Diploma in leadership development & executive coaching 2012
Applications for this programme are no longer being accepted.
If you would like to register your interest for the next intake in 2013, please email your contact details to Sarah Briggs, Director, at info@thegrovepractice.com or call her for an informal chat on 07973 368512 .
Course overview and ethos
The ethos will be based on drawing upon personal resources for developmental impact (working in the present moment and awareness of self in the coaching relationship to effect change).
The emphasis is on harnessing the coach’s own personal resources for empowering developmental change in the individual client or client team. In a parallel process, the course will focus on enabling the client to harness their inner power (skills, awareness, belief, values, vision, personality and idiosyncrasy) within an organisational context as an agent of positive leadership. Self-awareness as well as understanding of intention and impact are all part of this.
The above themes are supported by studying coaching models, systemic or organisational insights and psychological theory.
“Coaching is an effective response to many of the questions organisations face right now, like how do we really engage people? Or how do we encourage openness and trust? As a style of influence it’s a core tool of leadership for raising the awareness and responsibilities within communities. Coaching is essential for the challenges ahead.”
Julie Starr, author of Brilliant Coaching
“The difficulty lies not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.”
John Maynard Keynes
“Leadership is hard work. While you’ll find many words of wisdom, tools and techniques, and practical applications focused on improving leadership skills, all are empty if not implemented with both substance and passion.”
Charlie Wagstaff, MD Criticaleye
The course is provided by The Grove Practice, which is based in central London, offering a long-established counselling, psychotherapy, executive coaching and team development service, in addition to professional development training courses.
The Grove has been running an executive coaching course for many years. The 2012 Diploma in Leadership Development & Executive Coaching comprises 120 hours of contact time over 20 days at weekends spaced between February and November 2012. The course is designed for professionals who wish to develop and deepen their skills as change agents within organisations or as practitioners working with individual coaching clients. The course supports those providing one-to-one coaching to executives or working with management teams to improve effectiveness.
One unique facet of this training is the international faculty of tutors whose work spans both consultancy and professional psychology.
Course dates in 2012
The course is run on selected weekends in 2012:
- Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 February
- Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 March
- Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 April
- Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 May
- Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 June
- Saturday 30 June & Sunday 1 July
- Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 July
- Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 September
- Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 October
- Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 November
The course runs from 10am to 4:30pm each day, with breaks included.
Venue
The training venue is Regent’s College, Regent’s Park, London NW1. This is 5 minutes’ walk from Baker Street tube and easily accessible by bus along Marylebone Road. Parking is chargeable in the small onsite car park.
Catering is not included in the course fee. There are a number of coffee shops and a canteen at Regent’s College, where you can buy drinks, snacks, sandwiches, salads and hot meals. A cafe and bistro are also to be found opposite the college in the park by the tennis courts.
Regent’s College, Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4NS
www.regents.ac.uk
Ideal applicants
- Managers, executives, supervisors and team leaders within large companies, smaller commercial enterprises, public sector, charity or not-for-profit organisations.
- This course has attracted managers in HR or L&D roles within nationally-recognised companies or global corporations; owners or board members of smaller businesses; managers in local government, the NHS, or prison service; executives from marketing / sales / communications roles.
- Counsellors, psychotherapists and other occupational or mental health professionals who are developing their skills to work in organisational consulting or on more work-based issues.
- The group of participants on this course will be multi-disciplinary, since part of the course objective is to widen understanding of the nature of leadership and coaching in a variety of settings. Those participants 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.
To ensure a vibrant and stimulating student group, applicants need to demonstrate one of the following, at a minimum:
- At least 6 months’ management experience in a role such as HR or L&D, sales / marketing / PR or communications, technical or operational, finance or accounting, creative or strategic development, management or consultancy, operations or IT;
- A professional qualification, such as management, social work, HR, coaching, counselling or psychotherapy;
- The ability to study in an adult learning environment.
This training will add an additional level of skill and professional development for any student who has already gained qualifications in HR, management, coaching, counselling or psychotherapy, or who may already be practising in coaching or organisational development.
