PhD Coaching Blog — Coaching

As my doctoral candidates will know, I have a Kiwi upside down map on my wall and it's something that appears in all my Zoom calls.  But that's a flat map.  This globe adds more dimensions and it has a message for doctoral candidates. (Scroll down to see where this is!).  Your doctoral journey may have seemed simple enough at the beginning...a straight line from acceptance into the program to graduation!  However the world can turn and throw you off balance. What you thought was up is now down. Your perspective has changed.  So if you want to chat about...

I was so delighted to get this card from the candidate who graduated a couple of weeks ago.  I want to show anyone who wonders if the end will ever come! And I want to say how grateful I am to him too, for letting me share in his journey,  How lucky am I!! One of the joys of my work is to get those emails that say the oral exam is over and all is well. In my posting on LinkedIn, I tried to describe what that moment is like: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7111895817543712768/ While I celebrate the success of another brilliant doctoral...