Thursday 21 April 2011

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/