PLAYFULNESS IN COACHING
Association for Coaching (AC)
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Welcome to the latest edition of the Association for Coaching’s (AC) Newsletter. This week:
Whether new to the concept or already incorporating playful techniques, a new webinar series offers something for everyone.
Join us on the 27 November for a hands-on, down-to-earth webinar series, with playfulness coaches and authors, Stephanie Wheeler and Teresa Leyman. We will cover a range of topics, including the benefits of playfulness and the many ways it can be integrated and adapted to suit your unique style and practice.
This series is designed to meet you wherever you are on your journey, encouraging and inspiring you to develop your playful practice further. This series is designed to challenge the thinking on what playfulness means in coaching practice and how to shift or expand the mindset around being playful with clients in a creative and transformational capacity.
You will learn:
Our goal is for you to discover and gain deeper insights into your relationship with playfulness, both personally and within your coaching practice. We want to help you develop and enhance your own playful approach.
This is available to members and non-members and non-members will receive a year’s free associate membership. It is worth 4.5 CPD hours.
Find out more and register here.
Without realising it, we hear proverbs all the time, they are part of our culture. But what do they have to do with coaching?
In 2022, as part of the Let’s Make Coaching Creative AC podcast series, we interviewed the warm and wise Lorlett Hudson to talk about her multi-award-winning, 52 card set of proverbs, “What Mama Used to Say.” Lorlett is the Founder and CEO on One Hand Can’t Clap, an entrepreneur mentor, author, and leadership coach. Passionate about supporting people, communities, innovation and change One Hand Can’t Clap supports high-level black professionals, leaders, changemakers and entrepreneurs.
Lorlett introduces her card set, which uses Jamaican and Caribbean proverbs to foster critical thinking and personal development, and designed to facilitate change, alter perceptions, break down barriers and develop high-performing leaders and teams.
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You will learn:
An authentic, natural-born coach, Lorlett is full of wise simple truths and has lived by her own belief that “there is always another way.” In this podcast, she shares her incredible work with young people, leaders and corporations. Listen and be inspired by her passion for people, community, innovation, coaching and change.
Listen to this episode here
“The realisation was painful. It was me. I had to give myself permission to do this.”
Christian van Nieuwerburgh
In the latest edition of our Coaching Perspectives magazine, executive coach, academic and Harley Davidson enthusiast, Christian van Nieuwerburgh, shares how he made a childhood dream to drive a Harley Davidson motorcycle across the USA, a reality. After years of encouraging others to follow their aspirations, it was during a coaching for himself, it was time to follow his own. Read and be inspired by Christian as he tells how a motorcycle adventure became a reflective practice.
Access all editions of our Coaching Perspectives magazine here.
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The Association for Coaching (AC) is a leading independent, not-for-profit global professional body dedicated to promoting best practices and raising awareness and standards of coaching worldwide. Our purpose is to inspire and champion coaching excellence, advance the coaching profession, and make a sustainable difference to individuals, organizations and society.