A short exhortation for coaches to hold lightly the boundaries between coaching and other helping professions.

Challenging the centrality of goal-setting and its place within transformative coaching.

An exploration of the deeper sense of calling and purpose that coaches have that transcends the job or business.

Nick Bolton challenges the conventional idea that coaching is a short-term approach and that longer-term work risks dependency.

An exploration of the philosophical clash between humanistic and systemic perspectives on personal agency.

In this article, Nick Bolton argues that we owe more to the professional coaching bodies than we often acknowledge and need to shift our mindset from transactional value to contribution to impact.

I have several concerns about the myths being created within the personal development world, and I have often used the term ‘personal development fascism’ to refer to the attempt of some parts of personal development thinking to pin all responsibility on the individual. This came home most forcefully to me some years

What do you think the most important coaching question is? Indeed, is there one? Surely there are so many that there can’t be just one. There are so many factors that come into play that there can’t be just one question: “One Question to rule them all”, as Coach Frodo might have it!

We build a sense of a journey that makes sense of our own personal history, and of the world around us. And whether it’s the behaviour of others, our own responses, the results we get in life, the obstacles we face, or something else, we often find that “the long and winding road … always leads me here”.