Coaching for success with a soul
Gone are the days of having one career for life. Times have changed. Today’s global market-place makes our working lives more impermanent and unpredictable plus with a potentially longer working life we’re less likely to settle with something that merely pays the bills. We want something more – so phrases like ‘self-improvement’ and ‘personal journey’ …
As a trainer, it’s not easy to give a true to life flavour of what it’s like to start out, or convey the ups and downs of learning to coach, so I asked a Ali, to share her experience of joining a Foundations Course. Ali has a background in PR, has worked as a personal …
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I myself am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. Issac Newton Earlier this month I said goodbye to my son who is off on the next leg of his ‘gap’ travels before starting university in the autumn. It’s time for him to step out into …
If you are feeling stuck in the wrong career read on – thanks to Wise Goose graduate and career coach Lucy Weldon for sharing her thoughts in this post… A new year often kick-starts conversations about the future. You might be thinking about changes that need to be made around your career or your …
I’m writing this at the Winter Solstice. It’s one of those still Dartmoor winter afternoons, there’s a blanket of motionless grey clouds and not a breath of wind. Earlier a buzzard wheeled lazily over our rooftop, the only movement in a sky where even the ubiquitous rooks were still and silent. Though it’s only 4:15pm …
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Many thanks to Wise Goose graduate Lucy Weldon for this post. Lucy is a career coach who specialises in the development of sustainable careers. Have you thought about what living to a hundred will be like? It will soon be unremarkable to live that long. Many societies, including the UK, are rapidly ageing. There’s lots of …
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Granite. A glittering, resilient rock. The Barefoot Barn where we hold our Wise Goose Devon training programmes stands upon granite, the house I live in is built from it. Both overlook the huge granite plug of Dartmoor. Granite is one of the defining characteristics of this place. The moaning, whistling, howling or …
On ancient maps of the world cartographers, perhaps believing the world was flat, would write: ‘beyond here be monsters’. Fear of what lay beyond the edge of the known world kept their world small. Today we smile at how wrong this perspective is; we know that over that imagined rim lay whole new worlds. …
I have the quote above from Thomas Berry, scribbled on a post-it on my desk. Some days it brings out a smile and a sense of purpose. Some days it feels like a bad joke. I am a ‘glass half full’ person but as I look at many of the changes currently sweeping through the …
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Many thanks to Mark Hunt for this post. Mark had recently finished his first training weekend with Wise Goose where we’d been looking at questions in coaching when he had real life opportunity to put the theory into practice! Recently, after a visit to Wise Goose, I was travelling back to Exeter along narrow Dartmoor …
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