' The Compass Rose - 8 Ways to Awake your Creativity and Re-Source your Life ’ is out now. The Compass Rose, with its eight cardinal points, is designed as key touchstones for you to explore ways to claim (or reclaim) your innate creativity. This Workbook and Reflective Journal is a constellation of what we have come to learn from our extensive work exploring creativity within our programmes, retreats, and teaching. We see them as being the key routes for starting, growing, or sustaining a vibrant creative practice, whatever your context and wherever you are on your journey. This is your invitation to embrace and explore your creativity in ways that we hope will liberate, delight and resource you. To order please email me at elaine@reflect2create.com

by Viv Chitty , CSA Accredited Supervisor: A completely new way of considering energy in executive coaching, the concept of Optimal Energy® is based on original research. The book is an essential resource for practitioners who want to effectively address energy with their clients and enable them to take action to optimise their energy in and out of work. Suboptimal energy levels in senior executives, although rarely considered, can negatively impact efficacy, feelings, behaviour and self-awareness both at work and in coaching sessions. But what is optimal energy? This needs to be addressed by executive coaches, but how? Coaching for Optimal Energy answers these questions and challenges previous thinking on the subject. Viv Chitty is a highly experienced executive coach, with over 20 years’ experience, and a coach supervisor. She runs a coaching consultancy and is passionate about working with senior clients who have multiple challenges to face. "This rigorously researched book is a gift to practitioners, clients and organisations addressing the often ignored territory of 'human energy in the context of the workplace'. Viv Chitty asserts that having optimal energy is essential for high performance and she is right. Many aspects of energy are thoroughly addressed here: physiological, emotional and cognitive including stress - all fundamentally important in life and in business." Edna Murdoch , Director, Coaching Supervision Academy

NEW BOOK and CARD DECK with accompanying Vintage Stamps Sets and Candles from Elaine Patterson and Friends from the Centre of Reflection and Creativity Welcome to ‘Homecomings: 52 Ways Back to Ourselves’ – a collection of reflective soliloquys and creative resources intended to inspire you come home to yourself again and again. About the Book…. It is my hope that this collection of 52 soliloquys – with their supporting creative and journaling practices – can inspire you to explore what it means to belong, and how you can come home to yourself again and again as a foundational and invitational heart-based practice for our times. This has never been more necessary or more important if we are to discover or reclaim how we can live – in the midst of all that is happening for us personally and on the global stage – with joy, beauty, generosity, compassion, courage, kindness, wonder, reciprocity, wisdom and grace. This collection started life as handwritten journal entries and musings – with supporting creative invitations and journaling prompts – over a two-year period during the COVID lockdowns in the UK. They are now shared with love to stimulate your own exploration of the many different ways in which you can find yourself. As Karyn Prentice Author of ‘Nature’s Way – Designing the Life you Want through the Lens of Nature and the Five Seasons’ writes in the Foreword…. “From Stilling to Solitude and from Self to Soul this book is a bow to the art of imagination, to deep reflection, and to the radiance of finding the lights of home on, the kettle whistling and warm music saying, ‘Welcome Back”. How to Order…. To order the book at £15.00 GBP and the card set at £20.00 GBP plus package and postage please email elaine@reflect2create.com or visit Elaine’s Bookshop on her website at www.centreforreflectionandcreativity.org The book is also available in print at £15.00 GBP from Amazon or any other online book sellers or an e-version at £12.00 GBP is available at Amazon, Apple Books or Kobo books. An audio book will also be out soon. A set of the bespoke vintage stamps which were made to illustrate the book and accompanying Journal are available from Alessandra from “Send Love from Paris” in her ‘Homecomings’ Section in her Etsy shop at https://sendlovefromparis.etsy.com Accompanying scented candles for you to journal by are available from London based Georgina at BellaMae Candles at https://bellamaes.co.uk

CSA book chapter contributors are Lynne De Lay, Leanne Lowish, Theodora Fitzsimmons, Sarah Evans, Jackie Arnold, and Ken Giglio. This edited collection brings together an impressive and international array of coaching supervisors to highlight the unique cultural and contextual aspects of coaching supervision in the Americas, exploring current theory, research, and practice. Offering fresh insights into a growing field, Francine Campone, Joel DiGirolamo, Damian Goldvarg, and Lily Seto expertly present the nuances of coaching supervision principles and practices in the Americas. The book is organized into three parts. Part 1 introduces the range of cultures and values that inform approaches to and beliefs about coaching supervision in the Americas, such as racial justice, working with indigenous communities, and providing culturally sensitive coaching supervision. Part 2 presents adaptations of coaching supervision models and methods to align with Americas contexts, as well as uniquely introducing an original model for coaching supervision rooted in an Americas perspective. Incorporating theory with practitioner’s experiences throughout, Part 3 presents chapters that offers avenues for increasing awareness and interest in coaching supervision in the Americas, including chapters on coach wellbeing and the developmental journey of the coach. Coaching supervisors work across borders and boundaries, and this book will extend supervisors’ understanding of the various contexts in which they are working. It is essential reading for coaching supervisors, educators, trainers, mentors, and coaches, and it will be of interest to practitioners and graduate students in organizational development and those who oversee internal coaching programs.

