile Void; Gestalt Coaching at Work by John Leary Joyce https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-fertile-void-gestalt-coaching-at-work-john-leary-joyce/1985723 Coaching Presence; Building Consciousness and Awareness in Coaching Interventions by Maria Iliffe-Wood https://www.koganpage.com/hr-learning-development/coaching-presence-9780749470579 Presence;Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/presence-bringing-your-boldest-self-to-your-biggest-challenges-amy-cuddy/1304609 Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/who-moved-my-cheese-dr-spencer-johnson/2195963 Agile Resilience by Tom Dillon https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/agile-resilience-the-psychology-of-developing-resilience-in-the-workplace-tom-dillon/6353503     Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Issues around confidence come up in the coaching room regularly. And it's a common topic that new coaches want to understand more about working with.   Feeling more confident takes time, and arguably more than time spent thinking about it. You might be wondering what approach to use, what tools might be helpful, and whether asking questions really can unlock the secrets of feeling and acting in a more confident way?   In this episode we explore how we might work with coachees to help them take steps to understand and improve their confidence and find out what Helen's top tips are on this intriguing topic.     Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

We have previously discussed Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (CBC) on the podcast and touched on a couple of the useful coaching models that originate in this approach.  In this episode we explore the SPACE model, which is a great tool for helping coachees to dive into the way that they're perceiving their situation and allowing them to gain some perspective.   The SPACE model, often referred to as the hot cross bun model, is an accessible tool that can inform our coaching questions, helping our coachees to explore the ways in which they're reacting to events. It can also be used explicitly to support coachees to find new ways to see their world and explore different ways of being in the future.   Listen in while we take you through this simple yet powerful model.   Resources:     Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

From a ‘walk and talk' in nature to the metaphors of the landscape, coaching outdoors means many things to many coaches. In this episode Helen interviews Anna-Marie Watson, host of the Coaching Outdoors podcast about this multi faceted approach to coaching and how she got started with it.   An ex-Army officer, Anna Marie is never happier than when she is outdoors. She is an accredited coach and coach supervisor who loves to move her coaching away from a Zoom window and the confines of four walls and take her conversations with coachees into nature.   Join Helen and Anna-Marie as they explore coaching through an alfresco lens and offer a different, airier, perspective on coaching conversations that we hope will pique your interest and generate some new thinking about the way you coach.   And of course, if you want to give it a try, you can join us in some outdoor coaching on the eve of our coaching conference in April 2025. https://yourcoachingjourney.com/coaching-conference-2025/   Resources: Website: www.rfmcoaching.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/awatson4/ Twitter: @rfmcoaching Instagram: @rfmcoaching Coaching Outdoors Podcast - https://coaching-outdoors.com/the-podcasts/ Coaching Outdoors Podcast LIVE @ Henley Business School June 2025 - https://www.henley.ac.uk/events/coaching-outdoors-live-2   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Many coaches consider themselves to be intuitive coaches? We see it quite a lot in marketing literature and on social media. But what does it really mean in the coaching room? Is it really a phenomenon?   Here at Your Coaching Journey we have had some interesting discussions on the topic of intuition over the years and we don't always see eye to eye. Tom takes more of a  psychological approach to life and coaching and Helen is more at home in the world of spirituality, so there are some differences in the way we approach intuition.   That said, there is some common ground, and in this episode we share our thoughts, have a healthy debate and see where we end up in our thinking about being an intuitive coach.   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

In this episode Helen will be having a chat with Dr Rosie Khan.   Rosie is a G.P. and lifestyle, perimenopause and wellness expert who helps high-achieving women overcome symptoms such as anxiety, brain fog and weight gain. Using a unique combination of lifestyle medicine, clinical hypnosis and coaching, she supports women in taking charge of their physical and emotional health to thrive during their mid years.   Rosie completed the Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma with us in 2023 and has been developing her portfolio career since then.   Helen caught up with Rosie to find out more, including, what her favourite coaching tool and question are and her thoughts on what learning to coach has given her.   Resources: You can connect with Dr Rosie Khan on Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosie-khan/   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

