What. A. Week.

It’s a rare event for me to be lost for words but this week has been so intense, I can’t even write about it yet. Here’s the synopsis – and I hope to get back to fill in the details later.

The week begins with a hissy-fit meltdown brought on by neglect of self-care. Mucho meditation [...]

Ditched the new year resolutions? Set goals that get results in 2010

If we want to make real change in our lives, we need to move beyond believing in the ‘magic bullet’ of new year resolutions.
As a coach, I’ve achieved most of what I set out to do – except when it comes to keeping New Year resolutions. I still have my written resolution to learn [...]

Rethinking the Complimentary Coaching Session: Part 4. Applications for Coaching Practice

Research really only matters when we can learn something useful from it – and apply it to our lives. In this case, we’ve learned a little more about what works in those initial stages of coaching – whether it be in a comp session or a screening call. But how do we integrate it? How do we apply this knowledge to creating more effective coaching?

This (Blogless) Life

It’s very sad but I think my relationship to blogging has entered the “old friend” realm. You know, the one where “we really must catch up” is something that’s said with much feeling and good intention but rarely  followed through.
You may have noticed that the blog posts at WestonCulture have become few and far between [...]

Rethinking the Complimentary Coaching Session. Part 3: The Research Study

In the first two parts of this Rethinking the Complimentary Coaching Session series, I introduced the possibility that the complimentary coaching session, as commonly offered by coaches, was not the client enrolment panacea that it was touted to be. I had a theory that the sales focus of the session was undermining its usefulness as [...]

Rethinking the Complimentary Coaching Session. Part 2: The Selling of Coaching

In Part 1 of this series on Rethinking the Complimentary Coaching Session, I wrote about being introduced to the Comp Session as part of my coach training and how, at that early stage, something just didn’t sit right for me. I felt uneasy about using techniques that increase a client’s pain to tip them over [...]

Rethinking the Complimentary Coaching Session. Part 1: Feel the Pain

And here is where it all changed for me. The instructor responded by introducing us to the “Kiss. Tell. Hurt.” approach, the first of many ill-advised torture devices of coaching that I’ve come across over the years.