Welcome to the EMCC UK podcast and welcome to this Spotlight Series on The Transformative Power of Mindfulness for Coaches.

In this episode, Marian Rosefield, Deputy Director for Coaching Practice: Knowledge exchange and co-lead for the health & wellbeing Special interest group, talks to Eike Tischer, co-founder of the Oxford Coaching partners, leadership coach and consultant.

Eike has a passion for wellbeing and qualified as a mindfulness teacher with the Oxford University Mindfulness Centre. She has a master’s degree in Coaching and Mentoring Practice, and her dissertation research explored how mindfulness training can support coaches and their practice.

During this conversation Marian and Eike discuss the benefits of raising mindful awareness in coaching, including connecting the body a source of information, noticing and regulating unhelpful habitual reactions and using mindfulness and self-compassion to manage coaches’ self-care needs.

We hope you enjoy this episode, please remember to subscribe where ever you get your podcast so you don’t miss future conversations like this.

Further resources:

Published Research:
Brazier, E., 2023. Taking control of the wandering mind: how can an experiential mindfulness programme support coaches and their practice?. International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching & Mentoring, 17.

EMCC newsletters:

The importance of self-care and self-compassion (July 2023)
Enabling self-regulation and agency (June 2023)
Raising mindful awareness of body and mind (May 2023)
Taking control of the wandering mind (April 2023)

In this second episode of the ‘Coaching Through the Sectors’ series our host, Anna Springett, Deputy Director for Coaching Practice at EMCC UK and chartered psychologist, talks to Kate Maurici and Simon Jones, both from the world of elite sport.

Kate is Head of the Queens club Foundation, a charity which strives to improve lives through racket sports, and has been in the tennis coaching industry for 13 years. Simon, a former professional tennis player himself, has been the Head of Performance Strategy at Chelsea Football Club since 2022, and has previously held leadership roles with the Lawn Tennis Association.

In this fascinating conversation Kate and Simon discuss what is unique about the practice of coaching in elite sport, and how the differences between sports coaching, performance coaching, and leadership coaching are understood in the sporting world.

Practitioners interested in working in this sector will also gain valuable insight and understanding of what it’s like to coach in the world of professional sport.

We hope you enjoy this discussion, remember to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts so you don’t miss the third episode in this series.

Welcome to the EMCC UK Podcast, and welcome to the Spotlight Series Episode on Climate Coaching.

In this episode our host Hannah Butler, Director for Coaching Practice at the EMCC UK, talks to Rita Symons, an experienced health and care leader, leadership consultant and past president of the EMCC UK. 

Rita became interested in climate change and coaching in 2019 and since this time has gone on to develop several initiatives including EMCC UK Climate Change and Spotlight Series. These recordings are still available to members and can be found on the EMCC UK website. 

In this discussion Rita and Hannah explore how the climate change conversation relates to the coaching industry and discuss ways that professionals in the field could make a difference through their practice in and out of their professional lives.

Welcome to the EMCC UK Podcast. And welcome to the first episode in our series on ‘Coaching Through the Sectors’.

In this first episode of the ‘Coaching Through the Sectors’ series our host, Anna Springett, Deputy Director for Coaching Practice at EMCC UK and chartered psychologist, talks to John Draper about Coaching in Education. John has been in teaching for over thirty years, working both abroad, and in his native Essex, in Bournemouth, and for the last eighteen years, as a headteacher in Southampton. He is vice chair of the Aspire Community Trust (a family of nine schools at the heart of the city) and has been coaching for over fifteen years.

During the discussion Anna and John explore what is unique and different about coaching in the education sector. They look at who it is that typically seeks out or is offered coaching and ask what we should consider when it comes to coaching teachers or head teachers

We hope you enjoy this discussion, and don’t forget to subscribe to enjoy the next episodes in this series.

In this episode, our podcast host and the EMCC UK Director for Coaching Practice, Hannah Butler, talks to Dr Louise Gilbert about emotion coaching.

