Our winter season of short free mentor CPD is here. Our guest speakers will take you deeper into the use of an ikigai mindset, considering how mentoring can impact an organisation, exploring strength-based mentoring, using stories as a mentor and providing ongoing support for mentors. Please come and share some interesting ideas. It’s going to be an inspiring series of lunchtimes!
All webinars start 12:00 (UK time) and last for approximately 30 minutes — there will be an element of interactivity. Do get in contact to chat beforehand, or stay on a webinar afterwards for an individual conversation!
IKIGAI Mindset in Coaching and Mentoring
In Japanese, IKIGAI means a ‘life worth living’. How often do we overlook nature, our health, and the people who truly matter to us as we chase the rat race of everyday life?
An IKIGAI mindset helps us cultivate hope, courage, and resilience when life gets tough.
IKIGAI teaches us to silence the noise and be fully present in the here and now.
Join us, in this follow-up to the previous autumn session, to learn more about how to apply the IKIGAI mindset in the coaching and mentoring space.
June Kashio a Japanese humanitarian from London, has worked extensively in HR and psychosocial support with organisations including Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Faced with personal loss, burnout, job loss, and cancer, June dedicates herself to helping others thrive and grow through life’s changes and challenges, drawing on the Japanese philosophy of Ikigai. She is an EMCC Accredited Life & Career Coach/Mentor, Certified Ikigai Coach, and Certified Grief Educator. June currently lives in Berlin with her teenage daughter.
Wednesday 14th January 2026 @ 12:00 (UK)
June Kashio
How mentoring can impact organisational learning
Join our panel of mentors: Kate Hart, Jeanette Lundberg and Lis Merrick, who will talk about how mentors (and coaches) can feed back into organisational learning to support systemic change in organisations. Following a short introduction by these mentors the session will break into small discussion groups with time for some plenary feedback to be shared.
Kate Hart is an independent consultant/ freelancer and qualified leadership coach at EMCC senior practitioner level with a human- centred philosophy and practice. She is a humanitarian leader with 30 years of experience to director level and expertise in working in BANI/ VUCA contexts. She has wide experience in policy and practice for inter-agency collaborations, DFID, UN, INGOs and the Red Cross/ Red Crescent.
Jeanette Lundberg is an Advisor, coach, and mentor with over 20 years of experience empowering civil society organisations through organisational development and capacity strengthening. As a trained coach and mentor, she is passionate about fostering value-driven leadership, organisational sustainability, and both personal and professional growth. She is committed to creating healthy work environments and advancing staff wellbeing within the humanitarian sector.
Monday 26th January 2026 @ 12:00 (UK)
Kate Hart, Jeanette Lundberg and Lis Merrick
Strength based mentoring
In this session we will explore how using strengths can boost the agency and energy of the mentee and play a role in your own self-awareness and development journey. Knowing and applying the highest character strengths is the key to being our best self.
PREWORK: If feasible, we invite participants to take the free online VIA survey (takes 15 minutes) to discover your own greatest strengths prior to this session.
Anne-Sophie Lois is a passionate feminist who enjoys supporting other women to thrive through coaching and mentoring. She combines 30+ years in humanitarian leadership (working for ICRC, NRC and Plan International and with the UN) and accredited expertise in transformational coaching at Coaching Beyond Borders. Challenges like organisational change, transitions in new roles or places, heavy workloads and burnout are examples of areas she knows well. She likes to accompany people on their development and change journey, moving from where they are now to where they want to be, including navigating transitions and uncertainty.
She holds a master degree of Social Science, speaks 6 languages and has worked and lived in multiple countries in Europe, Africa , in the Americas, and in Asia. She is a very proud mother of two amazing adult daughters.
Tuesday 10th February 2026 @ 12:00 (UK)
Anne-Sophie Lois
Using stories as a mentor
Mentors can create a larger content, illustrate a situation or pass on information or education through the use of stories. They can support with managing emotions in a conversation, or create interest or stimulation. Join Lis Merrick to explore how to use stories more effectively in your mentoring.
Tuesday 24th February 2026 @ 12:00 (UK)
Lis Merrick
Ongoing support for Mentors
In this session, Boris will suggest that Monitoring & Evaluation is a key for the initial scheme design. There will be risk and success factors according to the monitoring and it’s important to support of both mentors and mentees in “the Mentoring way”. It’s also important to provide additional support of mentors through networking/experience exchange/advanced training.
Boris Tkachenko is an international expert in entrepreneurship, mentoring, coaching, and soft skills development, with over thirty years of experience across Europe, Asia, and Africa. He is an EMCC Accredited Coach/Mentor at Senior Practitioner level and a Core Team member of the EMCC Entrepreneurship Centre for Excellence. For the past 17 years, Boris has specialised in youth entrepreneurship and mentoring, contributing to the development of entrepreneurship and mentoring programmes within the Youth Business International network, which spans 74 countries.
His work focuses on designing, implementing, and evaluating mentoring programmes in multicultural environments, as well as developing mentors, coaches, entrepreneurs, trainers, and programme managers. He is also a co-founder of International Mentoring Days and the SOS Mentoring Initiative.
Tuesday 10th March 2026 @ 12:00 (UK)
Boris Tkachenko
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