Healthy Boundaries & How To Set Them
Healthy boundaries are important to have in place in many areas of our lives. Working in healthcare requires us to manage a number of boundaries which serve to: maintain a …
Informed decision making and consent in maternity and neonatal services
The provision of high-quality personalised care is core to the 3-year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services. Despite informed decision-making being an ethical, professional and legal standard, the 2023 …
Part 2 – Becoming More Evidence-Based as a Coach
In my last blog, I talked about the foundations of coaching practice (or indeed any form of person-centred practice)- trust, rapport and empathy. I neglected to mention kindness and compassion …
Part 1 – Becoming more evidence based as a health coach
Becoming more evidence based as a health coach We all try to do our best for the clients/patients we see. But what does ‘doing our best’ really mean? To my …
Developing Supportive Challenge
Early in my development as a coach, just starting on my training and beginning to try things out, the use of challenge was definitely a learning edge for me, a …
Developing Presence As A Coach
“We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.” Pema Chödrön Thinking about how “present” you are in your …