July 05, 2010
New Creative Supervision Group in Autumn
Here's a new opportunity to refresh and reflect on your coaching practice through a creative lens
Being an executive coach and consultant is both rewarding and challenging. You frequently have to juggle the needs of your clients with your own need for support, encouragement, feedback and making time to reflect on your practice.
In Autumn 2010 I'll be offering this opportunity for a small group of six professional coaches to work together with a particular focus on the use of creative resources to explore your client work and coaching practice. As a result, you’ll gain an understanding of the effectiveness of right-brain approaches to effect change. You’ll also develop your ability to apply creative interventions in your coaching practice.
The group will be self-determining, and will co-create the learning and development goals. Together we will create the safe space for you to reflect and explore.
As a participant, you’ll be able to:
• Work with right-brained approaches such as cards and natural objects to explore and resolve client issues along with the familiar dialogic norms.
• Give and receive feedback on the content and process of your work
• Work with the group using creative interventions to enhance your facilitation skills
• Enjoy personal and professional support in a stimulating environment
Format
The group will meet for a programme of six sessions starting in Autumn 2010 (dates to be agreed by the group). Each day will run from 10.00am to 4.30pm in West London.
Fees will be £1200.00 + VAT payable in advance or alternatively £1320.00 + VAT payable by instalments.
To learn more and to enrol, call Alison on 020 8995 5485 or email her at alison@alisonhodge.com
Posted by Alison at 04:39 PM | Comments (0)
May 29, 2010
The Discipline of Noticing
I've just started reading a really interesting book called 'Researching your own Practice. The Discipline of Noticing' by John Mason (Routledge, London 2002).
I'm just getting to the chapter about practitioner research - which is particularly pertinent to me as I develop my doctoral research project in coaching supervision and which will focus on our experience in the process of supervision - so what might we notice, are we disciplined in our noticing, what blinkers hold our gaze, so what do we miss?
And what's the purpose of noticing? Or being a practitioner-researcher? Ultimately, for me it's about being more effective in the service of my client.
As I write, I'm also aware that sometimes I could spend longer writing my reflections after sessions so that I accumulate more reference experiences in my reflective log. This in turn I imagine would develop my capacity and flexibility to notice new and different elements in my client work.
So, the question that this prompts for me is whether noticing is a discipline or rather a practice and way of being?
Posted by Alison at 03:08 PM | Comments (0)
Creative Coaching Supervision Workshop
Sydney, Australia - 30th July 2010
I'm really pleased that I'm going to be facilitating a Creative Supervision Workshop that I've been invited to run on 30th July in Sydney Australia on behalf of ASCCANZ - the Association for Supervision, Coaching and Consultancy Australia and New Zealand.
The day will involve working with different creative tools such as visual imagery, natural objects and metaphorical objects where you'll be able to tap into your own creativity and then explore some of your client situations. As you may know, working with right-brained, creative approaches can be particularly powerful when you and your client may appear to be stuck or blocked, and we can discover amazing insights that were otherwise out of our conscious awareness.
If you're interested, you can contact me via my email address which is alison@alisonhodge.com or you can contact ASCCANZ at the following address: asccanz@three.com.au
The day will run from 09.30am - 4.30pm in Waverley, Sydney, NSW. I hope to see some of you there.
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April 30, 2010
Ethical Awareness Workshop at EMCC Conference
I'm just gathering my thoughts for the session that I'm facilitating at the EMCC UK conference on 5th, 6th and 7th May at the Kensington Form Hotel at South Kensington in London.
I've attended and run sessions at this conference for several years now and this year it's different. It's going to be staged over 3 days instead of 2 with a special day dedicated to research in the field of coaching and mentoring. This too is a first, in terms of a dedicated day for research approaches and delegates are being invited to present their current work - hopefully will help to inform the shape and design of the first EMCC European Research Conference being planned for July 2011.
It's too early in terms of my doctoral research yet for me to contribute during this day next week....but I'm encouraged to think that there may be a dedicated forum for presenting research findings in the future. I'll share more about my research project very soon.
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