When I first started to receive coaching, I interpreted the ontological approach as "being nice". Every time we talked about a situation, it seemed that it all came back to me changing who I was being in order to accommodate the behaviour of others. Most of the time, I coped with this. Sometimes, it frustrated…
Some time ago, our youngest daughter stopped to ask us whether our parents had allowed us to download apps to our iPads without permission when we were children. She was horrified when we explained to her that iPads weren't even a thing back then. This then led to a long discussion where my husband and…
In an earlier post about writer's block, I talked about a system that I had applied to my experience of writer's block. My assessment is that it could potentially be useful in working through various brick walls, and so I decided to share it here in a post all of its very own. Apologies, it…
Recently, I have been trying to write my first online training program. I have spent a lot of time thinking about who my audience is for the program, what I would like people to get out of the program and what I would like to include in the program. It is now time to write…
What does it mean to be enough? I recently posted that I now feel as though I am enough. Afterwards, it occurred to me that I have never defined "enough" in this context. I then started to reflect on what it means to be enough. I feel as though an important point here is that…
As we commenced the third and final level of the coaching course, I could feel myself operating mostly from humility and peace. I assessed this to be a result of my previous learning around taking care of myself; I was going to be kind to myself. There was also a small amount of anxiety around…
An Ontological Life 