Find out about the benefits of introducing psychodynamic concepts to your coaching practice and learn about the value of supervision. 

Join McGraw-Hill authors Catherine Sandler and Peter Jackson for an evening of presentation, discussion and networking.

Dr Catherine Sandler, author of Executive Coaching, is Managing Director of specialist coaching practice Sandler Lanz. She has taught at London Business School, INSEAD and the Tavistock Clinic and is a qualified counsellor. Catherine specialises in work with senior individual and teams in the business sector and speaks widely on leadership, coaching and supervision both in Britain and abroad. 

Catherine's presentation is entitled Understanding emotions, changing behaviour: A psychodynamic approach to executive coaching.  She will provide a clear and concise introduction to this fascinating psychological model and explain the powerful results that it helps her achieve. She will illustrate the value of this perspective for coaches and allied professionals who are not clinically-trained, showing how they can incorporate it into their work. To bring her coaching practice alive, Catherine will share numerous examples of her client work.

Peter Jackson is co-editor of Coaching and Mentoring Supervision and a coach, supervisor and academic with a background in corporate IT and HR. He has masters degrees in Coaching and in Organizational Behaviour and teaches on postgraduate programmes at Oxford Brookes University Business School, UK.

Coaching and Mentoring Supervision reflects the increasing professionalization of coaching and mentoring, and the mounting expectation that coaches undergo regular supervision to ensure the quality and safety of their practice, and to encourage their continued professional development. The contributing authors include most of the world’s foremost authorities in the subject, who present the latest thinking in this rapidly evolving field. Peter’s talk will consider Coaching Supervision: what, why and how? He will cover:

• Introductory comments about my own involvement in coaching supervision and the objectives of the book
• What is supervision and what is it for? 
• Some examples of scenarios where supervision can be seen to help the coach.
• A comparison of supervision approaches.
• Some issues/questions that arise from supervision.

** The ticket price includes a copy of either Catherine or Peter's new book**

Date: Wednesday 8^th February 2012 

Time: 18.00 – 20.00, followed by Drinks & Nibbles

Venue: McGraw-Hill Companies, 20 Canada Square