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Meetings take place on the 3rd Tuesday of every month, a meeting for coaches, people training to be coaches or the curious

Life coaching and business coaching are becoming more widely recognised as useful ways of helping individuals and businesses to work effectively. This meeting is a network for Sheffield (or locally) based coaches or those in training to take part in CPD discussions, hone their skills and also learn of other techniques that are likely to be of benefit to them. We charge just £5 for attendance and are run by volunteers.

06/10/2026

Hey Coaches! So what do we have for you for October? Leading the session for us this month is Claire Bradshaw and Jana Kennedy on the topic of Group Coaching.

This engaging session introduces coaches to the essentials of group coaching. The agenda will be co-created with the group.

Examples of what we might explore include:

What group coaching is (and isn't) and how it differs from team coaching

Contracting for group coaching

Group coaching models

Group dynamics

Setting up a group coaching programme

Through interactive discussions, participants will gain clarity on how they can build the skills and knowledge to bring group coaching into their practice and really broaden and deepen their impact. You'll leave with fresh insights, top tips and a free toolkit to confidently lead group coaching sessions that foster collaboration, trust and growth.

ABOUT Claire & Jana

We are Claire Bradshaw and Jana Kennedy, coaches with a passion for Group Coaching. We are thrilled to be offering Group Coaching training programmes as we believe deeply in community, continuing development and the power of Group Coaching to make a difference in the world.

We model inclusivity throughout our work and our programmes by creating learning spaces which are open and holding and which allow people to be who they really are.

There’s no judgment here. We’re great believers in ‘who we are is how we coach’ and that when we bring together humans in all their diversity we create something powerful. The whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.

https://www.groupcoachingacademy.co.uk/

It was lovely to see so many at our September session as we started the 'new term' - and to have so many new members join us too. The community keeps on growing and finding more Sheffield coaches out there!

Will we see you there?

📍 Tuesday 20th October 6pm - 8pm

📍The Refinery 197 Ecclesall Road, S11 8HW - look out for one of us on the right as you approach the café

📍 £8 contribution to join us on the evening, we also operate a "pay what you can" for accessibility. We do not want finances to be a reason that coaches miss out on a community, we welcome all.

If you have any questions feel free to contact our co leads Chloe Angus 🌱and Julie White 🦒

03/09/2026

Hey Coaches!

After a Summer break we are back with our monthly meet ups.

This month we have the fantastic duo of Tony Leake and Claire Knight.

We'll explore The Inside-Out Nature of Coaching: How to be a more confident coach.

In this session, we’ll explore a radically simple understanding of how human experience is created, from the inside-out, and how this insight can profoundly deepen both your personal well-being and the quality of your coaching.
As human beings, we tend to live as though life works from the outside-in. We assume that our circumstances, other people and what happens around us determine how we feel: I’ll feel more secure when I have enough money in the bank. I’ll feel more confident as a coach when I have more clients. I’ll be less stressed when things calm down.
But what if our experience isn’t actually being created that way? What if there is something much simpler going on, and understanding it could change the way we experience both our own lives and the people we coach?

Rather than adding more techniques to your toolkit, this session will help you slow down and look more closely at what is actually creating our moment-to-moment experience. We’ll explore what is universal and constant in the way human experience works, and what seeing that more clearly can mean for stress, decision-making, connection and change.

You’ll leave with less on your mind, more presence, and a clearer sense of where true transformation comes from, both in yourself and in those you work with.

Read more and connect with our speakers in the comments :)

Will we see you there?
📍 Tuesday 15th September 6pm - 8pm
📍📍 The Refinery 197 Ecclesall Road, S11 8HW - look out for one of us on the right as you approach the café
📍 £8 contribution to join us on the evening (we also operate a "pay what you can" for accessibility)

If you have any questions feel free to contact our co leads Chloe Angus 🌱and Julie White 🦒

08/07/2026

Our July Session is with Lucy Atkinson - make sure Tuesday 21st July is in your diary coaches!

Lucy will be guiding us through a session on "Archetypes - The feminine and the masculine"

We can expect a powerful yet playful approach to helping clients act 'As if'. Explore how using the idea of archetypes allows us to unlock our inner wisdom and guide us to answers that resonate with our own true values, leading to shifts in beliefs and behaviour that have wide reaching and lasting impacts.

Lucy is a Hypnotherapist and Life Coach with a passion for supporting people to be the best they can be, and make the changes that will lead to a more balanced, harmonious life.

You can check out Lucy's website below:

www.lucyatkinson.org.uk

Will you be joining us?

