BACP CPD Endorsement for Coach Training Courses

Good news that the Professional Ethics and Quality Standards Committee at BACP has agreed to admit coaching training into CPD endorsement. As members will be aware, CPD is an ongoing comittment for all of us and our professional development. The Committee is pleased to support and endorse the activity of coaching for therapists wishing to develop coaching practice.

However please note that coaching training cannot be used to evidence professional development criteria for Counsellor/Psychotherapy Accreditation applications.  We do not accredit coaches and Endorsement is not the same as Accreditation.

 If you run a coach training course and would like to apply for BACP Endorsement, follow the link below.

http://www.bacp.co.uk/learning/Apply%20for%20CPD%20Endorsement.php

BACP Coaching - Inaugural Conference 17 June 2011

I woke in the morning excited. This would be my first Conference as a member of the BACP Coaching Executive and I wondered what the experience would be like. Most of the hard work in designing, planning and co-ordinating the Conference had already been completed behind-the-scenes by our Chair Linda Aspey, our Executive colleague Jacqueline McCouat and the wonderful BACP event staff led by the calm, centred, Richard Smith.

My role on the day was to introduce workshop presenters and so before breakfast I set about researching Tatiana Bachkirova. I wanted to have a deeper knowledge of her work when I met her in the next couple of hours. I read about her very interesting career and work – and can also now place both Russia and Belarus on the map. This research stood me in good stead in quite a different way than I imagined.

One of the first people I met at the Conference was a senior manager of a large charity. In our conversation she talked of her hopes of finding some support to evaluate a new coaching service. My early morning research had informed me that Tatiana was at present working on evaluation methodology that might be relevant to my new connection. At that moment Tatiana walked by, I introduced the two and left them talking. Later the senior manager came back to me and exclaimed that she had been given a number of ideas and contacts from Tatiana and had already, in the first hour, gained more from the Conference than she had hoped.

This really encapsulates the whole day. Expectations surpassed! Connections vital and fruitful! Discussions generative! Key note by Nancy Kline legendary!

Tatiana’s workshop led to an interesting discussion on a new framework for developmental coaching; Debra Jinks and Nash Popovic delivered a lively exchange on a new model for the interface between counselling and coaching – personal consultancy; and Lynne Macwhinnie invited us to walk around the 9performancepi circle and reflect; drawing out personal learning. Each workshop stimulated my own thinking.

Simultaneously workshops were run by Paul Brown; Edna Murdoch and Miriam Orriss; Kate Anthony; Val Sampson & Malcolm Hurrell; Liz McCann; Viv Ahmun; Karen Smedley; Margaret Adams; Becky Wright; and Evan George.

In between workshops we witnessed, and participated in, dynamic conversations building our understanding, our knowledge, our connections… listening, absorbing, challenging, agreeing, disagreeing, resonating.

In the closing panel of the day presenters and Linda Aspey gave their reflections on the Conference. I heard people in the audience say that it was the best conference that they had EVER been to. I smiled. This is the BACP Coaching Division – long awaited and brought into being following members’ requests - not a year old yet. What a great start!

Jo Birch, BACP Coaching Executive

Generative Attention: Uncorrupted Silence - Yet the Science Speaks Out

A beautifullly written Event Review from Roddy Millar, Editor of IEDP - International Executive Development Programs, on his experience of Nancy Kline and Paul Brown's presentations at the BACP Coaching Conference on 17 June 2011

Re-routing Behaviour Through Uncorrupted Silence

EVENT REVIEW:We are constantly stressing the critical importance of reflection and thinking time in leadership development programs, it is often these structured moments of thinking space that are the real ‘damascene’ moments on a program, where thoughts come together and ideas are formulated; where participants at last ‘see the light’ around their particular challenges and issues. Nancy Kline is the doyenne of the Thinking Environment approach to coaching. She was speaking at the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s inaugural Coaching conference in London on Friday 17th June. Kline’s approach to coaching and leadership development is grounded in the belief that most people have the potential to unlock the solutions to their challenges and barriers from within themselves. They just require the right environment to encourage them to think the issues through – and the confidence to do it.

 
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The full article can be read at http://www.iedp.com/Blog/Re-routing_Behaviour_through_uncorrupted_silence

Reflections on the 17th Annual BACP Research Conference from Jo Birch

Jo Birch, Executive Specialist, BACP Coaching

On my way to the 17^th Annual BACP Research Conference in Liverpool I could feel my excitement mounting as I read through the Abstracts and wondered how I would make the choice between such diverse and intriguing presentations. There were so many papers of interest.

I was also going ‘home’ to Merseyside – the place I spent most of my adult life and somewhere I hold very dear in my heart. Reflecting on the past reminded me that it has been some years since I attended the Research Conference and… moving to the future… I wonder about whether we will soon see work emerging that explores some of the issues for therapist-coach practitioners. I wonder how we, as the BACP Coaching Division can support practitioner research as well as that based within academia so that we have a rounded body of knowledge emerging about our field. Raising questions for myself seems particularly relevant to attending a Research Conference!

