Building psychological safety in environments that feel in any way unsafe, is imperative. In a world of intense anxiety, uncertainty and unpredictability, where much is complex and feels out of our control, we seek safe spaces more than ever.

Diversity in Coaching - Equality legislation has been written for over 50 years, and in our EDI Working Group are members who have been involved in this space for the past 30 years.  And yet, there’s still much further to go. 

Carolyn Didsbury reflects on a coaching moment of realisation in this latest APECS Blog - how coaching can feel like the lighting the way, steering a client rather than encouraging them to think for themselves.

This month I have been working with a leadership team in a very complex and fractured environment with all sorts of complexity, pressures and difficulties. Suffice to say, it is tough, not just for them but for everyone in the system.

Autumn is all about change, transition and transformation - the very stuff of our practice. The temperature, the length of the days, the quality of the light, the shape of the trees, the glorious colours of the leaves; it’s all about change.

It began with Breadsong ... the moving story of Kitty and her father, Al, who started baking bread together as a way for a young teenaged Kitty to cope with overwhelming anxiety and depression. At her book launch, Kitty said something that really struck me, "I realised that depression isn't a fault in me, like a leaky pipe to be fixed, but a part of me and will always be so."

During the period when APECS was established (2004) an increasing number of training programmes and new bodies to represent coaches were emerging to provide credentials and regulate the field.

Many of you may remember the marvellous Walt Disney created a cute baby elephant called Dumbo. I do wonder if he might have found a sweeter name, but anyway … Dumbo was born with ginormous ears.

Some things just are - we cannot explain everything, nor are there causes and reasons and something to blame ... this was a conversation I had recently with a dear friend and colleague who found herself collapsing on the floor one morning