 The Grove Practice is based in central London, offering a long-established counselling, psychotherapy, executive coaching and organisation consulting service, in addition to professional development training courses.
In 2008, The Grove will be repeating its successful training program in organisational and leadership development (run by CAP Associates before our change of company name to The Grove Practice). The course will span 120 hours of contact time over 20 days at weekends spaced between September 2008 and May 2009. The course is designed for professionals who wish to develop and deepen their skills as change agents within organisations. The course supports those working with senior managers to launch an effective coaching programme and guide clients through an organisational development process.
One unique facet of this training is the international faculty of tutors whose work spans both consultancy and professional psychology.
Course dates: 2008 - 2009
The course is delivered over 20 days at selected weekends:
Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 September 2008
Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 October 2008
Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 November 2008
Sunday 23 November 2008
Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 January 2009
Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 January 2009
Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 February 2009
Sunday 15 March 2009
Sundy 22 March 2009
Sunday 5 April 2009
Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 April 2009
Saturday 30 & Sunday 31 May 2009
The course runs from 10am to 5pm each day, with breaks included.
 Venue
Our spacious and pleasant central London training venue in SE1, close to Waterloo and Southwark stations.
Ideal applicants
- Managers, executives, supervisors and team leaders within business, statutory or not-for-profit sectors.
- Counsellors, psychotherapists and other occupational or mental health professionals.
- The course community will be multidisciplinary, since the course objective is to build and develop complementary skills. Those familiar with large complex systems will develop one-to-one skills, whereas those proficient in working with individuals will gain understanding of large organisational processes.
Entry requirements
The course is taught at postgraduate level. The Grove appreciates varied professional training pathways and therefore encourages applications from anyone who meets the entry requirements. For those with prior qualifications and substantial coaching experience, this course will add a deeper level of skill and richer level of professional intervention.
Applicants need to demonstrate one of the following, at a minimum:
- At least 6 months' experience in management or organisational development or HR management,
- A qualification in coaching, counselling or psychotherapy.
This training will add an additional level of skill and professional development for any student who has already gained qualifications in HR, management, coaching, counseloling or psychotherapy or who may already be practising in coaching or organisational development.
Professional recognition and development
This course is recognised by the Association for Coaching, the UK's independent professional body. Also, The Grove is an organisational member of the Association for Coaching and the European Mentoring & Coaching Council. Successful completion of this course immediately qualifies the individual for Associate Membership of the Association for Coaching, with or without any experience of coaching delivery, subject to meeting all other application criteria. Alternatively, those who complete this training and have experience of over 150 hours of coaching delivery are eligible for full Membership of the Association for Coaching, subject to meeting all other application criteria. For those with prior qualifications and substantial coaching experience, this course will add a deeper level of skill and richer level of professional intervention. This training provides a total 120 CPD hours if attended in full. A CPD attendance certificate will be issued on request.
Course content
- Leadership development
- Organisational systems and team development
- The development of a professional stance for the consultant
- A process model of consulting combined with systemic thinking
- Power dynamics in organisations
- Handling resistance and conflict
- Appreciation of personality assessment tools such as Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® or Golden™ Personality Type Profiler or Keirsey Temperament Sorter®
- Organisational culture with emphasis on gender and transcultural issues
- Using creative process in change management
- Consulting skills - entry and contracting
- Action learning sets
- Differences between coaching and counselling
- Executive coaching skills and ethics
The course philosophy and theoretical stance is best described as humanistic and integrative, drawing upon Gestalt, psychoanalytic, object relations and systemic models.
Methodology
Lectures, tutorials and experiential teaching, skills training in small groups, observation of large group processes, case studies, guided reading.
Core skills taught on this course
Gestalt model of process consulting
- Apply the Gestalt cycle of experience in different situations.
- Intentionally and effectively use your self as your main resource.
- Differentiate between data and interpretation.
- The ability to emphasise non-judgmental observations.
- Collect and interpret data then selectively base your interventions on these.
- Confront through effective data collection and recognition of resistances.
- Identify and confront three types of resistances within Gestalt modelling: projection, introjection and retroflection.
