This session has been recorded with Natalie Lancer, Julia Carden, and Elizabeth Crosse based on the coach development: the self as instrument, self-awareness, and the Concept-of-Self.
Release date after the summer!
Behind the Concept-of-Self: How Our Understanding of Who We Are Influences Our Meaning Making and Experience in the World.
Henley Centre for Coaching October 4th. Buy tickets now.
Deconstructing the Self.
Live workshop date TBC end of June or November.
Deconstructing the Self: Working with the Concept-of-Self in Coaching.
60 min Rountable Workshop.
Understanding “I”, “Me”, and “Myself”: what is the Concept-of-Self and what does it mean for coaching practice?
Date and registration details coming soon.
Heather will be speaking at the Coaching Psychology Conference in University of Chichester Friday April 26th, 2024.
The programme schedule is out now, themed around the the following clusters:
- Education, Careers, and Strengths Based Coaching
- Coaching Psychology and Health
- Coaching in the Workplace: Psychological Flexibility, and Acceptance and Commitment Training
- Coaching, Nature/Environment, Mindfulness, Meaning, and Self
11th of March, 2024 at 10:00am at the Henley Centre for Coaching: Understanding “I”, “Me”, and “Myself”: what is the Concept-of-Self and what does it mean for coaching practice?
Systemic Developmental Series: An Experiential Workshop of the Concept-of-Self for Coaches, 10th of October 2023.
8th of June 2023, awarded best paper.
Monday 11th March 2024 | 10:00-12:00
Henley Centre for Coaching
What is “the self” or a “self”? Is the self a “thing” that exists or an “idea” of ourselves? If you look for the self, can you find it? Does it have a physical location? How changeable is it? Can the self be lost, eliminated, or recreated? Does the self endure throughout our lives like a thread?
The role of coaching bridges the subjective and introspective inner world of the client with the outer world they behave in. How “I” understand “me” and make sense of “my” world and experience is a fundamental question for understanding human behaviour. Recent research shows that individuals understand their Concept-of-Self on a spectrum in three ways which can influence beliefs such as agency: the basis of behaviour which is at the root of coaching.
In this session you will be introduced to the Concept-of-Self through a blend of content, personal reflection, and experiential exercises with other coaches. You will raise beliefs and awareness of your own self and how you can recognise the Concept-of-Self in your client work. This is a thought provoking and active session: prepare to leave with more questions and enhanced self-awareness of what it means to “be” a reflective practitioner.
Grey Matters is a thought series based on arguments for nuance, compassion and rationality. So much thinking is losing value through the noise and our urge to be absolute and distil everything to black and white. Bring grace into the discussion and embrace the grey of what it is to be human.