How far can coaches go? - Yannick Jacob

About the session

Some of the most important questions that I hear coaches bring to supervision concern the limits and boundaries of our profession. "Is this still coaching?", "Do I need to refer to a therapist?", "How far can I journey with this client?", "Am I (still) the right person to work with?", and "Am I overstepping the line here?" are just some of the questions that can be difficult to answer and may even pose a real risk for the client's wellbeing and/or the coach's conscience.

To shed some light and help you reflect on these and similar questions, in this session we'll have a look at popular models and definitions for coaching, we'll discuss how we might frame our own space in the helping-by-talking universe, why it's so important to be clear about our style and what we do and don't offer to clients, and how this can be done in practice. We'll discuss some of the differences between coaching, mentoring, therapy, counselling, consulting and teaching, and I'll be making the case for reflective practice as a crucial ingredient to answering such questions as to maintain best practice and keep our clients safe and flourishing.

About Yannick

Yannick Jacob is an Existential Coach (MA), Positive Psychologist (MSc), Coach Trainer & Supervisor (DIP) and Mediator (SPCP Dispute Resolution). He’s the Course Director of the ACIC (Accredited Certificate in Integrative Coaching) at the School of Positive Transformation, for which he’s gathered many of the world’s most influential coaches, until 2018 he was the Programme Leader of the MSc Coaching Psychology and faculty at the University of East London's popular MAPPCP programme (MSc Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology), and he’s the founder and lead facilitator at Yannick’s Coaching Lab.

Yannick furthermore is part of the teaching faculties at The School of Life, Animas Centre for Coaching and the International Centre for Coaching Supervision. His love for coaching, positive existential philosophy and personal development is contagious and he loves to challenge people to think, learn & grow, to explore the BIG questions and to appreciate the whole spectrum of what life has to offer. As a coach Yannick partners with clients to navigate their lives and careers, to make big decisions and, ultimately, to find ways to be and stay happy. His long-term vision is to inspire the world to embrace their human condition in all its beautiful and challenging facets and to create a more meaningful human experience. Yannick presents at conferences internationally and his book, An Introduction to Existential Coaching, was published by Routledge, the world’s leading academic publisher. Learn more about Yannick and his work at www.existential.coach and www.RocketSupervision.com.