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Your Coaching Journey

Tom Dillon & Helen Leathers

A podcast for doctors about coaching. Whether you are a coaching doctor; a medic who is learning to coach; or a doctor who"d like to build coaching into your professional life, then this is the podcast for you. Each podcast episode will explore a different aspect of coaching that will be helpful for you as you integrate coaching into your work and life. You"ll be able to explore different approaches to coaching, assess coaching tools and techniques, hear interviews with coaching doctors; and

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Episode #141: Coaching Model: The 5 Dysfunctions of a...

Your Coaching Journey ·

2026/01/02

"The Five Dysfunctions of a Team," (5DT) is a team dynamics model, created by Patrick Lencioni. 5DT outlines a powerful, interconnected set of potential dysfunctions that a team might fall prey to, and offers an insight into what the underlying causes of the dysfunctions might be. In setting out the 5DT model, Lencioni provides a simple way to understand why teams struggle to achieve their full potential. In this episode we explore the 5DT model and discuss why it might be useful for coaches to

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Episode #140: The Positive Psychology Concept of Flow

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/12/26

"Flow," often described as being "in the zone," is a psychological state of deep and effortless immersion in an activity, where you lose any sense of yourself, time and possible distractions. It's a concept that was introduced by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, in the 1970s and provides an important aspect of the Engagement element of Martin Seligman's PERMAH model within the world of positive psychology. Having an understanding of Flow might help you to support your coachees in

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Episode #139: Coaching topic: Stress

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/12/19

Stress is a normal and natural response that we have all experienced in our lives. It's also a phenomenon that frequently enters the coaching room. Coaching is often focused initially on problems that the coachee wishes to resolve, and that is a natural space for stress to show up. Coaching is also frequesntly concerned with change that the coachee wishes to see, and a time of change is definitely a point at which stress might appear. In this episode we are exploring the different aspects of

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Episode #138:A Model: Life Positions - The Okay Corral

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/12/12

We love an exploration of the world of Transactional Analysis and this is our fourth episode that attempts to explain some of the concepts that have emerged from Transactional Analysis theory. In this episode we're exploring the OK Corral, which provides a way of illustrating the idea of Life Positions, which emerged within the field of Transactional Analysis. The concept of Life Positions can help us, and our clients, to gain a better understanding of how we're showing up, what our values and

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Episode #137: Reflection

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/12/05

Reflection is an essential aspect of any coaching practice and something that we actively encourage all of our students to do from the start of their coaching journeys. Coaching conversations happen in the moment and the emergent nature of them means that they could go in many directions. Where the conversation flows is dependent on the thinking of the coach and the coachee in real time. There is little time to reflect on what went well, what didn't go so well and what might have been different

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Episode #136: Interview: Dr Ira van der Steenstraten

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2025/11/28

In this episode Tom catches up with Dr Ira van der Steenstraten, one of our alumni, who completed the Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma back in 2022. Ira is a trained psychiatrist, psychotherapist, systems therapist and professional coach with over 25 years of experience in various settings, and holds an MD and an M.Sc. from the University of Amsterdam. Ira is passionate about empowering clients to develop the skills and knowledge they need to manage and improve their own personal and

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Episode #135: Challenges in Coaching: Absence

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/11/21

Presence is a topic that is often talked about in coaching and we shared our thoughts on the subject in podcast episode 107. Hopefully, if you listened to that episode, you'll now have a handle on how presence shows up in coaching. But if we have a good idea about what presence looks like in the coaching room, what about the opposite, in the form of absence; how does that appear in coaching relationships? It's difficult to talk about absence, without turning the conversation into one about

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Episode 134: Coaching Topics: Boundaries Revisited

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/11/14

A topic that comes up time and time again in coaching is boundaries. And it is making a return to the podcast this week. Back in episode 5 we covered this as an area for coaching, and we said we would come back to it again, so here we are, this time hoping to help create a better understanding for our coaching doctors, and, in turn helping coachees to create better boundaries. In this episode we explore what various different coaching approaches have to offer when it comes to boundaries and how

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Episode 133: Challenges in coaching: The Uncoachables

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/11/07

Is anyone really uncoachable? You may recall Tom saying on a previous podcast that he could have a good coaching conversation with Barack Obama but that he would probably turn down the opportunity to coach the current American president, and that perhaps he is uncoachable. In this episode we explore this topic more deeply, looking at what might get in the way of someone being coachable at the time that we come to coach them. We also explore whether coaching is right for everyone and whether we

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Episode 132: Coaching Tools - an overview.

