Your Coaching Journey

Following on from our exploration of Gestalt coaching in our previous episode, in this podcast we explore one of the models that originates in Gestalt, the Cycle of Experience (CoE), in greater detail.    The CoE is a Gestalt model that illustrates how individuals move through their experience of a situation. The model incorporates different stages that people might move through in order to complete the cycle and move on to a different experience.    On this podcast we explore the CoE model and identify each of the different stages that someone could be at when they arrive in the coaching room. Having an awareness of the CoE helps coaches to meet coachees where they are and work with them at that stage of the cycle.    Increasing a coachee’s own awareness of where they are in the CoE and inviting them to really take notice of what they are experiencing in the here and now of a coaching session can be really powerful.    The CoE is also useful in helping coachee’s to understand why they might be ‘stuck’ at one of the stages of the cycle and struggling to move forward.     If you’re interested in helping coachees to understand their situation better and to increase their awareness of how they are connecting with their world, the CoE model could be really useful. It will also help you to support your coachees in gaining an acceptance of who they are in the current moment and exploring how they might move forward towards completing the cycle of experience.    Resources:     Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

On our transformational coaching diploma we explore many different approaches to coaching and the Gestalt approach is one of them. It is an approach that lends itself to working in a transformational way with the coachee and is very much about helping them to become more who they are. In being more who they are, the coachee can start to bring about the change they wish to see more easily.  And if they bring about the change they would like to see in a way that is aligned with who they are, the coachee is likely to find that their life makes a lot more sense to them.    In this episode we explore what Gestalt Coaching is and when it is useful to use a Gestalt approach. We will also be taking a look at some of the Gestalt techniques that are used within the coaching room.   Resources:  Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching     Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

We will regularly be devoting a podcast episode to discussing some widely held coaching beliefs, common coaching practices and coaching challenges that are often pondered and debated.   In today’s episode we are talking about contracting. We will be exploring whether it is always necessary to contract with coachees, and if a coach is doing so, when they might contract and how they might go about it.    We’ll also be exploring what elements coaches might choose to include in their coaching contract and their contracting conversations?   Resources: Download our contracting checklist here: https://yourcoachingjourney.com/coaching-contracting-checklist-2/    Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

In this episode we are interviewing another coaching doctor, Dr Caroline Walker. Caroline completed the Transformational Coaching Diploma back in 2020 as a member of the first cohort to train on the programme with us.   Caroline is an expert in doctors' wellbeing and an international role-model for doctors living with mental health problems.  As a psychiatrist, therapist and coach she has first-hand experience of how the pressures of working in medicine can impact on a doctor's life and wellbeing.   Over the past few years, Caroline, and her team of coaches and trainers at The Joyful Doctor have helped thousands of doctors to change their lives for the better, to prioritise their self-care and to live and work more joyfully.   Listen to find out what inspired Caroline to incorporate coaching into her professional portfolio of roles. We will also explore Caroline’s approach to coaching, her favourite coaching tool and her favourite coaching question.    Contact Details for Dr Caroline Walker:  Email: caroline@joyfuldoctor.com Website: joyfuldoctor.com   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching   Do You Have a Question? From time to time, we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

If you’ve ever looked for demonstrations of coaching online you may have noticed that there aren’t many particularly good ones out there.    When looking for great examples of coaching, the two of us are always looking to see exquisite attention and lots of lovely space. We’re hoping to hear crisp open questions, accurate summarising and reflecting back and the coach resisting being directive. We’d like to observe the coachee being supported in making sense of their own world and generating some new thinking.    Tired of searching for the holy grail we thought we’d create our own demonstration and so, in this episode, we engaged in a genuine coaching session.    During the coaching Helen gave some thought to a dilemma that had been on her mind for some time. The conversation resulted in Helen making a decision, which she has now taken action on, allowing her to move towards her desired objective.    During the coaching session Tom utilises the TOM’S CODE model to guide the coaching process. This is the model that we introduce everyone to at the beginning of our Transformational Coaching Diploma training.    TOM’S CODE provides a framework to hang the coaching on. It’s not meant to be prescriptive and, at times, the coach will flex their use of the model in order to respond to the coachee.    We train coaches to work in a transformational way, looking to bring about awareness, empowerment and autonomy. TOM’S CODE focuses on bringing about the change that the coachee wants to see.     Resources:     If you’d like to find out more about, or remind yourself of TOMS CODE, the framework we are using, you can listen to our podcast episode about it here. https://yourcoachingjourney.com/project/episode-10-coaching-tools-model/    Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Some coaches are more comfortable with addressing relationship issues with coachees than others, but the topic is bound to come up eventually in the coaching room.    Whether it’s managing a tricky relationship at work, or navigating our communication with those around us, relationships will surface in the coaching room and it’s useful to think about how we will handle them as a coach.    We are all social creatures and none of us live in isolation. Our coachee’s relationships are an enduring feature of their life journey and they are going to hit some bumps in the road. As coaches it is important that we recognise that being able to hold the space for coachees as they discuss their relationships is an essential part of our role in working holistically.   In this episode we discuss what coaches might choose to do when relationships are at the centre of a coaching conversation.     Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Following on from our last episode on Transactional Analysis, this episode focuses on the key model from the Transactional Analysis approach to coaching; the Parent – Adult – Child Model. This is a model that will help us, as coaches, to understand the ego states that our coachee might be entering into at certain times during interactions with others. It may also help us to talk to coachees about whether they are responding in an adult way to the here and now or are drawing on old, learned, patterns of response. In addition, using the Parent - Adult – Child model might allow coachees to gain a different perspective on the behaviour of those that they interact with.    In this episode we look at the model in more detail and discuss how and when you might introduce it your clients.   Resources:   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma   Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Transactional Analysis is a psychological theory that can help us to understand and explore human interactions and relationships.   In this episode we explore, what it is, where it comes from, and how it can be a useful approach to use in the coaching room. We also share two models, The Parent - Adult - Child model, and the Drama Triangle, that might prove useful in the coaching room. Both models can be introduced to coachees to encourage them to reflect on their relationships and to allow them to gain new perspectives around the ways that their interactions with others play out.    Resources:     Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma   Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

We will regularly be devoting a podcast episode to discussing some widely held coaching beliefs, common coaching practices and coaching challenges that are often pondered and debated.   Today we are talking about challenging our coachees. Coaching is a supportive space and we engage with our coachees with empathy and positive regard. So, what place does challenge have in the coaching room? Should we ever challenge our coachees? If we do challenge them, what might we challenge them about and how might we go about doing that. What are some of the potential risks of challenging a coachee?   Join us to find out what we think and once you’ve listened in let us know your own thoughts.    Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listener questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Mindset is a term regularly used within coaching but what exactly is it? How might we encourage someone to reflect on their own mindset in the coaching room? How might we work with coachees to adapt fixed ways they have of thinking about certain areas of their life and allow them to develop and grow.    In this episode we explore the work of Carol Dweck and her Growth Mindset theory. Complete with a brief example of a coaching conversation around a mindset issue, we think you’ll enjoy this episode and hope that it will provide you with some food for thought.    Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/ twitter.com/doctorscoaching   Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listener questions about coaching.   If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)