#88: Philip Crocker – Coaching is the Most Natural Thing in the World

Can coaching teach us to love ourselves more? Can it help us come to terms with injustice and pain? Does it offer a route towards peace? Executive coach, consultant and facilitator Philip Crocker explores all of these questions in this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, and shares the wisdom and insights he uses in his work with senior leaders from some of the world’s most innovative organisations. Philip tells host Alex Whitton what he learned from launching several successful businesses before training as a coach and coach supervisor – an experience he describes as “a brilliant illumination”. Weaving together threads from physics and human relationships, Philip describes ways to increase the flow of energy between people in coaching conversations, utilising conductivity in much the same way as electrical circuits do. Philip says his purpose is to help people who feel written off to live a whole life. He is an expert in strategic facilitation and his own podcast, Alongsider, brings people from all walks of life into alignment with each other, allowing them to find their place and also take it. In this episode, Philip and Alex also talk about: • How to grow a coaching client base full of the people you need to help you learn and develop. • Slowing down when finding your niche, and how to navigate towards it. • The theories and relationships that underpin successful business growth. • The power of coaching to help people fall in love with themselves more. • The particular quality of connection that creates influence between people in coaching conversations. Philip also illuminates the shift we all have to make when we move from the separateness of our education system into the complexity of the world, and how coaching offers a space of integrity that can help us grapple with and utilise that complexity. Things and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in): Clare Pedrick https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-55-claire-pedrick-and-lucia-baldelli-the-human-behind-the-coach Clare’s books Simplifying Coaching and The Human Behind The Coach https://www.3dcoaching.com/shop/book-bundle-human-behind-the-coach-simplifying-coaching-signed-copies/ Robin Yourston https://www.linkedin.com/in/gandrprobin/?originalSubdomain=uk Dr. David Rock, Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2602650-quiet-leadership Dr. David Rock's SCARF model https://modelthinkers.com/mental-model/scarf-model Dr Sally Vanson and the Performance Solution https://theperformancesolution.com/the-coaches/dr-sally-vanson/ NLP https://anlp.org/knowledge-base/definition-of-nlp Carl Jung typology test https://jung.test.typologycentral.com/ ILM Level 7 Leadership and Management https://www.i-l-m.com/learning-and-development/management/management-and-leadership-generic/8617-level-7-leadership-and-management Human Conductivity https://www.humanconductivity.com/ Debra Green https://roc.uk.com/about/team/debra-green-obe/ Measure What Matters by John Doerr https://www.whatmatters.com/the-book Jung's personality types https://www.thesap.org.uk/articles-on-jungian-psychology-2/about-analysis-and-therapy/typology/ DISC theory, which employ Jung's personality types  https://discboulevard.com/en/theory-behind-disc/