Nice Girls
First of all thank you to all the people who got in touch about the F word..I’ll pick up on what you say in a later blog…loads of words of wisdom – thank you.
I’m on a bit of a midsummer madness phase…I can’t get to sleep at night and then this morning I heard … Read more
The F word
Before I start into, what I feel quite scared about writing, I want to state my position clearly. I do not hate men. I do not think men are bad. I like men. I have a lot of male friends who I trust and like. My children are boys. I have male partner.
And I … Read more
Listening
When you listen to someone, how much of it do you remember? Give me a percentage?
20%, 50%, 100%?
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway
I’ve been on training courses for the Cardiff University recently and we were revising coaching skills.
In the first two years of a romantic … Read more
What kind of coach are you?
So there I was at a training day for facilitators for the National College of Teaching Leadership and I got talking to the woman next to me, as you do. She was a deputy head looking for her first headship and she’d just finished an NLP training.’ What kind of coach are you?’ she asked.… Read more
Divorce and Separation
I’ve spent a lot of time recently with women who are going through divorces and separations, and I’ve been there myself.
What strikes me about all of us, is the way we are torn between doing what we know to be best for ourselves, and balancing that with what is best for the children. One … Read more