By Christopher Heimann, MC Community Member

This is a list Christopher saw and thought it might be useful (we will credit it properly if anyone can remember where it was!). He’s contributing it to the community partly because we love great coffee, partly as some of them might be interesting places for informal meetings, that perennial search coaches have:

• Espresso Room, 31-35 Great Ormond St, WC1N 3HZ
• Pitch 42, Whitecross St Market, EC1
• Dose Espresso, 69 Long Lane, EC1A 9EJ
• Kaffeine, 66 Great Titchfield St, W1W 7QJ
• Milk Bar, 3 Bateman St, W1D 4AG (open Sun)
• Merito coffee stall, Wed & Fri
• Swiss Cottage Market, Eton Ave, NW3 3EU
• Sat: Broadway Market
• Tina, We Salute You, 47 King Henry’s Walk, N1 4NH (open Sun)
• Ginger & White, 4 Perrins Court, NW3 1QS (open Sun)
• Ottolenghi, 287 Upper Street, N1 2TZ (open Sun)
• Prufrock Coffee, 40 Shoreditch High Street, E1 6JE (open Sun)
• Counter Cafe, 4a Roach Rd, Hackney Wick, E3 2PA (open Sun)
• Taste of Bitter Love, 276 Hackney Rd, E2 7SJ (open Sun, not Sat)
• Wilton’s, 63 Wilton Way, E8 1BG (open Sun)
• Climpson & Sons, 67 Broadway Market, E8 4PH
• Monmouth Coffee Co, 2 Park St, Borough Market, SE1 9AB
• Scootercaffe, 132 Lower Marsh, SE1 7AE (open til 11pm, Mon-Sat)
• Kensington Square Kitchen, 9 Kensington Square, W8 5EP (open Sun)
• Coffee Plant, 180 Portobello Rd, W11 2EB (open Sun)

Meyler Campbell

Hi everyone, it was announced last Friday that Alice Perkins is to be Chairman of the Post Office – a huge role, and a long-overdue tribute to Alice’s magnificent work over several decades in both the public and private sector; I can’t think of anyone more deserving or suited to it. A great national institution will be in safe hands. See the link below for the Press Release – and the very warmest congratulations Alice, from all of us!!!!

http://www.news.royalmailgroup.com/article.asp?id=2923&brand=Post_Office_network

By Jess Pryce-Jones (BC2005)

Meyler Campbell Business Coach Graduate Jessica Pryce-Jones,  CEO of the i-Opener Institute, was in a Times2 cover story this week writing on the ‘Power of Nice’ : on why it pays to be nice at work. To read the whole article please go to http://iopener-live.amaze.com/media/11064/the_times_2_-_20_jul_11_-_the_power_of_nice.pdf

By Meyler Campbell

From time to time we get asked if we could support researchers by approaching our community for help. This latest request comes from a PhD student at the University of Bedfordshire researching practitioner’s perceptions of the boundaries between counselling and coaching. The research aims to gain a greater understanding of newly-trained coaches’ awareness and application of the boundaries between coaching and counselling.

If you would like to help there is an online survey and the option of being interviewed by her. Please see the details below:

The study is in two parts. The first part of the study involves completing a simple questionnaire about the similarities and differences between coaching and counselling. The questionnaire takes approximately 10-15 minutes to complete and can be accessed online at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WDK29QD/thecoachingpsychologist

The second part of the study entails semi-structured interviews with newly qualified coaches, to gain an in-depth understanding of their beliefs and attitudes towards implementing the boundary between coaching and counselling with clients. The interviews will take up to 30 minutes.

If you are interested in being interviewed for the second part of the study, or would like further details about the research, please contact  sarah.baker@beds.ac.uk directly.

(Please note that whilst we are delighted to help where we can Meyler Campbell takes no responsibility for the use of the survey, the results, the publication, the Researcher or Bedfordshire University). If you chose to help it would be your own personal engagement with the researcher and not the responsibility nor the engagement of Meyler Campbell).

By Alex Linley

Capp are leaders in strengths-based assessment, development, performance and change. It is an exciting time for us as we expand our Advisory team, based in Coventry, West Midlands, but working across the UK. We are seeking applicants for two roles, with a focus on assessment, due to continued business growth:

1. Consultant B / Consulting Psychologist B – £27,500-£39,227 + bonus and benefits

2. Principal Consultant / Principal Psychologist  – £37,740-£49,654 + bonus and benefits

Further information is available from: http://www.cappeu.com/About/CareerswithCapp/Consultant.aspx

By Linda Woolston (BC2004)

Phew! This is a marathon for your mind and two days to go. 850 people from 70 countries in this great city. It’s relentless and amazing. Every 15 minutes or so a new speaker, from the moving, to the bizarre to the thought provoking. We’ve had philosophers, neuroscientists, architects, artists, activists. Here’s a taster….the fight to save Tasmanian Devils from a contagious cancer that is threatening them with extinction; one woman’s progress in eliminating torture in prisons throughout the world; an artist telling a story using sand; an economist highlighting the more unequal a society the “more” you get of everything from crime to disease; an artist concerned with the release of toxins from our bodies when we are buried or cremated so is creating a mushroom that will organically consume a body in an environmentally acceptable way; an incredible way of generating clean energy without any costs of generation-remarkable. And so much more. I’d thought before I came that I would select my top 5 talks, I’d still like to but it’s not going to be easy.

