Yannick's Coaching Lab!

Fellow Coaches,

We are here and excited to launch our first event in this series of Coaching Labs! Due to the current global pandemic, we will be meeting online in our Zoom room instead of in person in London for at least a few months. Part of us is sad we won't get to hang out in person, another is excited that we get to expand the community beyond London and the UK.

Join us for this opportunity to connect, observe a live coaching session and then debrief and discuss it together with the coach and their client. You'll get an inside-look into the inner workings of an experienced coach, find out how and why they've made certain decisions and how they choose their interventions. You get to witness how the client is experiencing different coaching approaches and we hope you'll get lots of inspiration for your own coaching practice.

After the session and discussion you'll get a chance to work in triads (coach, client, observer) with the other attendees so that you can take your insights and ideas for a spin, experiment with some new tools and techniques or simply practice some coaching and get some valuable feedback on your work. Talking about coaching in small groups and sharing our learning with the rest of the group afterward will help us all grow our understanding and coaching skills.

Here's a video of Yannick telling you what it's all about: https://youtu.be/3obaA9HFWSw

The plan for the evening is as follows:

6:30 Welcome and networking
6:45 Live coaching session
7:30 Debrief & group discussion
8:00 Practice sessions in triads
8:45 Sharing Insights
9:00 Closing round

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Our first coach will be none other than Yannick himself before handing the stage over to invited coaches at future events. Here's a bit of info on Yannick and his approach to coaching:

Yannick is a positive existential coach, humanistic-relational at the core with a range of evidence-based techniques and interventions in his toolkit. He is part of the first generation of coaches emerging from the Positive Psychology movement of the 2000s as part of the MAPP community (MSc in Applied Positive Psychology) while at the same time deeply informed by his MA in Existential Coaching, which ultimately resulted in a meaningful integration of existential philosophy and coaching psychology in the coaching room. Yannick combines cutting edge science with an in-depth knowledge of wider philosophical issues at play in settings ranging from private to organisational as to powerfully boost personal and professional development, meaning, ownership and responsibility, optimal human functioning, flow and engagement, wellbeing, clarity and decision making as well as generally navigating life and business in more authentic and successful ways.

Yannick is a sought-after coach, engaging trainer and facilitator as well as a coach supervisor, certified mediator and change agent with experience in leadership development and creating coaching cultures. He is a learning facilitator and course consultant for the internationally renowned Positive Psychology Practitioner Certificate and teaches at The School of Life.

Yannick is passionate about engaging those in "positions of great responsibility" in challenging yet supportive conversations as to create a space in which they are encouraged to think more deeply, thereby creating positive, authentic and resilient individuals and teams who embrace challenges and perform at their best in affluent times as well as during crisis and transition.

We look forward to see coaching and to see you coaching! :)

PS: in order to join us on zoom you just need to click the link we'll be sending out and have a working microphone and ideally a working camera (as well as the internet connection to support it). You can also use your phone to call in. If you're joining from your phone or tablet device you'll need to install the Zoom app. Don't worry, this is all pretty intuitive and easy to navigate.