Career Change, Career Development, Career Management, Executive Coaching
We’re happy to announce the launch of our new e-book, Thriving in Uncertainty: How to Make Good Decisions, Adapt Quickly and Navigate Forwards in Uncertain Times. This short guide is filled with links to free…
Tags: ACT in coaching, Anxiety, Compassion and careers, Creative thinking, Dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, Decision making, Mindfulness, Strengths
Anyone who knows me or my children will know that I am both a relationship and parenting expert. For example, before I proposed to my wife I romantically listed all of my imperfections (which took…
Tags: Compassion and careers, Energy management, Marginal gains, Mindfulness, Values, work
Career Change, Career Development
by Rachel Collis Have you ever felt like you weren’t good enough in some way – that you were too fat; too thin; too loud; too quiet; too boring; too weird, not smart enough or…
Tags: career change, Career paralysis, Compassion and careers, Dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, Step 1: Understanding stuckness, Values
Career Change, Developing Coaches - ACT Training, Executive Coaching, Getting Unstuck coaching
by Rob Archer Right from the start, the ACT model made sense to me. It made so many things clearer in my head. Apart from the bit about values…
Tags: career change, Compassion and careers, Headstuck, Step 5: Making a plan and getting into action, Values
Career Change, Getting Unstuck coaching
By Mick Darby A friend told me an inspiring story this week. As a child, his son had been accepted into the academy system of an English Premiership football team. However, things didn’t go as…
Tags: ACT in coaching, Compassion and careers, Dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, Psychology of career change
Career Change, Career Development, Developing Coaches - ACT Training, Getting Unstuck coaching
Babies, eh? Lazy little bastards more like! Did you know that some of them are now taking up to 18 months to learn to walk! 18 months! And most of them, when they do finally…
Tags: Compassion and careers, Flexible thinking: using ACT in career change, Positive psychology, Psychology of career change
Career Change, Career Development, Developing Coaches - ACT Training, Getting Unstuck coaching
Rob’s post Appreciating sad days stop my heart in its usual beat. Not so long ago, I too, felt swept by sadness and for a while beaten myself up for not working on my career change. When…
Tags: Compassion and careers, Dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, Guest post, Psychology of career change
Career Change, Career Development, Developing Coaches - ACT Training, Executive Coaching, Getting Unstuck coaching
One of the main features of stuckness is the role our thoughts and emotions play in blocking off every escape route we can think of: You’re too old to change! You’re too young to change!…
Tags: ACT in coaching, Behaviour analysis in coaching, Behaviour change, Career paralysis, Compassion and careers, Dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, Experiential avoidance, Flexible thinking: using ACT in career change, Headstuck, Positive psychology, Psychology of career change, Step 1: Understanding stuckness, Step 5: Making a plan and getting into action, Values
Career Change, Developing Coaches - ACT Training, Executive Coaching, Getting Unstuck coaching
I work with a lot of people who are unhappy with their lives and the number one thing people say is missing is that they want to do more good and make more of a…
Tags: ACT in coaching, Compassion and careers, Dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, Experiential avoidance, Flexible thinking: using ACT in career change
I watched Seb Coe’s speech at the end of the Olympics and thought about all the doubt, cynicism and scepticism he must have encountered in the 10 years he nurtured and then delivered the dream…
Tags: Compassion and careers, Dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, Flexible thinking: using ACT in career change, Positive psychology
They helped me greatly at a time when I was confused about my career direction and unsatisfied with my choices. We did some amazing work that helped me solidify what I want, who I am professionally and clarify my goals, values and strengths.