It's time for another set of questions sent in to us by listeners. In this episode we are going to be talking about helping clients to move on from past situations they find themselves ruminating over, how to improve your reflective practice as a coach, and how we feel about setting clients ‘homework' or activities between their coaching sessions with us. We love to receive your questions about coaching so do keep sending them to us.   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Perfectionism is a phenomenon that can easily get in the way of our progress, and can certainly impact our sense of achievement, satisfaction and overall wellbeing.   For your perfectionist coachees, they are likely to see the drive to be perfect as a good thing that has rewarded them in the past. They probably thrived during their education and in their careers because they are high-achievers.   They probably wear their perfectionism as a badge of honour.   But all is not necessarily well in the world of perfectionists.   In this episode we explore how Perfectionism might show up in the coaching room, how it might be de-railing some of our coachees and leading them to have a sense of low self-worth. Hopefully, after listening to our conversation, you might be able to recognise when perfectionism is emerging in the coaching room.   You'll then be able to work with your coachees to help them overcome this need for everything to be perfect, find some self-compassion and to celebrate times when good enough is good enough.   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

In a bid to help our coachees generate new thinking, it might be useful to introduce them to a coaching tool called ‘The Six Thinking Hats', which was created by Dr. Edward De Bono, a Maltese physician who is probably best known for introducing the world to the concept of lateral thinking.   In this podcast episode we explore what ‘The Six Thinking Hats' offers to the world of coaching and give our thoughts on why it is such a useful model to generate new thinking and new perspectives in the coaching room.   We even play out a little vignette of a coaching session for a GP looking to introduce a new initiative into her practice. I don't think we'll be winning any awards for our acting, but it might help to hear how the thinking hats could be used.   Edward De Bono's hats were, of course, metaphorical, but the use of actual hats is always optional.   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

We believe that coaching is all about helping our coachees to generate new thinking. However, in order to generate new thinking, it's useful for our coachees to know what they're already thinking and what has led them to tell the stories they're telling.   There is power, wisdom and insight sitting within the stories our coachees tell, as well as contradiction, tension and dissonance, if only we took the time to really listen and be truly present.   Narrative coaching taps into our coachee's storytelling, seeking to uncover the beliefs, the assumptions, the internal struggles and the different parts that they are playing. Through this fascinating approach to coaching, we can start to explore the tales our coachee's tell and start to discern what is a helpful story and when, perhaps, a better, alternative story might be advantageous for the coachee to tell.   In this episode of our podcast, we explore what narrative coaching is, where it comes from and how it can be used when helping coachees to explore the situations they face and the stories they are telling themselves.     Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast, it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time, we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

We love that coaching helps our coachees to generate new thinking. If you're self-aware as a coach and continue to engage in reflective practice your coaching conversations are going to help you to develop your own thinking too.   But what happens when your unconscious thought processes start to get in the way of your own performance in the coaching room, and your coachee's unconscious prohibits their ability to think through their situation in an open and expansive way.   In this episode we explore unconscious bias and how the phenomenon might impact us as coaches, as well as limiting our coachee's ability to do some really good thinking. The problem with unconscious biases is that we don't know we have them, even though we recognise that other people are subject to them; a phenomenon known as the bias blindspot.   We believe that unconscious bias is a fascinating subject to shine a light on and to identify some rather interesting specific biases. So, we'll be doing a little bit of that as well as exploring how we, as coaches, can remain open to the possibility of us bringing our own biases into the coaching room. We'll also discuss how you are able to introduce the idea of unconscious bias to your coachees, allowing them to consciously bring some of their own biases to light and start to unpick them. Awareness is the first step to being able to mindfully dispel some of our more unhelpful unconscious thinking.   We hope you enjoy the conversation and that it starts your own journey of self-discovery around your unconscious biases.   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

In this episode Tom will be chatting with Dr Jo Watkins.   Jo is a portfolio GP, adventure-loving mum of four, co-founder of an organisation supporting teenage girls and this year has started her own podcast.   Jo completed the Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma with us in 2022 and has been putting her learning to good use as a mentor and coach to other medics and health care professionals who are starting their own businesses.   Tom caught up with Jo to find out about her fascinating journey through the world of medicine and on to the world of self-employed coaching and supporting medics in starting their own digital businesses. Jo shares her favourite coaching tool, her favourite coaching question and shares her thoughts on what learning to coach has given her and why she finds coaching so empowering.   We even find time to talk about Jo's latest obsession, Nordic Walking!   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)   Resources: You can connect with Dr Jo Watkins on Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jo-watkins-849195190/ And discover more about her work here: https://www.jowatkins.com/  

