Compassion Focussed Coaching - Training for Coaches and Supervisors [June 2027]

Compassion Focussed Coaching (CFC) is a peer-reviewed, manualised and evidence-based group supervision model.

This training is for practitioners providing reflective spaces - as a coach or supervisor - to provide them with the knowledge, skills and supervision they need to deliver CFC as part of their work.

CFC training is useful if you:

• Want to offer consistent and high quality reflective spaces.
• Are looking to refresh your practice or participate in evidence-based CPD.
• Support individuals to develop more sustainable working.
• Facilitate organisations to focus on staff wellbeing and retention.
• Care deeply about leadership systems and processes.
• Want to use a supervision model which was developed with over 50 senior leaders, nationwide.

As part of this training you get:

• Two days of specialist training.
• A supervision manual to guide practice.
• Six sessions of supervision, to support you with delivering CFC in your work and provide ongoing CPD.

CFC is shown to:

• Increase resilience
• Increase ability to understand complex behaviour
• Increase the ability to give/receive compassion
  
  (Heriot-Maitland & Taylor, 2024)

CFC is effective because:

• Developed using 5 years of research with senior leaders, nationwide.
• Designed using evidence based models to facilitate containment, strategic thinking and connection in sessions.
• Incorporates compassion focussed approaches which has been shown to provide biological, psychological and social benefits.

How Compassion Helps

Life and work can be hard. Compassion Focussed Approaches help us to understand day-to-day trickiness and provides a range of benefits for individuals navigating high stakes, fast paced environments.

Constellations Psychology has created a simple resource to provide an introduction to benefits with introductory references, to help you access the hundreds of scientific studies which have been done in the area. The resource also highlights how CFC helps supervisees to experience the impact that compassion focussed approaches can offer. Benefits include:

• Reduced stress response.
• Improved ability to manage and recover from stress.
• Improved access to higher order thinking skills and executive function skills.
• Reduced self-criticism.
• Improved accuracy of self-evaluation.
• Increased self improvement motivation.
• Increased feelings of safeness.
• Increased ability to give and receive compassion.

Training Details:

• Times: 09.30 - 16.00                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
• Dates: Thursday 24th and Friday 25th June 2027
• Location: Online, via Zoom
  • Price:
    • Single ticket: £1500
    • 20% discount for 3 or more tickets
    • Your ticket includes 6 sessions of group supervision - with other participants - after the training to support you to deliver CFC in your work

Want to know more? Come to a free taster session

• Meet Jo and hear about how he uses CFC in his work.
• Receive a short introduction to compassion focussed approaches.
• Preview some tools and approaches which you will learn about in the training
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About your host:

Dr Jo Taylor is a Child & Educational Psychologist and Director of Constellations Psychology. He is pioneering the use of compassion focused approaches in reflective practice and regularly consults, trains and speaks on the topic. He is an Honorary Lecturer at University of Manchester, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is currently completing a Churchill Fellowship into compassion as a facilitator of caregiving.