- Design experiments: techniques for raising awareness and enabling change.
- Recognise your own energy level and the energy level of others, as well as working with multiple energy levels.
- The ability to stay in the present and to focus on the ongoing process, with faith in natural development sequences.
- Considerable sensitivity to sensory, physical functioning of self and others.
- Frequent tuning into your emotional reactions and those of others.
- The ability to make good contact with others.
Organisational development
- Group theory and team dynamics.
- The process of organisational change and change management.
- Mindfulness in organisations.
- The impact of gender and culture in the workplace.
- Hellinger constellation theory applied to organisations.
Leadership development
- Definition of leadership and the concept of "good enough" leadership.
- Leadership qualities, styles and authenticity.
- Action learning sets.
Executive coaching skills
- Contract with your client for a successful coaching programme.
- Set up an effective structure for a coaching session.
- Distinguish between each section of the coaching process.
- Effectively launch a coaching process and guide your clients through a development process.
- Recognize who needs support and when.
- Enable your clients to gain support from their environment. Give support if needed.
- See clearly when to ask and when to make a statement.
- Give effective feedback.
- Identify and acknowledge the results of the coaching process as well as areas to be developed.
- Awareness of the aesthetic, transcendent, and creative aspects of working as a coach.
- The ability to help the client draw meaning or understanding from their experience with the coach.
- Close the coaching process.
- Code of ethics and supervision.
Role of personality profile assessment tools
Through undergoing your own in-depth Golden™ Personality Type Profiler assessment online in advance of this module, you will be able to identify strengths and constraints of your own personality type. Teaching in this module will focus on:
- Recognition and application of Jung's personality types in your client work.
- Using new behaviour expressions and communication patterns.
- Identifying your client's strengths and areas of further development based on the evaluation results.
- Supporting the client in accepting his/her own personality type.
- Defining development directions for your client.
Development of a professional stance
- The ability to put things succinctly, clearly and directly.
- Awareness of your intentions, of what you want to do or say, together with the ability to be clear in letting others know what you want of and from them.
- The ability to see where client is at any time, and to respect that in working with the system.
- The ability to face and accept emotional situations with a minimum of personal defensiveness.
- The ability to present self as a highly attractive yet non-charismatic presence.
- The capacity to be both tough and supportive during the same work session.
- Appreciation of the significant contextual issues involved in system interventions.
- Skills required for entry and contracting with organisational clients.
- Ability to clarify ethical issues with your clients.
- Tailor your coaching work to a corporate environment, especially to HR systems and leadership development programs.
- Develop external or internal coaches, based on what you learned and your own experiences.
Faculty
The course will be taught by an international team of highly qualified and experienced organisation consultants. Many of these trainers are repeating their involvement with The Grove, following strongly positive feedback regarding previous training delivery. The faculty includes, but may not be limited to:
 Bernd Leygraf, Course Director: Consultant Psychotherapist and Organisational Consultant; Director of the School of Counselling and Psychotherapy, London ; Associate Director of ARK Hungary. Bernd initially trained at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, Ohio in the USA and has worked internationally with commercial, government and charitable organisations. He has trained organisational consultants in the UK and abroad. Most recent work spans the USA, UK, Africa and Europe, primarily with large organisations adapting to globalisation. Previously Bernd has acted as training director or course director for other organisational consultant programmes, including several university-accredited courses. He is a qualified trainer and supervisor, accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He is registed with the United Kingdom Council for Pscyotherapy and also maintains a private psychotherapy practice.
 Professor Renos Papadopoulos, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex; Consultant Clinical Psychologist, The Tavistock Clinic; Chartered Clinical Psychologist; Analytical Psychologist; Training and Supervising Analyst; Systemic Family Psychotherapist. As a consultant to the United Nations and other organisations (including the Council of Europe, the British Council, the Rajiv Ghandi Foundation and the International Organisation for Migration), he specialises in conflict resolution, having worked internationally on projects with refugees and other survivors of political violence.
