My story
My background is working in and directing community interest companies. Faced with leadership challenges I began my learning journey by attending professional and organizational development programs. Learning dynamic governance models, nonviolent communication, and Theory U. I then completed my initial coaching qualification with Relational Dynamics First in 2017. Since then I have been delivering both one-to-one and team coaching. In 2022 I graduated from Oxford Brooks University with an MA in Coaching and Mentoring. I am grateful to be giving something back to the coaching community by actively contributing to the academic and practitioner literature with the research I conducted at Oxford Brooks.
When I am not coaching, I am always active. As a founding director of the local forest school Kinder Croft CIC I have an interest in education. I believe social and environmental change begins with giving young people the best start in life by creating a supportive natural learning environment. You can count on me to be working on a creative project. For instance, I built the house my partner and I live in and over the past two years, I have been working with members of the local community to establish a community orchard. Outside of these projects, I enjoy growing fruit and vegetables in our garden. I love reading and writing (yes even academic papers) walking in the hills, practicing free-diving, and paddling out into the ocean to surf the Atlantic swell.
Credentials
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Senior practitioner accreditation EMCC 2022
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Distinction MA Coaching and mentoring Oxford brooks University 2022
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PGCert in Coaching and Mentoring Oxford Brookes University 2021
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Sociocracy training organisational development John Buck 2019
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CCA School for civic imagination, 2018
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Social Enterprise Academy, Organisational Coaching Skills Programme Edinburgh 2018
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Coaching Qualification and Accreditation with Relational Dynamics First 2017
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Erasmus plus nature based leadership development 2017
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Nonviolent Communication Introduction with Verene Nicolas 2016
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1st class BA Hons Art and Design Dundee University 2013