THE SELF-AUTHORING COACH

Harthill Diploma in Vertically Developmental Coaching

A deep dive and intensive programme of coaching development forming a core part of the journey towards Accreditation as a Harthill Vertically Developmental Coach

“Vertical development can allow a person... to lead from wisdom and expansiveness rather than being stuck in a limiting (and often unconscious) mindset.

It changes the culture of the organization for good.”

Forbes, Jan 2020

What is a Self-Authoring Coach?

Most of us live our lives from what is known as a Socialised mindset– we seek external direction and validation. We are shaped by the expectations of our environment, and we stick with the identity we formed much earlier in life. And of course many of our coaching conversations can take place in this arena.

But there is another way to relate to the world. And to encourage our clients to relate to their world. We can develop a Self-Authoring Mind.

With a Self-Authoring Mind, we align with an internal sense of direction, an inner seat of judgment and our own developed compass. We are able to question expectations and values, take stands, set boundaries and solve problems ourselves. Having a Self-Authored Mind means we have an internal voice that is self-directed, and can navigate across seemingly competing ideas and perspectives without subsuming our own identity.

The Self-Authoring Coach takes this idea and applies to your coaching capability. The programme is for experienced coaches who wish to deepen and expand their practice - and develop their own individual meaning making. Though it has also proven to be helpful to senior leaders wishing to develop an ability to reproduce coaching capability across their organisation.

The Self-Authoring Coach: Transformative yet Practical

The Self-Authoring Coach provides a transformative and very practical programme that develops your coaching capability as well as your practice. The core of the programme is a focus on profoundly extending your developmental journey with self-authored meaning making, through inquiry within a developing community of fellow practising coaches.

You will be engaging in a deep-dive of personal and practice development. The programme includes:

• A number of full day online sessions, interwoven with a rich blend of supportive interventions
• Peer coaching and reflection
• Group & individual Developmental Supervision sessions aimed at increasing your capacity to apply deeper awareness to your practice – in the moment of your client interaction
• Intensive Workshops in a range of additional coaching subject areas
• Optional Ethical & ILM Assessment Workshops
• Your personal Leadership Development Framework (LDF) Profile and Debrief
• Observed Peer Coaching & Feedback

Your Coaches: Siân Lumsden and Ian Mitchell

Our Harthill Coaches, Siân Lumsden and Ian Mitchell, are highly experienced coaches who have invested deeply in their own development. They provide a transformative and very practical programme that will create the opportunity for you to develop yourself and your practice in so many ways. They know how to support you in developing your key coaching capacities for working in complex, rapidly changing systems – and to transfer that understanding to your coachees and work teams.

Deepen your own Meaning Making

The Self-Authoring Coach will deepen your own meaning making by including the globally renowned Leadership Development Profile and debrief session. This allows us to co-author with you and your fellow participants a developmental pathway which will equip you to work more deeply and more meaningfully with clients, along with sharpening your own developmental leading edge.

Your learning will be further extended to include further exploration of your Leadership Development Profile in Developmental Supervision, along with how this informs your coaching practice.

Meanwhile, our unique ‘Developing my Practice’ journaling App uses the internationally acclaimed SenseMaker^® data analysis tool to help you create a self supervision process that will help you throughout your coaching career.

In addition, there is an additional layer of scope to the Self-Authoring Coach learning programme: Siân and Ian will be bringing in specialised expert Coach Guides to oiffer deeper knowledge and practice in other frameworks and approaches, such as Gestalt and Mindfulness.

Certification

For those whose situation requires them to obtain ILM7 or equivalent qualifications the programme provides, at a small additional cost, the opportunity to enter for the ILM Level 7 (NFQ 9 in Ireland) Certificate or Diploma in Executive or Senior Level Coaching and Mentoring. Approximately 40% of our participants have taken this qualification and all of these have achieved excellent results.

Supporting Coaching Culture

Many Self-Authoring Coach participants are sponsored by their organisations in order that they can go back into their workplace and contribute to the creation or further development of a coaching culture. This may entail training colleagues in basic coaching skills, coaching individuals within the organisation or simply incorporating coaching approaches into everyday management.

Harthill offers further support to these individuals working to build or strengthen the coaching culture, by offering bespoke workshops, group and individual supervision for internal coaches and ongoing developmental work.

The Self-Authoring Coach dates and times

The Self-Authoring Coach will give you an exceptional personal and professional development experience. You will complete the programme feeling resourced and confident, with a deeper understanding and appreciation of the deliberately developmental journey and how to engage your clients differently - in ways that make a real difference. You will also have developed practices that support your ongoing learning and growth as a coach.

The materials in the Self-Authoring Coach are grounded in hands-on research. It uses the globally established model, the Leadership Development Framework – the best report and coaching tool that will help you with your developmental practice. We also introduce the ‘CLEAR Coaching’ model and show how this can be practically applied in the workplace.

To get an in-depth flavour of what will happen on the course, please click here to request a copy our ebook The Self-Authoring Coach. We like to think it’s a great read too.

Full Details

• The programme cost is from £3,950 (+VAT where applicable)
• Fees in connection with the ILM award are £500 (+VAT where applicable)
• The Self-Authoring Coach starts with an induction session and runs for eight months
• There are five core modules plus additional peer coaching triads and supervision sessions in-between, plus a final course session, with the option to book a further 1-1 supervision session.
• The modules take place approximately every 6 weeks and will readily fit into your working week
• Each participant will receive their own unique Leadership Development Profile and Coaching Debrief to experience, and learn to work with the Harthill Leadership Development Framework

Our next programmes start on 26 April and 27 September - click here to request dates and times 

If you have any questions, concerns, or just feel like you don’t have the confidence to coach others, we’d like to extend an invitation for you to talk to Ian or Siân. They’ll answer any questions you might have about The Self-Authoring Coach, what it’s like, give you a few tips you can use immediately. Our Coaching Essentials Programme may also be of use to you.

Siân Lumsden has worked in individual and team development for over 20 years, holds a PGC in Business, Personal & Executive Coaching and is an alumnus of Nautilus International Team Coaching. Siân specialises in coaching leadership teams towards finding and embodying their core purpose.

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Ian Mitchell holds an MA in Coaching Leaders through Transition and Change and is an Academy of Coaching Accredited Executive Coach and PGC Coach Supervisor. Currently AC Area Chair for NW Europe, Ian specialises in helping leaders and coaches expand meaning making, navigate complexity and deepen their ongoing practice.

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