What’s Happening – Climate Coaching Action Day

The sixth Climate Coaching Action Day takes place on 12th March, 2025

This initiative was launched in 2020 by Coaching at Work, but although we mark it, too, it was always intended to be an invitation for others to embrace, as have organisations, including the Climate Coaching Alliance (CCA), professional coaching and coaching psychology bodies, coach training organisations, including the Academy of Executive Coaching, Positivity Coaching, Centre for Coaching, National Academy of Coaching Psychology, International Academy for Professional Development & affiliated Centres.

Coaching at Work is holding a free half-day conference on 12th March 2025.

Join us on a journey to explore what it means for you to coach in these times

Perhaps you’re feeling unsettled given the global context. Maybe you’re beginning to consider making some changes in your practice, sensing that business as usual may no longer cut it but you’re not yet sure what that looks like or what it means for you. Maybe you’ve already started taking steps- baby, middling or giant- towards aligning your work with the challenges of our time.

Perhaps it feels hard, lonely, heartbreaking, hope-inducing or joyful, or all of the above and more. Wherever you are, we welcome you into a space of enquiry, practice and connection.

This free Coaching at Work conference to mark Climate Coaching Action Day 2025 will feature an opening space with live music, networking and a grounding practice, and two 90 minute workshops, building on one another.

Sessions will be recorded (although only part of the sessions).

Please register beforehand to secure your place.

To register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/LLw7bEOUSWWT8Etr59oqCA

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

09:30 Welcome and official Climate Coaching Action Day opening session with Coaching at Work editor Liz Hall. Mindfulness & compassion practice. Live improvised jazz with accomplished pianist and coach Jane Brendgen

10:00-11:30 Coaching in the polycrisis, a workshop with John Gray & Wendy Robinson

11:30-11:50 Break and networking

11:50-13:20 Embodied adaptive coaching, an enquiry and workshop with Liz Hall & Jane Brendgen

13:20-13:30 Take aways & Close

SPEAKERS

Jane Brendgen is as a transformational coach, accredited master executive coach (APECS) and author. Her calling is to design for the creation of connection, integrating mind, body and heart in whole self intelligence. Her coaching is grounded in an extensively researched and globally established model of vertical development which supports the transformation of consciousness. She offer individuals, leaders and teams transformative spaces for the left and right hemispheres of the brain to heal into a true democracy, where the conceptual and animate domains collaborate harmoniously as whole self intelligence. This unlocks our highest human potential and enables us to act with loving kindness for change in all the contexts of our lives that really matter.

John Gray. Since 2001, individual, community and whole organisation development have been at the core of John’s consulting practice. Working almost exclusively with not-for-profit organisations, he focusses on supporting organisational change, leadership development, and one-to-one coaching and executive development. Initially qualifying as a solicitor, John has experience of working in constructive conflict resolution overseas and in the UK (including service management within a local authority), and then as a consultant, trainer, coach and coaching supervisor. He works part-time as Senior Faculty for the Academy of Executive Coaching, teaching on their Practitioner and Professional Practitioner Diplomas in Executive Coaching, and also their Climate Coaching Certificate. John is a qualified Executive Coach, accredited by both the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (Master Practitioner) and by the International Coaching Federation (PCC). He is also a Associate at the University of York’s Centre for Applied Human Rights, which supports human rights defenders at risk around the world. He is particularly interested in leadership as demonstrated by those in the human rights movement: how they lead through their actions and their values, and the impact of that leadership.

Website: https://castlecrag.org.uk LinkedIn

Liz Hall is a leadership/ executive coach, trained mindfulness teacher and the editor of Coaching at Work since 2005. She’s the author of publications including Mindful Coaching (Kogan Page), Coach your team (Penguin Business), author/editor of Coaching in times of crisis and transformation (Kogan Page), and co-author with Dr Emma Donaldson-Feilder of Relational Mindfulness for coaches: Enhancing presence, awareness, wisdom, compassion and courageous collaboration (Routledge). She’s a contributor to Ecological and Climate Conscious Coaching (Routledge, March 2025). Committed to making a positive difference, including around how we navigate the climate emergency, Liz launched the annual Climate Coaching Action Day through Coaching at Work in March 2020, celebrating and promoting climate coaching, she’s a member of the Climate Coaching Alliance (CCA), co-facilitator of the CCA’s Compassion Community of Practice, and a coach with Social Movement Coaching, delivering CPD and coaching to climate & social justice leaders and teams. She’s trained to facilitate Joanna Macy’s The Work that Reconnects. Liz’s coaching is informed by mindfulness, compassion, somatics, attachment theory, systems thinking/feeling and adult vertical development, amongst others.

Wendy Robinson is a chartered psychologist, accredited executive coach (AC) and coach supervisor (CSA). Latterly she headed up AoEC in Ireland/N Ireland for several years. She was also in the organisational consulting field for over three decades. She has become increasingly fascinated by the bigger picture – our world today (in all its forms – geo-political, economic, environmental, existential, social, economic) – and our role as executive coaches working with organisations, given that we have that intimate connection with leaders and executives. The pandemic gave her pause for thought, and led to rich learning around mindfulness, nature-connection and spirituality. Wendy’s search for answers to ‘the bigger questions’ continues, and she continues to weave in her questions and her insights to her coaching & supervision offerings. She lived for many years in Scotland, but now lives in the depths of rural Ireland, in West Cork.

Last year Coaching at Work launched on climate coaching action day Radio Climate Coaching Action, a 24/7 radio station which has interviews with coaches. Visit the station webpage for more information.

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