Professional recognition and development
The Diploma is awarded by The Grove Practice. 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
- Philosophy and definition of executive coaching;
- Coaching models and skills;
- Working with individuals and groups;
- Motivation and change: positive psychology, appreciative inquiry, provocative therapy, fierce conversations;
- Organisational context: employer’s objectives versus individual’s agenda, boundaries;
- Intervention points for coaching: career transition,promotion or role change, divisional change, company restructure or acquisition, redundancy/outplacement;
- Appreciation of systemic theory and role of constellations;
- Appreciation of psychological tools with individuals and groups;
- Building a coaching business: your brand, networking, contracting, fee-setting;
- What makes a great leader? What makes an effective executive?
- Manager as coach: the benefits and tensions of running in-house coaching programmes;
- Ethical awareness, working with diversity; conflicts of interest/disclosure particularly in organisational contexts for coaching delivery.
Methodology
Lectures delivered by the tutors, experiential exercises, skills training in small groups, observation of large group processes, case studies, guided reading. The learning style is experiential – where participants engage in group exercises to embed learning by experiencing the use or application of the concepts being taught. Participants are also expected to discuss in large or small groups their reactions to the taught material and are encouraged to illustrate their viewpoint by referring to their own background and experience. This makes for a vibrant and practical style of learning.
Students are encouraged to undertake additional reading to complement the taught course components.
A reading list is provided at the start of the course. There is no specific requirement for a set amount of reading. This is an adult learning environment, so reading is self-directed according to the student’s particular areas of interest and development.
Additional handouts, articles or book recommendations may additionally be provided by tutors, during the progression of the course
Core skills taught on this course
Self-awareness as an intervenor:
- 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.
- 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.
- Frequent tuning into your emotional reactions and those of others.
- The ability to make good contact with others.
Organisational systems:
- Hellinger constellation theory applied to organisations.
- Group theory and team dynamics.
- The process of organisational change and change management.
- The impact of gender and culture in the workplace.
Leadership development:
- Definition of leadership and the concept of “good-enough” leadership.
- Leadership qualities, styles and authenticity.
- Harnessing the power of inner leadership.
- Key intervention points for coaching such as role change, promotion, outplacement.
- Role of coaching in enhancing executive effectiveness.
- Addressing conflict and uncertainty in organisations.
Executive coaching skills:
Attention will be given to particular coaching models. The following areas will be intrinsic to the teaching of coaching skills:
- Definition and philosophy of coaching.
- Contract with your client for a structured 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 a question 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.
Psychological models
The theoretical content of the course will draw upon psychological theories including but not limited to the following:
- Appreciative inquiry
- Seligman’s positive psychology
- Hellinger constellation theory
- Farrelly’s provocative conversations
- Mindfulness
- Spiral dynamics
- Hero’s journey
Appreciation of psychological diagnostic tools:
Through undergoing your own Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 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 as a coach:
- 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.
- Building a coaching business: marketing, networking, fee-setting, contracting.
- Ethical awareness, confidentiality, diversity, conflicts of interest and boundaries.
Tutor team
Tony Goddard
Tony is an Executive Coach with expertise and a proven track record in the areas of leadership, change management, career and talent development. Prior to becoming a coach, Tony spent 10 years as the Director of HR for a FTSE 250 leisure sector company (Mitchells & Butler Plc). In this role he developed and implemented the HR strategy which underpinned a successful major business transformation programme. Having worked at Board and Executive level he fully understands the complexities and challenges of today’s competitive business environment.
Tony’s coaching is designed to provide clients with the structure and space to consider a topic in order to achieve fresh perspectives and new insights. This enables clients to generate their own solutions and action plans for successfully achieving their coaching objectives. Tony works to build a strong and understanding coaching relationship. He has been described as an excellent listener and engaging, whilst at the same time providing the right level of personal challenge.
He holds a Masters Degree in Coaching and Mentoring from Oxford Brookes University and is qualified to use Myers Briggs Type Indicator, 360 feedback, OPQ and 16 PF. He is a Member of the Association for Coaching and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
He lectures in coaching at Birmingham City University and is a visiting coach for students on Warwick Business School’s MBA programme.
