About Cherry Potts
Cherry Potts is a published fiction writer and teacher, publisher, event organiser, photographer, cardmaker, NLP master practitioner, life coach and trainer. She is an enthusiastic singer.
Through Arachne Press she publishes fiction and non fiction and runs spoken word events and cross-arts workshops for writers at interesting venues. Always interested in new opportunites to perform, write or explore writing.
Its a cold, dreary Monday and I don’t feel like doing much, but I’ve promised A that we’ll go to the Evolving English exhibition at the British Library. There are several ways we can get there, and it turns out … Continue reading →
It’s that time of year. I get bloody minded about new year resolutions: you won’t catch me in the gym in January, it’s too full of people regretting that final slice of Christmas cake. And really, it makes better sense … Continue reading →
Posted in change, choice, Coaching, NLP
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Tagged change, Change from Choice, Cherry Potts, Coaching Links, decisions, happiness, Neurolinguistic programming, resolution, well formed outcomes
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What do we mean when we talk about compromise? I get the feeling it can be rather a negative idea. The OED definition is: To settle a dispute by mutual concession; or to bring under suspicion or into danger by … Continue reading →
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Tagged Change from Choice, Cherry Potts, compromise, Leadership, Neurolinguistic programming
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I’ve been thinking some more about redundancy, and its impact, not on the people who leave an organisation, but on those left behind. In the days when I worked for big organisations, there would be a reorganisation about every three … Continue reading →
Posted in business, change, Coaching, Leadership, NLP, Redundancy, work
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Tagged Change from Choice, Cherry Potts, Leadership, organisations, redundancy, workplace trauma
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First in a series of blogs based on the manual for the leadership course Why Lead? developed with Steve Boyden for Revolution-Evolution To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t … Continue reading →
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Tagged change, Change from Choice, Cherry Potts, Leadership, metaprogrammes, Neurolinguistic programming, NLP Links, similarity and difference
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This an extract from an exercise I did as part of my coaching course with ITS. We explored what silence did for/to us, and how silence was different in different contexts. I found it fascinating, and it really helped me … Continue reading →
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Tagged 'dancing in the moment', Change from Choice, Cherry Potts, Coaching Links, coaching style, coaching techniques, listening, metaphor, Neurolinguistic programming, NLP Links, Silence, similarity and difference
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Recently I’ve had several clients who have come to me because they are threatened with redundancy, or have recently been made redundant. (Yes, I know it’s the job that is redundant not the person, but I’ve yet to meet anyone … Continue reading →
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Tagged Change from Choice, Cherry Potts, Coaching Links, confidence, Neurolinguistic programming, NLP Links, redundancy, timeline, work, workplace trauma
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