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COACHING BODIES COMMIT TO FIGHT CLIMATE CRISIS
By Liz Hall In a historic move, five professional coaching, mentoring and supervision professional bodies have signed a global statement committing to collaborative action and a collective voice on the climate and biodiversity crisis. The bodies are the Association...
WINNERS CELEBRATED AT EMCC GLOBAL CONFERENCE
A host of European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) annual award winners were acknowledged on 1 June 2020, the first day of the EMCC’s global conference. Société Générale has received an award for its effective, well-organised, top-down programme, impressive...
NHS DIVERSITY INITIATIVE CELEBRATES ‘DIFFERENCE’
A reverse mentoring programme seeking to transform NHS culture around diversity and inclusion is now being rolled out more widely, following the success of two pilots, including at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust and Gloucestershire Care...
#BLACKLIVESMATTER: HOW CAN WE BE TRUE ALLIES?
The #BlackLivesMatter movement has cast under the spotlight the role of ‘ally’ in the fight against racism. What more can we do as coaches, mentors and coaching supervisors, and the profession, to be allies? Understanding that systemic racism goes beyond police...
COACHING THROUGH COVID EXPANDS FREE SUPPORT
Nearly 140 coaches are currently coaching key workers pro-bono at 21 NHS organisations and care homes via Coaching through Covid (CTC). CTC was set up as a compassionate response to rapidly and effectively deliver high-quality free virtual coaching to key workers...
POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ‘MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER’
Positive psychology is “a movement to make the world a better place” and Positive Psychology Coaching (PPC) is “more relevant than ever because the future is so uncertain, and it’s helpful to support people to think about how they’re going to engage in the future,”...