Coaching Presence: Recent Episodes
Mary Anna Wright
For coaches who want to deepen their work. Each episode has inspirational guests sharing their experience along with tools and exercises to support your learning journey.
Lyssa deHart MCC shares insights into the neuroscience of metaphors and describes how they light up the brain of our coaching clients.
Christi gives useful insights into the ways neurodiversity may affect coaches and their clients. She shares personal experience and argues the reasons why she believes people with neurodiversity make great coaches.
Mary Berkery talks about the coaching work she does facilitated with horses. She discusses the evolution of the horse, how as a prey animal they have a heightened sensory system - meaning they can be mirrors to our human emotions. Mary recognises that we don't always have easy access to horses - and suggests ways we might replicate some of this work in other ways.
Joseph O'Connor discusses how an understanding of the brain can help our work as coaches. He talks about the neuroscience of goals, how we might notice our client's thinking patterns. He also shares why a mindfulness practice is important for coaches.
Tünde Erdös shares insights from her research into coaching presence. She offers some surprising findings and suggests ways we can deepen this essential competency.
Katerina Kanelidou discusses the ICF Team Coaching Competencies. She shares the key differences with the ICF Competency Framework, some specific considerations and complexities when working in this area.
Dr Clare Beckett-McInroy shares her experience of using cards in coaching. She considers different ways of working with them, ethical considerations, best practice and gives a practical demonstration of their use in a live mini coaching session.
Elaine discusses the principles of reflection and shares some ideas for reflective practice. She dips into the choreography of her book Reflect to Create and her campaign to encourage reflective practices that are light and creative.
Lily describes the difference between supervision and mentoring and shares the benefits coaches can experience by being in supervision. She then gives some ideas for how to prepare and how to max the experience
Dr Samantha Graham shares the importance of 'rolling up the scroll', staying present rather than dwelling on our pasts or trying to predict what might happen in our futures. With her company State of Mind, Sam trains leadership teams and sports teams with a suite of 22 tools to help them build mental muscle and resilience to improve performance and wellbeing. Same shares some of these tools with us, and discusses how we might use them when feeling overwhelm.
Sharon Jansen and Karen White join me to talk about what is means to coach courageously. How we know when we are coaching with courage? How our intuition and body wisdom might help us.
Linda shares her experience of coaching across cultures in the Middle East, Africa and South America. She discusses the competencies needed to work in a cross-cultural arena and considerations we should take into account.
Karen Pratt talks about Transactional Analysis - why this psychological model is so useful to coaches and how we might work with it
In this interview with Vanessa Talbot, Mary Anna Wright sets out the Five Duties of being a professional coach and how understanding them, using them to plan and track your work can help you thrive. Originally aired in Vanessa's Coaches, Changemakers: Step into the Spotlight! group
Interview series for Coaches, Changemakers - Step into the Spotlight. Vanessa Talbot interviews Mary Anna Wright asking why coaches need an holistic approach to their work.
Mary Anna Wright is interviewed by Vanessa Talbot for her Coaches, Changemakers: Step into the Spotlight! facebook group. Mary Anna shares information on The Five Duties and some tips for deepening competency.
Alex van Oostveen and Andrew Matthews join a discussion on coach supervision. They share some theory, and talk through the practical implications - what actually happens in a coach supervision session and what being in supervision feels like.
Tara Nolan discusses Team Coaching, the key skills we need as coaches to work in this area. She talks about the challenges faced by leaders as many teams are housed virtually. Finally she gives us an overview of some of the key lessons from her Game of Teams podcast.
Penny discusses whether we are too reliant on words in coaching. She introduces techniques for work with objects and the foundations of her work with the Bead Trail. She closes with a visualisation exercise.
In this episode Coach and Mediator Sharon Wakeford talks about her book Walking the Way - In Wonder and Words. A series of letters written to people she has encountered on the Camino de Santiago. Sharon shares some lessons from the pilgrimage, an unpacking of awareness and the chafing one can experience from our interpretations of others.
Niamh Hannan discusses the uses of mindfulness in coaching and shares a mindfulness exercise that helps balance our emotions when considering our clients.
Sharon Jansen and Karen White join the conversation to talk about designing life after 'always on', and consider the impact of not switching off from work pressure and the online world. Karen discusses the role of language in our ability to respond to requests, Sharon talks about the importance of boundaries.
Mark offers a clearing conversation to help create the psychological safety needed in order to allow us to fully explore our biases and assumptions.
Amanda Scott shares her research into networks. She provides a framework 'personal boardroom' to help coaches and their clients build sustainable networks that serve a variety of functions. She also discusses how networks might need to develop in the 'new normal' of the Covid pandemic where virtual meetings have replaced traditional physical meeting opportunities.
Sally Bendersky is a genuinely transformational presence. She joins the conversation from Santiago in Chile, sharing some of the techniques she has learned in her coaching practice and through her experience as a diplomat.
"We don't only have conversations in language - simultaneously we are always held by an emotion, and the emotion expresses itself in our physiology and our physical presence"
Sally is passionate about creating organisations that encourage human beings to access their full potential. She shares some key tools to enable this - through supporting the development of quality relationships.
Sally Bendersky is author of several books including Co-Creating Happiness and A Novel Entrepreneur: A Heart Centered Path to Fulfillment she also writes in Pebbles in the Pond: Transforming the World One Person at a Time.
Anne shares the story of how she created Grace Trail. From a 'life tsunami' she created a source of positivity that is now used by people around the world. There are five stages to Grace: Gratitude, Release, Accept, Challenge, Embrace. From these stages, Anne developed five questions:
- Even though life is really difficult, what can I be grateful for right now?
- What do I need to release to move forward in my life?
- What is calling out for acceptance?
- How would I like to challenge myself in this moment? The challenge to move forward in the direction of my choice
- What can I embrace as possible?
Jacob Morris is the creator of The Value Deck www.discoveryourvalues.com. Based on the work of Shalom H. Schwartz, The Values Deck is a useful tool for coaches wanting to help clients understand their values and the impact they have on motivation, decision making and other areas of life.
The thousands of words used to describe our intrinsic motivations have been distilled down into 10 value themes. The cards also present some questions to help our clients become aware, affirm and apply the insights.
Coach and author Wassili Zafiris talks about his latest book Happiness is Depressing. He shares the reasons why our societal pursuit of happiness is simply setting up an unachievable goal. By unpacking the semantics of the word 'happiness' Wassili then talks us through the importance of luck - and shares an inventory that will help our clients reconsider their life outcomes.
This discussion focusses on how as coaches we can help our clients orient to the truth in a rapidly changing environment. How we need to ascertain what is important and what we can rely on. The coaches play with metaphor during this conversation.
Coach and grief counsellor Mary Anna Trotman shares some learning from her world that may help as we come to terms with the Covid-19 pandemic. She references tools and frameworks that will support coaches and their clients come to terms with the impact on our daily lives of lockdown, quarantine and other losses.
Leon VanDerPol talks about transformational coaching. Author of Shift in Being, Leon VanDer Pol trains coaches keen to help their clients transform. In this episode, Mary Anna asks about the differences between awakening and transformation - and finds out embodied change.
Leon shares an exercise to help coaches deepen their presence.
Coaching Presence is a podcast for coaches who want to deepen their understanding of their work. In this trailer, Mary Anna Wright introduces the series and helps you understand what you can expect from listening in.