Centre for Coaching

03/01/2026

to our learners and alumni. www.centreforcoaching.info

12/03/2025

Podcast: Liz Hall in conversation with Charlotte Hastings.

Coaching at Work podcast with Charlotte Hastings for 2025

Podcast: Liz Hall in conversation with Charlotte Hastings Coaching at Work podcast with Charlotte Hastings – Climate Coaching Action Day 2025 Liz Hall in conversation with Charlotte Hastings about Climate Coaching Action Day.

16/01/2025

Course: Primary Certificate in Stress Management
Online, Zoom: 21st-22nd January 2025
Trainer: Dr Siobhain O'Riordan PhD CPsychol FISMA

Stress Management online course (Zoom) 21st-22nd January 2025. Our professional body approved 2-day programme includes the theory of stress and its management at individual and organisational levels. The programme takes a multimodal cognitive-behavioural approach to stress management and is based on current research and practice. Course includes book and manual.

Find out more about the course on the Centre website: https://www.managingstress.com/primary-cert-in-stress-management

Successful completion of this course fulfils the level of study required to comply with the guidelines for Professional Level Membership of the International Stress Management Association UK. See: https://www.managingstress.com/isma

08/02/2024

Primary certificate in relaxation skills training

12th – 13th March 2024

Venue: Zoom

Special discounted rates for 2024

Fee: Ind £200; Org £310

CPD only fee: Ind £160; Org £280

This 2-day programme provides an overview to relaxation skills training. It has been designed for practitioners wishing to use relaxation techniques and skills within their practice including psychologists, coaches, counsellors, and health trainers. Research has found that relaxation techniques can reduce stress, anxiety and blood pressure, and enhance performance and wellbeing. With regular practice, learning relaxation skills can become a useful coping strategy. Hence their use within relaxation based coaching and counselling based practice.

Although many practitioners already use relaxation techniques in their practice, they may not have attended a formal course. This programme is recognised by the International Society for Coaching Psychology (ISCP) and Approved by the British Psychological Society Learning Centre for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

This programme can be taken either as the Primary Certificate in Relaxation Skills Training which includes submitting a Post Programme Review (see below) or as a general CPD programme titled, Relaxation Skills Training.

CONTENT This programme covers the theory, research and practice of relaxation skills. It will consider how the Learners can integrate relaxation techniques and strategies within their field of practice including coaching, counselling, training and health-related fields. Learners will have the opport...

12/10/2023

The Centre for Coaching, International Academy for Professional Development Ltd courses are all modular. Courses are run over our zoom virtual platform. Attendance certificates are provided for all courses. All Primary Certificate courses include a post-course written assignment. However, delegates....

12/10/2023

Course dates for 2024

The Centre for Coaching, International Academy for Professional Development Ltd courses are all modular. Courses are run over our zoom virtual platform. Attendance certificates are provided for all courses. All Primary Certificate courses include a post-course written assignment. However, delegates....

13/06/2023

Do you need on-going supervision for your coaching practice? Are you working towards coach accreditation?

Our coaching supervision groups are held five times over a 10 to 12 month period. They are of 90 minutes duration. Each group has a maximum of six supervisees. Meetings are held over the Zoom Platform. The fee for the five meetings is £325, paid in advance.
Supervision dates for stream B2:

Monday 19th June 2023
Monday 18th Sept 2023
Monday 27th Nov 2023
Monday 26th Feb 2024
Monday 15th April 2024

Time: 14.00pm -15.30pm (UK time) (NB First session to end at 15.45pm to allow for contracting administration at the start of the meeting.)

The group supervisor is Dr Siobhain O'Riordan PhD who is an accredited supervisor. Contact our NACP office for more information. Email: [email protected]

Supervision: Coaches Our coaching supervision groups are held five times over a 10 to 12 month period. They are of 90 minutes duration. Each group has a maximum of six supervisees. The fee for the five meetings is £325, paid in advance. Supervision dates for stream B2: Monday 19th June 2023 Monday ...

29/04/2023

Just published: The Conservatoire Coach’s Casebook Notes: a thematic analysis, by Jo Hensel, Stephen Palmer and Karen Wise

Although coaching has been shown to promote positive change and growth in higher education in general, there is very little evidence of its use in specialist higher music education where there is a call for increased support for positive psychological functioning. The purpose of this paper is to present an account of the challenges facing music students in a leading UK conservatoire, describing the issues that came up in the course of 1:1 solution-focused coaching sessions with the researcher.

