I’d like to share a story told to me by a coach who chose to use the Listening Space process with a client. This client was coming to terms with a recent diagnosis of ADHD: This client was wanting to understand himself better, to figure out how to be himself. He was using emotive language so I thought that asking the Listening Space questions might be helpful for him. The focus word for his exploration came quite easily. The word was ‘exhausting’, a word he had used a few ti

In my previous blog I wrote about how the Drama Triangle* can be used as a means of identifying the kind of thinking we are doing when...

Metaphors describe one thing in terms of another and give form to things which are otherwise difficult to describe. Suppose, for example, someone says that trying to stay in control is creating a ‘tension all around the top half of my body, like big iron armour crushing inwards’ , we get a very graphic sense of how this person is experiencing their situation from the metaphor they have used. Metaphors are not simply a figure of speech; they play a fundamental role in the wa