49: The State of Coaching Today with Liz Hall

In this episode, Liz Hall draws on her experience of editing
'Coaching at Work' journal to reflect on the state of coaching
today. Liz shares how she believes coaching is thriving for two
key reasons

First, the demand on managers increasingly means they need a
reflective space, and support to help them navigate the emotional
and relational people side of the work, and the intensity of work
demands upon them. 

Second, Liz blurs the boundaries between coaching and therapy and
believes that coaching provides important support to people who
would not necessarily go to therapy. 

Liz shares her own practices of utilising mindfulness and
somatics in her work, sharing how important this is in her own
life, and how the bodywork is gaining increasing prominence in
coaching more generally. Her initiative 'Coaching for Covid and
Beyond' was established with colleagues and offered free coaching
during the pandemic, and Liz shares her experience of this
project.  Enjoy this exploration of coaching!

Bio

Liz Hall is a leadership coach and mindfulness
teacher. An award-winning journalist, she’s the editor of
Coaching at Work magazine, and the author of publications
including Mindful Coaching (Kogan Page), Coach your team (Penguin
Business), and author/editor of Coaching in times of crisis and
transformation (Kogan Page), and numerous chapters in other
books. As a co-founder of the award-winning Coaching through
Covid and Beyond, offering pro-bono coaching to NHS workers
impacted by the pandemic, she helped create a trail-blazing
organizational culture shaped by compassion, relational
mindfulness, psychological safety, agility and openness to
emergence. The initiative is to be the subject of a study by a
leading university exploring coaching in crisis. Through Coaching
at Work, Liz has launched initiatives including the pioneering
Roundtable towards Race Equity in the Coaching Profession which
has seen professional coaching bodies agree to collaborate around
a charter for change, and Climate Coaching Action Day, an annual
event in March to celebrate and encourage climate coaching.

Liz is also a co-founder of the International Summit for
Mindfulness and Compassion at Work and speaks regularly on
mindfulness and coaching at conferences. She is a member of the
Academy of Executive coaching’s faculty, teaching on mindfulness
in coaching. She’s currently working on a book on relational
mindfulness with Dr Emma Donaldson-Feilder.


Follow Liz

Website: https://lizhallcoaching.com
Coaching at Work Magazine:
www.coaching-at-work.com
Coaching through Covid and Beyond
www.coachingthroughcovid.org
Article on Coaching Through Covid Initiative:
https://www.coaching-at-work.com/2021/03/01/covid-a-year-in-coaching/