📍 Tuesday 21st July 6pm - 8pm
📍 The Refinery 197 Ecclesall Road, S11 8HW - look out for one of us on the right as you walk up the stairs
📍 £8 contribution to join us on the evening (we also operate a "pay what you can" for accessibility)

We can't wait to see you there

PS We're a community of coaches for coaches. We focus on connection and celebrating and developing the coaching community in Sheffield. We welcome coaches of all experience and interest; internal coaches, Master practitioner, in training, just started - all welcomed :)

And if you have any questions please reach out to Chloe Angus 🌱 or Julie White our co leads.

18/05/2026

Will we see you tomorrow?

Sarah Short will be facilitating our session tomorrow in person at The Refinery, with her talk on "How to talk about coaching in a way people understand!"

Most of us have stood at a networking event, been asked what we do, and watched the other person's eyes glaze over before we'd finished the sentence. We talk about transformation, limiting beliefs, and powerful questions, and then we wonder why nobody books a call with us afterwards. The language we learned in coach training is our jargon, not the language potential clients use about their own problems.

In this 90 minute live session, we'll look at why what you've been saying hasn't been landing, and we'll work through a single sentence structure called the Golden Sentence that lets you describe what you do in a way that makes sense to the people you actually want to work with. You'll leave with your own version, if it's not completely finished, you'll know what to do to get there.

Sarah Short is a coach and the founder of The Coaching Revolution. She teaches qualified coaches how to create financially viable coaching businesses. Sarah is mum to two grown-up daughters and lives in northwest England with her partner and her small dog Bo.

Sarah is the author of a number of books for coaches, including the best-selling book A Coaching Business In A Book in which she shares everything she knows about finding clients who pay a professional rate for coaching. This book was shortlisted in the British Business Book Awards 2025 in the Sales and Marketing category.

Will you join us?
📍 Tuesday 19th May
📍 6pm start, we finish by 8pm
📍 £8 contribution to join us, which supports the work of the Golddigger trust (we operate a pay what you can, and want to ensure our sessions are accessible to all in the coaching community).

13/05/2026

Gather & Grow Line Up is here!

We're very excited for our 3rd annual all day coaching event for Sheffield Coaching Exchange on Friday 19th June.

And we can now announce our fabulous speakers.

Our theme this year is Humanity and Sustainability in Coaching, focusing on everything that allows us to push humanity and work in a way that is sustainable for us, our businesses and beyond.

Our key speakers are:
Alun Bedding - Trust in Coaching: Building Relationships that last
Jennifer Mccanna - Feeling It: An Exploration of Emotions in coaching
Jo Cantle - Receiving Without Apology: The Inner Work of Pricing as a Coach
Sophie Stephenson - Thinking Space: Creating the Conditions for People to Think for Themselves
Kate Jenkinson - Spoken Word Finale

We will be hosted by Channing Hall in the centre of our fantastic city.
And we will feel nourished not only by the company and speakers but also the fabulous pastries and lunch from Kollective kitchen.

We'd love to see you there.

Buy your tickets here https://www.viacourses.co.uk/gathergrow26

Early bird tickets are just £75!

12/05/2026

How confident are you when it comes to "How to talk about coaching in a way people understand!"? This is exactly what Sarah Short will be exploring with us next week.

Most of us have stood at a networking event, been asked what we do, and watched the other person's eyes glaze over before we'd finished the sentence. We talk about transformation, limiting beliefs, and powerful questions, and then we wonder why nobody books a call with us afterwards. The language we learned in coach training is our jargon, not the language potential clients use about their own problems.

In this 90 minute live session, we'll look at why what you've been saying hasn't been landing, and we'll work through a single sentence structure called the Golden Sentence that lets you describe what you do in a way that makes sense to the people you actually want to work with. You'll leave with your own version, if it's not completely finished, you'll know what to do to get there.

Sarah Short is a coach and the founder of The Coaching Revolution. She teaches qualified coaches how to create financially viable coaching businesses. Sarah is mum to two grown-up daughters and lives in northwest England with her partner and her small dog Bo.

Sarah is the author of a number of books for coaches, including the best-selling book A Coaching Business In A Book in which she shares everything she knows about finding clients who pay a professional rate for coaching. This book was shortlisted in the British Business Book Awards 2025 in the Sales and Marketing category.

Will you join us?

📍 Tuesday 19th May

📍 6pm start, we finish by 8pm

📍 £8 contribution to join us, which supports the work of the Golddigger trust (we operate a pay what you can, and want to ensure our sessions are accessible to all in the coaching community).

20/04/2026

Who is joining us tomorrow evening?

We can't wait for this session with Tamsin Hartley.

Let us know if you'll be there

10/04/2026

Coaches - Our Spring schedule of session continues!

Our next meet up - again, at our new venue The Refinery - will be facilitated by Tamsin Hartley on the topic of Being with Discomfort: the Essence of Wellbeing.

