Collaborative Conversations with Masters programme

To reach a level of professional mastery takes time, focus and practice. We invite you to join the Collaborative Conversations with Masters programme to:

• Develop as a coach, grow your practice and create a lasting legacy
• Raise your own personal and professional profile
• Engage with a vibrant and knowledge rich global coaching community

The Collaborative Conversations with Masters is a Digital Learning initiative of the AC, offering our community access to thought leadership and online learning on a varied range of topics.

Coaching and Supervising Through Bereavement

Bereavement is a universal topic for everyone. Very few are untouched by this personally, and professionally it is something that enters the coaching space whether it is invited or not. This webinar will be relevant to all coaches and supervisors irrespective of field, level or training.

Very little has been researched and written from a coaching profession perspective on bereavement. This has led to Maggie and Julia wishing to start a dialogue with coaches and supervisors via webinars, surveys, and published articles in order to shed light on an area still regarded as taboo in some cultures.

In this webinar, we will interview Julia and Maggie to find out:

a) Where are the boundaries between coaching and therapy around the topic of bereavement?
b) What other coaches say about how they handle this topic?
c) Outcomes from a global survey of coaches/supervisors during 2019
d) Self-awareness on how personally I handle this topic within a coaching and/or a supervision context

We will also consider key learning points such as how the theme of bereavement may not be just about death for our clients but all sorts of loss in its many forms.

Preparation & Resources

Preparation: 

Questions to consider before the session:

• What was your first/earliest experience of death and how significant was/is that for you then?
• How might your own experiences of death help or hinder your client work?
• How often does bereavement come up in your work?
• How comfortable are you discussing it?
• How comfortable are your clients (coachees and supervisees)?
• What kind of language do we/our clients use and what are the challenges with that, e.g. using “passed away” instead of “died”?
  
  

Resources:

Maggie and Julia will be sharing the results of some research collected during 2019 from coaches and supervisors from around the globe on how often bereavement appears explicitly or implicitly in our coaching. A slide pack and an extensive reading list are provided.

Speaker Bio

Julia Menaul, has been running her own practice, Spark Coaching and Training, since 2001. Julia is an Accredited Professional Executive Coach (Association for Coaching), Member of the British Psychological Society and Board Member for the Association of Coaching Supervisors.

She coaches senior and middle managers and their teams across all sectors, as befits her eclectic background after working in several industries over the past 35 years. She is a published author and her latest e-book by Book Boon is “The Coaches Guide to the Drama Triangle”.

Julia’s psychology degree and interest in behavioural change led to her discovering her passion for people development. A Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, she was Training and Development Manager within areas as diverse as retail, a charity, electronics, and the criminal justice system. 

Coach supervising since 2006 and supervising Supervisors since 2010, Julia is one of the few supervisors to have coaching supervision qualifications from the two leading providers in the UK. She supervises many independent coaches (1 -1 and group), as well as internal coaches in larger organisations such as Housing Associations, the NHS and the Prison Service. Julia is based in the West Midlands, UK.

Maggie João has been a coach since 2008, Professional Coach Certified (PCC) by International Coach Federation (ICF), EMCC Individual Accreditation at Senior Practitioner level and Coach Supervisor since 2012. 

Maggie provides individual coaching and team facilitation, all over the world. She works in English, Spanish and Portuguese (her mother tongue). Maggie is a published author of 13 books about Coaching in these three languages and co-authored a few more.

Maggie coaches middle management to top management, including entrepreneurs and millennials, focusing on the client’s needs on leadership, change management, team management, communication skills, external mobility, maternity coaching, amongst others. She supervises coaches individually and in groups.

She is also certified as Medical Coach by the Medical Coaching Institute, working directly with clients who are going through a medical process, as patients or caregivers and reach out in order to give meaning to this phase of their lives.

Price and special offers

Exclusive Member Benefit: Complimentary to AC members
Not an AC Member yet? Join our community and benefit from this and other digital learning programmes at no cost or for discounted rate. More info on how to join us and other member benefits here.

Join us and you will gain access to:

• 60 minute interactive webinar, hosted by Darren Robson;
• Recording of the session and access to any materials shared;
• A digital community of peers who share the same challenges and have similar goals

For any questions, please contact Smaranda Dochia, Director of Digital Learning & Events at smaranda@associationforcoaching.com