Elena Semino is the Professor of Linguistics and Verbal Art at Lancaster University and the director of the ERCS center for corpus approaches to social science. In this podcast, we are exploring how metaphors can limit and extend possibilities for coaches and clients and draw on Elena’s work creating “metaphor menus” for people experiencing cancer as the dominant metaphor of “fighting cancer” is not suitable for everyone – in a fight there are winners and losers, for example. Tune in for a fascinating talk and gain new perspectives and possibilities for your coaching.

Andrea Matt (Liechtenstein):

Diplom-Designerin, Business-Coach, breit aufgestellte Generalistin mit fundierten Ausbildungen (Kommunikation, Journalismus) mit Führungserfahrung und Schwerpunkt im Bereich „Nachhaltigkeit“ (Umwelt, Natur, Diversity, Soziales, Wirtschaft).

Fundierte PR-Erfahrung (Medien, Events, Kommunikation).

Hohes gesellschaftspolitisches Interesse und Engagement.

ZARINE JACOB

Zarine works as an executive coach & facilitator in her 2nd career since 2000. She enjoys provoking learning – and unlearning – in co-creating the fairer, more equitable society we all want to live in, and transforming our own consciousness in the process.

Zarine’s areas of work include leadership, career, emotional intelligence, intercultural understanding and DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging). She ran her own company for 16 years working globally on people development work. In her semi-retired years now, she enjoys taking on projects that energise her and she loves collaborating with others to create change, internal and external. She is active in various community initiatives and continues to host Ely Death Café (virtually).

Jörg Middendorf ist Diplom-Psychologe, PCC (ICF) und Senior Coach (DBVC). Er leitet seit 2002 das BCO Büro für Coaching und Organisationsberatung bei Köln. Nach Erfahrungen als Personalentwickler bei der Bayer AG und als interner Coach bei McKinsey gründete er das BCO, welches sich auf Business Coaching, Führung und Konflikte fokussiert. Seit 2002 bringt das BCO mit wechselnden Partnern die Coaching-Umfrage Deutschland heraus, die damit die älteste Langzeitstudie zum deutschen Coaching-Markt ist (www.coaching-umfrage.de).

Jörg Middendorf ist Diplom-Psychologe, PCC (ICF) und Senior Coach (DBVC). Er leitet seit 2002 das BCO Büro für Coaching und Organisationsberatung bei Köln. Nach Erfahrungen als Personalentwickler bei der Bayer AG und als interner Coach bei McKinsey gründete er das BCO, welches sich auf Business Coaching, Führung und Konflikte fokussiert. Seit 2002 bringt das BCO mit wechselnden Partnern die Coaching-Umfrage Deutschland heraus, die damit die älteste Langzeitstudie zum deutschen Coaching-Markt ist (www.coaching-umfrage.de).

Loretta Ross is a Visiting Associate Professor at Smith College teaching “White Supremacy in the Age of Trump.” She started her career in the women’s movement in the 1970s, working at the National Football League Players’ Association, the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, the National Organization for Women, the National Black Women’s Health Project, the Center for Democratic Renewal (National Anti-Klan Network), the National Center for Human Rights Education, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. Her forthcoming book is Calling In the Calling Out Culture. Her most recent publications are Reproductive Justice: An Introduction and Radical Reproductive Justice. She is a graduate of Agnes Scott College class of 2007.

Stephan ist ein Forscher mit Schwerpunkt auf Marketing für Verhaltensänderungen, Ethik und sozialem Wandel und Gründer eines in Portugal ansässigen Ökoprojekts. Als Coach arbeitet Stephan hauptsächlich mit LGBTQ + Einzelpersonen, Organisationen und Sozialunternehmen zusammen und ist Treuhänder von zwei Wohltätigkeitsorganisationen in diesem Bereich. Stephan hat einen Doktortitel in interkultureller Psychologie und 10 Bücher veröffentlicht, darunter Marketingethik und Gesellschaft, Handbuch für Marketingethik (beide Salbei) und Sozialmarketing (Pearson).

Dr. Chené Swart is a trained Narrative Therapist, who has been translating these ideas and practices with organisations, communities and individuals from various cultures and contexts

For the last 20 years she has been exploring how we can take back the pen and re-author with dignity and beauty our human presence in this world.

Since 2012, she has facilitated apprentice journeys with leaders, coaches, consultants, teachers, social workers and HR professionals who would like to translate these ideas into their own contexts and host conversations that nourish alternative narratives.

These re-authoring apprentice journeys have taken place in South Africa, Belgium and Canada and through an online platform with participants from the USA, Mauritius, Jordan and Russia.

She is committed to participate in and contribute to conversations and actions that re-author our world towards the common good, one narrative at a time!

David has devoted his life to the art and science of change. He has helped thousands of people to cross thresholds to free themselves to be more fully human. He knows from his own journey the price we pay when we don’t show up to these moments. It is also true that many of his deepest insights, skills and practices emerged in these spaces.

He founded Narrative Coaching in 2002 based on his doctoral research; he has taught it to over 20,000 practitioners. He founded Integrative Development in 2012 as a powerful new model of learning & development that he has used in every client project.

David has presented to 25 universities and associations, including the opening keynote for the first International Coaching Psychology Congress in London. He is a Thought Leader for the Institute of Coaching at Harvard. He has written over 60 publications on coaching. He is known for his trans-disciplinary approach and introducing rites of passage, attachment theory, zones of proximal development and more to coaching.