It's launch day!

We are delighted to officially launch our new supervision partnership “Science meets Creativity” today.  Our purpose through this partnership is to create space for groups of coaches and other professionals to pause and reflect and learn from their work and to grow personally and professionally.  This comes from our own experiences of coach supervision and our careers working through relationship with others.

Science meets Creativity is inspired by Coach Super-Vision and offers a combination of:

·        Reflection, reflective practice and reflective writing;

·        Get out of our heads through imagery and embodiment and access our creativity and felt sense; 

·        Multiple eyes through which to which to see our work systems, ourselves, our practice, our relationships with clients and colleagues.  

We do this at the meeting place between psychology, neuroscience and creative approaches, in ways that lets go of what we think we know and through an open mind, open heart and open will makes space for emergence of insight, self-awareness and wisdom.

Having precious space to pause, think and notice what we are doing, thinking and feeling is fundamental to personal and professional well-being and growth, yet most of us find this space difficult to create for ourselves and get caught in doing and busy-ness.

 We do hope you will join our community by following us on Linked In!

We will be sharing posts, articles and opportunities to join our future events.

What we offer:

We offer Space for Pause and Reflection in the form of regular

1.     Group Super-Vision for Coaches

2.     Group supervision for HR professionals

3.     Group Pause and Reflection for Leaders

4.     Coaching Skill and Mindset workshops for Leaders and HR professionals

Who are we?

Liz

I’m a “yellow belly” as I hail from the cabbage fields of Lincolnshire. I was a Saturday girl in Tesco to pay for my driving lessons which were crucial for my exit plan!

I lived in York as a student and with a degree in English and Drama I moved to Newcastle upon Tyne to begin my career in Social Services in the shipyard area of Wallsend. Probably the closest I ever got to Sting!

As the youngest Domiciliary Care Organiser, I saw life at the sharp end as I provided personal home care services to the elderly, sick and mobility challenged clients. At a very young age I saw the rawness and often the cruel side of life and met a hidden society that lives behind closed doors. This was a most humbling experience for me.

Personnel Management became my career focus and I started my three year professional qualifications and became a part time tutor for the Institute of Personnel Management (IPM) as it was known back then. I also ran weekend revision sessions for IPM students.

Counselling, followed by NLP, coaching supervision, transpersonal psychology, art and creative facilitation, organisational, relationship systems coaching, ORSC, all strongly influenced my creation of leading edge learning and development programmes; a one week consultancy programme in partnership with a high street bank, silent walks, women’s leadership, journaling, mindfulness and parenting skills. For me it’s all about sharing knowledge, insight, information to support people with their relationship with themselves and others. At the end of the day, all we have is relationship.

I continue supporting my skills and perspective with challenged groups of people as a Trustee for Art Against Knives.

Some things you may not know about me:-

o  I spontaneously went paragliding in Nepal without a parachute.

o  I caught up on a missed year at school in Latin, Chemistry and Biology by teaching myself.

o  I was a dancer in the local AmDram.

o  I’ve met and chatted to the rapper ASAP Rocky on the Thames path.

Doug

I am a Scot who has lived longer in England than Scotland. I moved south to a research job in the Pharmaceutical industry. My career in R&D progressed from scientist to manager to leader and senior leader and from lab bench to project leadership, to director of operational for a large division of scientists.  Along the way I learned the importance of listening, asking useful questions that challenged thinking and how to build trusting relationships. Eventually I found coaching and became an internal coach alongside my day job. I’d taken 50 years to find what I really wanted to do; and those 50 years had prepared me for this next phase of my life.  After a short while I was invited to join the Coaching Centre – the small team running coaching in GSK. This exposed me to coaching and coach supervision from behind the scenes; coaching, training coaches and leaders in coaching skills, creating ongoing development opportunities for the internal coaches, organising supervision and measuring success and impact. A fabulous immersion in my new sea of learning and practicing. Now I run my own coaching company, I partner Liz in “Science meets Creativity”, and have trained and am accredited as a Coach and a Supervisor. 

Some things you may not know about me are:

o  I cloned genes from HIV (AIDS).

o  I’ve gone down the River Nevis on an airbed

o  My wife and I have built by hand a large vegetable garden complete with brick paths and raised beds (now that is hard work!)

o  I’ve coached professional golfers

We do hope you will join our community by following us on Linked In!

https://www.linkedin.com/company/science-meets-creativity/?viewAsMember=true

With all good wishes

Doug & Liz