In my coaching work with senior members of the Australian Public Service (APS) of late I have found a number of coachees struggling to cope with rapid change, increasing workload demands exacerbated by shrinking resources and uncertainty in terms of the direction of Ministerial expectations in a turbulent political landscape.  These pressures are sometimes added to by […]

I recently came across an interesting blog, by Walter Chen, about ways to rewire our brains for positivity and happiness.  I liked the post and decided to share it, following a recent conversation in a coffee shop. My coffee shop conversation was a chance encounter and chat, not a formal coaching session, but I found myself in a gentle coaching […]

Amy Cuddy, a Social Psychologist, presents a fascinating insight into how our body language shapes who we are. She postulates, drawing on the evidence of neuroscience, that not only does our body language influence how others see us and think about us – our body language also influences how we feel and think about ourselves. […]