Duo Coaching

It's amazing how things progress over time, especially new business ventures.

As many of you know I started to work in relationship coaching and counselling quite a while ago, building on the teamwork knowledge and experience I had from coaching high performance teams of just two people in sailing. These are truly compared to 'marriages without love' and have proved a valuable learning arena for what I now do for the general population.

Then I teamed up with Neil Wilkie to work with him on a new offering - that of two relationship counsellors working with a couple at the same time. We both knew that the service provided by traditional relationship therapists working with one counsellor to a couple, while good and certainly well-meaning, has its limitations when it comes to effectiveness. Our aim was (and still is) to provide couples counselling where the two of us honour both individuals as well as their relationship at the same time. It means we work 'live' with problems and issues as they occur in ways that give dedicated time and space to both parties - one person is not side-lined or left out just because the other is more verbal or more needy at that moment.

We've spent some time and research working things out - especially how to work at our best together so that our clients get to resolution quickly - and built up a good little business over a number of years.

Recently we decided to formalise things somewhat and dip our toes into making our presence known on the internet. Have a look at our new website - www.duocoaching.co.uk  We have a blog there too, focussing on relationship issues.

As you will see we leant on our mutual interest of of sailing to provide the metaphor for the site, and we like the effect - and I welcome feedback on your impressions too!

I still do sailing, sports, life and executive coaching, (because I enjoy them) and find that things I learn from these different arenas all feed into a better product - see www.cathyfoster.co.uk and of course, this is my major blog page for all things ecletic.

It's all rewarding stuff.