Relational Mindfulness

Over the years, practising Relational Mindfulness (RM) has transformed my coaching, coaching supervision and all my relationships. I have become more present, aware, compassionate and empathetic, better able to make discerning choices about how I respond, and more open to other perspectives. I would love to help you develop through RM too!

What is Relational Mindfulness (RM)?

RM is about taking mindfulness right into the heart of relationships. It helps us become more fully present, attentive, compassionate, and courageously collaborative – cultivating the kind of connection that naturally opens space for insight, clarity, and understanding.

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Relational Mindfulness for Coaches book and website

Having seen the enormous benefit that RM offers coaches and their clients, Liz Hall and I wanted to make it accessible to a wider audience. So we have written a book and created an accompanying website all about bringing RM into coaching.

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How can I develop through RM?

We have created a number of development programmes for coaches and others that have RM practice at their core. These are designed to support you to develop your coaching presence, awareness, compassion, wisdom and courageous collaboration.

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Bringing RM into organisations

There are many ways that RM can support people within organisations to become more conscious, compassionate and wise. Here are a few examples of programmes I have provided. I would love to have a conversation about how RM might be of value in your organisation.

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In-house RM for coaches programmes

RM programmes for groups of in-house coaches are a great way to develop high quality coaching and provide your coaches with valuable Continuing Professional Development. For example, I provided an in-house RM programme for Imperial College London’s Coaching Academy that included two half-day online sessions and between-session support and learning. It received very positive feedback. Click here to read more.

Bringing RM into leadership development

My doctoral research explored using RM in leadership development contexts and how it could develop leadership capability. Since then, I have provided RM sessions as part of leadership and management development programmes, particularly in healthcare settings where practising RM is a way to support compassionate leadership. For example, I have worked with the King’s Fund on their Top Manager Programme and on leadership training they provided for Health Education and Improvement Wales.

RM as a way to build quality relationships in the workplace

RM is applicable to deepening and improving our capacity to be present, aware, compassionate and wise in all kinds of relationships. For example, I have provided an in-house programme for employees at Imperial College London that formed part of their health and wellbeing development provision for employees and was also recommended to managers.

How might RM support your team or organisation?

Let’s explore that together! Contact me to set up an initial exploratory dialogue.

Praise for Relational Mindfulness

“I think the quality of my presence is much better… just being open, tuned in, not trying so hard to have a result. There’s much more quiet inside… whatever I’m hearing from a client, RM is a way of being with their experience, as well as being with my experience of whatever their narrative is. It is about noticing the automaticity of my response – of catching that much more easily…”

Shenaz Kelly-RawatChartered Psychologist PsSI, Director, Learning Partnership, Ireland

“RM has kind of slowed me down in a positive way… giving more space to myself and to my clients as well. …when there’s a trigger, remembering to pause gives you a choice, you can choose what you are going to do”

Pirjo PuhakkaExecutive Coach, Coach Supervisor, Mentor Coach, Thinking Time, Finland

“…how did I do coaching before I knew [about RM]?… We learn in coaching… that the primary lever for change is the existence of a coaching relationship …RM explicitly acknowledges the existence of the relationship as an entity and that, I think, has the potential to really enhance coaching for all coaches.”

Becky ThosebyHead of Workplace Wellbeing, Inclusive Culture Centre of Expertise, People group, Ministry of Justice, UK

“[RM provides] a much more refined, careful attending to that relational aspect of coaching, which is key. The listening and the presence and all of that…”

Stephanie WheelerLeadership and Team Coach, Lego® Serious Play® Facilitator, Author, UK

“I can see that my clients are able to be vulnerable because they really sense the depth of connection, that I’m really with them and they feel really safe. I think that the conditions that [RM] practice helps to create is that of deep psychological safety, so that people can do their best thinking, come to insights and access the wisdom that’s in the field.”

Jane BrendgenAdult Development and Executive Coach, UK

“[RM is] a way to empathise and identify with others and, through that, ultimately to reach a place of getting closer to connection with the whole rather than just with myself and with one other. It’s a way of becoming part of something bigger.”

Malcolm FrowInsight Dialogue Teacher, Management Consultant and Executive Coach, UK

“RM reduces that clutter, that noise that you have from your own judgement and perspective, but also welcomes that you will have a different perspective and that’s okay… being really open to other perspectives and not just as in ‘well, you can say your perspective, but I’ll still hold mine’, but having that real openness to what someone’s truth is [and] actually being able to reflect on that.”

Beth Clare McManusCoaching psychologist, UK

“I use lots of different models that I’ve integrated together… it feels like [RM is] kind of superpowering them…”

Emma ReadingCoach and Coaching psychologist, UK

Relational Mindfulness

What is Relational Mindfulness (RM)?

Relational Mindfulness for Coaches book and website

How can I develop through RM?

Bringing RM into organisations

There are many ways that RM can support people within organisations to become more conscious, compassionate and wise. Here are a few examples of programmes I have provided. I would love to have a conversation about how RM might be of value in your organisation.

In-house RM for coaches programmes

Bringing RM into leadership development

RM as a way to build quality relationships in the workplace

How might RM support your team or organisation?

Let’s explore that together! Contact me to set up an initial exploratory dialogue.

Praise for Relational Mindfulness

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