COACHING AT WORK CONFERENCE DAY 2: 26 NOVEMBER 2020
Since the end of March 2020 when healthcare key worker pro-bono coaching initiative Coaching through Covid (CtC) was launched, more than 1,000 coaching sessions have been delivered to more than 400 key workers by more than 300 coaches.
Consultant anaesthetist, Raviro Mangwiro, who was coached on the programme, described its service as “psychological PPE”. CtC team members shared how compassionate coaching has been helping to reveal and normalise the secret shame, fear, rage and impotence of many NHS workers as they struggled with the collective pressure of not actually being able “to walk on water”.
Coaches struggled too. “Half the time we feel we’re walking through fog, and we dare not tell anyone,” said CtC co-founder, Carole Osterweil.
The CtC panel included Sasi Panchal and co-founders Mark McMordie (profiled on pages 30-35), Lindsay Wittenberg and Liz Hall. McMordie highlighted the importance of mindfulness, compassion and psychological safety on the programme. To give participants a taste of CtC’s culture, Hall guided a mindfulness practice and a live enquiry into adaptive leadership.
- Next issue: Coaching through Covid shares its story more fully
- For a webinar on how Coaching through Covid operates, email: info@coachingthroughcovid.org
- Do you know any NHS/care home workers who could benefit? Direct them to: www.coachingthroughcovid.org