For Flourishing's Sake Podcast | Nurturing Relationships

Christian van Nieuwerburgh – Nurturing Relationships

In this episode, I bring you a very special guest who made the beginning of my MSc in Applied Positive Psychology utterly magical (more on this in the audio).

Christian van Nieuwerburgh is a highly regarded executive coach, leadership consultant and academic with an international reputation. He is a thought leader in the areas of coaching in educational settings, interculturally-sensitive coaching and the integration of coaching and positive psychology in professional contexts. In addition to significant experience of delivering consultancy and executive coaching to clients in the UK and internationally, Christian is recognised as a leading academic in the field of coaching psychology. He is the Editor in Chief of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice.

Christian is the author of An Introduction to Coaching Skills: A Practical Guide, and Coaching in Professional Contexts. He is also Editor of Coaching in Education: Getting Better Results for Students, Educators, and Parents.

In this episode, Christian shares his take on nurturing relationships in the education environment.

Follow Christian on Twitter: @ChristianvN

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Some books I've read

Eat, Pray, Love

by Elizabeth Gilbert

This book was recommended to me by a friend, given my interest in all things 'happiness'. I hadn't seen the film - and I must say, it's odd: at no point in the book could I picture Elizabeth as Julia Roberts! It too me a very long tim...

Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

by Nick Bilton

Wow! What an enthralling read! I was expecting to love this book because I am a bit of a social media geek, but this is truly a book that anyone who loves books about power struggles, corporate intrigue, friendships and betrayal will ab...

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

This is a must-read book! It's not very long and you can read it again and again very quickly to give yourself regular reminders of what's important in life. Viktor Frankl managed to apply his scientific mind to study the psychology...

No Way Back

by Andrew Gross

Having read previous Andrew Gross / James Patterson collaborations, I was expecting this book to be a page-turner, but I actually found it to be far better than I expected! Starting with the excellent and very clever bit of marketing: I ...