Professor Renos Papadopoulos
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.
His credentials include: 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.
Professor Ernesto Spinelli
Ernesto Spinelli has wide experience of teaching psychotherapists and supervisors, most recently as a Senior Fellow at Regent’s College School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology. In addition to his academic work he also maintains a private practice as a psychotherapist, executive coach and supervisor.
His frame is Existential Coaching, basing its approach upon the central assumption that life is an uncertain enterprise and that the one predictable thing we can say about it is that we will be confronted with the unpredictable at any point throughout our journey.
As human beings, we all share the experience of facing and confronting any number of uncertainties of living. These may be personal (such as issues surrounding health, employment, or romance) or work-related (such as the eruption of unforeseen conflict within one’s company, or between competing organisations or nations) or, often, contain elements of both. Whatever the uncertainty may be, however, our experience of it provokes a felt sense of unease, or anxiety.
Existential Coaching recognises that anxiety is not necessarily “a bad thing” or a problematic presence that must be reduced or removed. The feeling of anxiety can be stimulating, can put us in touch with our sense of being alive, and is the source to all creative and original insight and decision-making. On reflection, a life that was anxiety-free would be empty of meaning, enthusiasm, curiosity and the urge to advance itself.
Having published a new edition of his bestselling book, The Interpreted World: An Introduction To Phenomenological Psychology, his other books include Demiysitfying Therapy, Tales of Unknowing: Therapeutic Encounters From An Existential Perspective, and Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World. Ernesto is a Founding Member of the British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology and is on the editorial board of the International Coaching Psychology Review.
He is an existential psychotherapist registered with UKCP, a Fellow of the BACP, a Chartered Psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Ernesto’s other academic awards include BA, MSc and PhD.
Liz Macann
As the co-founder and Head of the BBC’s in-house Executive, Leadership and Management Coaching Network and Co-creator of the BBC Coach Foundation Course, Liz is responsible for the selection, professional training and development of approximately 80 coaches and the service they provide.
She continues to develop her own coaching practice by working with a diverse client group of senior executives and leaders both within and external to the BBC. Her approach is to provide support and challenge whilst facilitating the client to raise their self-awareness and recognise self –responsibility for making the changes necessary to fulfil their own potential and that of their team. She particularly likes working with clients in transition.
Nationally, Liz takes a leading role in the development of Coaching as a profession, participating in the activities of APECS, the EMCC, the Association for Coaching, and the International Coach Federation She is a speaker at national and international coaching conferences and seminars, while sitting on the editorial board of Coaching at Work.
As well as being an accredited Coach, Liz is trained in Brief Therapy, Constellations Therapy, Coach Supervision and is qualified to administer, interpret and give feedback on a number of psychometric instruments. Liz’s belief in the basic tenets of coaching originated in her work with communities in developing countries and also with traumatised horses.
Sharon Eden
Sharon describes herself as: Personal Development Coach & Transformation Expert, Psychotherapist, Speaker, Author of 2 books: Unlocking the Power of YOU! And Whack Around the Head: Purpose, Passion and Power at Work Right Now, Sorceress & Alchemist.
She facilitates workshops and individuals in tuning into their inner leadership power and harnessing their own personal attributes. This helps her clients discover how the emotional gap from being dispirited or bored to being enthusiastic about their work is actually tiny, and easily achievable through engaging with your purpose, passion and power… whatever their current job role.
Sharon believes that leadership isn’t just for CEOs, senior executives and managers: your ability to act as a leader, whatever your role at work, can make all the difference between you feeling enjoyment, success and ease or feeling frustration and powerlessness.
Enabling yourself and others to contribute, to make the extra-ordinary happen, demands that we as leaders grow ourselves to be inspiring role models for humanity in the 21st century. Her belief is based on working with thousands of people in over 20 successful years running my personal and professional development business. They’ve come from all walks of life, all kinds of cultures, all kinds of educational backgrounds, all kinds of racial heritages and life experiences.
