Rachel PalingICF MCC · APPLIED NEUROSCIENCE · AUTHOR
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JournalSometimes life can be raw! And sometimes we have to take difficult decisions which later prove to open the door to unexpected new beginnings. Last Friday, 25 September, marked the first day of my new doctoral journey!Last January, I made one of the most difficult decisions of my academic life. Faced with a parent’s serious […]
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Coaching | NeuroscienceBe honest! Are you doing it, going through the motions or have you embodied it to the extent of BEING a language coach? As language coaching becomes increasingly popular, this important question emerges. Are you doing training courses that simply adopt coaching techniques, ask powerful questions and encouraging learner autonomy? Or have you genuinely embodied […]
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JournalIATEFL Poland was in a nutshell “a brilliant interaction among language professionals with a great humane, humble, human dimension”. Thank you so much to the organisers, big thank you to Rob Howard – super to catch up with some great colleagues and above all thank you to everyone who came to my workshop on Motivation […]
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Coaching | Education | Neuroscience“It’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind” – quite a strange idiom referring to the breach of a promise! And yes! I exercised the prerogative in connection to our 11th Neurolanguage Coaching Conference 2027. 11 YEARS OF LANGUAGE COACHING CONFERENCES! The first and original Language Coaching Conference took place in Mainz in 2017 – pre pandemic […]
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Coaching | NeuroscienceA few minutes here, a short video there, a podcast,maybe at 1.5x speed… (We’ve all been there, haven’t we?)A post that gives us “five things you need to know” about something… before we scroll on to the next one. We seem to have lost our appetite for staying with an idea,Or the focus we need to […]
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CoachingOur learners may be looking at us through the lens of everything that came before us:Wondering whether we will correct their every sentence,If we will think less of them if they hesitate or make a mistake,If silence means they are failing,If we will notice their accent before their ideas. They may not tell us any […]
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Coaching | NeuroscienceYour learner doesn’t just meet you: They meet everything you’ve brought into the room with you.What makes you who you are,What you’ve been carrying since the start of your day. We sometimes talk about the coaching relationship as though we as coaches simply walk in, sit down, listen carefully, and respond to whatever the learner brings to […]
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JournalI reflect on reconnecting with educators in Perú and the renewed energy of learning together.
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CoachingI look back at the beginnings of our international community and the conferences that brought us together.
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