Barefoot Coaching Shortlisted for Small Business of the Year Award

Barefoot Coaching have been shortlisted for the Small Business of the Year Award at the East Midlands Chamber Enterprising Women Awards 2020. On the 29th January 2020, at Haarlem Mill in Matlock, the finalists for the East Midlands Chamber Enterprising Women Awards were announced.
The Joy of Visual Facilitation

Last month, I did Jon McNestrie’s Visual Facilitation training with Barefoot Coaching – and feel compelled to share this secret with you – improving your visual communication is easier than you might think. I was enthusing about this to a friend – who asked what is Visual Facilitation?
The Barefooters – A Poem by Bolaji Frank Irawo

Turned up day one, module one, green around the ears
There in the room fourteen other adventurers
Everyone with a story to tell
Why this course was right for the here and now.
An Ode to Coaching Supervision

Safe space to explore
Understanding self in service of others
Pause with purpose
Expanding our education
Restorative in all manner of ways
Vulnerable and willing to share
Broken Pottery & The Barefoot Conference

In the inimitable words of Leonard Cohen “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in”. Thoughts about broken pottery and the Barefoot Coaching Winter Conference… Last week a gathering of coaches at various ages and stages of their journey invested in a day together at the Barefoot Coaching annual winter conference to share, learn and connect. As always, listening to thought leaders of the coaching world gave me plenty of food for thought.
Coaching Skills for Family Life

Families – their joys and challenges are as unique as the people in them. The role of parent is undoubtedly my most challenging one. I’m an only child, brought up in a single-parent family and now I have a partner, step-daughter and three young children. Sometimes I feel strong, capable, joyful, occasionally like I’m getting it right.
Don’t just think it, ink it

I love learning, writing and believe in investing in my own professional development, so attending Jackee Holder’s Write Yourself well – Creative Therapeutic Writing in Coaching and Coaching Supervision CPD day put on by Barefoot Coaching was a no brainer.
Michelle Kenyon Appointed as Barefoot MD

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Michelle Kenyon as Managing Director of Barefoot Coaching Ltd as of the 1st September 2019. Michelle will be taking over the position from Barefoot Coaching’s founder, Kim Morgan, who will now step into the role of CEO, focusing on the strategy, vision and direction of the business.
How to thrive (and not just survive) in the World of Coaching

The Coach’s Survival Guide is the second book from Master Certified Coach, Kim Morgan. It is an easy to use, accessible book, grounded in practice and experience and includes case studies drawn from real-life practice.
‘My dissatisfaction with my appearance troubled me for years…’

The theme of Mental Health Awareness week is Body Image – how we think and feel about our bodies. In this blog, Barefoot MD, Kim Morgan talks openly about how her appearance troubled her for much of her life and how she is now embracing her body image.