Welcome to The Plover Partnership
The Plover Partnership is John and Avril Coleman. We are professional coaches and educators, and have been developing people since we first became involved in consultancy in 1985. Our mission is to help people flourish emotionally, mentally, socially, physically and spiritually. We do this by developing deep and, where possible, long-term relationships with our clients, getting to know their backgrounds, personalities, perspectives on life and by helping them establish clear agendas for change and development in their lives.
Our role is to draw out hopes, ambitions and the unspoken needs of clients and help them begin to shape these into new perspectives, strategies, behaviours and skills that will create lives of greater flourishing
We have worked with thousands of people of all ages and stages: people starting out in life, people who run major organisations, people going through significant transitions and people who feel stuck, people who feel they are riding the waves of success and others who have felt they were failing in life. We have worked with people from very different cultural backgrounds, and have worked in the UK, Europe, the US and Asia.
We spend a lot of time listening and asking questions. We look to establish clear agendas for positive change, whilst appreciating what is already working in a person’s life. Our approach is always to look for the good in people and build on the strengths that are already there. Our role is to draw out hopes, ambitions and the unspoken needs of clients and help them begin to shape these into new perspectives, strategies, behaviours and skills that will help them flourish more. And all the time this is happening, we are providing encouragement, feedback, challenge and insight, seeking to help them experience greater flourishing.
We see our work as fundamentally organic, recognising that the growth and development of people is not something that neatly fits into processes or systems. Like trees, individual growth can be seasonal; there can be times of bearing fruit and times of barrenness; times of feeding and times of drought; times of being rooted deeply and times when we feel displaced and uprooted. Just as no one tree is the same as another, so we are all wonderfully individual and deeply complex. Helping people understand themselves and their unique mix of strengths, gifts, preferences and development areas is core to what we do as coaches.
We hope you find the web site useful. It is designed to give you some more detail about us, how we work, and how we may be able to help you. It has also been designed to give you a feel for not only what we do, but who we are.
Do reach out by email (see the contact us page) if you feel we may be able to help you experience greater flourishing.
Why have we chosen a tree?
Trees are an immensely powerful symbol of flourishing. They are organic and highly varied in shape, form, colour and texture – there is a uniqueness about each one. Trees have also played a great part in creating wealth and forming civilisations and culture, whether that be in architecture, publishing, travel, discovery or as a source of sustainable food. We have always been attracted by their beauty, strength, longevity and elegance. They inspire us in our work of investing in people, so that they can become more deeply rooted and fruitful individuals over the long haul of life.
