This workshop will develop practice around the coach in a facilitator role when helping manage communication and self-awareness problems caused by a destabilising scenario. I will build on the more theoretical aspects of last year’s session (which explained cross-overs between language teaching, learning and acquisition, with outcomes-based, target-oriented and process-based methods adopted by coaches or […]
Thank you to all who came to the embodied workshop at YorkStJohn and I greatly enjoyed it! Sadly, though, with any short workshop there wasn’t the time needed to show how the protocols work in a coaching environment based n real situations and embodied principles. I plan to give a half-day demonstration in the York […]
YORK COACHING GROUP – MANAGING DESTABILISATION 4TH DECEMBER 2018 Event to be held at the following time, date and location: Tuesday, 4 December 2018 from 18:30 to 20:45 (GMT) York St John University Skell Building, room 037 Lord Mayors Walk YO31 7EW York United Kingdom View Map Attend Event Event registration is by invitation […]
It’s interesting to consider if we can separate words and communicating them, from feelings and experiences and their environment. At a recent coaching session at The Hawkhills, outside Easingwold, I considered with my client how emotional intelligence is related to our perceptions and the distance we take from them. It can be good to step […]
How does the process of Destabilisation work and how can we better manage it? PART ONE It’s important at definitive moments to feel that we can say what needs, or has, to be said, whatever the political culture. The emperor with no clothes Playing the Devil’s advocate is the antidote when certain things are not meant to be […]
What state are you in? Do you feel that everything is “normal” and steady – “business as usual”, or in a constant state of flux and uncertainty, giving you an uneasy even scary feeling in the pit of your stomach? Coaching in York is in a great state! After a great week at the International […]
In May 2018 I was proud to be involved in the York International Coaching week. I spoke* at Peasholme House, the home of – and courtesy of Bob Dignen, Director of – York Associates. The ICW (full listings below**) is organised by Mr Peter Lumley, Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), and whose […]
Our words and actions – even the smallest ones – affect our state of mind. A research paper recently published, conducting a textual analysis of 63 Internet forums (over 6,400 members) used linguistic inquiry and word count software to examine “absolutism” at the linguistic level. Its results provide clinical evidence of how several features reflect […]
As Performance in English heads north to Yorkshire and to facilities being hired at the impressive Hawkhills conference centre, and close to the beautiful historic cities of York, Ripon, and the world-famous Spa town of Harrogate, our thoughts turn to food and the great culinary traditions – so little appreciated outside these small islands – of […]
Using English well in an international context is as important for native speakers of the language as it is for non-native students and other international users of English. Whether this is because English happens to be the lingua franca of the organisation, company, corporation or community, or because those involved in any meeting have chosen […]
English as spoken in Britain is a confusing thing at times. U and non-U English usage (the “U” standing for “upper class”, and “non-U” representing the aspiring middle classes) was a curious debate that began in the 1950s. During this debate, it was shown that the upper classes in Britain tended at times to use words that […]
The environment matters It’s important to get a sense of real involvement and hands-on connection in what we do. People begin by accessing the questions of time and space relating to when they do things and where they do them. At P.i.E. we use many techniques, some of them borrowed from voice training and from coaching acting […]
Don’t tell me what to do! – help me find it. We sometimes feel we know what the other person means to say, or is trying to get across, and so advise them consciously or unconsciously towards solutions that we think work for us, and therefore would like to work for them. When we don’t […]
One of my clients not long ago was the kind of person you’d look at and immediately think they were totally in control and confident. The Financial Director of a multi national company is usually bursting with inner confidence, yet, after finding out that he had to start using English for his board-level presentations, he had […]
How to be a Brit The Hungarian journalist and BBC reporter, George (György) Mikes – pronounced / ɱ ‘i: ke ʃ / – commented wryly in his book “How To Be An Alien“ (1946), a classic of “British humour”, when – as a foreigner in England – he realised the importance of having a “suitable” […]
“You can talk the talk but can you walk the walk?” Introducing “embodied language skills“ As far back as we can trace, notions of proper conduct have been shaped by individuals, rather than by committees. Their starting point has been behaviour – often at mealtimes or during the public “stroll” – which has been seen […]
“You never listen!” How often a frustrated teenager might say that, and, in business too, how often people might be thinking this, but they do not say it – and barriers are building up, unseen? How do we “get” people to listen? Are we “really listening“? A child might have listened a hundred times to […]
So you’re a top actor and suddenly you’ve got stage fright and it’s becoming an issue. You know you need to address it but you feel you should try to just get on with it. But it becomes more of an issue. Or you’re a business leader who suddenly seizes up in a presentation and […]
What is success? Certainly, from a coaching perspective, it is reaching one’s goals. The famous holder of the world land speed record (and on water too), Malcolm Campbell, famously said: “When you have reached your goal, set yourself another“. His son, Donald, continued the proud tradition of tempting fate and taking speed to the limit. […]
As visitors to this site and blog may know, Peter is a painter, and enjoys the rare times he finds to paint. Painting offers an opportunity to reflect on life and to decide how we derive pleasure from the many things we see, do and experience. The whole process of thinking opens up doors that […]
Julia, our expert in voice coaching and performance skills in acting, says: “I guess the basic thing for attracting people to a blog is – if someone has a lack of confidence – they’ll be looking, not a t blogs which talk about “acupuncture”, but at blogs that talk about “confidence“!! “Talking about methods is useless without a ‘hook’ of […]
Beginning a new series of blogs this Spring, we’d like to welcome those who visit this page via our new association with RussianUK magazine! Watch this space for blogs on all manner of subjects: building confidence (English for non-native speakers) giving a presentation with impact going for an audition or interview tools to access your subconscious […]
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Hi everyone, We have added a calendar of some local events of interest including what’s on at the theatre at the Mill at Sonning and also at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon.. Please click the link to our calendar page.. . On the same page you’ll find a widget with the latest weather […]
Performance in English in RussianUK magazine We are delighted to appear in the new edition of RussianUK magazine (edition 36) along with an article about our work, please take a look! Мы рады появляться в статье, опубликованной в российском журнале Великобритании в этом месяце. Пожалуйста, обратите внимание на эту прекрасную издание! RussianUK magazine
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