Words in a Mirror - by Eileen Jameson (Paperback)

About the Book

This book helps coaches, supervisors, and therapists integrate poetry and writing creativity into their practice. It features 43 poems, each paired with reflective questions and creative exercises.

Book Synopsis

This book offers poems inviting us to awaken the senses through memory, image and emotions. Each poem acts as a gateway, inviting readers or listeners to reflect on their physical, cognitive, and emotional responses, while deepening awareness of their feelings and the influence these have on their lives.

These poems draw from real life personal experience and work with clients, reflecting emotions and themes of everyday life. They offer a rare capacity to open reflective space without intrusion or prescription.

This collection will be of particular value to coaches, supervisors, and practitioner educators seeking creative and embodied ways to support reflection, insight, and development within coaching and supervision contexts, while for facilitators and poetry therapists, the integration of reflection and supervision questions provide a thoughtfully structured framework for practice.

Review Quotes

'Bringing coaching and poetry together is an inspiration.' Professor David Clutterbuck PhD, European Mentoring and Coaching Council

'A useful tool for coaches interested in creative methods for understanding life's dilemmas' Dr Victoria Field, Writer/Poetry Therapist

'This collection will be of particular value to coaches, supervisors, and practitioner educators seeking creative and embodied ways to support reflection, insight, and development within coaching and supervision contexts.' Dr Paula King MCC, CEO Kingstown College

'I love how a poem and the use of metaphor can soothe our soul, connect us to our senses, open our awareness to our emotions and what we might need in each moment to resource ourselves. What is wonderful is that alongside each poem there are reflective questions for coach, coach supervisor plus inspiring creative exercises' Ailbhe Harrington, MCC, Education Director/Owner, Aspire Coach Training

'We are led into deep enquiry about a range of themes. Along with a wonderful range of lyrical and well observed poems, this transparency is seductive. The combination of reflections, creative exercises and poems works powerfully to draw the reader into a comprehensive focus on particular topics. I find that I want to linger...and then to return to many of them.' Edna Murdoch, Director, Coaching Supervision Academy

'This book offers therapists and coaches a gentle yet powerful resource for facilitating emotional awareness and embodied insight. Each poem acts as a relational bridge, enabling clients to access feeling states that may otherwise remain silent or defended' Geraldine Campbell, Clinical Counselling Supervisor, Poetry Therapy Practitioner and Mentor/Supervisor

'The poems are rich in metaphor and deep in meaning... Use them to enliven and enrich your own reflections and in your work with your clients to invite fresh musings, new insights and expanded perspectives. A wonderful addition to any bookshelf.' Elaine Patterson, Master Coach, Centre for Reflection and Creativity.

' Eileen's poetry is so evocative and her book is a truly original concept to bring more creativity to the coaching process itself.' Linda McLoughlin, Master Coach, LeadershipWorks

' This is not a book to read once and put away. It is a resource to return to over and again. A thoughtful guide for any coach or coach supervisor committed to practicing with greater presence, courage, and insight.' Dr. Mary Anna Wright, Master Coach