Career Change, Career Development
20th May 2018 | Leave a comment
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
27th March 2018 | Leave a comment
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
28th April 2017 | Leave a comment
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
29th May 2013 | Leave a comment
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
19th May 2013 | Leave a comment
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
6th March 2013 | Leave a comment
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
18th February 2013 | Leave a comment
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
10th September 2012 | Leave a comment
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
1st April 2012 | Leave a comment
In my research into meaning in work, I found out that meaning is created at a particular intersection of life, best captured by Aristotle: Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein…
Tags: Compassion and careers, meaning in work, Positive psychology, Step 3: Generating options, Strengths, Values
Career Change, Getting Unstuck coaching
26th May 2011 | Comments Off on Being with Sadness
I went home yesterday to visit my old Grandfather, 92, who now lives in a home, much to his disgust. He was grumpy because he felt he’d been locked in there against his will. He…
Tags: Compassion and careers, Dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, Flexible thinking: using ACT in career change
My renewed focus on the most important things in my life as well as my career – and to do so in a way that is smart, brave and exciting – is largely thanks to their understanding, presence and ongoing support.
