Shift Zone Coaching

So what should I do? In one of my coaching training sessions, the focus was on decision making.We observed and analysed a training video in which a coach supported the client through a process of making up their mind. It was beautiful to watch for many reasons, but especially the following … As the session…

I am here to observe all the good things you are doing. This is how Insoo Kim Berg, one of the founders of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, introduced herself to a class of 10-year old ‘troublemakers’. The school had asked Insoo to come and help them find a healthier modus vivendi for a challenging group of…

Classrooms are wonderfully fertile grounds for assumptions. As a weathered teacher, I know the assumption gremlins only too well. They seem to smell the opportunity for negative interpretations, and rush in tumbling over one another like a crazed crowd. Yes, more often than not, these assumptions are fed by our negativity bias.A student’s yawn makes…

Chalk’s been powdering my fingers for more than twenty years by now.Twenty years of privilege, passion and sometimes pain of classroom reality.No, no, I’m not turning my back on my students; this is not a farewell letter.But I am starting a new adventure that’s been tirelessly knocking on my door until it has become impossible…