Uncomfortable feelings are part of what it means to be human, but we don’t always know what to do with them. These feelings are a reflection of stress physiology in the body.

In this session you will learn how a specific set of questions, called Clean Language questions, can be used with clients to help them to manage feelings of discomfort in a way that restores the physiology of safety to the body. This can have a profound impact on both their emotional and physical wellbeing.

You can learn more about this approach in Tamsin's blog: https://lnkd.in/dr2eSeV3
ABOUT TAMSIN:
After working as a physiotherapist for ten years and then taking time out to raise a family, Tamsin retrained to work as a coach, trainer and workshop facilitator.

She have created The Listening Space because of her belief in the transformative power of listening deeply to ourselves and to others.

"I have also always been drawn to using metaphor in my work, and when a friend introduced me to Clean Language it wasn’t long before I was hooked. Here was a respectful way of working with peoples' metaphors that is both resourceful and richly creative.

I have combined the principles of mindful awareness with exploration using Clean Language to create The Listening Space - a structured process in which one person facilitates another to explore what is on their mind, using a combination of repeating back their words and a specific set of Clean questions".

Tamsin's work has also lead her to creating Coming to Calm, an approach that introduces you to mindful tools that help to make you feel calmer and bring a greater sense of enjoyment to the things that you do.

Will you be joining us?
📍Tuesday 21st April 6pm - 8pm (arrive from 5:45)
📍£8 to join. As we are in person - with venue hire costs and tea/coffee provided - this is a reminder that we ask for a contribution to cover this.
We are now asking for £8 per person - or pay what you can.
We appreciate this is an increase - so please still join us. We don't ever want cost to be a barrier for anyone.
📍All those with an interest in coaching welcome. If you are new and want to know more please feel free to reach out to our co leads Chloe Angus 🌱 or Julie White

03/02/2026

Time to announce our February event :)

This month we are online again with Maddie Brenner-Roach facilitating the session.

We will be focusing on "The Transformative Power of Mind-Body Coaching".

This is a hands on session where we will be guided to feel what it’s like when your mind and body truly come into alignment. We will explore why tuning into the body is so powerful and experience a short somatic practice that gives a glimpse of the shifts this connection can bring.

Together, we’ll reflect on ways to bring this awareness into your coaching - not to master it in this short time, but to spark new possibilities for yourself and your clients.

If you’re curious about how body wisdom can deepen presence, clarity and transformation, this session will leave you inspired, grounded and ready to explore further in your own practice.

Maddie is an Embodiment Coach and Yoga Teacher devoted to helping women know themselves deeply - not just in theory, but in their bodies and lived experience.

Drawing from a diploma in transformative life coaching, trauma-informed practice, and over 570 hours of yoga teacher training, she weaves science, soul, and somatics into her work.

Her own healing journey began in 2019, leading her to live, and now guide, from a place of embodied knowing. A podcast host and writer at heart, Maddie creates spaces where women are invited to listen deeply, soften the noise and rise gently into who they already are.

We will as usual have time for networking and a mindful moment to help set us up for the session.

We welcome all those with an interest in coaching, new members absolutely welcome :) and as we are online it doesn't matter if you are local to Sheffield or not.

Who will be joining us?

📍 Tues 17th Feb

📍 6pm-8pm

📍 On Zoom

13/01/2026

Coaches of Sheffield - PLEASE READ and SHARE!

We have this evening been made aware of a very likely scam targeting coaches.

With thanks to Rebecca Norton for first highlighting this to us through our Whatsapp group, and Ryan Spence 🌱 ⓥ who shared an almost identical call a few weeks ago from another coach.

Rebecca, Chloe Angus 🌱 and several other members of our community received calls tonight from a private number. The caller went by the name of John Campbell and had a Scottish accent.

JC said he had money problems and was looking for life coaching but then said he wanted the maximum price possible and just wanted to give money to help out financially. Each conversation was similar to this wanting to give money, claiming he had issues with money, clearly not with a real interest in coaching and sounding quite distressed.

Dr. Alun Bedding has kindly shared more information on what we believe this scam to be: an "overpayment scam".

Here's how it typically plays out:
1. The caller insists on paying usually for the most expensive package (can create excitement and lower defences)
2. They pay by card / cheque / bank transfer often for more than the agreed amount
3. They ask you to refund the overpayment
4. Their original payment bounces or gets reversed / card was fake / stolen / chargeback initiated. But your "refund" of real money is already gone...

Red flags on the call (emotional manipulation) along with the private number. Trust your instincts coaches and be careful with your details.

We have seen that this has been happening for some time with creatives too and it seems like that any service providers, particularly sole traders could be targeted.

Please do share with others so people know to be careful.

We feel very lucky to have our community around us 💚 💪

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