Coaching and workshops

Here are the services I currently offer to individuals and departments.

For individuals

1:1 Coaching

In 1:1 coaching we work on your agenda, your next steps. I partner with you in a thought-provoking, creative process that supports your ambitions and potential. Deepen your sense of who you are and what your resources are, and strengthen your capacity to find your own way forward. (Currently accepting new clients.)

Explore

Unsure what you need?

Consider booking an exploratory coaching session with me. Have a look at how that works on the coaching page.
Or write to me and tell me a little about your situation and the issue or issues you are struggling with.

“Think of all of us as one body, and each of us as a cell in that body, doing its part. Because a cell is both totally and uniquely itself, and it also belongs to the larger body. There are two dynamics that are intertwined: a sense of self, and a sense of belonging.”

Rob Bell

For departments

Writing workshops (2 or 3 hours, online)

A real and everyday challenge in academic life is how to carry on writing. This practical, experiential workshop is for people who experience blocks or difficulty getting to their writing as well as for those who would enjoy a new impulse for it. You’ll make progress with the writing that’s on your desk and take away personal insights and practices that will facilitate your writing in the future.

Writing retreat (two days, online)

This academic writing retreat is built around a dual focus: (1) moving forward with a piece of writing, and (2) caring for the whole self. This is done by putting the physical experience of writing centre stage. By systematically working with awareness, comfort and choice, we create an environment that supports a diverse group of writers at the level of the nervous system, helping people move past writing blocks and into new possibilities of thought or expression. The online format allows a balance between privacy and alone time for writing, and moments of sharing, solidarity and being in community as writers.

Continuity and reinvention for researchers (half day, online)

This workshop provides a guided inquiry for researchers to explore core continuities and possibilities for reinvention that are available in their work. This is a bit like working the soil so the plants in the garden can grow and flourish! Touching in with that deeper layer that informs, anchors and inspires your research can bring new clarity about – for example – how to move forward with the article you’re currently working on, how to proceed with that idea that’s been in the back of your mind, or how to set out your aims in that project proposal or grant application

Photo by Mella Köjs, Uppsala University

Customized workshops

Here are recent examples of customized workshops I’ve been commissioned to design:

“A sustainable academic life: Navigating from the core” for the CIRCUS Interdisciplinary Summer School at the University of Uppsala, Sweden (August 2022)
For the Lorentz Centre workshop Curricula Vitae as Reproductive Interfaces in Science at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands (December 2022)

Please contact me to discuss your needs, or if you have an idea you’d like to explore.