Raising the bar

Session three...

In our last session, Martha had said that coaching wasn’t what she had expected, and I feared that she wouldn’t return. I was worrying I had frightened her off by challenging her to make changes too quickly, so I decided to book a session to talk things through with my coaching supervisor.

My supervisor didn’t pull any punches: ‘Martha gave you a big clue upfront. She said she wants everything to be lovely and doesn’t want to accept that life involves difficulty. That applies to the coaching sessions, too. When you gently challenged Martha and she discovered that the coaching sessions weren’t going to always be