by Amanda Ridings, CSA Accredited Supervisor: This is a book for our times. It is for leaders, coaches and other practitioners who are searching for inspiration as they reflect on their leadership experiences and practice. It is a collection of fifty two short pieces, written to invite you to connect with similar moments in your own life and work and to consider them more probingly. The book is meant to be read slowly – it is a written ‘thought for the week’. The narratives are prompted by the author’s personal experiences and by thought-provoking themes brought to her attention by her executive coaching clients or by events in the world. Many of them highlight the ‘gap’ between our leadership aspirations and our ability to live up to them, and gently challenge the reader to hold themselves to account and to tackle this disparity. Throughout the book, readers are encouraged to make contact with their finest leadership spirit, and to anchor their choices in it.

by Gill Graves, CSA Accredited Supervisor : You want to go into team coaching – but what is your role as a team coach, and which coaching approach is right for you? Based on Gill Graves’ experience as a team coach, her own research and acclaimed coaching skills workshops, this book offers a proven framework for your team coaching practice. It’s packed with insights and practical resources ready to use immediately to enhance your team coaching skills. Learn about: Team coaching fundamentals – what is it and what distinguishes it from other team interventions The three phases of team coaching – and what to look out for at each one Real-life insights from practitioners – what typically happens in sessions and how to structure and run assignments Self-care and supervision – how to manage the demands and challenges of your role Standing out in the crowd – create your own distinct ‘brand’ of team coaching

by CSA Accredited Supervisor Anna Springett is a fully illustrated book of poetry, with every poem accompanied by an original watercolour by 15-year-old artist Bethia Erin Rose. The poetry by Anna Erika Springett is arranged in three chapters, which in turn explore the ideas of Courage, Kindness, and Curiosity, what it means to live with (and sometimes without) these qualities, and how it feels to move towards and embrace each of them. Every poem has been written from real, lived human experience, be that the author’s own and those observed or shared with her by others. Each section is full of heart and soul, both deep-diving and lightly-treading: What does it mean to be brave, have a voice, feel difficult emotion? How can I unreservedly express kindness to myself, others, and the earth? What are the questions I dare to ask, the edges I might move towards? How can I cultivate a truly open mind and heart? Poetry has the power to connect us tenderly with our own human experience, enabling access to parts of ourselves that are inviting attention. The author’s hope is that the three sections of Courage, Kindness and Curiosity will support the reader as an individual on their own path of discovery, as well as providing a resource for professionals working with clients in coaching, therapy or supervision.

Superviser de Cœur à Cœur by Anne Berthelin, Elaine Patterson, Agathe Potel, Kathryn Prentice, Jean-Francois Thiriet and Pascale Venara Published in September 2023, this fabulous book is co-authored by no less than 6 CSA Supervisors! Written in French and beautifully illustrated, the book offers hope and inspiration for supervisors, coaches, and facilitators seeking to make a positive impact in their practice and the world around them. Unlike many other books on supervision that focus on "knowing," "know-how," and "behavioural know-how," this book distinguishes itself by exploring the profound dimension of "being human together." It draws on recent research on empathy, compassion, creative intelligence, and embodiment to offer a relationship-centred and heart-based approach.

Reflect to Create! is a holistic philosophy and set of reflective practices designed to free your innate creativity and humanity to craft wise, compassionate and skillful leadership, professional practice and supervision. Explored through the metaphor of the dance and brought alive by nearly two hundred practices, this book invites you, the reader, to reflect, learn, and create anew for inspired living and great work. Based on the author’s research, her own story, and the latest thinking in such diverse spheres as relational dynamics, mindfulness, adult learning, creativity, systems thinking, psychology, and the arts Reflect to Create! helps you to achieve crafted change by first owning your own humanity. Elaine Patterson is an international Executive Coach and Coaching Supervisor, Reflective Thinking Partner and Writer at the Centre for Reflection and Creativity Ltd. Her vision is to bring the creative powers of reflection – and reflective learning – to an international audience of leaders and people professionals for wise living and working in today’s constantly changing world. Contact Elaine Patterson to purchase: elaine@reflect2create.com