The second of four short episodes in our mini-series on resilience for coaches. This series will focus on resilience over three key areas: the head (mental resilience); the heart (emotional resilience); and the soul (spiritual resilience).

Mental resilience can be a real test when faced with situations that seem to focus or highlight the negative and mental strength can be hard to find.

In this episode Glyn Fussell and resilience coach Jane Bytheway explore what we mean by mental resilience, discussing questions such as how can you be present and maintain your focus as a coach? And how can you adapt and change in times of uncertainty?

Jane offers tools and techniques that may help you build and maintain your mental resilience which in turn will help you support your clients.

Additional resources

Ted Talk by Michael Bungay Stanier on ‘How to Tame your Advice Monster’ https://youtu.be/Kl0rmx7aa0w

Michael Bungay Stanier - The Coaching Habit (book)

Time to Think by Nancy Kline (book)

The Coaching manual by Julie Starr (book)

Coaching for performance by John Whitemore (book)

The Oasis Seven stage model (pdf) & audiobook

In this episode – the first in a series of podcasts about resilience, you’ll hear Glyn Fussell in conversation with Oasis Associate practitioner and coach Jane Bytheway as they discuss resilience.

In our busy lives, the “Keep calm and carry on” ethos is not always that helpful and we tend to ignore aspects of our wellbeing just to get through each day. So what is resilience? What are the tools we need to be resilient? What do we need for ourselves as individuals in order to thrive?

We also explore how we can bring resilience into the coaching space: allowing pause for thought; how building your own individual source of strength can really help during the challenges in life we all endure at some point.

Additional resources

Ted Talk by Michael Bungay Stanier on ‘How to Tame your Advice Monster’ https://youtu.be/Kl0rmx7aa0w

Michael Bungay Stanier - The Coaching Habit (book)

Time to Think by Nancy Kline (book)

The Coaching manual by Julie Starr (book)

Coaching for performance by John Whitemore (book)

The Oasis Seven stage model (pdf) & audiobook

Oasis Resilience, Adaptability and Wellbeing website

In this episode, the second in our series about creating meaning in later life, you’ll hear two wise older women - Marion Ragaliauskas & Pam Winter - in conversation, as they explore the experience of women transitioning into later life. What’s similar for women in this phase of life compared to men? And crucially, what’s different for women?

As older women, both Marion and Pam are practicing and living their own inner work of aging, which brings into play areas as loss, review, evaluation and re-imagining: exploring the letting go of who we once were and learning how to embrace and experiment with who we are becoming, or could become.

A great reflection for anyone going through or approaching this stage of life, or if you want to understand more about it, or if you are helping others to go through it.

Additional resources

From Age-ing to Sage-ing A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Old by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Ronald Miller

Hagitude by Sharon Blackie

The Inner Work of Age Shifting From Role to Soul by Connie Zwig

Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life by James Hollis

In this episode, you’ll hear Glyn Fussell in conversation with Oasis Associates and coaches Jane Bytheway and Carole-Ann Jones as they discuss the benefits of taking a coaching approach at work.

In today's rapidly evolving and changing world of work, leaders cannot be expected to have all the answers. So there is a need to find a way of untapping the potential of others, embracing a shift in mindset towards taking a more developmental approach, so we can get the best from the people we work with, and in turn, deliver great results.

Together, Glyn, Jane and Carole-Ann explore the true benefits of work based coaching, address some challenges that can arise, and the factors that support this kind of approach in practice.

This episode will be great for you if you are wanting to create a coaching culture within your organization, or if you're a leader or manager who wants to learn this brilliant skillset.