Citation: Hensel, J., Palmer, S., & Wise, K. (2023). The Conservatoire Coach’s Casebook Notes: a thematic analysis. International Journal of Coaching Psychology, 4, 4, 1-13.



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27/04/2023

Virtual course/workshop: Primary Certificate in Positive Psychology Coaching 4-5 May, 2023.

The 2-day Primary Certificate in Positive Psychology Coaching will be of interest to practitioners from coaching, coaching psychology and allied fields interested in learning more about Positive Psychology and Positive Psychology Coaching. This workshop based course will also provide skills practice for practitioners who want to integrate Positive Psychology Coaching theory and techniques within their practice.

Once learners have enrolled onto the programme, they are asked to complete the free VIA character strengths survey before attending the course. The Primary Certificate in Positive Psychology Coaching is recognised by the International Society for Coaching Psychology as suitable for CPD purposes.

The trainer is Dr Siobhain O’Riordan PhD CPsychol FISCP a Chartered Coaching Psychologist, and ISCP Accredited Coaching Psychologist. She co-edits professional and academic coaching and positive psychology journals.

https://www.centreforcoaching.com/positive-psychology-coaching

Primary Certificate in Positive Psychology Coaching 2-day skills and theory based course.

13/04/2023

Supervision: Coaching Psychologists

Our supervision groups are held five times over a 12 month period. They are of 90 minutes duration. Each group has a maximum of six supervisees. These supervision groups will be of interest for psychologists in training who are working towards Chartered Coaching Psychologist or ISCP Accredited Coaching Psychologist status. In addition, coaching psychologists or psychologists who coach may also wish to attend them for on-going supervision. The fee for the five meetings is £325, paid in advance.

Supervision dates for stream A4:

Monday 17th April 2023
Monday 19th June 2023
Monday 18th Sept 2023
Monday 27th Nov 2023
Monday 26th Feb 2024
Time: 11.00am – 12.30pm (UK time) (NB First session to end at 12.45pm to allow for contracting administration).

Contact our office for more information. Email: office (at) coachingpsychology.one

Supervision: Psychologists Supervision: Psychologists Our supervision groups are held five times over a 12 month period. They are of 90 minutes duration. Each group has a maximum of six supervisees. These supervision groups will be of interest for psychologists in training who are working towards Ch...

01/03/2023

Climate Coaching Action Day, 2nd March, 2023

The International Academy for Professional Development and our affiliated centres including Centre for Coaching, Centre for Health Coaching, Centre for Positive Transitions, and Centre for Stress Management support Climate Coaching Action Day. On this page we list articles co-authored by our staff, trainers and associates on topics relating to climate coaching, ecoanxiety, ecostress, ecodepression, ecopsychology, research and coaching/therapy interventions to enable coachees and clients to maintain motivation.

In 2023, the Action Day is 2nd March. Look out for and use the social media hashtag:

Climate Coaching Action Day

08/11/2022

The Centre for Coaching are pleased to be silver sponsors of the Coaching at Work magazine Annual (virtual) Conference on the 17th November.

Conference theme: Ahead of the Curve: Inspiring cutting-edge coaching practice in challenging times

Confirmed speakers and sessions are:

09.15-09.30: Welcome & Networking

09.30-11.00: Leadership panel: Eunice Aquilina, Lucy Daykin, Tim Spackman, Simon Western and Anthony Kasozi

11-15-12.45: Diversity & Inclusion panel: Rita Symons, Will James, Felicia Lauw and Sandra Wilson

13.15-14.45: Nature-based Coaching panel: Stephen Palmer & Siobhain O’Riordan, James Farrell, Diana Tedoldi, Linda Aspey and Sarah Flynn

15.00-16.30: Innovations & Wellbeing panel: Belinda Rydings, Rachael Skews and Liz Hall

16.45-18.15: Digital Coaching panel: Rachael Skews, Sam Isaacson, David Tinker and Tom Marsden

18.15-18.30: Networking

Times in GMT

Conference programme and booking: https://lnkd.in/e4Z9-2fC

Conference website: https://caw.nwsvirtualevents.com/conference-sponsors-2022/

We thank company and professional body sponsors for supporting our conference. Our thanks to the National Wellbeing Service Ltd for providing their virtual events system. Silver Sponsor The Centre for Coaching is an international training centre and consultancy established in 2001. This year it is...