New opportunities for your CPD as a coach

“There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self.”

Ralph Smart

In May 2022, Liz and I held several Reconnecting and Practice sessions with groups of alumni from our Diploma and Advanced Diploma courses.

We left these days feeling very inspired and appreciating the opportunity to focus on enhancing our craft in the company of like-minded professional coaches. If you were there, I am sure you will agree.

From this experience, we have developed an exciting new CPD opportunity for our alumni, Reconnecting, Deepen and Practice sessions. These will commence in 2023.

Reconnect, Deepen and Practise sessions

Working as a coach can be a lonely experience, and once you have completed your qualification it can be difficult to get ongoing, high-quality feedback on your practice with which to hone and extend your skills as a coach and meet with a strong peer group.

Our ‘Reconnect, Deepen and Practise’ sessions aim to meet these needs, enabling you to connect, develop and practise in a safe and non-judgemental environment. The sessions will also provide you with opportunities to stretch and develop new skills and approaches and to work with other experienced coaches. 

We are running a face-to-face session on Wednesday 8th February, and an online session on Wednesday 19th April. Places on each session are limited to 12 to ensure that everyone attending will receive feedback both from their fellow coaches and also from our Faculty. We hope you can join us — you can find out more about the sessions and book yours here.

Save the date – 7 July 2023

Our next annual gathering and CPD day – ‘Deepening your Practice,’ will take place on 7th July 2023. The theme for the day is ‘Coaching Lenses’ and the CPD sessions on offer include workshops on: 

• Neuropsychology of Coaching
• Ontological Coaching
• Existential Coaching
• Positive Psychology Coaching
• Gestalt Coaching
• Transpersonal Coaching
• Somatic Coaching
• TA Coaching
• Developing your Coaching Business.

More information about the event will be released in early 2023, but in the meantime you can contact us with any enquiries about the day.

Free CPD resources

As we head into the autumn, we would like to offer you some of our recent free CPD resources.

Webinars

Below you’ll find some of our favourite webinars recorded over recent months on some important topics for coaches. (For all our latest video content, don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel).

Using your Coaching Skills for Commercial Advantage

In the below webinar recording, Helen Wada, Executive Coach and Founder of The Human Advantage shares her personal experience and strategies to support coaches in their approach to business development. Topics covered include: de-mystifying sales, opening doors, conversation focus and closing and commitments.

Neurodiversity and Coaching

In this webinar, Liz Palmer, Partner at Catalyst 14, is in discussion with Executive Coaches Charmain Bucho and Laura Nielson about their experiences of supporting neurodiversity in coaching.

Blog posts

Here are some of our recent posts that have been written in response to themes being brought to supervision by coaches over recent months:

• Is it ok to give advice? – in this post, I explore why giving advice may have become a hardwired conversational habit — and what we can do to shift from “doing” to “being” in a coaching conversation, so we learn to create value in a much more impactful way.
• How a traditional Japanese concept can help us create more “aha” moments in coaching— in this post, Paul Golding, Executive Coach and Faculty member discusses how the concept of ‘Ma’ can help coaches to create moments of insight.

Free guided mindfulness sessions

Finally, to support your practice of self-care and to deepen your presence as a coach, we are continuing to offer free guided mindfulness sessions on a weekly basis to help you pause and reset.

You can learn more about these and sign up for them here.