 Professor Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, consultant and writer. In her work with organisations and leadership she addresses how an understanding of emotional issues (individual, interpersonal, workgroup and clients) can increase political effectiveness. She is a Visiting Professor at the LSE and has been a consultant to the World Bank, the NHS and Unilever. She works with the Kings Fund and supervises senior management figures within the NHS and has a clinical practice seeing individuals and couples. Her books famously include Fat Is A Feminist Issue, and The Impossibility Of Sex.
 Professor Andrew Samuels is Professor of Analytical Psychology at Essex University and holds visiting chairs at New York, London and Roehampton universities. In addition to private practice as a Jungian Analyst, he works internationally with parties and leaders as a political consultant. Organisational and corporate clients include Tesco, Nokia, DelMonte, Ford, Everton FC, City of Tokyo, and the NHS. His most recent book was the award-winning Politics on the Couch.
 Ilona Eros, PhD. Ilona is Director of ARK Consultancy in Hungary , specialising in organisation development work, management of change, personal coaching and training courses designed to improve organisational efficiency and human interaction. She is an accredited practitioner and trainer in Golden™ Personality Type Profiler.
 Anne Litwin, PhD. President of Anne Litwin Associates, her consulting firm based in the USA. Anne is an executive coach and consultant to both businesses and government organisations, having recently worked in the USA, UK, France, Germany, India and Singapore , Malaysia and Tanzania. Anne helps professionals enhance leadership capacity by strengthening their interpersonal and strategic skills. Her book credits include co-editor of Managing in the Age of Change, and she co-authoredCoaching for the Edge.
 Chris Williams, MSc : Chris is a BACP Senior Counselling Practitioner and UKCP-registered psychotherapist in private practice. He received his MSc from Middlesex University, having trained at The Pellin Institute then Metanoia. His humanistic theoretical orientation includes Gestalt, systemic, psychodynamic and cognitive models. He studied the constellation systemic approach with the Hellinger Institute of Britain and the 'nowhere foundation', now regularly running constellation workshops. He also works as a clinical supervisor, trainer, facilitator and systemic coach.
 Oberdan Marianetti MSc is a business psychologist and has worked for the past 8 years in personal and organisational development for various organisations in the private and public sectors. He has a broad consulting experience, for organisations such as Bloomberg, Aston Martin, The London Borough of Redbridge and JP Morgan. His work is influenced by mindfulness and has a strong focus on leadership development and culture change.
 Ruth Dover has developed her people skills initially through the 12 years she spent as aqualified Social Worker. She then became a Staff Development & Training Officer for a London Borough, later taking on the role of Training Manager in Social Services for 3 years. Since 1996, as a coach and qualified trainer and coach she has delivered courses on consultancy to over 5,000 participants across the country.
Course schedule
Over several weekends spaced throughout the course, Bernd Leygraf will deliver the core training in professional skills: Gestalt process model of consulting, Gestalt or psychoanalytic concepts such as resistance, desensitisation, retroflection, introjection and projection applied to organisations, systems (single, dual, multiple), relevance of Treansactional Analysis models to organisational settings.
Anne Litwin will tutor the weekend in October with two key themes: leadership development; entry and contracting skills. In January 2009, Ilona Eros will deliver a weekend module on personality profiles. Through an appreciation of their own profile, presented in full written report format, each student will learn how to use personality profiling in team development and individual coaching. Later in the course, Professor Renos Papadopoulos will deliver a focused seminar on conflict resolution. For the weekend in April, Chris Williams will facilitate an experiential and participative workshop on the application of constellation theory to organisational systems.
Additionally, there will be 4 seminars in March 2009, designed to deliver focused masterclasses on key topics:
Professor Andrew Samuels - Good Enough Leadership
Professor Susie Orbach - Gender in the Workplace
Oberdan Marianetti - Mindfulness in Organisations
Ruth Dover - Action Learning Sets
These seminars form part of the Diploma training, yet may be open to additional attendees as stand-alone modules.
