Interested in deepening your capacity to work skilfully with transition, change and resilience?

The Life Transitions and Resilience in a World of Change Series offers a thoughtful exploration of what it means and can involve being alongside people through periods of change. Drawing on coaching psychology, reflective practice, and lived professional experience, this Series invites coaches to deepen their presence, sharpen their awareness, and expand their capacity to work with complexity, emotion, and uncertainty.

Why Invest?

  • Across 8 carefully designed sessions, you’ll explore what sits beneath effective coaching: empathy without over-identification, mindfulness as a professional discipline, the courage to let go, and the skill of staying grounded when clients are navigating identity shifts, career change, or loss of direction. From embracing imperfection in practice, to working with optimism, belonging and inclusive leadership, each session offers practical frameworks alongside space for insight and reflection.
  • Each facilitator shares their specialism generously throughout their crafted and delivered session alongside the invitation for shared learning from the wisdom of the wider group.
  • Whether purchased as a full Series or selected individually, professional and personal development are integrated - strengthening your confidence, range and depth as a coach and work-on-self.
  • All sessions qualify for ICF CCEs (Resource Development), making this an intellectually rich and professionally valuable investment in your continued development.

Thank you to Claire Pedrick, Dr Ben Van Den Assem, Dr Marcia Reynolds, Dr Katia Vlachos, Karen Foy, Beatrice Zornek, Sarah Leach and Prof Rebecca Jones for the sessions they thoughtfully crafted and skilfully facilitated, and for their enthusiasm to share the material with the wider professional community. 


Sessions at a Glance

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Session 1

Exploring the Human Behind the Coach

Fostering a supportive and empathetic partnership with the people we coach

👤 Claire Pedrick
1.50 RD
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Session Overview

Empathy and human connection distinguish a human coach from AI that can ask programmed questions.

Coaching may resemble other one-to-one or group conversations, but it is different. The focus is entirely on supporting the other person(s) to do meaningful work. The coach shows up as human — neither dominating nor disappearing. This is not about dispensing wisdom, but about supporting and challenging in equal measure, without knowing in advance how either will land. Each conversation is unique, and coaching is a responsive, relational process.

Drawing on the ICF Core Competencies and her work on simplifying coaching, Claire holds a live coaching demonstration and shares practical ideas to apply.

About Claire Pedrick

Claire Pedrick

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!

Session 2

Mindfulness in Transition

How clients stay present during change, incorporating mindfulness practices to reduce anxiety and enhance coping skills

👤 Dr Ben Van Den Assem
1.25 RD
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Session Overview

Academic in feel, this session draws on research into mindfulness in coaching, reflecting the perspectives of experienced coaches, coach supervisors, and trainee coaches. It highlights key stages in the development of mindful coaching practice, along with current challenges and emerging directions.

The findings offer clear insights and underscore the importance of ongoing commitment of mindful coaches to their own development and competence.

About Dr Ben Van Den Assem

Dr Ben Van Den Assem

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 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.

Session 3

Grief, Growth & Letting Go

Methods to assist clients in moving forward from past experiences and significant endings

👤 Dr Marcia Reynolds
1.50 RD
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Session Overview

An exploration of five approaches to letting go and moving forward. It examines how coaching skills can be used to surface what a client needs to release to allow a path forward to emerge. It also explains a three-step method of mental preparation designed to strengthen presence and enable effective coaching, even when strong emotions arise. The session further considers the role of compassionate and courageous empathy, and how it can be applied to remain connected without becoming entangled, allowing the work to continue with clarity and momentum.

About Dr Marcia Reynolds

Dr Marcia Reynolds

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 programmes 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 organisations and government agencies.

As a pioneer in the coaching profession, she was the 5th Global President of the International Coaching Federation and is recognised 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.

Session 4

Embracing Identity Shifts

Navigating self-discovery — helping clients explore and accept aspects of their identity during life changes

👤 Dr Katia Vlachos
1.50 RD
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Session Overview

Reinvention is about integrating all parts of ourselves into who we are becoming.

The focus is on identity as a key aspect of life transitions, recognising that change often reshapes how people see themselves. It explores why reinvention can feel unsettling when familiar roles fall away, and how this discomfort often signals growth. Attention is given to the in-between phase of transition, where clarity has yet to emerge, and how coaching can support individuals to question old narratives, reconnect with values, and view reinvention as a process of rediscovery rather than loss.

About Dr Katia Vlachos

Dr Katia Vlachos

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 Harvard Kennedy School and a PhD from 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.

Session 5

Perfectionism: The Importance of Being Good Enough

Coping with perfectionism in coaching

👤 Karen Foy
1.50 RD
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Session Overview

Karen invites coaches to move beyond the pursuit of perfection and towards a more human way of working. It explores a mindset that loosens attachment to getting it right, clarifies the distinction between performing coaching and truly embodying the role, and encourages reflection on the personal barriers that make it difficult to remain present with imperfection.

About Karen Foy

Karen Foy

Karen Foy has 15+ years' experience as a coach and holds an MSc in Coaching Psychology from University of East London and a degree in Psychology from University of Sheffield. Karen is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and is a certified mentor coach.

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, including training and supervision.

As an Executive Coach, Karen provides coaching to support executive board teams and individuals of complex organisations to map 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.

Session 6

Navigating Career Transitions

Supporting the client's internal transformation when going through challenging career transitions

👤 Beatrice Zornek
1.50 RD
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Session Overview

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 90 minutes aims to equip coaches with practical and reflective tools to support professionals navigate times of change.

About Beatrice Zornek

Beatrice Zornek

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 with ICF and is also a qualified coaching supervisor.

Session 7

Positive Psychology: Fostering Optimism in Uncertain Times

Applying positive psychology principles to help clients maintain a hopeful outlook

👤 Sarah Leach
2.00 RD
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Session Overview

Supporting clients through constant adversity calls for approaches that strengthen confidence and forward movement. Drawing on strengths, values, and a developmental mindset, the Path of Possibility is introduced - a tool shared by master Strengthscope practitioner Sarah. Used with other coaching methods, it helps clients move beyond constraint, broaden perspective, and build enduring capacity for change.

About Sarah Leach

Sarah Leach

Sarah (MSc, PCC) is an experienced Executive Coach with a passion for meaningful conversations that help people realise personal intentions and professional ambitions.

Sarah specialises 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.

Session 8

Inclusive Leadership

What can inclusive leadership teach us about successfully navigating life transitions and how can we bring this into our coaching?

👤 Professor Rebecca J Jones
1.50 RD
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Session Overview

Where did I belong, where do I belong, and where do I want to belong?

Belonging is a fundamental human need. Drawing on inclusive leadership theory and practice, Professor Rebecca Jones examines how a sense of connection, identity, and mindset shape our ability to move through transitions with intention. The session considers how inclusive ways of thinking support better use of resources, clearer decision-making, and more confident transitioning through life changes that may also be vague. There is encouragement to reflect on a model of inclusive leader mindset traits and how to translate such ideas into coaching clients.

About Professor Rebecca J Jones

Professor Rebecca J Jones

Rebecca is a Professor of Coaching & Behaviour Change, the Director of the Henley Centre for Coaching at Henley Business School in the UK. Rebecca is also co-founder of Inclusive Leadership Company and a chartered psychologist, committed to utilising the science of behaviour change to create inclusive workplaces. She conducts robust and rigorous research into a variety of coaching, inclusion, and behaviour change topics.



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