Coaching and Leadership CPD

Course Description

What it means to coach and supervise ethically has gone through a seismic shift during 2020. The global pandemic and heighted awareness of a number of interdependent existential crises has caused many coaches and supervisors to ask new questions about what purposes we are being called to serve in the world.  Social movements against systemic racism, ecocide, and gender inequality are the tip of an iceberg of a deep unease about what it means to live and work with integrity.

This course is built on the first three years of research for my PhD which is exploring the question: What are the ethics of coaching for social change in oppressive contexts? It begins from the premise that we all, in some respect, experience a loss of power and agency when faced with the complex web or issues we live our lives and professional activity enmeshed with.

We and our clients may be experiencing the performative pressures of modern social relations, the patterns of inequality and injustices and relations with our planet as oppressive, distressing and disabling. We are looking for the spaces within our global system to find the agency we need to identify, challenge, and transform the things that constrain us and our clients from living with a sense of meaning, freedom, and empowerment. We seek a way of being more aligned with social justice aspirations.

The course takes decoloniality as a systemic lens by exploring Modernity* and its relationship to Coloniality*. Decoloniality is a way of Knowing, conceiving of and using Power, and a way of Being which works to disrupt and reimaging a world other than that which has become defined by the coloniality Knowledge, Power and Being that underpins modern systems.

We will explore through case study examples, coaching triads and group supervision practice what it means to coach and supervise with the systemic lens of decoloniality.

The course invites you to reflect deeply about your own way of being in the world and creates a nurturing and compassionate space for organic growth.

Course Aims

• To explore what we need to learn, unlearn, relearn in order to coach with a social justice intent.

Course Objectives

Participants will:

• Understand decoloniality as a way of Knowing and Being in coaching and supervision.
• Understand how some of the normative assumptions in coaching, mentoring and supervision affect the power dynamics within working relationships.
• Understand how our own socialisation may limit our systemic awareness.
• Learn how to use social justice intent ethically, and with compassion, within the working relationship.

This is a holistic, highly reflexive and interactive course integrating key readings and listening from episodes of Charmaine’s Podcast, Speak Up, Speak Out: Ethics Matter. Journaling is also encouraged as a tool for integrating whole body processing.

Key questions

• What does decoloniality look like in coaching philosophy and practice?
• What is the place of intentionality over neutrality in coaching?

Why this course?

You will be attracted to this course because you wish to expand the way that you work to understand how to actively work from a social justice intent without compromising client autonomy or agency. Many coaches struggle with the fear that they are bound by neutrality from working from their values. This course provides the space to examine the assumptions we have trained to accept from the perspective of decoloniality and reframes the focus from neutrality to equity, justice and eco-sanity.  

If you have an interest in justice, equity and ethics and want coaching to make a difference in this space as a coach, mentor, supervisor or EDI specialist this course is for you.

On completion you will receive a certificate of recognition of your 24 hrs of CPD,  AC  and ICF credits