Louise Gilbert is co-author of Emotion Coaching with Children and Young People in Schools: Promoting Positive Behaviour, Wellbeing and Resilience. She is an established leader and expert in the field and co-founder of Emotion Coaching UK, a not-for-profit organisation. Louise has a background in health and education, and a doctorate in emotion coaching.

During this episode, Louise and Hannah discuss the observed developmental advantage experienced by the children of families whose natural parenting style John Gottman labelled as ‘emotion coaching’. They also look at how this has been adapted to form training programmes for school and community practitioners, parents and foster carers.

Further resources:

Emotion Coaching – the website

https://www.emotioncoachinguk.com/

Emotion Coaching – the book

https://uk.jkp.com/products/emotion-coaching-with-children-and-young-people-in-schools

In this episode, Sarah Bailey, from the EMCC UK Higher Education Special Interest Group, discusses how pastoral and academic peer mentoring supports students in higher education with special guest Dr Joe Stevens. Joe is a senior law academic who has taught in a number of public universities and is currently a senior lecturer at the University of West London.

While completing his PhD, Joe became involved in his university’s Peer Academic Learning Scheme (PAL). He later trained as a supervisor before starting a PAL program at Bloomsbury Institute, where he trained leaders for several years. He has always seen the benefits of peer learning both to leaders and attendees, and has recently introduced a PAL programme at the University of West London.

Sarah and Joe discuss the key elements in creating pastoral and academic mentoring schemes, the process needed for training pastoral and academic peer mentors, and the benefits of mentoring to students, staff and the institution as a whole.

Further resources:

In this podcast we are joined by Rachel Westerbeek, who belongs to our Mentoring Special Interest Group (SIG) and co-leads the Neurodiversity SIG, and Jess Hendrickx, a speaker with a wealth of knowledge and experience as an autism coach and mentor gained from several years of practice and underpinned by her own lived experience.

They discuss how working with an ADHD or autistic mentee might be different, how to manage the boundaries between mentoring and mental health support, and asking what safe and effective mentoring looks like where the mentee is neurodivergent.Follow these links to find out more about the EMCC UK Neurodiversity and Mentoring SIGs.

Welcome to our three-part series on developing an NHS volunteer coaching service for cancer patients and their families. The episodes are hosted by Dr Andrew Parsons, and presented by the EMCC UK health and wellbeing special interest group.

The Fountain Centre is an independent cancer charity, based in St Luke’s Cancer Centre at the Royal Surrey Hospital, providing information and holistic support for people impacted by cancer. In 2014, volunteer medical coaches started to bring their expertise to patients and family members, and following positive feedback, the Fountain Centre team began to develop an integrated coaching service at the centre.

In this third episode, Anne Pike, Head of the Fountain Centre, and Natalie Silverdale, Research Lead, discuss the PhD project focused on reviewing the service and develop coaching standards for cancer in the NHS.

The discussion is facilitated by Dr Andrew A Parsons, a certified wellness practitioner, EMCC Master Accredited coach/mentor, and EMCC UK health and wellbeing special interest group co-lead. He was also one of the founding medical coaches who developed the Fountain Centre service.

Welcome to our three-part series on developing an NHS volunteer coaching service for cancer patients and their families. The episodes are hosted by Dr Andrew Parsons, and presented by the EMCC UK health and wellbeing special interest group.

The Fountain Centre is an independent cancer charity, based in St Luke’s Cancer Centre at the Royal Surrey Hospital, providing information and holistic support for people impacted by cancer. In 2014, volunteer medical coaches started to bring their expertise to patients and family members, and following positive feedback, the Fountain Centre team began to develop an integrated coaching service at the centre.

In this second episode, Anne Pike, Head of the Fountain Centre, and Charlotte McDowell, its founder, discuss how the coaching service was scaled to offer coaching in parallel to counselling and complementary therapies.  

The discussion is facilitated by Dr Andrew A Parsons, a certified wellness practitioner, EMCC Master Accredited coach/mentor, and EMCC UK health and wellbeing special interest group co-lead. He was also one of the founding medical coaches who developed the Fountain Centre service.