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/10/31

This is our 20th episode focussing on coaching tools, and we thought it would be a good point to have a bit of a review of some of the tools we've covered so far and where to find them. In this episode we will be refreshing our memories on some of the tools we've talked about already and signposting you to the relevant podcast where you find out more. If you would like to suggest any other tools you would like us to explore on a future episode, please do get in touch. Enjoy the podcast? If

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Episode 131: Interview: Paul Molyneux

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/10/24

Paul Molyneux has been a consultant neurologist for over 20 years and was, until recently, also a Medical Director. Paul now supports senior doctors with their wellbeing through coaching and mentoring, helping them to thrive and find fulfillment in their working lives. Paul has a special interest in the organisational drivers of burnout and in supporting doctors in taking positive steps to reconnect with their professional roles. In this episode Tom catches up with Paul to find out how he has

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Episode 130: Introducing our Advanced Coaching Diploma

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/10/17

This year we launched our Advanced Transformational Coaching Diploma programme and we’re now into our fourth iteration of the course. Although the Advanced Diploma programme is just for the graduates of our initial diploma programme, we thought it was worth letting our listeners know how they might move on with their learning once they have completed their first coaching training course with us. So, if you’ve studied with us in the past, are doing so currently or have an idea that you might wish

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Episode 129: Having a Coaching Programme

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2025/10/10

So, you’ve learnt to coach, you’ve got some tools and techniques under your belt, and you have some experience of coaching. You are putting your coaching offer out there to the world and ready to take on clients. But what does your coaching look like? Do you take an emergent approach to your coaching or do you have a structured coaching programme to offer to potential clients. Whilst Tom is a very emergent coach, Helen offers a more organised approach to coaching out to the world in the form of a

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Episode 128: How Do Our Coachees See Us?

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/10/03

How do you see yourself as a coach? A newbie? Experienced? Professional? However you see yourself, it is likely that your coachees see you in a way that makes sense for them. And whilst there may be some crossover in your perceptions, there may well be some differences. And with those differences may come differing expectations, or even challenges to look out for. Tom recently saw an article about how coachees might perceive their coach, and thought it would be an interesting conversation to share

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Episode 127: The Practice of Coaching

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/09/26

Coaching is not something that can be learned by reading or talking about it. Coaching is not something that can be learned by us telling you how it is done, or even demonstrating it for you. Coaching is a practice and it takes practice to become a competent and confident coach. It’s also important that you receive regular feedback on your coaching. This will help you to improve your awareness of what you’re doing in the coaching room; both what you are doing well and where you can improve. In

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Episode 126: Coaching Topic: Lifestyle Medicine

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/09/19

This week we are at the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine’s annual conference in Brighton: Cue noisy seagulls. This is our third year at the event and it’s wonderful to meet so many doctors and other professionals who are wishing to make a difference by helping people bring about changes in their lives, health, and wellbeing using a Lifestyle Medicine approach. In this episode we thought we would privide a quick explanation as to why we are here in Brighton, and why our Doctors’

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Episode 125: Interview: Introducing Dr. Sarah Coope

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/09/12

We often collaborate with the team at Wild Monday, the organisation responsible for the ‘You Are Not A Frog’ podcast. Both of us have been lucky enough to have chatted to Rachel Morris on their podcast. This week we returned the favour and invited one of their team, Dr Sarah Coope to have a conversation with Helen. Sarah, a former GP, is now an executive coach with a focus on conflict resolution and burnout prevention. She’s also now the head of live training at Wild Monday. Listen in to find

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Episode 124: Challenges in Coaching: When is...

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/09/05

Is the universe conspiring to bring us what we want in our lives? Probably not! Are we able to focus our attention so that we notice previously unnoticed objects and information. Most certainly! Does the Reticular Activating System guide our attention to the elements that are important for our lives. Contrary to popular opinion, absolutely not! In this episode Tom airs his frustrations about an often referred to part of the brain called the Ascending Reticular Activating System, or the RAS for

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Episode 123: Coaching Approaches – Parts Work

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/08/29

Having different internal parts of our psyche has been provoking interest in great thinkers for thousands of years. The Greeks and the Romans had the theory of us all having different humours Freud had his id, ego and superego, and psychologists ever since have been playing with different theories about the different parts that we may possess and how best to integrate them into our overall identity. In this episode we explore what Parts Work is, the journey that it has travelled over the last 50

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Episode 122: To interrupt or not to interrupt, that...

Your Coaching Journey ·

2025/08/22

You may have heard us talk about interrupting coachees on previous podcasts, but we see and hear so much from other coaches talking about this topic online that we thought we’d set our stall out in a more thorough and robust way. We have also noticed an increase in very visible coaches rebadging interrupting as interjecting, and saying that it’s ok, even necessary. So, we thought we’d talk through what we see as the subtle differences between interrupting and interjecting and share our

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