Changing the Conversation - Coaching skills for your PhD (4 Workshops, 9:30am - 1pm)

This programme will give you practical coaching skills that you will apply directly to your PhD process as well as to the conversations you have with your peers in ways that are clarifying, generative and lead to next steps.

How can you have constructive conversations with yourself and with your peers? What kinds of conversation feels supportive to the challenges you face, help you navigate confidence and self-doubt, contribute to a feeling of well-being? How can coaching conversations help you with motivation, managing uncertainty, balance, set-backs, the inner critic, supervisors, well-being?

The approach is not about saying everything is fine, making you super productive or manifesting some fantasy. Coaching can have a bad press! It is about find ways forward that work for you and finding confidence in your process. Coaching offers skills around listening, direct communication, powerful questioning, creative, emotional intelligence and choice.

What’s involved

The programme involves 4 half-day workshops. Each workshop will introduce some core principles and skills for coaching that we will apply directly to your PhD experience. You’ll be encouraged to apply the skills between workshops so we can build on your learning.

Workshop 1 (Friday 1st May) – Listening deeply and the structure of a coaching conversation.

Workshop 2 (Friday 29th May) – What is important and creating next steps

Workshop 3 (Friday 26th June) – Working with the inner critic and mood

Workshop 4 (Friday 24th July) – Bringing it all together

Previous Participants have said this course is “excellent”, “challenging and exciting”, “outstanding” and “the best yet”: