This Conference programme timetable lists the times of the keynotes, workshop, awards, prizes and pre-recorded paper being presented on the 26th November, 2025. To increase the size of the programme below click on the zoom out radio button at the top righthand corner of the PDF viewer. To download the timetable click on the download radio button at the top righthand corner next to the zoom out button. Do note that there could be last minute changes on the day.
Giving in to ‘the inevitable’ or resisting the ‘enshittification’ of coaching by AI? with Prof Tatiana Bachkirova
The coaching world continues to be flooded with poor substitutions of humans coaches by AI devices. Some coaches try to make use of AI alongside their practice as a way adapting to this forceful ‘innovation’. However, others, paradoxically, not only accept their own replacement by AI as inevitable but even celebrate it. In this talk I would like us to question the false logic of the advocates of AI coaching and hope that we will come up with some ideas on how to resist the ‘enshittification’ of human coaching by AI.
The David Megginson Memorial Lecture – “We are where we are and, where next?” with Prof Bob Garvey
Brief description of the session – Friedrich Nietzsche said “We need history for life and action.” In other words, history is worthless unless it informs the future! Are we destined to repeat ourselves as if we have learned nothing from the past? The session starts with a brief tracking of how modern coaching came to be and how it has developed over 20+ years. The session then raises some key questions about how and why it developed as it has. It then goes on to consider where coaching could go in the future – key challenges and opportunities that are both historically, practice based and research informed.
Workshop: Reflective Practice in the Age of AI with Jackee Holder
In a time of digital acceleration and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, reflective practice has never been more essential for coaches and leaders. This interactive Zoom workshop explores how reflection protects and strengthens what makes human intelligence unique – our capacity to pause, notice, and make meaning.
Through guided “digital breathing spaces,” participants will experience the restorative power of slowing down to think deeply in an always-on world. Together, we’ll explore how reflective practice builds presence, empathy, and perspective, helping us stay grounded amid complexity and change.
You’ll experiment with simple micro-reflective practices that can be woven into everyday work, sustaining emotional balance and genuine connection in an AI-shaped future.
This session invites you to rediscover reflection not as a luxury, but as a vital practice for thoughtful leadership and meaningful coaching.
Grief in the Workplace: Supporting Loss, Change and Transitions in Coaching with Kim Morgan
Grief doesn’t stay at home – it comes to work with us. Bereavement, health issues, divorce, family conflicts, and caring responsibilities can all shape how people show up at work. Work itself can also be a source of grief: restructures, redundancies, promotions, retirement, even the end of long projects can bring identity shifts and hidden losses.
This practical session will explore how coaches can support individuals and organisations through these experiences of loss and transition. Drawing on Judith Viorst’s idea of “necessary losses,” and the Progress Paradox – the idea that growth brings grief as well as gain, the session will consider both personal and work-based losses.
Kim will share practical coaching tools such as the Human Givens model and the Relationship Graph, offering ways to respond with compassion while helping clients and organisations honour endings and move forward.
The Alison Whybrow Memorial Lecture – Climate Coaching Psychology with Prof Stephen Palmer
This presentation considers the application of an informative, ethical, coaching and coaching psychology approach to tackle debilitating climate change worries, ecoanxiety and ecodepression. In taking an informative approach, it will include the ‘Simple, Serious, Solvable’ approach developed by Prof Scott Denning to understanding and tackling climate change. Climate change anxiety/eco-anxiety and eco-depression will be defined. It is tentatively suggested that becoming a mental health-related climate-literate professional, knowledgeable about climate change to enhance information giving in coaching practice and supervision could become a goal of a practitioner.
This session is pre-recorded as is available all day and scheduled in the programme during the lunchtime.