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“Why do you stay up so late?” by Don Paterson
The Don Paterson poem “Why do you stay up so late?” is rich with imagery that reminds me of those penny drop moments in coaching, in which something mundane is revealed to be a thing of beauty and importance.
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Unfreezing and gratitude in the New Year
Happy New Year! As I prepare to return to work tomorrow, tapping away at this blog, the couple of weeks annual leave seems to have breezed by fearfully quickly. Still, I’ve picked up a half price calendar for my office wall. (I seem to go alternate years of being given surplus calendars for Christmas, or…
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Setting boundaries
“I drew a line…” by Toon Tellegen https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/poem-a-day-i-drew-a-line?srsltid=AfmBOopRblbayLbu8kRiVxMYeRqj4wRXrvbsL7dFppycOXpSXWG_m38y The setting of boundaries in coaching/client relationships (and for coaches within their own coaching competence and practice) is another theme that has regularly cropped up in supervision sessions. It’s also a common topic that comes up from coachees in a variety of ways in the challenges that…
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“…you do not eat that which rips your heart with joy.”
A blog on the neuroscience of delayed gratification, the painting of Lucy Pass and the poetry of Thomas Lux
