Creative techniques are transformative in coaching and mentoring. They release blockages, or reveal a deeper awareness. This ready-to-use collection of short poems targets coaching and self-reflection. Each sequence, such as “Even a Day” for burnout prevention or “Gorges de la Nesque” for perspective shifts, includes a poem, its intended use, and coaching questions.
AI-generated image: Anne Kristine Arbon using ChatGPT (OpenAI), 2026. Oil-painting-style illustration of a woman facing a locked cupboard overflowing with papers in a damaged organisational setting, symbolising pain that an organisation has tried to contain rather than address.
We already talk about stress, burnout, wellbeing and resilience. Do we really need another term? Someone may not simply be exhausted by the amount of work. They may have been asked to act against their values, prevented from doing what they believe is right, or left to witness harm they could not stop? Sometimes the organisation they trusted has betrayed the very values it asked them to uphold? That is different. It may look like stress or burnout from the outside, but the damage can reach further: into conscience, identity and trust. This is where the idea of moral injury helps. Continue reading
We are overtly expanding our free Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to target both coaches and mentors. We have many coaches graduating from our PGC EMCC Senior Practitioner and EMCC Foundation level programmes. Both these programmes necessitate a certain number of CPD hours for coaches to attend, so we want to support our alumni with this need. In addition, we also have large numbers of mentors within organisational programmes, which we support.
With your previous studies and practical experience, are you rethinking your coaching identity and realising you need more substance to your coaching repertoire? This Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) will provide a deeper dive into your coaching and mentoring practice, ethics and systemic considerations, and equip you with knowledge in new areas such as team coaching, self-care and self-deception.
I’ve just been for a long run. A time when I reflect and usually come back with a long list of jobs for the team! Today’s reflection gave me something quite different, a new understanding about hope and such a strong realisation about how it is such a powerful catalyst, facilitator and change agent in many coaching and mentoring conversations. Continue reading
Apprenticeships work best when apprentices are supported by mentors who can guide, encourage, and challenge them well. Yet many workplace mentors are promoted into the role with little preparation, even though they are expected to have regular developmental conversations, give constructive feedback, and help apprentices build confidence. That is where coaching and mentoring skills can make a real difference.
Paul Stokes suggests that women’s mentoring programmes are influenced by their specific context, impacting their design and implementation. This is evident in programmes for women in STEM in Peru and female undergraduates in a UK Business School, where the unique societal and organisational factors shaped the mentoring experience.
We are so proud that we have a flourishing community of mentors (and coaches) who join us for our regular continuing professional development sessions. These sessions are free-of-charge and part of our philosophy of developing mentors — especially those who have been through training with Coach Mentoring Ltd. in the past!
Since 2004, Coach Mentoring Ltd. has delivered high-quality coaching, mentoring, and leadership development. After over ten years of supporting across-organisational mentoring (AOMP), Global Connect is our social-impact expansion. Connecting purpose-led leaders across the humanitarian sector with practical support to grow. Global Connect is built on our deep experience and targets those who need it most.
Recent research has shown that mentoring is an effective tool to combat reoffending and support those leaving prison (Hean & Sæbjørnsen, 2023), (Lowther-Payne et al., 2024). In London, organisations such as Spark Inside, Switchback, and Standout are all using mentoring or coaching to help prison leavers turn around their lives. Continue reading
