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What influences my work?

My training in Transactional Analysis (TA) is a big influence on how I work. The practical concepts and models that appealed to me at the start continue to hold good now. I like the fact that they are simple to understand (yet complex) and provide a framework and a way of working that we can both buy into. I like the mutuality and joint ownership of the work. 

My past experience as a Programme Manager, as a leader, a mentor and as a coach has been hugely influential. I understand the pressures of the corporate world, of delivery and performance management and how to work through difficulties to enable success. 

Whilst my core training is TA, I adopt an eclectic approach for both coaching and therapy. If it works and is helpful then I’ll integrate it into our work. That includes theories and ways of working from other modalities including CBT, Person Centred, Psychoanalytic and in the world of coaching I use the GROW model, NLP and so on.

I have experienced what it feels like to be in an empathic, supportive and yet challenging therapeutic relationship. I am also also under regular supervision which develops my thinking about our work and keeps it safe.

My love of the arts, of nature and in particular the underwater world keeps me grounded and inspires me to look at things in different ways.

Finally the following quote gives me energy and inspired me to make my own life decision :

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.  

William Hutchinson Murray (1913 – 1996)

 
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