Day Two Festival Sessions

We have brought together a community of respected creative coaches and researchers to discuss, inspire, and showcase the wide variety of creative tools and demonstrate the impact of creativity on both coach and coachee.

Discover tools and approaches that will enhance your coaching and supervision practice with better results for your clients. The festival sessions capture the essence of creativity and inspire us all to harness it within coaching.

You can access the on-demand festival sessions and enjoy a deep dive into the world of creative coaching.

Here are the second-day festival sessions and speakers available for on-demand access:

Creative Reflection in Supervision

In this session, Auriel Majumdar and Stephen Brown explore the uses of creative reflection in coach supervision. Enjoy watching a live coaching supervision demo in which a coach (Stephen) and a supervisor (Auriel) reflect on a coaching session using improvisational, creative methods chosen and contracted for in real time to suit the issues that arise.

The live demo is followed by a facilitated debrief exploring this approach's principles, ethics, and impacts with the coach and supervisor. Gain insights into how creative practitioners apply creative methods in practice, how creativity can enhance and deepen coach reflection in supervision, how to contract for working in this way, and some of the possible risks to anticipate.

Movement in Coaching

In this reflective session, Pearl Jordan helps participants explore using movement to uncover their biases and fears and stretch their comfort zones while providing insights, greater self-awareness, and integrity as a coach.

Pearl invites you to experience movement for yourself as a developmental learning exercise, demonstrating how simplistic movement improves self-awareness and new insights. Explore this technique for your coach development and practice. Come with curiosity and openness to discover your unique coaching dance for a more significant impact on clients.

The Power of Poetry in Coaching

As coaches, we know the power of writing down our goals and actions. Writing can take us even further when we add a creative tool like poetry. Creativity allows us to go deeper as we strive to achieve results – for ourselves or our clients. It can circumvent the conscious mind and lead us into the rich, inner world of the unconscious.

In this session, Charmaine Pollard introduces poetry as a coaching tool. By reading a poem, writing in response, and then reflecting, we can gain a clearer understanding of ourselves and our aspirations. From there, we can set realistic goals, work towards them enthusiastically, and turn our dreams into reality.

Closing Panel: Creative Coaching - Best Practice and Beyond

Beth Clare McManus, Andréa Watts, Jackee Holder, and Sally Waters share their thoughts and practical tips on how to bring more creativity into coaching. They discuss creativity as an advanced practice within coaching and discuss ethical considerations for coaching responsibly when using these approaches.

This final session is inspiring, grounding, and celebratory of an exciting and growing form of coaching. Participants left feeling confident to begin or develop their creative coaching practice grounded in the ethics that underpin these empowering and transformative approaches.

Connect with our speakers

Auriel Majumdar, Carol Braddick, Stephen Brown, Dr Tünde Erdös, Pearl Jordan, Charmaine Pollard, Beth Clare McManus, Andréa Watts, Jackee Holder, Sally Waters