Events programme

Siobhain O'Riordan

7 JULY
Diagnostics in coaching - A Leadership and Performance Audit
BPS London Office, John Street

This experiential workshop will introduce participants to SHL’s Leadership tool (LPPA) which measures and differentiates between Performance and Potential, at both a transformational and transactional level - a unique proposition in the market. The workshop will provide brief details on the development of the tool, and how it has been used in business. Participants will then have the opportunity to work with the results to see how it is used in a coaching context.
Workshop facilitator: Shauna McVeigh has worked for SHL for five years in a number of roles, and currently heads the Management Development Practice within the UK. Shauna is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and she has been coaching for three years.

7 SEPTEMBER 2005
Coaching for Strengths: Embracing a Positive Coaching Psychology Agenda
BPS London Office, John Street

This workshop provides an introductory grounding in positive psychology, presenting participants with opportunities to consider their fundamental assumptions about human nature and explore how this impacts on their professional practice as coaches. It introduces state-of-the-science research on the theory, measurement and application of psychological strengths, particularly in coaching settings. Participants will be invited to explore different ways of identifying their own strengths, as well as the strengths of their clients, and will consider how a positive psychological strengths approach may enhance and develop their coaching practice.
Workshop facilitator: Alex Linley completed his PhD at the University of Warwick, where he edited the international volume Positive Psychology in Practice, edited a special issue of The Psychologist on positive psychology, and chaired the European Network for Positive Psychology. He is now a psychology lecturer at the University of Leicester, and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Positive Psychology and The Psychologist.

20 OCTOBER 2005
Stress Management in Coaching Psychology (workshop title and further details pending)
Workshop co-facilitator: Peter Kelly, Occupational Health Psychologist.

2 NOVEMBER 2005
Coaching Supervision - Luxury or Necessity
BPS London Office, John Street

This workshop will present supervision as a forum for learning from practice and view the supervisor as one who facilitates a process of experiential learning. Coaching itself will be viewed as one of the tasks of supervision and coaching supervision will be considered as coaching for coaching psychologists. The time will be spent on a number of themes:

• What is coaching supervision and what is it trying to achieve?
• How to balance the paradoxes of supervision, e.g. development and learning versus accountability.
• How do supervisors set up supervision and help supervisees (coaches) make the best use of it?
• How to justify having supervision (or requiring it) as part of the professional practice of coaching psychology.

6 September 2005
Getting Emotional about Goal-Setting
BPS London Office, John Street

This experiential workshop will illustrate the use of core psychological principles under the popular brand of ‘Emotional Intelligence’ to facilitate significant business and personal outcomes for clients in organisational settings. The workshop will demonstrate, using theory and practical exercises, how to help clients understand the important linkage between emotional inputs and effective goal setting and attainment.
Workshop facilitator: Bruce Grimley has been coaching since 1995. The key focus of his work is the need to understand and address the underlying emotional issues that influence the attainment of successful outcomes both in terms of working relationships and business performance. Bruce is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and is committed to finding ways to make psychological principles accessible so people can be more effective at work.

14 October 2005
Personal Construct Psychology as a Resource for Coaching Psychologists
BPS London Office, John Street

This event will include brief sketches of the evolution of applications of PCP to coaching in the UK and Ireland. Participants will be introduced to applications of selected PCP concepts and techniques and will explore questions critical to coaching psychologists considering PCP as a resource:

• How to go about designing ‘coaching’ congruent with the phenomenological methodology of PCP and with needs of ‘healthy’ coaching clients.
• How well have the writings of the inventor of PCP, George Kelly, contributed to coaching congruent with PCP?
• Does any important part of his model of the psychology of personal constructs act more as a barrier than as a facilitator for applying PCP to coaching in the ‘real world’?
• What psychological research has emerged since Kelly’s death in 1966 that throws light on the question ‘why draw on PCP?’

Workshop facilitator Kieran Duignan coaches for psychological fitness in challenging organisational and personal situations. A Chartered Occupational Psychologist, registered ergonomist and registered safety practitioner, Kieran has a diploma in counselling from the London Centre for Personal Construct Psychology and diplomas in management consultancy, career guidance and distance education and an MSc in ergonomics.