In this episode Tom catches up with Dr Ira van der Steenstraten, one of our alumni, who completed the Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma back in 2022.

Ira is a trained psychiatrist, psychotherapist, systems therapist and professional coach with over 25 years of experience in various settings, and holds an MD and an M.Sc. from the University of Amsterdam.

Ira is passionate about empowering clients to develop the skills and knowledge they need to manage and improve their own personal and professional wellbeing and leadership skills. She specialises in preventive rather than curative techniques and has a special interest in doctors' wellbeing.

Ira is based in Australia and is an example of one of our international students, able to attend our Transformational Coaching Diploma because we run our live workshops online using Zoom.

Join Tom to find out how Ira has been using her coaching skills since what her favourite coaching tool, and coaching question are, and more.

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Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

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Presence is a topic that is often talked about in coaching and we shared our thoughts on the subject in podcast episode 107.

Hopefully, if you listened to that episode, you'll now have a handle on how presence shows up in coaching. But if we have a good idea about what presence looks like in the coaching room, what about the opposite, in the form of absence; how does that appear in coaching relationships?

It's difficult to talk about absence, without turning the conversation into one about presence, but we have given it a go. In this episode of the podcast we explore what we mean by absence, whether that's on the part of the coach or the coachee, and how we might create the conditions to make it less prevalent.

We consider how we might stay curious when absence does occur in the coaching room and how we might seek to understand what is happening in that moment.

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Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

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From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.

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A topic that comes up time and time again in coaching is boundaries. And it is making a return to the podcast this week. Back in episode 5 we covered this as an area for coaching, and we said we would come back to it again, so here we are, this time hoping to help create a better understanding for our coaching doctors, and, in turn helping coachees to create better boundaries.

In this episode we explore what various different coaching approaches have to offer when it comes to boundaries and how we might, as transformational coaches, demonstrate some agility in moving between the approaches. In this way we may well be able to explore different elements of 'Boundaries' with our coachees and help them to become better at setting and maintaining their own boundaries.

Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcasts

Contact Details

Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

Follow 'Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin:

www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/

www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/

From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.

(If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)