In a rapidly changing world, uncertainty challenges us to adapt, grow, and find opportunities in unexpected circumstances. How can we build resilience and support our clients during these transitions?
The Life Transitions and Resilience series explores themes like embracing imperfection, staying grounded in core values, fostering optimism in the face of grief, and navigating identity and career shifts. It also examines how inclusive leadership can aid in navigating life transitions and how to apply these insights in coaching.
Renowned speakers will share tools and frameworks to help you stay engaged, gain clarity, and support personal and professional growth during uncertain times.
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🗣️ Claire Pedrick ⏰ Wednesday 12 February 2025 | 17:00 - 19:00🏆 CCEUs: 1.00 CC | 0.50 RD
Empathy and human connection set the human coach apart from the AI bot that can ask exquisite questions.
Coaching may be similar to other dyadic conversations, and yet it’s different. The coach is here to support the other person to do useful work. The conversation is about them. We need to show up human: not too much of us, not too little. This is not a place for someone who is sorted to share wisdom with someone who is not. We need to support, and we need to challenge, and we don’t really know how to do either with this person in this conversation. They are unique. And this is a dance.
Drawing on the ICF Core Competencies, and the work she has been doing around simplifying coaching, Claire will do a live coaching demonstration with one of us, and share some simple ideas which you’ll be able to put into practice straight away.
Claire Pedrick is a human who facilitates other people's thinking. An MCC Master Coach with over 15000 hours experience, and author of Simplifying Coaching and The Human Behind The Coach. Host at The Coaching Inn podcast, Claire believes that coaching is simple and that it takes time to learn to work that simply. In 2022 she walked 600km on the Camino in Spain.
Claire received the 2022 Outstanding Contribution to Coaching Award from Henley Business School for being a coach and a Points of Light Award from the UK Prime Minister for being a human!
🗣️ Dr Ben Van Den Assem⏰ Wednesday 19 February 2025 | 12:45 - 14:00🏆 CCEUs: 1.25 RD
The focus of the practice of mindfulness in coaching relies primarily on the coaches’ personal definitions and professional perspectives and their understanding of these. The session discusses and integrates the contributions of three important distinct stages in the development of mindfulness in coaching practice through the views of three groups - experienced coaches, coach supervisors who supervises other coaches, and trainee coaches. Their contributions to this session provide a clear indication of the status of their challenges and the way forward. The session offers options and assurances for the ongoing development of mindfulness in coaching and, in particular, the engagement and commitment of mindful coaches to their own development and competence.
Ben Van Den Assem, MSW, MPA, MBA, LLM, MM, MSc, PhD, DBA, PhD, is a qualified coach, consultant and researcher. He has held executive positions in criminal justice with the government of Canada and in the regulation of the health professions in Vancouver and Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic. During the past 15 years he has researched and published in the areas of the patient-doctor relationship and the development of mindfulness in coaching at the Henley Business School, from which he holds an MSc in coaching and behavioural change and a PhD in management, the focus of which is the development of mindfulness in coaching.
🗣️ Dr Marcia Reynolds⏰ Tuesday 25 February 2025 | 17:00 - 18:30🏆 CCEUs: 0.50 CC | 1.00 RD
5 strategies for Letting Go and Moving On
Learning Objectives:
Dr Marcia Reynolds, Master Certified Coach, is a behavioral scientist who has spent 40 years researching how to use conversations to deepen connections that both unify us and open our minds to learning. She has delivered programs in 47 countries. She is on faculty for 5 coaching schools in the Americas, Asia, and Europe and teaches leaders to use coaching skills in organizations and government agencies.
As a pioneer in the coaching profession, she was the 5th global president of the International Coaching Federation and is recognized in the ICF Circle of Distinction for her contributions to the world-wide coaching community. Global Gurus places her in the top 10 coaches in the world, and the #1 female coach on the list.
🗣️ Dr Katia Vlachos⏰ Wednesday 5 March 2025 | 17:00 - 18:30🏆 CCEUs: 0.75 CC | 0.75 RD
Katia Vlachos is a reinvention coach and bestselling author of Uncaged: A Good Girl's Journey to Reinvention. Through her signature Reinvention Roadmap methodology, she helps accomplished women navigate personal and professional reinvention and create meaningful change without sacrificing their authentic selves.
