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New Horizons:
Connecting Together for Professional Growth
On Friday 10 November 2023 we are delighted to offer two workshop events exclusively for AoEC Alumni.
Workshop 1 - Who's in the room?
Coach, author and AoEC Faculty Joan van den Brink PCC will run this 75 min workshop exploring how our identity affects how we feel and behave in different settings including coaching sessions. In this session you will explore how we identify ourselves and how that affects our sense of belonging.
Workshop 2 - Gestalt Coaching as a Relationship Dance
Coach, author, AoEC Founder and CEO John Leary-Joyce will lead this 75 min interactive workshop.
When we make an intervention we are leading the client, then follow their response with another leading intervention and so on - creating an improvised relationship ‘dance’. Research confirms that the quality of this coach/coachee relationship is the biggest single factor in mobilising change. Gestalt therefore, makes this dance the central focus of our practice. This short fun workshop will use body awareness and movement through the structure of Tango to build awareness of how to improve leading and following in your coaching relationships.
| When | Friday 10 November 2023 |
| Where | The Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AG |
| Time | Arrival 13.15pm Close 16.30pm |
| Cost | £60 + vat |
| How to book | Click here to book and pay for your place |
Please note: This event is taking place in advance of Graduation 2023 so for people that are attending both events there will be a break between 16.30 and 17.45 for a chance to stretch and get some food.
Certificates will be issued for attending this afternoon CPD event.
Event Speakers
Joan van den Brink Faculty
Joan van den Brink Faculty
Joan’s life purpose is to create intimate environments so that people thrive. This acts as her north star in all her work and interactions with others. She has extensive experience in working with organizations as a senior manager, executive and as a consultant. She has specialised in leadership and talent since 2001 and been an executive coach for over 15 years. Prior to her consulting experience, Joan has enjoyed an eclectic career spanning Marketing, Operations, HR & Communications. Her expertise lies in working with teams and individuals in creating bespoke solutions to specific people needs that range from enhancing team effectiveness through building more trust and intimacy to creating and implementing people capability frameworks to develop desired skills in organisational transformations. She has extensive experience of working in the field of diversity and inclusion to facilitate the development of less favoured groups within organisations. Joan has a strong track record in building trusted advisor relationships and supporting others to grow and develop.In addition to her people consulting work, Joan is an author, executive coach and coach supervisor.
John Leary-Joyce CEO and Founder
John Leary-Joyce CEO and Founder
John is our CEO and founded the Academy of Executive Coaching in 1999 with one administrator and over the years recruited and collaborated with many talented directors, trainers & administrators to develop AoEC into the prestigious brand it is today.
With his tireless entrepreneurial spirit, AoEC has become a highly successful international coaching training organisation with professional accreditation from ICF, EMCC, & AC. Previously, he was MD of Gestalt Centre London growing the business fourfold in six years and gaining a Company Director diploma with the Institute of Directors.
John is a highly principled leader, drawing on and applying his experience from a long career as a Gestalt psychotherapist, executive and team coach, trainer and supervisor. He is past president of EMCC UK where his focus was on maintaining standards for coaching and mentoring and building collaboration between the different professional bodies.
In 2010, he founded with Peter Hawkins the Systemic Team Coaching programmes. He has an MA in Executive Coaching, is PCC with ICF, qualified supervisor, regular presenter at international conferences and author of Fertile Void, Gestalt Coaching at Work 2014 and co-author of Systemic Team Coaching - 2nd Edition, 2024. His other passion is dancing Tango which links with leadership, coaching and Gestalt.