The Coaching Foundation

The Coaching Foundation Ltd (President, Sir John Whitmore, Founders, Steve Breibart & Dr Angus McLeod) runs not-for-profit practice sessions on weekday evenings and full days of trainings each year. There are a number of groups and more are planned. These events extend the thinking and skills of coaches. Events have included:

• ‘The Power of Silence’ (Angus McLeod; experiencing silence as a tool for change)
• Metaphor (Penny Tompkins & James Lawley)
• Myers-Briggs (Steve Breibart)
• Psychotherapeutic methods including Provocative Therapy and Gestalt as well as skills taken from the performing arts

One-day courses have been run by Sir John Whitmore, the Opera Director John Abulafia, Michelle Duval, Myles Downey and Shelle Rose Charvet (author of the international best-seller, Words That Change Minds). Notices are given by e-mail; you can subscribe now, free.  You can also download information and published articles.

The Coaching Foundation is a stimulating learning-place for coaches, mentors and trainees. Running on a not-for-profit basis, we have about a dozen evening programs running in two locations in the SE and West Midlands each year and at least one whole-day event. Plans are underway to develop further groups. The web site can be viewed at www.coachingfoundation.org.uk

Since we aim to stretch the boundaries of experience and learning, events have included a broad range of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic-Programming) tools, Transactional Analysis, Performance Coaching, Clean Language (Dr David Grove), Metaphor & Symbolic Modelling (James Lawley & Penny Tompkins), Alpha Leadership (Julian Russell, Robert Dilts and Anne Deering) and Provocative Therapy (Frank Farrelly.

We have a code of ethics for Coaches evolved from various inputs to Steve Breibart for which we are grateful. We aim to recommend in-company and open programs for coaches and hope to set or inspire European Standards for Coaching.

You may receive information about the Foundation via e-mail by registering on the link below. If you do not want daily e-group digests, select this option on the site after registration or ask us to do it for you:

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