Clare Norman, MCC, Mentors Dr. Jessica Singh on Coaching Session #1 with Dr. Mary

In this insightful episode of The Holistic Physician Coaching Podcast, Dr. Jessica Singh is mentored by Clare Norman, MCC, during her first coaching session with Dr. Mary, a family medicine physician navigating the transition to motherhood. Clare Norman, founder of Clare Norman Coaching Associates, is a Master Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, an author, mentor coach, and coach supervisor.

Together, they revisit the opening of the session, the coaching agreement, and the early exploration of what matters most in the first coaching session. As the mentoring unfolds, Clare offers thoughtful feedback on the coaching process, following the thinker’s language more closely and creating space for emotions, beliefs, and values to emerge without overguiding. Dr. Singh also reflects candidly on self-management as a coach, growth edges, and the questions that arose for her while relistening to the session. 

The episode closes with mentoring on how to end an initial coaching session effectively, including takeaways, accountability, and ways to support reflection between sessions while keeping ownership with the coachee. This conversation offers practical insight for physician coaches and for anyone interested in how coaching can support transitions, cognitive shifts, shifts in perspectives, experiences, and well-being in medicine.

For physician coaches, coaches who work with physicians, and listeners interested in coaching in medicine, this episode offers practical insights into how coaching can support transitions, shifts in perspective, deeper self-awareness, and enhanced well-being during demanding seasons of training and practice.

Timestamps:

0-6:58 - Introduction: Setting the Focus for Mentor Coaching with Clare Norman, MCC

6:59-11:47 - Reflecting on Strengths and What Could Have Been Done Differently in Session 1 with Dr. Mary

11:48-39:46 - Mentoring with Clare Norman on the Coaching Agreement and Early Exploration in Session 1 with Dr. Mary

39:47 - Mentoring with Clare Norman on the Closing of Session 1 with Dr. Mary and Takeaways

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Resources:

1.   Norman, Clare. Cultivating Coachability: How to Leverage Coaching Readiness So Thinkers Can Optimise Value. Right Book Press, 2024.
2.   Norman, Clare. Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide. McGraw-Hill Education (UK), 2020.
3.   Norman, Clare. The Transformational Coach: Free Your Thinking and Break Through to Coaching Mastery. Right Book Press, 2022.