This way out

The psychodynamic approach to executive coaching helps clients understand complex emotions and change their behaviours – even ingrained, unhelpful ones. Catherine Sandler explains how Human beings find change difficult. We want it, yet we fear and resist it. It is the...

Twist in the tale

When Lis Merrick got turned down for a wallpaper hanging course, it set in motion a train of events that would lead her to become one of the UK’s best-known mentoring consultants. Liz Hall explains how If she hadn’t been turned down for a place on a wallpaper hanging...

Mentoring – A right pair

In the fourth in a series of columns dedicated to mentoring, we look at how to match mentoring pairs. This issue: a match made in heaven? Lis Merrick and Paul Stokes What does it take to make the perfect mentor and mentee match? Just keep it simple… Last issue we...

Letters

Hearts and minds The report of the ICF European conference in Madrid (vol 6, issue 4) conjures up a highly charged atmosphere in which the keynote speakers’ words finally got the response they were advocating, although perhaps not in the way they were intending. As I...