Sessions
14 – 15 November 2024 | Online Conference
Engage in meaningful conversations, exchange ideas, and establish valuable connections within the coaching and supervision community. Our informal networking sessions will provide a valuable opportunity to expand your professional network and foster collaborations.
Sessions
14 – 15 November 2024
Online Conference
Engage in meaningful conversations, exchange ideas, and establish valuable connections within the coaching and supervision community. Our informal networking sessions will provide a valuable opportunity to expand your professional network and foster collaborations.
90 Minutes
Opening Panel: What do we mean by Mental Health?
90 Minutes
With 46% of Executives seeking coaching as a means of working with their mental health issues in the workplace and one in four adults experiencing some form of anxiety, mental health challenges will inevitably show up in coaching or supervision.
What are our roles and responsibilities as coaches or supervisors? What do we need to know and be aware of? How do we respond?
Join a panel of Coaches, Supervisors, Psychotherapists and Psychologists and engage in a lively, thought-provoking discussion to address these questions and share our perspectives on ‘what do we mean by mental health?’.
75 Minutes
Navigating Mental Health with Confidence
75 Minutes
As coaches, how can we have confidence in our own blend of competencies when clients show up with mental health challenges?
To help answer this question, we’ve invited Andrew Reeves and Lucy Myers to share the key findings from a research study they recently completed, in collaboration with BACP, looking at definitions of therapeutic coaching.
Along with the findings, Andrew and Lucy will pose four key practice questions that emerged from the research. They will invite you to share your approaches to these questions and then offer recommendations for how to approach the dilemmas and risks with confidence. Andrew will also explore how coaches might decide their future professional development route in order to practice with reflexivity and confidence.
75 Minutes
Loss, Grief and Bereavement
75 Minutes
This interactive session will look at loss in its many forms. Grief and feelings of bereavement can be experienced with any loss and not just death.
In our coaching conversations, we see loss of job, health, relationship, identity, etc, and any form of loss may have unacknowledged grief attached to it. Many of the emotions and symptoms are generic in loss, and the session will highlight when grief is “normal” and when it may be straying into something more dysfunctional or a mental health issue. The session will lead coaches in an exercise to identify when they can safely coach clients experiencing grief and when they may need to refer to other professional help.
75 Minutes
Self-Care for Coaches and Supervisors
75 Minutes
This session highlights the importance of self-care, learning to put on our oxygen masks first, and the vital role that supervision, reflection, and self-awareness play in helping us remain safe and professional in our practice.
We spend far too much time in our modern world doing instead of being. As coaches and therapists, we need to learn to reflect and listen to ourselves – to our feelings and needs – and ensure that we are not running a pattern of meeting others’ needs at our own expense. This is a sure pathway to compassion fatigue and burnout, and we need to pay attention. To truly understand and connect with others with compassion, kindness and empathy, we need to first start with ourselves.
30 Minutes
Closing Reflections
30 Minutes
Participants are invited to reflect on their learning and takeaways from day one, with discussion around the questions raised and a space to consolidate your thinking.
30 Minutes
Reflective Creative Practice
30 Minutes
This short session will offer a reflective touchpoint at the beginning of the second day of the conference. Ursula Clidière will introduce the significance of, and the relationship between, professional reflective practice and mental health and wellbeing, followed by a creative reflection exercise.
75 Minutes
The Role of Supervision: Working on the Edge
75 Minutes
What do you do when a supervisee faces you with a mental health issue? In coaching, our clients are reported to be, more often, disclosing the impact of work or personal pressures on their mental health. Therefore, we might expect and hope that this is brought into supervision.
In this session, we encourage you, as supervisors and as supervisees, to explore your thoughts and feelings, dilemmas and questions. We invite you to be open to the benefits of becoming more at ease in this area. More than this, as coaching develops in depth and reach, it is imperative for professionals to build their capacity to disclose mental health issues and know what action options are available.
75 Minutes
Mental Health and Wellbeing in Neurodiversity Coaching
75 Minutes
Neurodivergent people often have a history of exclusions and difficulties in education. Therefore, they can disproportionately experience rejection sensitivity and negative attribution bias. Many neurodivergent people are also sensitive to injustice, finding it hard to move on when someone has made a mistake or accept a compromise when there is disagreement.
From a coaching perspective, it is difficult to discern the extent to which reports of a “bullying boss” or “overbearing colleague” are factual descriptions of events or sensitive reactions to well-intentioned instructions and offers of help. Both misinterpretation and genuine disability discrimination are possible, and coaches have a fine line to tread about the Coaching Triad, ensuring that we don’t take sides or undermine a safeguarding risk.
Nancy will share how we can explore these patterns using coaching models from Transactional Analysis, such as the Drama Diamond and the OK Corral. She will review how to unpick misinterpretations using the Clean Feedback technique.
75 Minutes
Working Safely with Stress, Anxiety and Depression
75 Minutes
With stress, anxiety and depression so prevalent around the world, many coaches find they stray into the area of mental health, whether or not they intend to, and become worried about working within their competency. But what if you had a lens through which to view mental health that was so clear you knew you could cross the bridge into therapeutic territory in a way that is safe both for you and your client?
Based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of human needs and the role of emotions in pushing us to meet those needs, the Fusion Therapeutic Coaching model will help you and your clients stay safe and ethical and work within your competency.
90 Minutes
Closing Panel: What Next for Coaches and Supervisors?
90 Minutes
Our closing panel offers the opportunity to bring together what was learned from the conference. We will reflect on the key messages and themes.
Join a panel of Coaches, Clinicians, Supervisors, and Psychotherapists to discuss ‘What is next for mental health and wellbeing in coaching and supervision?’
What are the challenges and implications for coaches and supervisors when working with the ‘whole person’? The panel will welcome questions from the participants and will be asked to share thoughts, learning and ideas for the next steps.
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