About Cherry Potts

I am NLP  Master Practitoner qualified, and an Associate Credentialled Coach (ACC)member of the the ICF ( International Coach Federation). I have studied with Ian McDermott, Jan Elfline, Suzi Smith, Robert Dilts and Tim Hallbom.  I have been trained in Group Mastery by Michael Grinder. I am a qualified SDI facilitator and TAP Training Provider. I have recently (March 2010) completed a Coach Mastery Course with the wonderful Jan Elfline.

I am learning British Sign Language, as I want to be able to coach and train anyone who wants it, and I am very aware that as my coaching is primarily conducted by phone this puts people with hearing issues at a disadvantage. I have passed BSL level 1, and am now embarking on some 1:1 coaching to learn the vocabularly I need to Coach and train. I find BSL fascinating, and get a lot out of learning it. Watch this space!

I am an associate member of CIPD ( Chartered Institute of Professional Development) and a Master Practitioner Member of ANLP.

My background is in Housing, Information Management and IT, with an emphasis on training. I am currently working with Leonard Cheshire Disability on their Enabled 4 Growth project and previously worked on their Ready to Start programme, providing mentoring to disabled entrepreneurs. I have also done voluntary work in housing co-operatives and housing advice, and the conservation movement. 

I am the author of 2 collections of short stories published by Onlywomen Press; most recently 'Tales Told Before Cockcrow'. I continue to write, and have just had a story (Prairie Rain) published by Leaf Books in their anthology 'From the Left'. I design greetings cards under my own imprint, sold through Lavender Lifestyles.

I recently discovered singing in a community choir and am now a passionate advocate of this form of exercise, relaxation and fun! I have now sung in two operas and numerous concerts and am completely over any fears I ever had of looking a fool in public.

I have  over 12 years management experience, most of it at a senior level. I enjoyed leading a team, and the most rewarding aspects of the work were the personal interaction of coaching and mentoring my team as individuals, recruitment, and team building. I got more and more interested in coaching and discovered NLP through a friend who was training, starting as one of his practice clients.

I found the coaching so useful in so many different areas of my life that I decided I wanted more, and started training in NLP myself. I am now coaching and training full time, instead of squeezing it into the corners of a very full time job. I love coaching. It is as simple as that. I love being coached, and I love coaching others.

  Be the change you want to see in the world.  Gandhi