Facilitating Wild Swimming & the Marketing Sanctuary... a Conversation with Kaye King

Facilitating Wild Swimming & the Marketing Sanctuary... a Conversation with Kaye King

How does a marketing mentor have such a strong connection to the human side of group dynamics? And does facilitating swimming lessons have anything to do with running a marketing sanctuary? I’m proven wrong about some of my assumptions about who will make a great guest for the podcast – marketing was definitely not a topic I searched for specialists in for guests! But when I saw a group that this week’s guest was facilitating, I very quickly invited her to talk about it with me, as she held the space so beautifully. Kaye King is a marketing mentor, specialising in supporting solo business owners who want to make the world a better place, and her online community can help with both their marketing, along with their sense of connection and being supported. I’d love to hear from you – do any of today’s topics resonate with you? You can email me at tom@tom-cleary.co.uk [tom@tom-cleary.co.uk] | Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify | Read and comment on Substack: https://substack.com/@tomclearyuk [https://substack.com/@tomclearyuk] | Find out more about Thoughtful Facilitation: https://www.tom-cleary.co.uk/thoughtful-facilitation [https://www.tom-cleary.co.uk/thoughtful-facilitation] Kaye would love for you to get in touch to continue the conversation. Email: hello@marketingmentorkaye.com Connect on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kaye-king-marketingmentor [http://www.linkedin.com/in/kaye-king-marketingmentor]. Or visit her website: Website: https://www.marketingmentorkaye.com/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tomclearyuk.substack.com [https://tomclearyuk.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Sensing the Room - When Your Body Knows Before You Do

Intuition? Reading the room? Picking up on cues? What’s that ‘thing’… when you just know something is happening in the room, before you can explain it. Before anyone has said anything. Before there’s any obvious signal. Your body somehow got there first. That’s something I’ve been looking into a lot lately, and working with my clients on… with new group leaders and trainers developing their own sense of this, to helping very experienced ones use it when they are supporting their own training teams. It’s something I will be continuing to explore, so please as always do reach out if you have thoughts, experiences, questions on this that we can look at in future episodes. You can email me at tom@tom-cleary.co.uk [tom@tom-cleary.co.uk] | Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify | Read and comment on Substack: https://substack.com/@tomclearyuk [https://substack.com/@tomclearyuk] | Find out more about Thoughtful Facilitation: https://www.tom-cleary.co.uk/thoughtful-facilitation [https://www.tom-cleary.co.uk/thoughtful-facilitation] | Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-cleary-coaching/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-cleary-coaching/] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tomclearyuk.substack.com [https://tomclearyuk.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Strengths, Flames and Feedback... A Conversation with Matthew Morris (Part 2)

Here is part 2 of the conversation I had with Matthew Morris, course creator for Emotional First Aid. We carry on where the last episode left off (obviously!), with Matthew’s take on the ‘layers of humanity that exist within groups’, stories and meaning making, and how we take our own strengths for granted (I love this, I’ve used almost word for word what Matthew says in so many of my own courses, and I find it fascinating that that’s happened, two people who have never coordinated this can be using such similar phrases). And many more topics. Matthew also asks several questions of experienced trainers and facilitators - I’m collecting these to ask future guests, but please also write in and contact myself or Matthew about your own answers to his questions! We’d absolutely love to hear from you! You can connect with Matthew here: * www.emotional-firstaid.co.uk [http://www.emotional-firstaid.co.uk] * https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-morris-48181b72/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-morris-48181b72/] And with me, here: * You can email me at tom@tom-cleary.co.uk [tom@tom-cleary.co.uk] * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-cleary-coaching/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-cleary-coaching/] * Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify * Read and comment on Substack: https://substack.com/@tomclearyuk [https://substack.com/@tomclearyuk] * Find out more about Thoughtful Facilitation: https://www.tom-cleary.co.uk/thoughtful-facilitation [https://www.tom-cleary.co.uk/thoughtful-facilitation] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tomclearyuk.substack.com [https://tomclearyuk.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Authenticity, Marbles and Emotional First Aid... A Conversation with Matthew Morris (Part 1)

I’ve only worked with today’s guest a few times, but I had been thinking for a while that a combination of things would make a conversation with him interesting for many listeners. Partly his own experience of becoming a trainer (something that wasn’t really in his plan as a course and content writer!) and how he’s been navigating himself in that new world, and then also the course he wrote (Emotional First Aid, EFA) as there are many elements of it which I think link with multiple threads we talk about on the podcast. As I was editing, I decided to split the episode into 2 parts as it was a slightly longer one than usual, and because we were covering so many themes. As always, please do let me know if that works for you/doesn’t work for you! And any thoughts you have about the topics in this episode. You can connect with Matthew here: * www.emotional-firstaid.co.uk [http://www.emotional-firstaid.co.uk] * https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-morris-48181b72/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-morris-48181b72/] And with me, here: * You can email me at tom@tom-cleary.co.uk [tom@tom-cleary.co.uk] * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-cleary-coaching/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-cleary-coaching/] * Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify * Read and comment on Substack: https://substack.com/@tomclearyuk [https://substack.com/@tomclearyuk] * Find out more about Thoughtful Facilitation: https://www.tom-cleary.co.uk/thoughtful-facilitation [https://www.tom-cleary.co.uk/thoughtful-facilitation] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tomclearyuk.substack.com [https://tomclearyuk.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Spilled Water, Monkeys and Introversion… A conversation with Susan Baird

What skills do introverted trainers bring to the room? In this episode I’m joined by Susan Baird, Executive Career Coach, Facilitator and founder of Advantage Coaching and Training Ltd. Susan has spent 25 years working in HR across multiple sectors and countries, and brings a lot of hard-won experience to how she thinks about working with groups. We talk about why discussion and debate can do things that just ‘telling’ simply doesn’t, and how Susan reads a room and what she’s actually looking for when she does. We also get into the introvert in the room, spilled water at the worst times(!), and… monkeys on shoulders? Susan is warm, honest and very genuine, and I think a lot of people who work with groups will recognise themselves in this conversation. I’d love to hear from you. How do you create the conditions for real discussion in the groups you work with? You can email me at tom@tom-cleary.co.uk [tom@tom-cleary.co.uk] | Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify | Read and comment on Substack: https://substack.com/@tomclearyuk [https://substack.com/@tomclearyuk] | Find out more about Thoughtful Facilitation: https://www.tom-cleary.co.uk/thoughtful-facilitation [https://www.tom-cleary.co.uk/thoughtful-facilitation] You can find Susan at www.advantagecoaching.co.uk [http://www.advantagecoaching.co.uk] and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-baird-advantage-coaching/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-baird-advantage-coaching/] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tomclearyuk.substack.com [https://tomclearyuk.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]