Whilst at the Conference I had a fabulously thought-provoking time. I was thrilled to be able to connect with John McLeod who I had last seen during my Masters year at Keele before he moved to Abertay University.  I was glad to hear John say that there was much scope for research into coaching… and I think what a special and unique position we occupy as therapist-coaches. More questions emerged: how do we increase our own understanding; formulate and enter into lines of enquiry to generate a body of knowledge; support each other and our colleagues in undertaking research; and more.

My next exciting connection was with the head of a large charity as we began to uncover and explore a range of issues for the voluntary sector when introducing coaching within a range of services. The conversation was exciting and dynamic and connects directly with my passion for development of the third sector and in making coaching more accessible both to staff and service-users.

During the two days I had so many ‘favourite’ presentations including Susan Cousins from Cardiff talking about isolated practitioners especially those from BME communities; and Maggie Robson’s workshop ‘Reflective practitioners – budding researchers’. I felt like an ‘open bowl’ receiving the gifts around me - I think it will take quite some time to let myself sit with the ‘fullness’ and see what emerges.

The conference organisation was pure genius! It all flowed perfectly as far as I could see. Everything kept to time which allowed for presentations as billed. My only disappointment was that the Posters were two floors away and found this a little inconvenient and less accessible as I kept missing the presenters.

However my last word should go to Andrew Reeves, Research Journal Editor, by far the funniest man at the conference, and his excellent anecdotes which had us reeling with laughter – especially the excerpts from the Facebook page ‘Overheard in Liverpool’ which transmits the diversity, humour and warmth of the people of Merseyside... and reminds me of the importance of laughter.

17 June 2011 Coaching Conference featuring Nancy Kline

The Holiday Inn, Regent's Park, London

Therapist-Coach: Coaching for a Changing World 

Nancy Kline, acclaimed author of the ground-breaking books, "Time to Think", and "More Time to Think" will be the keynote speaker at our inaugural one-day conference on 17th June. 

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Our conference will be an opportunity for us to focus on the emerging issues for the coaching profession and to consider the role of the therapist-coach as well as the role of coaches in general. Following the keynote with Nancy Kline, the day will be built around a number of highly participative workshops and seminars with key presenters and facilitators exploring different aspects of developing professional coaching practice. Workshop presenters include:

• Viv Ahmun, exploring "The Social Entrepreneurial view of Coaching for Success, both in the commercial and social care sectors", also sharing his work with disadvantaged communities including those from black and ethnic minorities
• Dr Kate Anthony of The Online Coach Institute, with "Using technology within an online coaching practice" in which ethical dilemmas will be discussed, such as what do you do when a client asks you to become a friend on Facebook or sends you texts late at night?
• Margaret Adams of the Adams Consultancy on "How to get more people to buy your coaching practice's services".  Margaret will help you to devise a cost-effective and easy-to-implement approach help you to bring in more new business faster
• Tatiana Bachkirova, Director of the pioneering Coaching & Mentoring Supervision Programme of Oxford Brookes University, with "A new framework for developmental coaching"
• Professor Paul Brown, Visiting Professor in Organisational Neuroscience at London South Bank University, getting our brains fully in gear with "Brain to Brain: Beyond Emotional Intelligence"
• Evan George of BRIEF, with "Brief Coaching" - a Solution Focused approach" - showing how well SF has translated from the world of therapy into the world of coaching
• Debra Jinks and Dr Nash Popovic, with "Personal Consultancy as a model for integration" - a coherent framework that combines the disciplines of coaching and counselling 
• Nancy Kline - who in addition to being our brilliant keynote speaker, will present a workshop "Being a Thinking Environment - a natural sequence of questions"
• Liz Macann, Head of the Executive, Leadership and Management Coaching Network at the BBC who will share her experiences of establishing and maintaining an internal coaching network
• Lynn Howell Macwhinnie of 9performancepi, introducing us to her unique and holistic coaching framework that offers clients transformative insights
• Edna Murdoch and Miriam Orriss of the Coaching Supervision Academy, with "Coaching Supervision - new practice or borrowed clothes?" considering what coaching supervision does, how it works, and how similar/dissimilar it is in relation to clinical supervision
• Val Sampson and Malcom Hurrell of Two Rivers Coaching with "Dual Coaching", showing how the coach can help two clients to strengthen and develop successful business partnerships, boosting the performance of both who work together
• Keren Smedley of Experience Matters, with "The Baby Boomers are ageing - and it's bringing its problems" - highlighting the specific work and life issues affecting the 20.2million 50+ people in the UK, and how coaching helps individuals move into the next period of their lives positively
• Becky Wright of New Leaf Counselling & Coaching, posing the question "Where does counselling end and coaching begin?"and exploring some of the internal psychological shifts and processes which need to happen to make the transition from counsellor to coach, including how to develop a counselling practice to encompass coaching.

Priority booking is now open for BACP Coaching division members - emails have been sent so please check your email in box. Booking will be opened to all others by the 28th April 2011 - check http://www.bacpcoaching.co.uk/