Whether you're at the beginning of your coaching journey, or are a more experienced coach, there are always questions to be asked and answers to explore. In this episode we are going to be talking about the first steps you will need to take when starting a coaching business, and we share our thoughts on business plans. plus we consider how you can help a client to stay positive and motivated to take the steps they identify as being required to achieve their desired outcome and what can help a people pleaser? We love listeners' questions time, and always look forward to hearing from you.  If there is something about coaching that you're wondering about, even if you've already taken it to your supervisor, it may be that others have similar concerns, so send us a message.  Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)  

Our social connections are vital to our wellbeing as human beings. Every model of wellbeing has relationships as one of its components but it very rarely gets talked about directly with patients, clients or coachees. We talk about physical health and mental health, but social health tends to get overlooked. Much of the deep thinking that's been dedicated to the issue, from Aristotle to Brené Brown, recognises that it's the deeper connections that we have with people that are the most important. But how do we talk to coachees about their social health and support them in giving thought to navigating their relationship landscape and strengthening some of those human bonds. In this episode we explore some of the research and developing ideas around social health, We also discuss ways in which we might start to have meaningful conversations with our coachees about their own social health. Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Mindfulness has been a bit of a buzzword in recent years, however, the idea of mindfulness and the practice of meditation has been around for thousands of years. How does it fit in with coaching? And how can you utilise it in the coaching room, for your coachee or for your own benefit?   From stepping into a non judgmental space, creating a vision for the future, and generating new perspectives, meditation and mindfulness can be gently powerful.   Following on from episode 83 where we explored the Transpersonal Coaching approach, in this episode Helen will take us through some ideas to inspire you to try a bit of  meditation and mindfulness in your coaching practice, and top tips to take on board as you get started.     Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Transpersonal Coaching, which is often referred to as Spiritual Coaching, sits on the periphery of mainstream coaching, and is often regarded as a little bit too woo for some coaches to consider.    In this episode we explore what it is, what it's not and what it could be. We also consider why some people might choose to engage with Transpersonal Coaching, either as a coaching approach in its own right, or as an approach to borrow from, weaving elements of it into an integrated, holistic approach.    With a long held interest in exploring various spiritual philosophies, and developing her own beliefs and spirituality, Helen introduces the key themes of this approach and gives us her thoughts on it. Tom will offer his own perspective and some gentle challenges to the concept of Transpersonal Coaching.    Resources: This is Helen's idea of the elements that make up spiritual or transpersonal coaching.       Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Having trained over 250 doctors to coach and with another 50 or so currently participating in our training programmes, we have noticed that they do have some wonderful transferable skills. We've also noticed that most of the doctors that come to learn to coach have some common challenges that crop up for them when it comes to learning to coach.   Some of these challenges stem from the personalities of our coaching doctors and some stem from their education, training and the constraints of the system they work within.   In this episode we follow up on Episode 78 of the podcast where we explored Personality Profiling. We talk through some of our observations of the challenges that stem from the personality differences and individual working styles of those that we train. Tom also has some interesting statistics to share about our coaching doctor population.   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

In this episode Helen chats with Dr Jo Hartley, a delegate on one of our early Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma courses. Jo is a former Emergency Medicine Consultant now working as a career and life coach for doctors. She works with doctors in training in her local professional support and wellbeing service and runs a business delivering workshops and coaching for hospital consultants. Helen caught up with Jo to find out about her journey into the world of self employed coaching, her favourite coaching tools and questions, and what learning to coach has given her. Jo also has the unique perspective of having trained with us whilst also participating in an ILM5 coaching course, and shares some of the differences that she found between the two.   Resources: You can find out more about Dr Jo Hartley on her website: https://www.drjohartley.com/ or connect with her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jo-hartley/   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

