Interview with Joseph O’Connor, directly from London, exclusive to IN COACHING (Electronic Journal of the Venezuelan Coaching Society) – Vol. I, No. 1, January-March, 2018 By Carola Rivas   A Coach Out of Expectations The first international interviewer of IN COACHING is world renowned anthropologist Joseph O’Connor, renowned Master Coach Trainer and consultant to major.. read more →

Happy New Year!   Christmas and New Year are a holiday, and a very enjoyable one. And….as it is New Year, how about new year’s resolutions? Well, I will resist the temptation to devote this article to the futility or importance or success or failure of new year’s resolutions. Let’s talk about the unexpected. When.. read more →

In my early years of school, one of my favorite subjects was called Moral and Civic Education. Depending on when each reader lived his childhood, he will know what I mean. For those who do not know, E.M.C. was a formal and compulsory subject in schools, which was intended to help educate good citizens, who.. read more →

Dear coaches, As you know, we held a session at the WBECS Pre-Summit and we are also speaking again at their Full Summit in June. We are honoured by the incredible feedback we have received for our session so far and excited to go even deeper and share more valuable coaching tools and insights during.. read more →

Last week I went to see Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Barbican with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. It’s a wonderful production, beautifully staged, superbly well acted, a great experience. This must be the most enduring and masterful of Shakespeare’s plays, for so many of the lines have passed into our everyday language. We saying.. read more →

The last Lambent Letter was about practice and what it can make you. Better than you were, no doubt, but not perfect. How much better depends on the quality of the practice. It reminds me of a story that I used to tell my guitar students. It is probably true, or if not, it deserves.. read more →

When I began as a classical guitar concert player and teacher, I used to tell my students ‘Practice makes perfect’, so often that their eyes glazed over. It’s a cliché, so no one paid any attention to it. They ‘knew’ it was true, practised when they felt like it, berated themselves when they did not… read more →

What does ‘Ozymandias’ mean to you? You may know it as the title of the 60th episode of the great TV series ‘Breaking Bad’, called by many one of the greatest TV drama episodes ever made. It had action, drama, pathos, emotion, the tangled webs of each character came together in a defining moment. But.. read more →

Happy New Year to all our readers!
My apologies for the unpredictable arrival of the Lambent Letter before Christmas, this was due to a lot of travel and time zone hopping. Christmas and new year were a holiday, and a very enjoyable one. And….as it is new year, how about new year’s resolutions? Well, you will.. read more →

The ICC virtual summit – ‘Coaching For Peace’  is running now and I gave the first session a few days ago talking about a coach as an internal peacemaker when the client is fighting themselves. I like the idea of the coach as peacemaker, many clients are at war with themselves in different ways. Sometimes.. read more →