Using coaching skills with your boarding community

27 January 2025 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Date: January 27, 2025
Time: 10:30 – 12:30
Cost: BSA Full Member – £135, BSA Affiliate Member – £170, Non-member – £270
Audience: Head, Deputy Head, Inclusion Lead, Head of Boarding, Boarding staff and teaching staff, medical staff, DSL
Platform: Zoom (online) – seminar

Course outline:

This interactive seminar will provide delegates with the foundational skills they need to have coaching conversations. The seminar will explore the potential of applying coaching skills in conversations, some of which may be sensitive. This session is not aimed at those who are already advanced coaches but at those who are new to coaching or whose understanding of it is developing.

Training topics will include:

What coaching is and isn’t
Identifying when a coaching conversation is needed/helpful
Navigating challenging conversations
Facilitating reflective practices in coaching conversations.

Learning outcomes:

Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of how coaching can support relationships in boarding
Promote a culture of self-reflection and empowerment in the boarding community
Foster positive and effective communication with coaching skills.

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Speaker:

McKenzie Cerri, Co-founder of Graydin

McKenzie Cerri is a co-founder of Graydin, an organisation working to revolutionise the ways we support, empower and connect with our next generations through coaching skills. Together with more than 250 schools and thousands of educators world-wide, Graydin has been at the forefront of the coaching movement in education since 2011.

McKenzie has over 20 years of experience in coaching and teacher training, having delivered hundreds of coaching courses and workshops to thousands of educators. She is a Co-active Coach, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation, a Certificated Practitioner of NLP, and is trained in somatic coaching. Prior to Graydin, she worked as a youth coach within the public sector and partnered closely with Maudsley Hospital eating disorder unit to bring a coaching approach to carer support. Inspired by the impact coaching made on her formative years, combined with a desire to enhance the lives of young people, McKenzie partnered with Quinn Simpson more than a decade ago to form Graydin.