23 November, British Psychological Society, London

A Coaching at Work event

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What will it take to push back the boundaries of your coaching/mentoring practice? What will it take to explore new frontiers in your organisation´s coaching/mentoring offer? What do some of the latest developments in coaching/mentoring actually mean for the profession?

This conference is aimed at internal and external coaching/mentoring practitioners, coach trainers and coaching/mentoring champions.

It has the hallmark of all Coaching at Work initiatives: well-informed, lively, stimulating, high-quality, good value for money, practical ……and fun.

It gathers prominent speakers/thought leaders and experts in a central London location. It features keynote addresses and workshops on some of the newest (if mindfulness- which builds on practices which are thousands of years old can be thus called!) coaching/mentoring approaches and looks at the latest in neuroscience. It features case studies on coaching and mentoring across cultures and in unusual contexts. It offers you practical tools to go away with and lots to think about. And it offers a juicy and thought-provoking debate on one of the profession´s hottest potatoes: therapy versus/with coaching.

Join us for Coaching at Work´s first conference since we changed hands in 2009. This promises to be good!

Keynote speakers/topics to include:

• Being human: coaching the whole person for holistic high performance, drawing on the latest in positive psychology and strengths-research

  with Professor Alex Linley of CAPP

• Brain power: the latest developments in neuroscience and the implications for taking coaching and mentoring forward

  with Dr Geoff Bird, neuroscientist at Birkbeck College, University of London and Anne Scoular, psychologist, author of The FT Guide to Business Coaching and co-founder of coach training school Meyler Campbell

Case studies on coaching/mentoring in different contexts to include:

• Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

  Mark McKergow

• Mentoring case study

  Lis Merrick

Workshops to include:

• Mindfulness and resilience: an approach for coaches/mentors and their clients

  with Michael Chaskalson, Buddhist, mindfulness teacher/coach/trainer and author of books including The Mindful Workplace: developing resilient individuals and resonant organisations with MBSR

• The art of ontological coaching

  with Aboodi Shabi, head of coaching and training for Newfield Europe on Debate: pushing beyond frontiers

• Cross-cultural coaching

  with Jenny Plaister-Ten

• Transitions to parenthood

  with Jenni Liston-Smith

• Metropolitan Police

  with Jackie Keddy

The Coaching at Work debate

Panellists will include Linda Aspey, Caroline Horner, Stephen Palmer and Jenny Rogers

In true Coaching at Work lively and stimulating style, this debate will stretch your thinking around what coaching is and can be.

The line between coaching and therapy gets fuzzier and fuzzier but is there a third way? The topic of where the line between therapy/counselling and coaching can be drawn certainly set the cat amongst the pigeons in the Coaching at Work-led Poor Practice 2010 survey- respondents felt very strongly about this theme and had wide-ranging views. It is also one that gets people going in our Coaching at Work LinkedIn group. This debate goes one step further to explore whether there is a third way.