Sharon uses a wealth of knowledge and experience to help leaders of all kinds achieve personal magnificence through presence, performance and power. This involves generating fresh and highly effective approaches specifically for inside-out leadership: the essence of Inner Leadership.
John Whittington
John is a busy coach working with a portfolio of entrepreneurs and director level executives across a broad mix of industry sectors. A regular speaker on the application of constellations in coaching and organisational health, John has long experience as a follower, a leader and founder/entrepreneur. Since 2002 he has worked full time as a coach, leading the Riverbank Partnership, a coaching practice focused on working at the point where the personal, professional and organisational systems overlap. Through a combination of insight into what we are born with (innate personality type), what we are born into (family of origin dynamics) and the application of psychodynamic principles the Partnership’s reputation has attracted a wide portfolio of clients. Alongside this John has pioneered the combination of MBTI and constellations to facilitate fresh clarity and insight for his clients and coaches in supervision. He is also a familiar face to executive students at The London Business School, where he is a visiting coach on a small number of leadership development programmes in Dubai and Hong Kong. In 2011 John was invited to join the visiting team at Henley Business School – Centre for Coaching and Facilitation – teaching systemic coaching and constellations to students on Henley’s MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change programme.
John’s commitment to his own personal and professional development continued in 2010 within an international training in Holland, over 15 days, with Jan Jacob Stam at the Dutch Bert Hellinger Institute. He is a qualified coach, psychometric practitioner and relational systems consultant.
In 2010 John worked as a systemic consultant to the global board of the The International Coaching Federation (ICF). This work gave the board a fresh perspective on the issues facing them and a new language with which to speak about challenging and previously hidden issues. The consulting project resulted in John being invited to facilitate an introduction to constellations at the ICF Dallas Fort Worth conference.
John runs regular coaching constellation workshops in London and now facilitates a learning circle, a training in the fundamentals of systemic coaching and constellations, on an annual basis in the UK and elsewhere, as well as offering individual supervision and open workshops.
His initial career was in theatre and brand communications internationally, including the establishment of his own communications agency.
Alison Hodge
Alison is a coach, consultant, facilitator and supervisor with almost 25 years’ experience in helping OD, HR, Change and Training Consultants manage their business and client work effectively.
Her current work includes executive coaching with senior executives in organisations, alongside her primary practice as a Coaching Supervisor, working with both internal and external coach-consultants, on both a group and individual level. She has an MSc in Change Agent Skills and Strategies, and is a Master Practitioner in NLP. During 2006 she completed her Diploma in Supervision at the Metanoia Institute, London.
Practising with mindful awareness and being present in the moment are paramount, serving her well in her professional and personal relationships.
She is an active member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council, including being a member of the Conference & Events Committee. As an accredited member of the Association for Coaching, she facilitates the West London branch of their popular Co-Coaching Forums, when member coaches gather to practise, learn and give feedback about their coaching. She regularly facilitates their telephone coach/mentoring supervision calls.
Alison has run a number of workshops for organisations including the EMCC and ICF on various themes including: ethical awareness; the importance of contracting in coaching; and creative supervision. Her workshops explore ethical dilemmas using case studies and role play. She is also an Associate Faculty member with Coaching Supervision Academy.
Alison holds EMCC European Individual Accreditation, at Master Practitioner Level. She is also an accredited coach with the Association for Coaching. As an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the British Psychological Society, she actively participates in the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology.
Steve Harland
BSc, MBA, CMIM, Dip Coaching, Cert C&B Psychology
Steve has worked as a coach and consultant since 1987, starting in sales, marketing and communication strategy and then moving into technology and customer-led organisational change. He specialises in the impact of change on people, their values, attitudes and behaviours and is able to offer a unique blend of strategic, behavioural and communication skills.
In this capacity, he has facilitated strategic planning, leadership and team development programmes for many organisations in the UK and across Europe. These include: Hutchison 3G, Nokia Networks, Lafarge Aggregates, SAP Gmbh, First Engineering, GEC/Tarmac Rail, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilley, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM/Lotus, Psion and Bass Inns. In addition he has delivered Executive Coaching programmes for Nokia Networks, Glaxo, Brio Technology, Wyeth PharmaCo, Bailey Telecom, Lafarge and RMDKwikform.
