Through the Coaching Lens: Poor Things
Holding nuanced and complex thoughts and feelings is often a challenge. People seek validation externally as the discomfort of "not...
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Ruth Schocken Katz
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Coaching Snippet: On Indecisiveness
Why is it so hard to make a decision? Do you ever find yourself in a situation where you are just unable to see the right choice? What...
Ruth Schocken Katz
- 3 min
Through the Coaching Lens: Booksmart
What would it feel like to not be limited to the one version of yourself you think is true? Booksmart (2019, Dir. Olivia Wilde) is a...
Ruth Schocken Katz
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Coaching Snippet: On Authenticity
Do you ever feel like you are not growing at work anymore? That you are treading water and not sure why you’re where you find yourself?...
Ruth Schocken Katz
- 7 min
Through the Coaching Lens: The Banshees of Inisherin
(Spoiler alert) How do we manage the tension between how we see ourselves, and how others see us? The Banshees of Inisherin is a fable...
Ruth Schocken Katz
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Coaching Snippet: On Being Seen and Seeing Ourselves.
I often say that coaching works on aligning our inside world with our outside world. When we live with this alignment, we feel we have...
Ruth Schocken Katz
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Coaching Snippet: Focus Vs Centre
When faced with multiple action plans, clients I work with often feel they must choose the right one for themselves. They feel that if...
Ruth Schocken Katz
- 6 min
Through the Coaching Lens -Time (BBC)
Shame is a universal human experience, yet most of us haven’t been taught how to integrate it and process it when it bubbles up inside...
Ruth Schocken Katz
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Through the Coaching Lens: The Lost Daughter
Through the Coaching Lens: The Lost Daughter
Ruth Schocken Katz
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Coaching Snippet: On Removing Barriers to Progress
We all have stories around work and how we work best. We often need external conditions to be right: our mood to be a certain way, to...
Ruth Schocken Katz
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Coaching Snippet: On Dependence and Independence
Setting boundaries in a relationship can be tricky. On one hand, there’s a sense of togetherness, a unit, and on the other, two...
Ruth Schocken Katz
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The Drama Triangle and 'I May Destroy You' (BBC)
Or the Pen as the Extension of the Body, and our Redeeming Sword. (Spoiler alert) In the last episode of I May Destroy You, Mikaela Coel...
Ruth Schocken Katz
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Coaching Snippet: On Watching from a Distance.
Seeing behaviours and actions of others, and of ourselves, as binary, is often a way to justify our feelings or thoughts, especially when...
Ruth Schocken Katz
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Coaching Snippet: On Messy Conversations
We all experience situations of conflict or disagreement, where we often try hard to be accurate and clear, only to discover that we are...
Ruth Schocken Katz
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Coaching Snippet: Trust is not Transactional
We have all experienced disappointment or even a sense of betrayal from someone we thought we could trust. This experience is often...
Ruth Schocken Katz
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Coaching Snippet - on Noticing the Story
“Don’t believe everything you think.” (- Attributed to many) Bridging the gap between the stories we tell ourselves and reality creates...
Ruth Schocken Katz
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Coaching Snippet: On Finding Balance
INT. DAY. OFFICE DESK We are talking online and ZARA is talking about her sense of being attacked from all directions. Dealing with...
Ruth Schocken Katz
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Coaching Snippet: On Living Playfully
INT. KITCHEN TABLE. MORNING I am sitting at my desk in front of the computer talking to JULES who is 3000 miles and 2 time zones away....
Ruth Schocken Katz
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Coaching Snippet: on Remembering Yourself
INT. LIVING ROOM. LATE MORNING ANA and I sit in the living-room, tea cups in our hands. It's raining outside. We've been talking for...
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