Coaching for success with a soul
Coaching isn’t just about asking great questions, it’s about expanding perspectives. When we help clients see beyond their immediate view, new possibilities emerge. In this short video, Wise Goose Director shares why widening perspectives is essential for transformative coaching.
At first glance, not much. Yet as I listen to clients, leadership teams and fellow coaches, I increasingly encounter questions that cannot be separated from the wider context in which we are living. Questions about uncertainty, purpose, responsibility and leadership. Questions about who we are, where we are going and what kind of a future …
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Finding New Possibilities Beyond Leadership When Catherine Rees joined the Wise Goose coaching programme, she was already an experienced school leader with a successful career in education behind her. Like many senior leaders, she was deeply dedicated to her work, committed to her community and investing enormous energy in supporting others. Yet she was also …
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been writing about paradox. The experience of holding tensions that don’t resolve – working in situations where choosing one side risks losing something important. From the responses I’ve had, it seems many people recognise this. There’s a sense that: This recognition matters. But it also raises a different question: …
Whether you’re a coach, leader, educator or helping professional, this workshop offers an opportunity to explore neurodiversity through a coaching lens and move beyond labels towards deeper understanding and inclusion. 20 September 2026 | London | 10:30-4:30 What comes to mind when someone says “neurodivergent”? Why are we hearing the term neurodiversity more often today? …
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I’m in London in another heatwave, having just completed delivering our Wise Goose ‘Foundations’ in Coaching with Dr Sybille Schiffmann. I’ll be travelling back to Devon this afternoon, but for now I’m sitting in a café feeling fairly satisfied with our work so far. I’m also trying to capture something difficult to put into words …
Continue reading “When Coaching Becomes Less About What You Do and More About Who You Are”
This week, I’ll be working with a training group on their final meeting of their Wise Goose Limited Advanced Diploma journey. As part of this are spending a day at the British Museum. I took the photo above there last year. I think this quote from Alexander Pope fits well with the topic of this …
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Most of us are pretty good at dealing with dilemmas. Much of our professional training, and education more broadly has taught us how to analyse options, weigh pros and cons, and make a choice. A dilemma presents us with an either/or: And while dilemmas can be uncomfortable, they usually come with an implicit promise: if …
Continue reading “A Dilemma Asks You to Choose. A Paradox Asks You to Stay.”
This reflection comes from my work in coaching and coach training at Wise Goose, and from noticing how ambivalence shows up again and again, not as a problem, but as a pointer towards greater authenticity. May has always been my favourite month in Devon. The hedgerows are extravagant, cow parsley frothing at the edges, hawthorn …
Continue reading “Ambivalence Is Not a Problem to Fix: It’s a Place to Stand”
This reflection was written in the midst of delivering the first days of Wise Goose Foundations course. It’s part of an ongoing series of articles exploring goals, meaning, growth and transition, and what coaching can offer when achievement alone doesn’t quite answer the deeper questions people are carrying. The first two days of the new …
Continue reading “When You Achieve the Goal – and Something Still Feels Unfinished”