Steve is trained in a wide range of coaching, assessment and development tools and instruments, including Belbin, PSL Personality Testing, ASE Emotional Intelligence, Myers Briggs, FiroB, Margerisson McCann Team Performance and TEAMBuilder.
He has an MBA from Aston Business School and is Chartered Member of the Institute of Marketing, a certified Business Performance Coach and a Founder Member of the Association for Coaching. He recently took a year out to study Cognitive and Behavioural Psychology at Birmingham University.
Steve’s professional interests are in the application of NLP and Cognitive and Behavioural techniques to leadership coaching and performance development, the latter of which he extends to his other passions which are coaching a cycling team, acting as a Business Mentor for The Princes’ Trust and with varying levels of performance, competing as a racing cyclist.
Brian Morton
Brian has a long career in people development and coaching, now mainly in private practice. He is an NLP Trainer accredited by ANLP and ABNLP, a Certified NLP Master Practitioner, Time Line Therapist and Ericsonian Hypnotherapist. He has been active in NLP since the early 1990s.
Previously he worked as a Psychotherapist/Senior Counsellor within the NHS in a mental health primary care team and held a pain management clinic in a hospital setting.
He runs regular NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner Trainings in the Poole and Bournemouth (Dorset,UK) for the last 7 years and since 2006 he has co-developed and led the NLP Practice/Community Group “NLP Dorset Forum”, including the organisation of NLP conferences.
Since his psychotherapy training, he has pursued his interest in psychology and coaching, studying a number of approaches including Seligman’s positive psychology model, appreciative enquiry, Farrelly’s provocative therapy approach, and among others, spiral dynamics.
His earlier career was within the British army, including officer training in leadership skills.
Assessment
The diploma will be awarded upon satisfactory completion of a 3,500 word written assignment (case study or essay) and a minimum 80% course attendance is necessary, as well as fees being paid in full. Should these criteria not be met, a certificate of attendance will be issued. There will also be continuous assessment by the tutors of the student’s presence in the student group and the ability to integrate the taught material.
The written assignment is intended as an opportunity for each student to consolidate their learning from the course. The written 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 essay, there is no requirement for students to have begun coaching or organisational work. It is possible for students to draw upon their existing experience of being a member or employee within an organisation. For those who have experience of providing coaching or consultancy, 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.
Diploma award
The Diploma will be awarded on successful completion of the assessment criteria as well as full payment of fees. Otherwise, a certificate of attendance will be given, unless the student completes in their own time and at their own cost a programme of remedial work agreed with the core tutors and The Grove Practice.
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@thegrovepractice.com
The application process comprises:
- Completion of application form (please email info@counselling.org to request an application form)
- Interview by telephone, usually with Sarah Briggs
Course fees
For individuals self-funding : £3,000 + VAT @ 20% = £3,600.
The fees may be paid in 10 equal instalments, the first instalment is due as a deposit to reserve your place. The remaining 9 instalments are due on the first of the month from February to October 2012.
A limited number of reduced-fee places may be available, dependent on participant numbers and student circumstances. If you would like to discuss this potential or apply for a reduced-fee place, please contact Sarah Briggs through the usual application process.
For applicants funded by their organisation: £3,400 + VAT @ 20% = £4,080, payable before the start of the course.
Testimonials from previous participants
“Working on change programmes in the finance / investment banking industry for 13 years I was looking to gain an understanding of organisational, systems and individual behaviour from a psychoanalytic perspective and to improve my coaching skills.
What I found in this course was a unique opportunity to learn from faculty as well as fellow students. It covered many important aspects of organisational development and coaching in depth. Its benefits continue to reveal themselves to me even now, 2 years after completion.
The history of coaching comes from the fields of sports and psychology, this course provides a very solid grounding in the latter. It also forms a strong base for anyone serious in self development, improvement as a leader/manager or a career as an executive coach.”
