The Doctors’ Coaching Blog
Here we share our thoughts on how doctors can utilise coaching to support those around them, from clients to patients, from mentees to trainees; from patients to colleagues; and from colleagues to family and friends. Well executed coaching skills have the ability to transform any conversation into an opportunity to generate new ideas and, from there, to transform relationships into more balanced and empowering thinking partnerships.
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Topics for Coaching: Perfectionism
How can you work with your clients to help them to understand and overcome perfectionism?
Coaching Tools: Six Thinking Hats
In this article we explore what the six thinking hats are and how this model can help us help our coachees find some new perspectives
Narrative Coaching
In this article we explore Narrative Coaching, what it is, and how it can be so transformative
Considering Unconscious Biases in Coaching
Exploring unconscious bias in the coaching room
Is It Ever Okay To Ask A Closed Question?
Questions are part of the foundation of coaching, but not all questions are equal. In this article we ask if closed questions are ever okay?
We’ll also be exploring what other questions we should be avoiding.
Topics for Coaching: Boundaries
How can you work with your clients to help them set, strengthen or enforce better boundaries? In this article we explore how coaching can….
Coaching For Social Health
Our social connections are vital to our wellbeing as human beings. Every model of wellbeing has relationships as one of its components but it very rarely gets talked about directly with patients, clients or coachees. We talk about physical health and mental health, but social health tends to get overlooked.
Much of the deep thinking that’s been dedicated to the issue, from Aristotle to Brené Brown, recognises that it’s the deeper connections that we have with people that are the most important. But how do we talk to coachees about their social health and support them in giving thought to navigating their relationship landscape and strengthening some of those human bonds.
In this article we explore some of the research and developing ideas around social health, We also discuss ways in which we might start to have meaningful conversations with our coachees about their own social health.
Coaching Tools: Meditation and Mindfulness
Following on from our exploration of Transpersonal Coaching approach, we will take a look at meditation and mindfulness and it’s place in coaching room.
Transpersonal Coaching
In this article we explore the transpersonal approach to coaching. Often called spiritual coaching we explore what that means, when it is useful, and how it can be integrated in to the coaching space.