Really there are several questions you might be asking yourself about life coaching! What is it? Who can have it? Why would you need it? When might you need it? What's the point of it? When you are a child you have magical dreams about who you will become when you get older. The amazing things that could happen to you as you make your birthday wishes or daydream during a maths lesson (personal memory there)! As a teacher, I have heard everything from children wanting to

Everyone goes on and on about yoga and well-being but not everyone wants to practice yoga. Fact - yoga isn't for everybody - but yoga is for every body. Not everybody wants to do yoga for their well-being. Some people would rather train for a marathon or sit a read a good book or go for a walk in the countryside, knit a jumper - or sit and mark their books and do their assessments for an hour! Fair enough...I get that. These things can and do all have really positive aff

Why does my school need supervision? In my experience, when you talk to many teachers or leaders in schools they either have no idea what supervision is - or seem to feel that it is another way for the headteacher to spy on them! The other view is that they think that it is some kind of therapy and they will have to reveal their inner most dark thoughts and cry for an hour! Firstly, supervision is not therapy and shouldn't become therapy. Secondly, supervision is confidenti

Burn out seems to be a buzz word these days - but what does it actually mean and what, in turn, does that mean for school leaders and teachers? Prolonged and repeated stress can cause us to exist within a state of severe physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion - burn out! The World Health Organisation recognises this as an occupational phenomenon, differing from regular stress because it leaves us feeling depleted, cynical and detached, rather than just the usual overwhelm