- Jason Millard
“I took the Diploma in Organisational Development and Executive Coaching 2006-2007. I was interested in the offering of experiential learning. Coming from a business and science background this was new to me and I must say it was not easy to adapt. On the course, I learned a huge amount about how to be a consultant far beyond any simple collection of techniques. The course has changed the way I do my work, all by helping me to be myself and being authentic with people more than I ever thought possible in a professional situation. Throw away those “How to…” books, forget the “X Steps to Consulting Success “ seminars and try this course instead.”
- Dr Michael F O’Neill, Managing Director, Eolas Biosciences Ltd
“I came to the Organisational Development and Executive Coaching training primarily from a psychodynamic therapy and organisational trauma background. I am fascinated, enthralled, always affected by organisations and at times intimidated by them. I wanted to acquire a sharper lens to my organisational work; this was my primary objective for doing the training.
As a therapist I am well versed in experiential learning and so was comfortable with the delegates forming an organisation and working with the “here and now”. I was out of my comfort zone when working with the Gestalt approach and particularly the importance of the embodied experience as a tool for learning. As a result of the training I am much more attuned to the body and able to integrate this tool in working with individual and organisational clients.
During our organisational consultation on a wintry day in January we established our presence in wellingtons in a frozen, muddy field. Our getting lost, the debris in the road to the client, even the cold we endured during the client contact proved to be informative of the client’s struggles. Field theory turned field reality!
I’ve used some of the content of the training to further deepen my understanding and practice e.g. I trained with Dr John Golden in the USA on the application of the Golden Personality Profiler and his other tools. I’ve used the psychometric testing development tools to identify imbalance in some of my coaching clients and bring about positive change, integration and restore balance and vitality for clients’ businesses’ and lives.
Following the day on the systemic approach I attended an international colloquium on global social issues in November 2008 and have recently embarked upon a systemic constellation training.
Just recently I was engaged in an organisational trauma intervention in Aberdeen following a tragic helicopter accident and huge loss of life ~ my approach to organisational trauma now holds the systemic, the group and the individual’s experience in mind.
Finally I gained a great network of colleagues and a few more priceless friends as a result of the training which have blossomed in to generative, enduring, relationships.”
- William Devine
What have previous students said about this course?
Mostly a great experience, never a dull moment, thought or idea. At times the group approach with its diverse membership was very challenging, and unpredictable, but it was worthwhile and there were interesting and beneficial outcomes both professionally and personally for all.
For me the group was the greatest source of learning, value and content. Having the mix of nationalities, gender and professional backgrounds aids an enriching group experience.
I’ve already started Executive Coaching. I think differently about organisations but I want to consolidate my learning and integrate it into my practice gradually. Having conducted what I consider was a successful site visit and organisational consultancy I have gained greater confidence of my organisational work.
This kind of experiential learning was new for me and it will take time to see how it beds in an how I can implement it in my working life. I see the value and have tried to use myself as a presence more in my dealings with clients even in my technical consulting. It is a big step away from how I have worked in the past and I hope I have the courage and tenacity to stick at it. It is very interesting to see how different my approach now is compared to colleagues who still work in the “consultant as expert” model.
I remember when I was browsing for a course on executive coaching and organisational development. So many courses and so little knowledge on which is the good one! The Grove Practice course on OD&EC is definitely a high standard course. The learning experience has been fantastic. The change and personal development starts from day one. The approach of the tutors, the topics, and the support made possible for me to take the challenge and develop a better approach with my own team as well as start building my own practice as executive coach and OD consultant. Many thanks!
Mostly a great experience, never a dull moment, thought or idea. At times the group approach with its diverse membership was very challenging, and unpredictable, but it was worthwhile and there were interesting and beneficial outcomes both professionally and personally for all.
Company profile
The Grove Practice is based in the heart of London, originally established over 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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It can be hugely reassuring to talk things through confidentially with someone professional and independent, who can help you explore your difficulties and find fresh perspectives. We have a great team of professional counsellors, therapists and tutors waiting to help you… Read More..