This is just a short message to share that the book “The Inner Fire: a coaching alchemy” has been published. It’s available to buy on Amazon around the world or direct from my own website. Links to purchase are below. This message is a bit of a sales pitch, which is unusual for me. I’m … Read more
As the new book shuffles towards publication and a soft launch, I am turning some of my attention to what comes next. “The Inner Fire” took a while to come to fruition and has brought together my thoughts on coaching, on alchemical psychology, my work as a poet and the work I have developed on … Read more
This is the third week I have set aside to write the next book. In the first week spent on “The Inner Fire: a coaching alchemy”, back in October of last year, the energy was spent reading and pulling together an outline. The second week in the cold and COVID lockdown of January, it became … Read more
Over the last two months I have become much clearer about the overall structure of the book series that I am writing. Called, The Concepts Series, it draws on my working experiences and the lifelong learning that I have been engaged in. This blog post describes my current thinking about the through-line of these books. … Read more
Radio Silence is established just before an attack to ensure that the enemy doesn’t detect you and counter-attack first. I’ve been in radio silence on this blog since August. The last post described some of the manuscripts and rough ideas I was working with at the time as I homed in on the new book, … Read more
It has been a long time in preparation maybe two years from the initial idea. I’ve had the challenges of resistance and losing momentum. Seth Godin talks about the importance of shipping material and not holding back (this man has blogged every day for years and years now!) And Steven Pressfield really does understand what … Read more
The writing retreat is nearing the end, and I am really pleased to say that the first rough draft of “Insight Coaching” is completed. It will, of course, need work before it is ready to publish. If you are interested in how coaching can give deeper insights into the way we work, what we focus … Read more
Another in the series of posts in response to randomly selected titles: I’ve always had a strong sense of having awful handwriting ever since I learnt to write in primary school as a left hander. The teachers not only told me that my writing was awful, they also pointed out that this was probably because … Read more
This is a poem from the collection I am writing at the moment – called “alice reimagined”, a series of conversations with the anima. I despair of Alice sometimes especially when she is out and I have no-one to talk to or she is in and I have no-one to talk … Read more
In the last blog post I spoke about the need to build a habit of writing 500 words a day. The plan was to see if this would help with regular writing and move forward the manuscripts I am working on. The process has been thought-provoking so I thought I should share some of it … Read more