Looking after your health and wellbeing through Coaching
Delivered by Karen Ardley Associates, this six-hour interactive course will explore how coaching can be a powerful mechanism to help people take better care of their health and wellbeing. It will take place over two sessions of 3h each. Session 1: 31 January, 08.00-11.00 GMT; Session 2: 21 February, 08.00-11.00 GMT.
Description
The coaching for wellbeing workshop explores how coaching can be a powerful mechanism to help people take better care of their health and wellbeing. The workshops will give participants practical tools to promote their health and wellbeing, based on theory and research. The tools can then be applied to support colleagues as we seek to foster greater health and wellness in our schools.
David Porritt’s doctoral research concluded that not only is receiving coaching a benefit to the overall health and wellness of people in our schools, but so also is becoming a coach, given that there are significant benefits for those who adopt a coaching approach in their work.
Coaching is understood as a tool to help people promote their professional ambition, unravel professional challenges and is increasingly adopted as a day-to-day leadership process of providing support, to help employees identify opportunities and achieve individual development goals. Those who succeed with a coaching style enable employees to gain awareness and reflection, generate their own answers, require less control and directing, and have a desire to help them develop and flourish (Porritt, 2021). As Moore and Jackson have found, coaching also impacts a range of health and wellness issues that can benefit from coaching. It is a marked contrast to the medical expert approach more commonly associated with wellness and health.
The position we take is that it is never too late to receive coaching or to foster the attitudes, attributes and behaviours associated with becoming a coach. By that we mean…
- Curiosity
- Openness
- Agency
- Conscientiousness
- Healthy practices
Additional information:
This interactive online course is delivered by Karen Ardley Associates and has now been confirmed. Participant numbers are limited and early booking is recommended. This course will be facilitated remotely and supported by downloadable and digital resources.
This course will run for six hours over two sessions:
Session 1: 31 January, 08.00-11.00 GMT
Session 2: 21 February, 08.00-11.00 GMT
Please note, recordings will not be made available; participants will be given access to the KAA Online Learning Platform, along with downloadable and digital resources. Certificates will be issued to attendees.
Booking process:
Delegate fees:
£135 per COBIS Member delegate
£145 per Non-Member delegate
Please complete an online booking form by clicking 'register' at the top of this page.
If you are based in the UK, the delegate fee will be liable for VAT. Please email events@cobis.org.uk to process your registration.
If you are based outside the UK, but you are booking and paying for your place as an individual (rather than having the booking paid for by the school), you may also be liable for VAT. Please email events@cobis.org.uk to process your booking.
In all other situations, please tick the ‘organisation’ box when asked if the payee is an organisation or an individual.
Target audience:
Professional educators across the COBIS network who are keen to foster healthier lifestyles, look after the health and wellbeing of their colleagues and themselves and/or who are interested in getting into coaching.
Presenter
Dr David Porritt is an experienced UK and International School Principal in Budapest. He is a regular programme facilitator, executive coach and leadership mentor. As director of coaching services at KAA David has facilitated several coaching programmes in schools and works directly as a coach with numerous school leaders worldwide. He has recently completed a Doctorate in leadership and coaching in schools. David facilitated several cohorts of international teaching staff through the International Programme for Middle Leaders for the Council of British International Schools and has taught several Heads and principals how to facilitate their own programmes. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management.