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Are you a coach that works while walking? (And what about the weather?)

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Have you tried coaching while walking? ‘Invigorating’, ‘Inspiring’, ‘Great for shifting perspective and getting unstuck!’ These are some of the reflections on coaching walking made by a crowd of AoEC coaching graduates who joined me last week to walk and talk while connecting with each other and London. Remarkably, after a spate of cold, rainy, …

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Sacrifice in Postman’s Park

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Postman’s Park on a week day afternoon in February. Impressions: Hidden between buildings in central London.  Surprising, secluded, quiet.  Dull day.  Silent, stationary digger and orange fencing for the ‘improvement’ works.  Heroic self sacrifice tributes told in heartbreaking one line stories.  Stories that haunt.  A man feeding a squirrel, a woman on crutches.  Pile of gravestones, …

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Paths in Cannizaro Park

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Cannizaro Park on a week day afternoon in February. Impressions: Bone chillingly cold, wet, fat raindrops.  Secluded, calming, distant mist, curious, green fountain.  Decorative gardens, small pond, pink wall, red brick, lichen, ivy, moss, wooded.  Cross country running school girls with pony tails in crested sports kits, shepherded by yelling staff, voices echoing around the park. …

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