S5 Episode 32: Open Table: Coaching and Grief with Peronel Barnes and Lis Whybrow

The Coaching Inn

How can you use coaching with grief? is one of the two questions we get asked more than any other. (The other one is about coaching and neurodiversity)

At today’s open table, Claire Pedrick MCC, Peronel Barnes PCC, and Lis Whybrow think together about coaching and grief, sharing their personal experiences and interests. They emphasise the importance of understanding that people might be out of balance rather than broken, acknowledging and managing different types of emotions, and how important it is for coaches - and for everyone - to be more able to talk about grief.

Some resources for coaching with grief:

• Listen and With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix
• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande – explores what really matters towards end of life
• The Art of Dying Well bu Katy Butler – looks at how to make the most of your time
• Final Gifts by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley – has practical advice on how we can support the dying person live fully to the end
• Talking with Bereaved People by Dodie Graves – which tackles how to move beyond the condolences part and really have those meaningful conversations with the bereaved
• The Grieving Brain by Mary Frances O’Connor - which helps understand the science and neurology of grief and what actually is going on within to fully appreciate why grief is a thing
• The Beauty of What Remains by Steve Leder
• Grief Works by Julia Samuel
• Good Grief by Catherine Mayer and Anne Mayer Bird
• Dear Life by Rachel Clarke
• Surviving the Tsunami of Grief by Katrina Taee + Wendelien Mc Nicoll - a picture book - for those who want to support the bereaved
• Transitions by William Bridges

Contact:

Peronel Barnes

Lis Whybrow website and Linked In

And contact Claire through [e-mail]

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Coming Up:

Next Week: The Benefits of Improvisation in Coaching with Julie Flower

Soon: Open Table - The Power of Noticing in Coaching

Key Words

coaching, grief, conversations, listening, emotions, therapy, death, dying, Peronel Barnes, Lis Whybrow, Claire Pedrick