Networking
conversations
for coaches
Tony Duff has some good news
for coaches – you are no longer
alone because now there is such a
thing as the Advanced Practitioner
Network. Come and see for
yourself, the dates, venues and cost of
the afternoon sessions are given below.
Although coaching is a very social business – after
all coaches spend most of their working time with people – yet
it can also be lonely. Lonely because, despite inviting feedback
from clients – which they find difficult
to offer since they are so involved with their own
processes – it’s not often that coaches can get detached,
disinterested, informedfeedback. And coaches tend
to be very keen on feedback on account of their anxiety
about that recurring question “How am I doing?” or
even “How am I being?”
It’s easy to start feeling stuck, to become over-reliant
on the same processes and ways of interacting.Yet if
coaching is to be effective, coaches need to challenge
and stretch clients. Clients are challenging for coaches.
But where do coaches get additional challenge and
stretch for themselves? Who do they share their
reflections with on the decisions they made in meeting
the challenges the clients presented?
To meet such needs Management Futures has
created APN – the Advanced Practitioner Network–
which will bring experienced coaches together for a
series of half-day high energy meetings on themes
ranging from Getting Beyond the Bubble(that’s the safe
bubble of the coaching room) with Jenny Rogers, to
Coaching Across Cultures(coaching is not only growing
in the English-speaking world but globally) with Mike
Stimson, (see article opposite) who has wide experience
of working in diverse cultures with the British Council.
Besides the themes explored, the exchange of
experience and insight between coaches should be
enriching and reassuring. Be sure that conversation and
conviviality will also be vital and stimulating – each
afternoon ends with a good glass of wine.
The APN programme, 2007
Feb 1 NLP in Coaching:Phil Hayes
March 8 Getting Beyond the Bubble: Jenny Rogers
May 17 Getting the Most from Supervision:
Jan Campbell Young
July 12 Coaching Across Cultures: Mike Stimson
Sept 20 Maintaining Detachment: Phil Hayes
Nov 15 Psychodynamics in Coaching:
Julia Vaughan Smith
6 Half-days: 2–6 pm £450 for 6, £85 for 1*
*Discounted to £300 and £55 for alumni of Intensive
Coaching Skills.Venue: Lion Court Conference Centre
25 Proctor Street London WC1 8 PQ.
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