Author: Nick Bolton

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What Happens When A Manager Learns to Say Less?

What changes when a manager stops being the answer? This article explores how a coaching approach, listening, stillness and restraint can create better thinking and greater ownership.

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Phenomenology as a Principle of Coaching

Explore how phenomenology is used in coaching, and how, through it, coaches can help their clients gain a deeper understanding of themselves and their world.

How To Find the Right Coaching School for You

How to find and explore coach training courses and discern which provider and programme is right for you.

Are Psychotherapy and Counselling Really More Regulated Than Coaching?

An exploration of the status of regulation in both coaching and therapy with some surprising revelations!

9 Unique Qualities Of A Coaching Conversation

An examination of the unique qualities of coaching and how it is different from simply a typical conversation.

Will a Psychologist, Psychotherapist or Counsellor Get Any Benefit from Training as a Coach?

In recent years, there has been a growing trend of psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors undertaking coach training.

Working with “Difficult Clients” in Coaching: Rethinking Meaning and Exploring Solutions

Working with difficult clients is very challenging. Explore the different client behaviours and how you can handle working with them.

The Impact of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy on Coaching

Uncover how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy influenced coaching through its principles, practices and models.

The Gestalt Cycle of Experience: An Emergent Approach to Change in Coaching

An exploration of the Gestalt Cycle of Experience in a coaching context and its specific role in working with emergence.

Beyond the Aphorism: The Paradoxical Theory of Change as a Practical Lens for Coaching

How might the Paradoxical Theory of Change offer coaches a practical lens for their work with clients?

Pleasure, Pain and Transgression: A Coaching Perspective on Lacan’s Concept of Jouissance

Explore Lacan’s enigmatic concept of ‘jouissance’ as applied to a coaching context and consider the paradox of pleasure that is painful as a psychological driver.