What lies beyond the familiar contours of coaching? What becomes possible when we loosen our grip on established structures?


Coaching Unbound is a 5-session Series for those ready to question where the limits of coaching truly lie. Through bold exploration, emergent dialogue, shared wisdom, reflection and development opportunities, boundaries are tested - professional, personal, and systemic - to rediscover the dynamic of coaching.

What is possible when you unbound yourself as a coach, and when coaching skills support other sectors and contexts: leadership, diplomacy, education, healthcare, parenting, social work - all walks of life - sometimes unbeknown?

It's an investigation into how a coaching mindset and skills can be adopted and adapted in communities and society for co-creating conditions for clarity and fairer conversations. What can we learn from each other’s lived stories? What can the profession of coaching demonstrate for people to be more intentional with building effective relationships?

Let's unpeel and dive into the essence of ICF Core Competencies from which we can be fluid, natural and ‘unbounded’ as coaches, in leadership, and with presence in complex systems. 

We will rediscover the heart of coaching. 

What?

Each 90-minute online session offers a distinct lens: from the frameworks we inhabit, to where coaching shows up in expansive ways; from the role of the Arts in surfacing insight, to reimagining what it means to coach with ethical responsibility and creativity.

Total CCE Units to Earn = 7.50 RD

Who is This For?

Whether you’re curious about coaching, a newly trained coach or a deeply experienced practitioner, you’ll leave with fresh perspectives and audacity to take into diverse landscapes.

This is not your standard coaching series. It’s for those ready to move out of parameters that no longer serve well. This is an invitation to choose how you wish to show up in your work and the world in a more adaptive and human way. 

Please note: Every session stands alone as well as linking to the overarching theme.

Appreciation To:

Amanda Livermore, Dr Kathy Sienko O.B.E, Philippe Guenet, Mike Burrows, Jen Le Marinel, Karen Foy, Dunia Shafik, Katy Draper, Dr Jayne King, Lizzi Larbalestier, Frank Bolaji Irawo, Todd Roache, Melanie Iredale, Katharine Gale, Dr Susanna Petche, Rebecca Shannon, Krisztina Wighardt, Kirsty Knowles and Jessi Dent for their co-creation, contribution and extended generosity in sharing the material further.

Sessions at a Glance

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Session 1

Peeking Beyond Boundaries

👤 Amanda Livermore, Krisztina Wighardt, Dr Kathy Sienko O.B.E
RD 1.50
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Session Overview

How defined are you by the structures of your professional and personal life? As a coach, what value might you miss by holding too tightly to the ICF Core Competencies?

We’ll question the habits shaping identity and practice, notice and look past imposed limits, and inquire what shifts in meaning and connections emerge.

For those curious about applying coaching traits beyond coaching - into caregiving, leadership, changemaking, teaching or community roles?

Co-Facilitator - Amanda Livermore

Amanda Livermore

Amanda is passionate about co-creating environments where people feel included, understood and supported. She believes that through such environments, transformation can be sparked and nurtured, and perspectives and insights can flourish.

Her approach centres on catalysing lasting change that emerges organically from within. Amanda believes that when people reconnect with who they are and their true capabilities, they naturally create positive ripples throughout their organisations/communities.

Whether working with individuals or groups, her focus remains constant: empowering people to reconnect with themselves in the hope it brings lightness and more acceptance which in turn creates positive shifts that benefit both themselves and their communities.

Co-Facilitator - Krisztina Wighardt

Krisztina Wighardt

Krisztina Wighardt is a leadership coach and Associate Board Member for Professional and Personal Development at the UK Chapter of ICF. Her work explores the evolving identity, responsibility, and influence of coaches within a rapidly changing professional landscape.

Drawing on systemic coaching and her lived experience of neurodivergence, she brings depth, curiosity, and humanity to conversations about value, visibility, and the role coaches play in shaping more conscious organisations and communities.

Krisztina is particularly passionate about supporting coaches and leaders to move beyond technique and step fully into their professional voice, cultivating practices that are both courageous and deeply human.

Contributor - Dr Kathy Sienko O.B.E

Dr Kathy Sienko O.B.E

An internationally recognised coach, mentor, and healthcare leader with over 35 years across sectors and three continents. Specialising in cross-cultural coaching, her doctoral research focused on coaching for leadership development in Saudi Arabia.

