Have you noticed? So many people are offering ‘coaching’ as a service or as part of a gamut of other skills. How they define coaching is up to them individually or as an organisation but what I think is important to understand here are a few things: The concept of coaching is working, we live…
There has been quite the cold snap on the East Coast of Australia for those not aware, we are rugged up and ready for winter that is for sure. In the meantime a colleague of mine has been working on a podcast series within her company called The OT Lifestyle Movement. Rhiannon came to my attention when…
Welcome to 2021. I have not written a post for a considerable amount of time. 2020 – ‘The Year That Was’ threw so many things up in the air for everyone, me included and I was required to make hard decisions and priorities. One priority was to drop the post writing even though I…
The magic of insight. Insight sometimes comes from hindsight, in can often come from a simple conversation, not necessarily in the moment but in the afterthought, it can come while you are walking outside or in the shower. The magic is that it can change the course of action long enough to assist…
Isn’t it funny, your ‘to-do’ list is endless and there are even more demands placed on you, resulting in you feeing completely overwhelmed and then the most teeniest of things blows into an hour long saga like the pen won’t work, you can’t find the refill, you are scrummaging through the endless crappy pens, pencils,…
No Lines, No Rules It’s funny (not in ha-ha way) what COVID-19 has exposed to everyone on a global, national, local, and individual level. There are so many different areas, layers, topics and unknowns. As we all work through this pandemic in our own lives, areas, homes, work etc there are so many different things…
Often, there is a line that we need to cross to achieve the goals we are aiming for and to make the changes we long to make. This line is not something similar to ‘the grass is greener on the other side’, quite often it represents feelings such as fear, doubt, not-knowing, and hard work.…
As a health professional I see a lot of people, groups, companies who have fallen/assumed/been taught a helpless and hopeless set of thoughts and consequent actions/behaviours. Regardless of the area I see them, homes, health settings, workplaces, educational settings, social situations. It often makes me wonder how they got there. My logical mind and training…
I had a fabulous time presenting at the OT Conference on Saturday #NTQLD2018. I spoke about OTs using Coaching as an approach in their practice. For anyone in Australia interested in the book for OTs using coaching in their practice, Enabling Positive Change: Coaching Conversations in Occupational Therapy, it can be purchased in 2 ways.…
I am delighted to announce that I am presenting at the Occupational Therapy Australia NT-QLD Regional Conference on the 26 – 27 October at the Gold Coast on the topic of Coaching in Occupational Therapy: Broadening Perceptions of Choice. If you would like to register, here is the link – http://ow.ly/eu4G30lSzjn. Looking forward to seeing…