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Speakers | Yannick Jacob, Existential Coach, Coach Supervisor, and Teaching Faculty at Cambridge University, with Reinhard Stelter, PhD, Accredited Coaching Psychologist & Professor Emeritus
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Format
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One 120 minute workshop
Recordings, slides, and other resources will be available to all registered
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Date & Time
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Thursday, 16 April 2026 @ 10.00 BST / 11.00 CEST / 13.00 GST/ 17.00 SGT/ 19.00 AEST
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Certification
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All registered will receive a certificate of 2 CPD hours
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Program Rate
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Members: £45 + VAT
Non-Members: £65 + VAT
Non-Members including 1-year AC Associate membership: £125 + VAT**
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** This ticket type is for non-members to attend this AC event and pay for discounted 1 year Associate Membership. Please look out for a separate email, containing the event details and other information about the event that you have signed up for. If you do not see this email in your inbox, please check your junk folder.
This offer applies only to those who wish to become AC members and are new to the AC. It cannot be used towards the renewal of current AC membership or for lapsed members
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Coaching without Goals
Coaching is often understood as goal-focused work, with coach and client partnering toward defined outcomes.
Yet many coaches meet clients who arrive unsure what they want to work on. For some, this can feel like a barrier. For others, discovering direction becomes the work itself.
In existential coaching - and in approaches Reinhard Stelter describes as Third Generation Coaching - establishing a goal is not always necessary. Instead, the work is dialogical, relational, and grounded in what unfolds in the moment.
In this workshop, Reinhard Stelter and Yannick Jacob will explore goal orientation from their respective perspectives before opening the conversation to participants.
There will be space to listen, reflect, ask questions, engage with fellow coaches, and expand your understanding of what coaching is, how it can work, and what becomes possible when we shift from “doing” to truly “being with” our clients.
In this workshop, you will learn:
a) When it may be appropriate - or even necessary - to work without a defined goal
b) How to reflect more deeply on your own coaching and dialogue practice
c) How to better understand what clients truly need in the moment
d) How coaching conversations are shaped by wider social and cultural contexts
e) How to create sustainability and lasting impact through dialogical practice
Who is this workshop for?
New Coaches, Seasoned Coaches, Executive Coaches, Health Coaches, and HR/OD Professionals.
Active Learning
Open dialogue between hosts and participants, breakout reflections on personal and professional experience, and live Q&A with the speakers.
PreparationYou are invited to reflect in advance on your experiences with goals, solution-focused coaching, and the balance between “being with” and “doing with” clients.
ResourcesAll registered participants receive access to the recording, slides, and any additional materials shared by the speakers.
Speakers' Bio
 Yannick Jacob is an existential life and leadership coach, trainer, and supervisor, with Masters degrees in Existential Coaching and Applied Positive Psychology. Now teaching faculty at the University of Cambridge and the International Centre for Coaching Supervision, Yannick also designed and curates the School of Positive Transformation’s Accredited Certificate in Integrative Coaching, for which he brought together many of the world’s most influential coaches and earliest pioneers.
Inside Yannick’s Coaching Lab, you can witness experienced coaches live in action. Yannick presents at conferences internationally, authored An Introduction to Existential Coaching, and created a self-study online course on the subject. A passionate podcaster, he hosted Coaching Uncaged as well as his own ongoing shows, “Talking about Coaching” and “Talking about Coaching and Psychedelics”.
Connect with Yannick:
  Reinhard Stelter is Professor Emeritus of Sports and Coaching Psychology and former Head of the Coaching Psychology Unit, at NEXS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, and coach and lecturer at Copenhagen Coaching Center, offering a EMCC accredited master practitioner program. Reinhard holds a PhD in Psychology and is Honorary Vice-President, accredited member, and associate fellow of the International Society for Coaching Psychology.
He is a founding fellow of the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School and author of two English books: “A Guide to Third Generation Coaching: Narrative-Collaborative Theory and Practice” (Springer, 2014) and “The Art of Dialogue in Coaching” (Routledge), which was awarded coaching book of the year 2019 at Henley Business School. Connect with Reinhard:
Workshop Price:
Members: £45 + VAT
Non-Members: £65 + VAT
Non-Members including 1-year AC Associate membership: £125 + VAT**
This price includes:
- 1 x 120-minute interactive workshop with Yannick Jacob and Reinhard Stelter
- Recordings of the workshop and a copy of the slides for your library
- A Continuous Professional Development (2 CPD hours) Certificate
- One-year Associate Membership with the Association for Coaching (if you are not already a member)**
** This ticket type is for non-members to attend this AC event and pay for discounted 1 year Associate Membership. Please look out for a separate email, containing the event details and other information about the event that you have signed up for. If you do not see this email in your inbox, please check your junk folder.
This offer applies only to those who wish to become AC members and are new to the AC. It cannot be used towards the renewal of current AC membership or for lapsed members
For any questions, please contact us at digitallearning@associationforcoaching.com.
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