It's listeners' questions time again, and thank you for sending yours, and thank you again to those listeners who have taken the time to get in touch to tell us how much they enjoy listening to our podcast.   In this episode we have been asked what to consider when choosing a coach training course and, once you've completed your coach training, where to look for good CPD opportunities.   We love to receive your questions about coaching so do keep sending them to us.     Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Values are an important aspect of coaching and integral to increasing a coachee's self awareness and sense of identity.   When responding to questions about values a coachee may not be able to tell their coach instantly what their own values are. It may take some reflection of them to come up with them. Their values may not become apparent until they are challenged or trampled on. Alternatively, they may be keenly aware of their most important values and actively seek to live a life aligned with them.   We know that working with a coachee around understanding what their values are and how they are showing up in their life, can have a dramatic impact on their views of the world, and themselves, as well as the coaching outcomes they achieve.   In this episode we explore what values are, why they're important, and how to work with them in the coaching room.     Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

It's easy to think that everyone views the world in the same way that we do. Understanding that people have different aspects to their personality that might mean they think or behave in a different way is essential in gaining perspective on situations and relationships.   In this episode we explore the psychology behind a number of psychometrics that may prove useful in the coaching room. Asking a coachee to complete a personality questionnaire and then working through their report with them can be a great way to increase their self-awareness and also their awareness of the individual personality differences that others might have.   Tom has a degree in psychology and is trained in a number of different psychometric profiling tools so is well placed to steer this discussion and help us to gain some new insights about the topic.     Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

We sometimes get asked if we teach NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) on our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma and the answer is mostly no, and also, a little bit, yes. For this reason we thought it would be useful to have a conversation about it on our podcast.   We are both trained and licensed NLP practitioners, and although we gained something from our training, neither of us actually practise NLP.   We do, however, weave some of our learning into our individual ways of working and include some elements that you might find on an NLP course in our own training, although we credit the original source of those elements which, more often than not, is not NLP.    In this episode we explore what NLP is; its limitations; its uses in the coaching room; and, as always, our own thoughts on the subject. approach within our programmes.     Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

As coaches we are having conversations that matter, and discussing topics that are important to our coachees. With any conversations of importance thought is required around how we hold that space for our coachees and how we show up as coaches. Coaching is an unregulated industry and it therefore falls to coaching bodies to try to ensure that its members act with professionalism, integrity and an ethical approach.    In this episode we explore the subject of ethics and what an ethical approach might look like to coaches within their own practice. We make reference to the Global Code of Ethics, which many coaching organisations are signed up to. The code offers some guidance to ethical considerations that coachees might be grappling with.   Resources: You can find out more about and download the latest version of The Global Code of Ethics for Coaches, Mentors, and Supervisors here: https://www.globalcodeofethics.org/   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

In this episode Helen will be chatting with Dr SaraLou Wylie. A G.P. interested in a more holistic approach to wellness, SaraLou joined our diploma programme in 2023. She is nowcertified Women's life coach who specialises in coaching professional women with overwhelm, burnout and stress. SaraLou's holistic approach helps them regain control of their lives, feel like them again and live a life with joy and presence.   Helen caught up with SaraLou to find out about her journey into the world of self employed coaching, her favourite coaching tools and questions, and why she loves coaching. We are sure that her enthusiasm and passion will jump out of the speakers as you listen along to SaraLou sharing her thoughts and experiences.     Resources: You can find out more about Dr SaraLou Wylie on her website:https://drsaralouwylie.com/   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.  Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

From time to time we devote an episode to questions about coaching that have been asked by our listeners. And this episode is one of those, with a difference. We have been saving up some of the more personal questions that have been sent in and you can join us to find out a little bit more about us as coaches, including our biggest frustrations about coaching, what brings us joy, what inspired us to be coaches, books we are reading, and we talk a bit about using psychometric testing in the coaching room. If you have a question to ask about coaching and would like us to answer it for you on the podcast, do send us your questions, or even drop us a voice note of your question, and we'll feature it on a future episode. Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.  Contact DetailsFind out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching DiplomaConnect with the hosts:Tom:www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Helen:www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin:www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ Do You Have a Question?From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.(If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

