“When you are tired of Paris, you are tired of life!” Samuel Johnson was misquoted as saying. He was actually talking about London. I digress except to say that I have been in a funk. Not so much tired of life as tired of where I have been emotionally/spiritually for a while. Long enough for […]

A few weeks after I took up my first teaching and research academic position, I had a conversation which rang many alarm bells in my mind. It is one of the things that eventually led me to moving to Canada from the UK. For my doctorate I had been doing research into high-performance computing – […]

A big part of Coaching is listening deeply to what is being said. A person or group creates language that not only communicates what they may intend on the surface – it also reveals deep underlying structure of their model of the world. As a Coaching tool this provides a means of supporting my clients […]

Photo by Nick Scheerbart on Unsplash Last week I had several unexpected sheer pleasures. Normally you start that kind of conversation and people are waiting for the sordid details; nope – no sex here to talk about. Save that for another post. I have not written for a while and there are several subjects to […]

I trust this is not just another post about the start of a new year. We intend this to light a fire. Here goes. Do you know how much of the yearly revenue of fitness gyms is generated in the first days of January? Nor do I, however I understand it is significant. At the […]

I think we; Hom. Sap., are in a lot of trouble. It is going to take a lot of money to fix it, and even in the best-case scenario there are aspects of it that are beyond fixing and we are just going to get a decades-long ringside seat as the wonders of nature transform […]

As well as a Coach, I am an Engineer. I do maths. I began to think about writing this piece under the title of ‘Deus ex Machina’ – under the mistaken translation of ‘God outside of the Machine’. It may perhaps still be an appropriate title as humanity seems to be clinging to some belief […]

Time has had a weird elastic quality for a while now. 2020 has been a year in which all the old certainties have been thrown out. For me it has been a time of unprecedented growth and change, as old situations and choices that no longer served me have been swept to one side… The […]

I was not always like this. If I had met you five years ago you would recognize some things, but not everything. I might show up to you as a completely different person. I do to myself. I had this idea when I entered the Coach training program that I took in 2013 that I […]

I conclude looking at the current state of the world that not everyone believes in the same version of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. This extends to political parties and their platforms, which candidate is ‘right’ for the country, which policy is the best. It is also embedded in many conceptions of religion where worshipping the right […]