Stephen Palmer & Alison Whybrow

A large majority of Society members who voted for or against the proposal to set up a Special Group in Coaching Psychology (SGCP) did not actually see the proposal on which they were voting. This is just an anomaly of the way subsystems are set up within the Society. We have 14 versions of the working document which gradually changed as it went through different committees. Although rather late in the day, in an attempt to address this issue, we are publishing the final version below.

It is dated March 2004 but in reality had various footnotes added to it during the spring and early summer of 2004, thus ensuring that the document remained unaltered but up to date as it went through the BPS system. We have edited out a couple of sentences due to the sensitive areas they relate to and not included the draft rules which have been available on our SGCP website.

We hope that publishing the proposal provides insight into what is coaching psychology from a UK and BPS perspective as well having the proposal on the record, in the first hardcopy edition of The Coaching Psychologist.

Full article: Volume 1, Issue 1 pages 5 - 12