On our podcast we regularly explore topics that coachees might bring to a coaching conversation.   One such topic is ‘Wellbeing'. In the last 10 years, Wellbeing has become a huge topic for discussion in many settings, including workplaces, schools and GP practices.   Wellbeing is a hugely diverse topic with many different elements and meanings assigned to it. So, whether you consider yourself a wellbeing coach or not, you are likely to come across clients who want to explore it in some way as a topic for coaching.   Join us as we discuss what wellbeing is, or could be, and how you might explore it with a client in the coaching room.   And, once you've listened, if this conversation has whetted your appetite for further exploration of Wellbeing in Coaching, then book yourself a place to join us at our Wellbeing Virtual Conference in October, when we will be running five different workshops around different aspects of wellbeing. You can book your place by clicking on this link.  Conference Booking   Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Back in episode 30 we spoke about using Transactional Analysis (TA) in the coaching room, and in episode 31 we explored one of the TA models, the Parent-Adult-Child model. Another coaching model that originates from TA is Karpman's Drama Triangle, so we thought it was time we introduced this model to you as well. The Drama Triangle offers another way to explore the coachee's perception of their inter-personal relationship dynamics and behaviour patterns. It is an extremely useful model to be aware of as a coach, and to introduce to your coachee to help raise awareness about their view of their situation. It is useful to demonstrate some caution when using the model in the coaching room, but it is a great way of helping the coachee gain a new perspective on the roles they're playing in their relationships. In this episode we explore the Drama Triangle and how we might use it to its full advantage in the coaching room.   Resources:     Enjoying the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.  Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma   Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Our bodies provide the perfect vessel in which to hold our stress and we will feel all sorts of indications that this is happening for us when we're in struggle. But our bodies also offer us some insights into what else is going on for us. Somatic markers provide us with information that we will often ignore when it would be wise to be mindful of them. While we might not choose to act on a gut feeling, noticing what we notice about our physiological sensations can become an important part of our decision making process, and can be so too for our coachees.   In this episode we take a look at somatic coaching, or embodied coaching, in which coachees are encouraged to go within, to the wisdom held in their own body.   Somatic coaching can be practised on its own, or as part of an integrative approach, to great effect.   Listen in to this episode of the Your Coaching Journey podcast for some ideas on how you could use somatic coaching with your coachees and how that might improve their outcomes for them.   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

What is coaching supervision and why would I want to engage with it as a coach?   Coaching is an unregulated industry and, as we have discussed on previous episodes, it is down to coaching bodies and individual coaches to take responsibility for the professionalism and self-regulation of coaching as a whole.    Coaching supervision is one way of helping you as a coach to reflect on the quality of your coaching, your own professional development and your progress in the world of coaching. Coaching supervision is a protected space for confidential and supportive conversations about your role as a coach and your interactions with coachees.   Join us in this episode to find out more about supervision, why you might want to engage with it, and what the practice of receiving supervision entails.       Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

From time to time we devote an episode to questions about coaching that have been asked by our listeners.   In this episode we are discussing the difference between team and group coaching, whether a coaching approach would help if you're asked to facilitate with some mediation, and what to do if a client wants to end their coaching arrangement early.   If you have a question to ask about coaching and would like us to answer it for you on the podcast, do send us your questions, or even drop us a voice note of your question, and we'll feature it on a future episode.   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

In this episode we are joined by the delightful Dr Liz Donovan who has had a stellar career as a paediatric consultant and neonatologist, as well as being the Director of Medical Education at University Hospital Southampton. Liz came out of retirement to return to Southampton to work on a very special project, supporting medics through a coaching programme.   The Doctors' Development Unit offers support to senior clinicians within the trust. A pool of consultants have been trained as coaches by us here at Your Coaching Journey and are making good use of their coaching skills in their work with their consultant colleagues.   Liz has been heading up the coaching consultant team at Southampton, and has been delighted with the results of the coaching that has been conducted there. An independent evaluation of the effectiveness of the coaching within the trust has recently been carried out. The evaluation revealed some remarkable findings in terms of the social return on the investment that has been made and the efficacy of the coaching.   Liz will be sharing some of the report's findings with us, along with her own reflections on the art of coaching.   Resources: You can contact Liz about this research by emailing her at Liz.Donovan@uhs.nhs.uk   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. (link to apple podcast)   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