One of the things that has been unexpected that I’ve loved is the music. I hadn’t appreciated that the talks would be interspersed with music and it’s been a real highlight for me. Danielle De Niese singing opera (and yes I did tell her that I’d bought one of her CDs after I’d seen her in an opera a couple of years ago…….). There was an amazing Hungarian pianist (Balazs Havasi) who sat at the grand piano playing this sublime music when a drummer was wheeled on to the stage on a platform and they played the most high energy pulsating rock interspersed with gentle piano. It was also great to see Eddi Reader perform, bringing back Fairground Attraction memories, she looks like she lives and loves every note.

And then there’s the parties every night…..in great locations like Edinbugh Castle and the National Museum of Scotland.

This is a serious challenge even for an extrovert!

Finally (for now) there’s the goodies in the gift back, from gadgets to books. Yesterday Jawbone announced a new product “UP” and everyone at TED is to be given one, it’s a wristband and “app” designed to support you in healthy living. It monitors your sleep patterns, gives you advice on what to eat for breakfast given the quality of your sleep (it even wakes you up at an optimum time), guides you through healthy eating during the day and monitors how many steps you take in a day, and more-I don’t think it makes the coffee!

Two days and 30 sessions to go, including Thandie Newton, Malcolm Gladwell and Alain de Botton. The closing session of the conference is Jeremy Gilley, my client, founder of Peace One Day-I’m hoping that this will be a great platform for him to tell his story and make the call for a Global Truce on 21 September 2012.

By Leni Wildflower

From the Preface:  As coaches we have responsibilities: to master the skills of our trade, to work on the issues in ourselves that might obstruct or distort our dealings with clients, to be ethical, to acknowledge limitations and recognize boundaries, to justify the trust clients put in us. We also have a responsibility to understand the intellectual underpinnings of our fledgling profession.

Some of us have an instinctive ability to draw people toward greater insight; some of us have to work at it. But we all need to understand what we do when we coach, to recognize that coaching has not sprung fully formed from the protocols of our coaching schools or the minds of individuals, however dynamic and innovative, but has grown from a rich tilth of wisdom and study.

Some of this knowledge is the direct history of coaching. Much of it could be thought of as coaching’s prehistory—ideas developed in entirely independent fields before coaching in its modern sense was conceived of. But far from dry or dutiful, these explorations have the power to continually reignite our sense of coaching as a living practice.

In each of the chapters that follow there is a progression from theory to application, studying first a model or a set of findings in the context of a particular discipline and then identifying the implications for the practicing coach. There is a mind-opening diversity in this, but also a striking unanimity. Coaching may derive from the confluence of many rivers, but it flows with its own powerful current.

 This book is an outgrowth of the vision and design of Fielding Graduate University’s Evidence Based Coaching certificate program.  As the EBC Program designer and director, initially I put together a manual on the knowledge base of coaching and its application to the coaching engagement.  Diane Brennan (former President of the International Coach Federation) urged me to turn the manual into a book so that the theories on which coaching rested would be made available to coaches and coaching students outside of Fielding. 

As Diane and I began to put the book together, it became clear that coaching did not rest solely on theories borrowed from related disciplines.  It also rested on knowledge and traditions—from the self help traditions of the sixties, from spirituality, from religious traditions, and from coaching protocols designed more recently by creative coaches.  This book accomplishes a very important task:  It DIRECTLY LINKS coaching theories and knowledge to the skills involved in the coaching engagement.

For the beginning coach, this information is invaluable in creating a professional practice.  For the advanced coach, this information provides a deeper understanding of the work they are already doing.  And for the profession of coaching, it creates legitimacy and status—important ingredients as we grow.

Leni Wildflower, PhD, co-editor

www.wildflower-consulting

lwildflower@fielding.edu

Editors and contributing authors Leni Wildflower, PhD, PCC and Diane Brennan, MBA, MCC are leading consultants, educators and coach practitioners.

Leni envisioned and launched Fielding Graduate University’s evidence based coaching program. Diane took on leadership roles in the International Coach Federation, serving as ICF global president in 2008.

By Anne Scoular