Oasis Human Relations offers a two day programme for organisations wanting to create an empowering coaching culture, which you can find here: https://www.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/programmes/leader-as-coach/

Additional resources

The Coaching Habit book by Michael Bungay Stanier book by Michael Bungay Stanier plus his Tedtalk ‘How to tame your advice monster’

Brilliant Coaching: How to be a brilliant coach in your workplace book by Julie Starr

Coaching for performance book by John Whitmore

The Oasis Seven Stage model pdf & audio book

Time to Think book by Nancy Kline

In this episode, you’ll hear Glyn Fussell in conversation with Oasis Associate, practitioner, coach, writer and activist Gill Coombs as they discuss Deep Ecology. What is Deep Ecology? Gill suggests that as we have evolved, our rational minds have taken over, with a tendency to dominate over the natural world causing an imbalance of power. Deep Ecology is a way of recognising the harm we have done to our relationship with other living beings and to begin the process of healing it.

We explore how the world of work has evolved and changed over time, along with Gill’s thoughts on essential, wise principles by which individuals and organisations can work towards creating and nurturing a healthy world in their own authentic way.

We also discuss how we can bring Deep Ecology into coaching. This could be as simple as bringing in external elements of nature to our coaching space, or going for a walk with someone outside rather than simply sitting facing. Both of these can add a vibrancy and healthy shift in the relationship between coach and coachee.

Additional resources

The book Gill highly recommends starting with is old(ish) but good: Spiritual Ecology, edited by Llewellyn Vaughn Lee.

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer is also excellent, and From What Is to What If, by Rob Hopkins, and The Nature of Business by Giles Hutchins. Also Manda Scott’s podcast Accidental Gods is superb.

And Gill’s own book Hearing our Calling.

Also Bill Plotkin’s Wild Mind, as some listeners may well be interested in eco psychology, the people practitioners’ facet of Deep Ecology.

In this episode, you’ll hear Glyn Fussell in conversation with Anna Jaques as they discuss neurodiversity in coaching.

Anna is People & Change Director for Bettys, part of the Bettys and Taylors Group.

Neurodiversity is a hot topic in the news of late, highlighted by celebrity diagnoses and more recognition and acceptance in general. However, there is quite a bit of mis-reporting and mis-understanding about what neurodiversity actually means.

We explore what neurodiversity is, how it is perceived, how it relates to the way people see the world around them, and what it means to be neurodiverse aware as a coach. We also touch on why our whole person coaching approach is really suited to working with neurodiverse clients when coaching.

Additional resources

Useful social media account on the topic of ADHD

Accessible and easy to read. Lots of infographics, tips and strategies are shared in bite-sized chunks and there is humour too.

Ingri | Certified ADHD Coach✨🧠 (@adhd_couple) • Instagram photos and videos

Online learning

Written and delivered by Kings College, University of London, on the Future Learn platform. It’s an online course, so easy to dip in and out of, learning at your own pace. Although it has a scientific bias, the content is mixed with interviews and case studies that are very accessible. It is currently being offered with a free option and is CPD eligible.

Understand ADHD - Online Course | King's College London (futurelearn.com)

News article on ADHD

Amid a sea of other news stories on ADHD in recent months (well known people who have been recently diagnosed, shortages in ADHD medication, delays and challenges with diagnosis), this is useful article on ADHD.

ADHD has become an identity, not just a disorder. We need a new way to talk about it | Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | The Guardian

A good book on neurodiversity - ‘Divergent Mind’ by Jenara Nerenberg (Published by HarperOne)

This is a relatively new book, published in 2021. Jenara uses a blend of her own experience and those of others to explore how neurodivergent women navigate the world of relationships, work and their own wellbeing.

In this episode, you’ll hear the audio book version of The Oasis Seven Stage Model, spoken by Oasis Co-Director Glyn Fussell.

It’s an accessible introduction to The Oasis Seven Stage Model for effective working relationships, developed from years of research and practice by Oasis. The model is designed to help you establish, nurture and develop effective working relationships.

The Oasis Seven Stage Model provides a simple overview of what makes relationships work and what you might do if things go wrong . As well as offering a complete model, each of the seven stages offers specific skills that can be applied according to the needs and priorities of a relationship.

The model simplifies the realities of practice and acts as a guide to what you might do. It provides a much-needed framework to help you make decisions and be more effective, as well as transferable skills and understanding which can be applied to your work with people, as well as projects, systems and processes.

The written version of The Oasis Seven Stage Model can be found HERE