A registered nurse since 1993, she blends deep clinical insight with strategic leadership gained in global corporations like Oracle (Cerner) and BT. Awarded an O.B.E. by Queen Elizabeth for her contributions to UK healthcare, she’s editor-in-chief of the region’s first nursing science journal, a respected speaker, and a contributor on leadership topics.

Based in Saudi Arabia and passionate about empowerment, Kathy brings authenticity, cultural fluency, and transformative insight.

Session 2

Stepping Outside Boundaries

👤 Philippe Guenet, Mike Burrows & Jen Le Marinel
RD 1.50
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Session Overview

For adventurers ready to question fixed rules in coaching, organisational change management, and leadership development.

This discussion is about how boundaries shape practice within complex systems - not to discard them, but to spark insight, test new approaches, and reconnect with the intent behind the ICF Core Competencies.

A panel will challenge familiar thinking and open space for experimentation, expanding awareness and fresh possibilities in rapidly evolving fields. We hope that this session centres on what truly matters.

Facilitator - Philippe Guenet

Philippe Guenet

Philippe is a business change coach combining deep change expertise with professional coaching credentials (ICF PCC and ICF ACTC for team and system coaching).

He helps businesses with operational excellence, Flow, teamwork collaboration, leadership development and new approaches to strategy.

Philippe helps all types of organisations, from financial services such as Deutsche Bank, Lloyds, or CPP Investments, to corporates such as NewsUK and KFC UK and Ireland, and startups.

Contributor - Mike Burrows

Mike Burrows

Five-time author, Mike is recognised for his pioneering work in participatory and outcome-oriented approaches to strategy and change and his relational approach to organisation.

Past experience includes Executive Director at a top-tier investment bank, CTO for an energy risk management startup, and interim delivery manager for two of the UK government's digital ‘exemplar’ projects.

His most recent book, Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, was published in 2025.

Contributor - Jen Le Marinel

Jen Le Marinel

Wild soul Jen is on a mission to playfully push the boundaries of what’s possible in life… and to inspire others to do the same. Coach, trainer, facilitator, Jen champions the wild as a training ground for impactful leadership. Her belief: reconnecting with your wildness – all those parts of you that got tamed – unlocks the key to not just surviving, but thriving.

A keen adventurer – she’s walked from Land’s End to John O’Groats and lived with the San Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert – Jen’s here to share that exploring your boundaries can be where the magic begins!

Session 3

Unbounding in Practice

👤 Karen Foy, Kirsty Knowles, Dunia Shafik, Katy Draper, Dr Jayne King & Lizzi Larbalestier
RD 1.50
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Session Overview

Coaching existed long before it was a profession. Faced with a problem, how might a coaching mindset support action?

Where is coaching naturally showing up - in parenting, education, healthcare, leadership, communities or society? How is it fostering relationships and agency?

Stories from diverse experiences reveal coaching not as a role but as a skill, sometimes intentional, sometimes instinctive - an orientation already alive in the world for where it’s needed most.

Co-Facilitator - Karen Foy

Karen Foy

Karen is an ICF Master Certified Coach with over 20 years’ experience, and a certified coach, mentor and supervisor, author and coach educator. Karen holds a BA Psychology from the University of Sheffield and an MSc Coaching Psychology from the University of East London.

She has recently retired as the Programme Director of accredited coaching programmes at Henley Business School, where she is still a visiting tutor and Honorary Fellow.

Her book, Breaking the Coaching Code, How Great Coaches Transcend the Rules made its debut on 28th October 2025.

Co-Facilitator - Kirsty Knowles

Kirsty Knowles

Co-creator of change and development with humanity. Accredited PCC Coach, catalysing mindset shifts, reimagining leadership, and evolving workplace climates. Fusing warmth with rigour, Kirsty integrates a humanistic, ethical, evidence-informed approach. Founder of Think Being®, a skilful thinking partner cultivating future-fit impact across sectors.

Board Director of Professional and Personal Development for UK Chapter of ICF, advancing the profession through dynamic learning. Committed to the belief coaching is for everyone.

Attuned to context, yet outward facing: Coach Education, Mentor Coaching, L&D Design, Facilitation, Consulting. Her mindset-leadership-and-culture specialisms, grounded in sustainability, are published and enhance organisations worldwide. People develop with depth when helping others develop.