Assessment
The diploma will be awarded upon satisfactory completion of a 3,500 word written assignment (case study or essay) and a minimum 90% course attendance is necessary. The written assignment will be assessed by the course director and an external examiner. Should these criteria not be met, a certificate of attendance will be issued.
The written assignment is intended as an opportunity for each student to consolidate their learning from the course. The assignment is designed to integrate the concepts covered during the training and for the student to demonstrate their ability to reflect on their own process in the context of an organisational or coaching setting.
For the case study or essay, students may draw upon their existing experience of working within an organisation. Alternatively, they may refer to any relevant coaching programme or managerial project work which they have delivered. It is an option for students to co-coach each other, if they lack alternative professional experience. It may be that a site visit may be included outside the taught course weekends as a learning experience - arranged either by The Grove or by student initiative. Any site visit would be entirely optional as an additional experiential element and therefore participation would not be necessary to achieve the Diploma award.
Application process
Sarah Briggs, director of The Grove Practice, will be happy to discuss any questions you may have about the course. For initial enquiries please call her on 07973 368512 or e-mail sarah@counselling.org
The application process comprises:
- Completion of application form (please email info@counselling.org to request an application form)
- Interview by telephone with Bernd Leygraf, course director.
Course fees
For individuals self-funding : £3,000 + VAT = £3,525
For applicants funded by their organisation: £3,500 + VAT = £4,112.50
A limited number of bursaries is available, dependent on student circumstances. If you would like to discuss this potential or apply for a bursary, please contact Sarah Briggs through the usual application process.
Individuals
Total fees payable: £3,000 + VAT = £3,525
A deposit of £900 + VAT = £1,057.50 is payable upon the applicant's acceptance on the course.
The balance may be paid in 3 instalments of £700 + VAT = £822.50. Instalments are due by 30 September 2008 , 1 December 2008 and 30 January 2009.
Full payment by individuals received by 1 September 2008 will attract a 5% discount at £2,850 + VAT = £3,348.75.
Applicants funded by their organisation
Total fees payable: £3,500 + VAT = £4,112.50
A deposit of £900 + VAT = £1,057.50 is payable upon the applicant's acceptance on the course.
The balance of £2,600 + VAT = £3,055.00 must be paid in full by 1 December 2008.
Full payment by organisations received by 1 September 2008 will attract a 5% discount at £3,325 + VAT = £3,906.88.
Because the number of attendees is limited to ensure the quality of training delivered, your deposit payment of £900 + VAT = £1,057.50 must be received on acceptance of your application to secure your place.
Company profile
The Grove Practice is based in the heart of London, originally established 15 years ago under the name CAP Associates as a counselling and psychotherapy practice. The growing demand for the application of psychological models in commercial and organisational settings led to the additional establishment of our training programmes, coaching team and organisational consultancy. The Grove works with the ethos of facilitating both individual discovery and management development in order to achieve greater effectiveness, from a psychological basis. This philosophy aligns with the ethos of The Grove’s psychotherapy practice.
Professional standards
The Grove Practice is an organisational member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC). This course is recognised by the Association for Coaching. The Grove Practice is an organisational member of the Association for Coaching (AC) and is bound by the AC's Code of Ethics and Complaints procedure. All students will be given a copy of the AC's Code of Ethics.
Completion of The Grove’s Diploma in Organisational Development and Executive Coaching provides individuals with a suitable qualification to enable their application for Associate Membership of AC, subject to their meeting all other AC membership application criteria including the provision of references.
The Grove Practice Limited fully intends to deliver the entire programme as advertised. However, in the event of unforeseen circumstances or factors outside the organisers’ control, such as but not limited to tutor unavailability or inaccessibility of venue, The Grove reserves the right to alter the dates, content, tutors or format of the course, while using best endeavours to maintain the intended style and material as far as possible. No refund will be given under any such circumstances.
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We offer a programme of open-access training courses in central London which provide continuous professional development for counsellors and psychotherapists; also for coaches working within an organisation or practising independently; managers, team leaders or professionals in the fields of business, education, healthcare, charities, local or national government. These courses equip participants with enhanced communication skills and the capability for increased professional effectiveness.
