Episodios

  • Lifting The Lid - Episode 136 - Perspective - The one where the artist knows

    Lifting The Lid - Episode 136 - Perspective - The one where the artist knows
    Sep 16 2025
    Clare and Steve explore how shifting our perspective can change how we show up and how we coach. Maybe it's through whose eyes we are seeing the problem, maybe it's where we're looking from, when we're looking, how our energy and state influence our perspective, or maybe something else?

    Reviewing and reflecting on the dimensions of our perspective on a situation can be an invaluable reflection and lead to unexpected shifts in our work. Maybe share your sense of your perspective on some aspect of your work next time you go to supervision?
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    42 m
  • Lifting The Lid - Episode 135 - Client epiphany - The one where five minutes matters

    Lifting The Lid - Episode 135 - Client epiphany - The one where five minutes matters
    Aug 19 2025
    What if your client comes alive with only 5 minutes of the session to go? How does that impact you, the coach, and what flexibility should we have for our clients' needs? Where does contracting come in and are we too focused on the transactional elements of that and on our needs?

    Could we pay more attention to our client's emotional and psychological needs and be contracting more on endings and on the spaces between coaching sessions?
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    37 m
  • Lifting The Lid - Episode 134 - Collective responsibility in the group - The one about asking for what you need

    Lifting The Lid - Episode 134 - Collective responsibility in the group - The one about asking for what you need
    Jul 15 2025
    In this podcast, you will hear Clare and Steve discussing group supervision in particular, and how to recontract with the group for what you need. This is not just about what you need from the supervisor, but what you need and want from the group. In self-led supervision (as Louise Shepperd would call it, you have a collective responsibility as a group to define your boundaries, limits, preferences and deal-breakers (Terri Cole).

    This is for all to decide, and must not bypass group discussion by relying on the supervisor to “put things right”. How do you show up in groups? Are you there for yourself alone, or do you see yourself having collective responsibility to the group’s learning?
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    40 m
  • Lifting The Lid - Episode 133 - Duty of Care - The one with the Peacock's Tail

    Lifting The Lid - Episode 133 - Duty of Care - The one with the Peacock's Tail
    Jun 17 2025
    If you have considered supervision, but not yet taken the plunge, one core reason you might, is duty of care. When might the duty of care to your client, the client's wider system - eg their family or team, or duty of care for yourself, challenge your coaching? Would you even spot it? Is supervision itself an act of duty of care to self?

    Coaching can be a lonely business, and supervision can support you in that. Steve and Clare also touch on where ethics, boundaries and duty of care meet. Steve introduces the concept of the Peacock's Tail, a systemic representation of systems of belonging.
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    33 m
  • Lifting The Lid - Episode 132 - Wrappers around our work - The one with the sweeties

    Lifting The Lid - Episode 132 - Wrappers around our work - The one with the sweeties
    May 20 2025
    Coaching is more than just the session itself. It’s also about the wrap-arounds that create the container – and as is often the case, Steve and Clare find a metaphor that’s useful to their own understanding, that of a boiled sweet (the coaching or supervision itself) with a wrapper that has twisted ends.

    There are so many aspects to creating this wrapper – the contract being one, but also the work of the coaching custodian before coach and thinker even get to talk to each other, then there’s the preparatory work that we might ask the thinker to think through and the analysis afterwards. And all of this applies to us when we go into supervision too.
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    37 m
  • Lifting The Lid - Episode 131 - Changing world order - the one where we "slough it off"

    Lifting The Lid - Episode 131 - Changing world order - the one where we "slough it off"
    Apr 15 2025
    In this episode, Clare and Steve talk about the impact of economic decisions (whether by our own UK government by the US presidency or elsewhere in the world). This conversation was triggered by a communication from a coaching platform to its coaches, but it became much more wide-ranging, as we talked about ripple effects in all areas of our work. We ask the question “Who tells coaches what we can and cannot do?” and then we meander into other arenas, including a reflection about the confidentiality and data protection of our virtual software platforms and other coach tech.

    As they say after potentially triggering TV shows, “If you are affected by the content of this programme, you can get help by…” talking with your supervisor. You do not need to face this alone.

    Get in touch if you need to talk:
    Clare Norman clare@clarenormancoachingassociates.com
    Steve Ridgley steve@illuminateddandelion.co.uk
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    43 m
  • Lifting The Lid - Episode 130 - Mental Health Expertise - The one with the moment of self doubt

    Lifting The Lid - Episode 130 - Mental Health Expertise - The one with the moment of self doubt
    Mar 18 2025
    Clare and Steve explore what we as coaches might be expected to know, or do, when starting work with a client who has a diagnosed mental health condition.

    Even without clinical knowledge, is it possible to contract and move forward in a coaching relationship? How can supervision support you? What if your client has said nothing, but you have a suspicion that there might be a mental health condition present?

    If you yourself have a diagnosable mental health condition as a coach, what might you expect from a supervisor?
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    35 m
  • Lifting The Lid - Episode 129 - Platforms and Associateships

    Lifting The Lid - Episode 129 - Platforms and Associateships
    Feb 18 2025
    In this episode, Clare and Steve are joined by Ginny Baillie who has much to say about associate work whether that is via a coaching platform or through an associate coaching company.

    We talk about the need for thinkers to have awareness, willingness and responsibility for the coaching to make an impact, and how current models of associate work may not be setting thinkers up for success against these criteria.

    Relationship building is top of Ginny’s top tips for associate work.

    She mentions two useful books:

    The Prosperous Coach https://amzn.eu/d/070wFzOs

    and

    The Journey of a Prosperous Coach https://amzn.eu/d/06r7fxFq

    You can find out more about Ginny at HOME | Ginny Baillie coaching
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    46 m