Venue:  Denham Room, York CVS, 15 Priory Street, York, YO1 6ET

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Programme

Do you want to know more about how coaching could support your organisation, business or community? Or perhaps you have already experienced the impact of coaching?

This conference is for anyone who is interested in coaching, whether as a coachee or a coach. Following an introduction of who we are as a community, there will be opportunity for discussion, learning, listening and asking. In the morning we will focus on two aspects of coaching  around Ethics and Health  . In the afternoon, we explore- an insight into some of the key elements that support coaching at its most powerful.

This is a modular event, so you are welcome to attend a session or two, or stay with us the whole day - whatever suits you. Refreshments and lunch will be provided.   Find out more about our session leaders by clicking their names.

 

9.30am Doors Open - Refreshments

 

10.00am Welcome and Introducing Coaching York (CY Executive)

 

10.15am  Ethics in Coaching: Where Do You Draw the Line?

Harriet Kretchmar is an experienced executive coach based in Munich, specialising in leadership development and personal growth over 30 years. In 2014 I spent three months in York. From that time on I’ve been a member of Coaching York. I was also a member of the ICF Germany Ethics Committee for 8 years and in 2019 and 2024 on the translation team for the ICF Code of Ethics. I’m married with two adult daughters, a little grandson and a little granddaughter. My passion is for history, reading and Europe.

This will be an interactive 75-minute workshop exploring ethical dilemmas in coaching and the latest ICF Code of Ethics. Through real-life case studies, group discussions, and practical exercises, you will gain deeper insights into ethical boundaries, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and professional integrity.

This session will help you:

• Recognise and navigate ethical gray areas in coaching
• Apply the ICF Code of Ethics to real-world scenarios
• Strengthen your professional credibility and decision-making skills
• By the end of the workshop, you will walk away with more knowledge about how to uphold ethical integrity.

 

11.30am Break

 

11:40  Knowing Isn’t Doing: A Coaching Reflection on Behavioural Change

Karen Hickman is an experienced professional coach with a long-standing background in learning and development, and a growing interest in health coaching. As she begins to explore this new area of practice, she’s found herself returning to familiar questions with fresh eyes:

What really gets in the way of lasting change?

Why do we, even when motivated, struggle to move from knowing to doing?

Whether it’s in our clients or in ourselves, the desire to change is rarely the hard part. It’s the follow-through – and the sticking with it – that tends to get messy.

This reflective and energising session offers space to revisit the challenge of behavioural change from both a professional and personal perspective. Through a mix of shared insight, light theory, practical coaching ideas and embodied reflection, Karen invites participants to explore how small shifts can lead to more sustainable, integrated change, and what might help us, and those we coach, move from intention into lasting action.

An opportunity to explore your areas of interest in smaller groups.

 

12:30pm Lunch

 

13:15pm Skill Share session

Bryony Rowntree is a professional and personal development coach, often working with women in academia.  She has a particular interest in supporting people to have a better relationship with themselves, working with our whole systems (not just our thinking brains!) and looking to nature for wisdom, inspiration and clarity.  And she loves to play...

...so this session is an invitation to bring along a coaching skill, tool or exercise to play with and either:

•  love to use and would enjoy sharing with others and opening up conversations and exploration around
•  that you don't get or are unconfident using and would like to explore with other coaches, gain other perspectives, understand more, and play with how and when it might be used.

 

14:20pm Comfort Break

 

14.30pm Coaching York - What's next 

Following our members' strategy session in January, Joy Richardson will lead an interactive conversation around the future direction for Coaching York, opportunities for the way ahead and possible membership options.

 

15.30pm Close