On our podcast we regularly explore topics that coachees might bring to a coaching conversation.   One such topic is ‘burnout' and as with many topics that arrive at the door of the transformational coach,  this is an important topic that affects many members of the medical community.   Burnout is a complex phenomenon, and we might well be coaching individuals who are at different stages in the burnout journey. They may be feeling stressed and concerned about ending up burnt out; they may be at the point of almost burning out; or they may have already burnt out.   There is a place for coaching in all of these situations and in this podcast we begin to explore the concept of burnout, how it is defined and measured, and how we might go about supporting someone around their relationship with burnout.   Join us for a fascinating conversation about burnout and how coaching might provide a useful intervention for those who are experiencing the symptoms that arise at the different stages of burnout.     Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Here at Your Coaching Journey we believe that the primary role of a coach is to facilitate the coachee's own thinking around their situation, allowing them to gain new perspectives and consider their options for moving towards their desired outcome.   Coaching is about encouraging the coachee to find their own answers, rather than the coach providing them with them.   So how do we square the non-directive approach with the concept of the coach introducing coaching tools, models and exercises.   In this episode we explore the idea of being directive about the coaching process without being directive about the way that the coachee is thinking. We have no wish to advise the coachee about their situation, the options they have, the decision they might make, or the options they might take.   What we are interested in is deepening the pool of meaning for the coachee, widening their perspective and offering models and exercises that generate new thinking.   In this episode we discuss how we might go about achieving this fine balance of managing the coaching conversation, introducing the coachee to new concepts and remaining non-directive with regard to the content of the coaching conversation.   Enjoying the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

In Episode 52 of the podcast, we talked about using metaphor in coaching and briefly touched on the coaching approach known as Clean Language.   In this episode we take a deeper dive into the ‘Clean Language' approach and explore its origins. We also take a look at what distinguishes it from other coaching approaches and explore some of Clean Language's strengths and weaknesses.   We know that reflecting back the coachee's own words in a coaching session often proves more powerful than paraphrasing, and the ‘Clean Language' approach takes this approach to another level. In using the client's own terminology, a clean language coach builds on their choice of words to elicit metaphors and a metaphorical landscape. In this way they allow the coachee to think differently, and gain new insights, about themself and their situation.    During this conversation we will explore what the ‘Clean Language' approach sounds like, how it is constructed and what we might draw from it to weave into a more integrative approach to coaching.   Resources: Link to YouTube video of Dave Grove https://youtu.be/gdMRqXjESbI?si=9tbrojdgrd_twxBn   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. (link to apple podcast)   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching   Do You Have a Question? From time to time, we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Here at Your Coaching Journey, we have been training doctors to be transformational coaches on the Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma for the past five years and this continues to be our flagship training programme.   More recently we have adapted our learning offering and created a Transformational Coaching Diploma for Lifestyle Medicine. On this programme we train doctors who are interested in lifestyle medicine and health coaching to become transformational coaches. This course has an emphasis on working with people around behaviour changes that lead to improved health and wellbeing. The programme has proved tremendously popular, and we have new cohorts starting regularly throughout the year.   In this episode we provide a brief introduction to what common benefits the two programmes have for learners and set out elements that differentiate the two courses.   Resources: Further Information on the Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma can be found by clicking on the following link: https://yourcoachingjourney.com/doctors-coaching-diploma/   Further information on the Transformational Coaching DIploma for Lifestyle Medicine can be found by clicking on the following link: https://yourcoachingjourney.com/lifestyle/   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details For more information about our training, our podcast and our other coaching services visit our website at https://yourcoachingjourney.com/   Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Accreditation - ‘What is it?' and ‘Why would I want to apply for accreditation?'   These are questions that we are asked from time to time, and so we thought that we'd offer our thoughts on the matter in this episode of the podcast. While it's not essential to be personally accredited as a coach, there are some real benefits for those who do apply for accreditation.   In her role as an accreditation assessor with the Association for Coaching, Helen is well-versed in the assessment criteria that applicants are expected to meet.  She is, therefore, well placed to answer your questions and concerns about accreditation and the accreditation process.   During this episode. Helen will provide the benefit of her wisdom and experience. She will also be offering you the inside track on how our Transformational Coaching Diploma supports you in the process of becoming accredited and will also let you have her top tip on getting started on the road to accreditation.   Resources: Helen has created an online mini-masterclass on accreditation which you can find out more about here. While this is designed for our own graduates coming out of our Transformational Coaching Diplomas, much of it will be of use if you have qualified elsewhere. https://t4s.site/ycj-coaching-accreditation-masterclass/lets-get-accredited/     Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)