Contributor - Dunia Shafik

Dunia Shafik

Dunia is a certified coach and trainer with One of Many, and the Founder of Manhood from Within and A Life of Choices. She delivers CPD-accredited programs that support young men impacted by the criminal justice system and empower mothers of incarcerated sons.

Drawing from her personal journey and professional expertise, Dunia integrates ICF-aligned coaching, NLP, creative arts, and trauma-informed practices to foster transformation, resilience, and leadership. She is passionate about enhancing communication skills, emotional well-being, and purposeful living, helping individuals and families reclaim their voices.

Dunia also advises organisations and collaborates on initiatives to reduce youth violence.

Contributor - Katy Draper

Katy Draper

Katy is an ICF ACC accredited burnout coach with over 40 years’ experience in clinical and commercial healthcare. As a practicing registered nurse and former MD of a global healthcare consultancy, she brings 360° insight into the pressures faced by clinicians and healthcare industry professionals.

She works with individuals across the sector - from frontline staff to industry leaders - offering bespoke coaching grounded in lived experience. Clients value the deep understanding brought to every session in a safe, supportive space.

Katy’s also a qualified Hill and Moorland Leader, passionate about outdoor coaching, nature-based wellbeing and volunteer with Leicestershire Search and Rescue.

Contributor - Dr Jayne King

Dr Jayne King

Jayne is a retired NHS General Practitioner and has been a Coach for 5 years. She has coached NHS GPs and Nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic and participated in Coaching with Conscience initiatives for Coach Advancement with MIND and BPA.

Jayne also voluntarily coaches for a brain tumour charity, supporting people living with cancer and their caregivers.

She gives time and space to her clients, partnering with them and their goals and challenges, so they can explore and move forwards with whatever aspect of their life they choose to bring to their coaching sessions.

Contributor - Lizzi Larbalestier

Lizzi Larbalestier

Lizzi is an award winning ICF Blue Health Coach, Trainer, Mentor and Supervisor.

Environmental psychology, neuroscience, somatic practice and ocean advocacy are at the heart of her work promoting both internal and external equilibrium and flow.

Her 'go deep or go home' approach is provocative, inviting philosophical debate, existential discussion and a big dose of playfulness.

Her MA thesis studied 'ambiguity leverage and certainty reliance' generating creative coaching approaches to navigating risk and transcending inertia during transitional times.

She works with the coast inviting clients to lean into the analogue world, developing their ability to make embodied and eco-coherent decisions.

Session 4

The Art in Coaching

👤 Frank Bolaji Irawo, Todd Roache, Melanie Iredale, Katharine Gale
RD 1.50
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Session Overview

What unfolds when coaching meets the creative? Can form and freedom exist together?

The Arts invite us to think beyond. This is a playful exploration of how metaphor, image, movement, and rhythm surface what words cannot. Coaching shifts from dialogue into a living medium, offering clients ways to fully express and discover meaning.

Are you intrigued about how artistic methods can open unexpected space for sense-making? Are the ICF Core Competencies a container from which growth is created?

Facilitator - Frank Bolaji Irawo

Frank Bolaji Irawo

Frank is a married father of two, PCC ICF accredited coach, Poet In Residence, speaker and published author.

He believes that the journey to creating a great leadership experience FLOWs from within. He designs and delivers bespoke leadership programmes incorporating poetry as part of powerful transformative conversations to help clients join the dots between disjointed concepts and define new strategies to move forward.

Frank is passionate about using the power of poetry to support leaders and business owners to embrace all their gifts and make a positive impact through their work without compromising their well-being or that of the planet.

Contributor - Todd Roache

Todd Roache

Todd is an ICF PCC-certified coach and supervisor with over 20 years’ experience in personal and professional development. With a background in songwriting, music therapy, energy work, and shadow integration, he brings a rare blend of depth, creativity, and intuitive insight, and is known for his warm, 'radically non-judgemental' style.

As Co-Founder of Soulful Systems, he works with leaders, teams, and organisations to deepen self-awareness, strengthen connection, and expand consciousness - helping both individuals and systems thrive.

