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Thanks so much for watching and for sharing your feedback. Glad you found it useful!

Thanks so much for the feedback and I hope you found the video useful.

Thanks so much for your time and expertise. It was great to explore organisational culture through a positive lens.

Delighted you found it useful. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching and thanks for the question. This is a common topic in coaching, especially when we've made a mistake a work, taken our anger out on a colleague, or any other of the many ways we can act outside of our most important values. Regrets are thoughts about the past, so noting them as simply memories can be used as a defusion approach. When the thoughts pop up, it’s a matter of labelling them as “memories”, neither good nor bad, which don’t help guide us in the present moment. There are two broad ways of revisiting the past - either to learn from it and change how we do things, which I’d refer to as ‘reflection’, or to simply relive negative experiences and all the emotions that comes from them, which is generally called ‘rumination’. Noticing the difference between the two allows us to identify valuable (even painful) lessons from the past, draw a line under it, and commit to more helpful behaviours in the future. The discomfort that comes from acting outside our values is natural - and reaffirms that the values are important to us. So one way of thinking about this is that the discomfort is part of having values and a valuable learning point for how to put these values into practice in the here and now. We can’t take action in the past, nor in the future - just in this present moment. Which brings me to the final point I raise with clients - all of this is made easier by working on present moment awareness (mindful focus in the here and now) to be able to anchor themselves in the present, and minimise unhelpful mental time travel to the past. Hope this makes sense - and it's a topic I'll be elaborating on in the final episode of this series. Thanks for watching!

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Hi Laura, Thanks so much for your feedback - it's much appreciated. To answer your question, ACT is more and more being used in both mainstream child development contexts and therapeutic contexts. I'm not trained in that area, but I hear very good things about Dr. Tamar Black's 'The ACT workbook for kids'. It's available on Amazon. Also, check out TH-cam - the ACT community is usually very generous in giving away excellent content on a range of topics.

@@WorkLifePsych Thank you!

Thanks for watching! Yes, they do work well together.

Glad you enjoyed it - thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching! And yes, there’s no perfect app.

Yes. While it allows you to attach photos and scan docs directly into reminders, it still doesn’t allow for any other reminders. Hopefully this will be addressed in future updates. Thanks for watching!

You can always link a file to a note in Notes and then link that note to Reminders. I know it's a two steps process but if you really need it, it's perfectly possible.

In this video, I’m using the Yeti Blue microphone.

Thanks so much! And thanks for watching.

Absolutely - there's lots of ways the Reminders app could be improved. I'm going to take another look at it in a task management video very soon. Thanks for watching!

@MizukiCharl Thanks so much for watching. I'm delighted you found it useful. Please feel free to share with any friends and colleagues you think might benefit.

I definitely would!! It's also one of the best advices I heard so far in terms of productivity:)

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Thanks Mark - that’s such a great way of putting it. The coaching relationship is unlike any other, which both parties can sometimes forget. That’s why contracting and a focus on the topic(s) at hand help maintain an appropriate focus.

That's a great topic - if a difficult one! It's really important that coaching psychologists - and coaches without a psychology qualification - 'stay in their lane', professionally speaking, and stick within their professional boundaries. It's also why we contract at the start of a coaching programme, to agree a focus. If the client's needs stray from this, it's a sign that we might need to pause and reassess the situation. Coaches of all types need to have a referral process in place. In other words, they can carefully have the conversation with their client and signpost or direct them to an appropriate mental health professional. One key point is many coaching psychologists already coach people who are simultaneously working with a counsellor or psychiatrist. But we're focused on different topics. Someone might work with a coaching psychologist to adapt to a career change, while seeing their counsellor to get through a marriage break-up, for example. And this is all dependant on them being able to invest the time and energy in both - sometimes, I'll suggest to clients that we pause the coaching until their counselling programme is complete, so they're not over-stretched. I'll add this topic to the list for future videos. Thanks for watching and for the suggestion.

@@WorkLifePsych I have just discovered that it is possible to offer something extra to future Coaches, at least the basis of identification and to know what to do next. Constructive ideas, I like that!

Thanks for the kind words - it’s much appreciated.

Thanks so much for the feedback, Mark!

Thanks so much for watching. Glad you found it helpful.

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Thanks for watching and for the very kind comment.

Thanks for watching! Great to know the concepts help you feel less overwhelmed. Bonus thanks for the pun!

Thanks for watching, Mark - appreciate the feedback. I can certainly agree when it comes to the power of thinking things through in advance and working on that clarity of purpose. It makes such a huge difference. This is now a standard video to share with all new coachees, to help them get the best result.

Thanks for watching, Wayne. It’s a super-flexible tool, but remains as simple as you need it to be.

That’s a great example of using pen and paper to do something meaningful with intention. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Mark! You’re not alone in noticing that. And a physical book could be a nice change of pace.

Thanks for watching and for your lovely feedback. I'm delighted you found it useful. Richard.