Welcome to our newest team member Nick Wright who comes to us with a background in coaching and development in the third sector and a real interest in the spirituality of coaching.

Claire writes: ‘In my first career as a Maths teacher, I would encourage my students to show the working out so I could get a sense of what they had done. In conversations, we are constantly scanning for clues from what is said or seen or known, drawing together assumptions and then speaking. Sometimes we are right. And sometimes we are wrong.

One of the insights we can draw from coaching and mathematics is to show the working out. Instead of chasing a hypothesis, or choosing to ask about something we find most interesting or alarming, the coaching style is more of an equal engagement, so it’s polite to ask! So when

• you’re thinking what do I need to ask next, ask: Where are we now, what do we need to do next?
• you’re weighing up which theme to follow, scope: I’m hearing w, x, y and z… is it useful to explore one of those – which one?
• you have a hunch that the conversation might be avoiding something, instead of slowly and subtly working round to that, be direct: are we choosing not to speak about <subject>?

Principle 9: Show the working out‘

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