Contributor - Melanie Iredale

Melanie Iredale

Mel is a professionally Barefoot-trained coach, Reiki Master, and former professional dancer who brings a deep somatic lens to transformation. Her work honours the body’s intelligence - not just as a vessel, but as a storyteller. With a trained eye, Mel sees the truth behind how someone moves - revealing patterns, blocks, and possibility.

Her approach weaves energy work, movement, and presence to help clients go beyond words and into embodied truth. She creates a spacious, intuitive container where lasting change begins - through breath, rhythm, stillness, and the courage to meet what’s real.

Contributor - Katharine Gale

Katharine Gale

Katie is a Consultant Nurse and Certified Coach with nearly 30 years’ experience in women’s health. A former senior NHS leader, she founded FluxState Ltd to transform how women experience menopause. Combining clinical expertise, embodied coaching, CBT, and creative practices, she helps women understand their bodies, regain confidence, and step into the most powerful stage of their lives.

As a non-medical prescriber and menopause specialist, she supports informed choices around HRT, alternatives, or a blend of both.

Katie also coaches female healthcare leaders to harness their energy, trust their instincts, and lead with courage and purpose.

Session 5

The Space Between

👤 Kirsty Knowles, Krisztina Wighardt, Dr Susanna Petche, Rebecca Shannon
RD 1.50
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Session Overview

Where - and how - might we truly unbind? How do we hold both creativity and responsibility in our work?

This is a conversation to reflect and rethink the edges of coaching - not to test limits for their own sake, but to ask which serve well, and which need reshaping for meaningful connection in our relationships.

Participants are invited to bring lived experience - professional, personal, or in between - to unlearn and release inherited patterns and recommit with the essential.

Not a conclusion to the Series, but a pivotal moment to recalibrate: to choose our stance on boundaries and uphold a practice that is both open and anchored.

Co-Facilitator - Kirsty Knowles

Kirsty Knowles

Co-creator of change and development with humanity. Accredited PCC Coach, catalysing mindset shifts, reimagining leadership, and evolving workplace climates. Fusing warmth with rigour, Kirsty integrates a humanistic, ethical, evidence-informed approach. Founder of Think Being®, a skilful thinking partner cultivating future-fit impact across sectors.

Board Director of Professional Development for UK Chapter of ICF, advancing the profession through dynamic learning. Committed to the belief coaching is for everyone.

Attuned to context, yet outward facing: Coach Education, Mentor Coaching, L&D Design, Facilitation, Consulting. Her mindset-leadership-and-culture specialisms, grounded in sustainability, are published and enhance organisations worldwide. People develop with depth when helping others develop.

Co-Facilitator - Krisztina Wighardt

Krisztina Wighardt

Krisztina Wighardt is a leadership coach and Associate Board Member for Professional and Personal Development at the UK Chapter of ICF. Her work explores the evolving identity, responsibility, and influence of coaches within a rapidly changing professional landscape.

Drawing on systemic coaching and her lived experience of neurodivergence, she brings depth, curiosity, and humanity to conversations about value, visibility, and the role coaches play in shaping more conscious organisations and communities.

Krisztina is particularly passionate about supporting coaches and leaders to move beyond technique and step fully into their professional voice, cultivating practices that are both courageous and deeply human.

Contributor - Dr Susanna Petche

Susanna is redefining trauma care and leading a movement for change. Founder of Trauma-Sense and creator of the C-Sense methodology, she blends neuroscience, functional medicine, and coaching to address the hidden effects of trauma.

With 25+ years as a GP, she saw how unresolved trauma fuels many health issues, inspiring her to create training and resources for professionals, workplaces, and individuals.

In October 2025, she delivered a TEDx talk on the importance of acknowledging trauma. A sought-after speaker, she has shared stages with Dr Gabor Maté and Dr Rangan Chatterjee, challenging outdated approaches to health and healing.

Contributor - Rebecca Shannon

Rebecca Shannon

Rebecca is a leadership coach and transformation expert who cuts straight through the noise.

A former recruiter, she’s spent over 20 years working with senior leaders across the UK and Europe - coaching them to stop playing small and start leading with purpose.

Her approach is bold, unapologetic, and rooted in truth. No fluff. No ego. Just real conversations that shift people fast. Rebecca’s Beyond Limits Leadership™ work helps leaders see what’s holding them back and move. Her sessions land deep - and stick. It’s not theory. It’s change, in action.



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