Peer Coaching

Peer Coaching Training

Sustainable peer support

Would you like to learn coaching skills that increase self awareness, improve personal performance and communication? Help with resilience, whilst also building a support network of peers? Peer coaching training is a great way to gain the benefits of coaching at a greatly reduced cost whilst establishing a peer support group that is self-sustaining and can continue coaching each other after the initial course had ended. Watch the short films below to see what others have gained from this course.

What does it involve?

Peer coaching training involves learning in a group of 8-10 people. The first three sessions focus on coaching skills, such as listening, the GROW coaching model, increasing personal resilience and emotional self-regulation. Once you have learnt foundation coaching skills, you are taught the peer coaching model, which enables you to coach each other within a group setting. From the fourth session onwards, individuals have the chance to be coached by the group. Once the training is over, the group decides how often and for how long they meet, and how long individual coaching sessions last. This way you can continue to be coached by your peers for no ongoing cost - a very sustainable way to access coaching.

Watch the 3.5 minute film below for an insight into a group coaching session. Please note, because of the confidential nature of coaching, this film was recorded with the full consent of training participants and was a 'fake' peer coaching session - in that though the issue was real, it was done for the purpose of filming and was much shorter that a real life group coaching session.

Benefits

•    Learn coaching skills that you can use in your work, your home and your community.
•    Establishes a peer coaching group enabling participants to coach each other, build a peer support network & encourage future collaboration.
•    Sustainable, free coaching for the group after the facilitated 8-12 sessions, if the group decides to continue to meet.
•    Increases the resilience of individuals and organisations via stronger teams, better communication and partnership working.
•    Reduces stress/burn out via greater support, a forum to voice problems/concerns and a method of resolving the latter.
•    Learn practical relaxation and grounding exercises that can be used daily to help with stressful situations.
•    Increases personal self-development and self-awareness for all participants.
•    Increases trust within organisations by encouraging a coaching method of working, greater communication within teams, support of teams via coaching methods.

Who is good for?

Any group of people who want to create a peer support group. This might include:
  • Entrepreneurs
  • CEOs/Founders/Directors
  • Students/Researchers
  • Artists/Writers/Creatives
  • Colleagues
  • Freelancers working from home
  • Hot deskers sharing an office space
  • Team managers
  • Neighbours
  • Volunteers
It's good to establish a group with those who are on the same level as you  - not those with power over you (such as your boss) so that you can talk openly and honestly without fear of recrimination.
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