With a Master’s from the Harvard Kennedy School and a PhD from the RAND Graduate School, Katia began her career as a policy analyst before pivoting into coaching, Based in Switzerland, Katia has spent 30 years as an expat and is an expert in cross-cultural transitions and global mobility, which led her to write her first book A Great Move: Surviving and Thriving in Your Expat Assignment. She is also a certified meditation teacher.
🗣️ Karen Foy⏰ Wednesday 12 March 2025 | 17:00 - 18:30🏆 CCEUs: 0.75 CC | 0.75 RD
The aim of this session is to encourage coaches to give up on the notion of being the perfect coach to meet in partnership through humanity. The learning objectives are:
Karen Foy has 15+ years' experience as a coach and holds an MSc in Coaching Psychology from the University of East London and a degree in Psychology from the University of Sheffield. Karen is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and is a certified coach mentor. As a past UK ICF Board Director, she led the professional development for UK coaches and supported the local coaching groups around the country. She has worked with aspiring coaches from global organisations to support their development and learning towards becoming accredited coaches, providing training, mentoring, and supervision.
As an Executive Coach Karen provides coaching to support executive board teams and individuals of complex organisations to navigate their way through a constantly changing environment. Her facilitative style steers her clients towards a more systemic view of the business to create and deliver a more strategic vision.
Career transitions can be varied and often challenging. Certain transitions are more practical, solution-focused, and others come with deeper internal shifts.
How do we as coaches recognise the deeper psychological processes at play during career transitions?
What is the approach, presence and mindset we might bring to each type of career transition?
This interactive workshop aims to equip coaches with practical and reflective tools to support professionals navigate times of change.
🗣️ Beatrice Zornek ⏰ Tuesday 18 March 2025 | 17:00 - 18:30🏆 CCEUs: 1.00 CC | 1.00 RD
Beatrice Zornek supports professionals at key moments of transition in their careers. She has a particular interest in the underlying identity shifts that come with these moments of transition, and how people can find work that aligns with who they are, rather than becoming who their work requires them to be. Beatrice has a degree in psychology, holds a PCC credential and is also a qualified coaching supervisor.
🗣️ Sarah Leach ⏰ Wednesday 26 March 2025 | 17:00 - 18:30🏆 CCEUs: 0.75 CC | 0.75 RD
Helping clients to remain positive and resilient in the face of constant adversity and change can be challenging. Focusing on our strengths, cultivating a growth mindset and tapping into our core values can help to foster a more optimistic outlook. As a master Strengthscope practitioner, Sarah will be sharing a particular tool called the 'path of possibility' which, when used in an integrative way with other coaching interventions, can support clients to remain focused on what might be possible as opposed to getting stuck on what's not.
Sarah (MSc, PCC) is an experienced executive coach with a passion for meaningful conversations that help people realise personal intentions and professional ambitions.
Sarah specializes in career and leadership coaching for senior executives from a range of professional backgrounds and industry sectors. Sarah has a decade of experience in the water industry building a strong reputation in leading and enabling business change, successfully supporting teams and individuals to confidently navigate change, complex systems and build strong collaborative partnerships.
Sarah is a lecturer in coaching at Henley Business School and co-editor of Third Wave Cognitive Behavioural Coaching.
🗣️ Professor Rebecca J Jones ⏰ Wednesday 2 April 2025 | 17:00 - 18:30🏆 CCEUs: 0.75 CC | 0.75 RD
Where did I belong, where do I belong, and where do I want to belong?
Inclusive leadership offers us great reflections to support life transitions, from a more profound discovery in exploring our human need for connection and belonging to the mindset required to ensure necessary steps are taken to maximise opportunities during change while optimising resources. In this session, Professor Rebecca Jones will outline theories of belonging in the context of inclusion and explore how this links to navigating life transitions. She will also explore a model of inclusive leader mindset traits and link this to the successful navigation of transitions. This interactive session will provide the opportunity for participants to walk in small groups to reflect and discuss the concepts shared.
Key outcomes:
Rebecca is a Professor of Coaching & Behaviour Change, the Director of the Henley Centre for Coaching at Henley Business School in the UK. Professor Jones is also co-founder of Inclusive Leadership Company and a chartered psychologist, committed to utilising the science of behaviour change to create inclusive workplaces. Professor Jones also conducts robust and rigorous research into a variety of coaching, inclusion, and behaviour change topics.
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