Learning & training at Wise Goose

January 6, 2026January 6, 2026

Is Coaching Your Next Step? Explore Possibilities and Pathways:

Discover how coaching can enrich your current role, open new coaching career paths, and help you create meaningful impact. Thinking about coaching as a career or wondering how to integrate coaching into your work and life? Curious if it’s the right fit for you? In our ‘First Steps into Coaching’ free online sessions we help you understand what coaching is and what it …

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December 3, 2025December 19, 2025

Wholeness: Looking at the Whole System

A systems approach begins when first you see the world through the eyes of another. Charles West Churchman When Change Meets Resistance Linda’s words stopped me in my tracks. It was 1987, the final year of my psychotherapy training. Vulnerability was essential for my growth, yet not everyone welcomed it. That moment taught me something …

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November 13, 2020April 16, 2026

GROW Coaching Framework: What It Is and Why It Matters

Discover the most popular coaching framework, its strengths, limitations, and how to use it wisely. So, what exactly is GROW? It’s an acronym that stands for: At each step, powerful questions structure the coaching conversation. Starting with the client’s goals, identifying the gap between where they are and where they want to be, and clarifying …

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September 9, 2020December 3, 2025

Moving Beyond The ‘Blame Game’

I can’t believe we are heading towards the Autumn equinox and the marking of the transition between seasons. There’s definitely that back to school/ work feeling in the air. This week I’ll be driving my son back to Brighton for the start of his final year at the University of Sussex. This year it’s a …

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August 19, 2020December 19, 2025

The Gift of Feedback

Many of us struggle both with the giving and receiving of feedback, so a big ‘thank you’ to Josie Sutcliffe for this post. Josie was one of our most popular trainers before her death in 2025. We can learn to both give and receive feedback in ways that are enabling, that do not wound but …

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April 2, 2020December 2, 2025

Entertaining uninvited guests

Written in the 13th century, this poem an oldie, but goodie. Though overused in mindfulness circles to the point of becoming a cliché, it’s still a beautiful reminder to meet, accept and respect the myriad of visitors I’ve been entertaining as COVID19 lock-down sweeps my house empty of furniture. So here’s a virtual cup of …

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March 23, 2020December 2, 2025

The Power of Kindness

It’s Monday and it’s definitely not business as usual … My desk is the same, I was due to work from home today, so being here is no different, but I’m feeling very, very different. Priorities have changed, uncertainty seems to be the order of the day. This time last week I was in London …

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April 1, 2018December 2, 2025

Widening Coaching Perspectives

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 …

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December 15, 2017December 2, 2025

The Climbing Wall – A new way of looking at our working lives

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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January 13, 2017December 3, 2025

Questionable Intentions – Intentional Questions

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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