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Read blogs written by our teaching staff on topics and events they're interested in, or by students who journaled down a specific topic during their learning. You can also find blogs written by our staff to help you prepare your applications for a programme.

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30 Jan

Have Coaches Forgotten about Congruence?

You are congruent when you are aware of your own feelings and ensure that words and actions are matched to these internal feelings. But has the origins of congruence and the importance in coaching been lost, and replaced by the need to enable the client to self-direct a coaching session?

27 Dec 2023

Coaching Presence and Use of Self

Use of self and coaching presence are terms often used by coaches, coaching authors, and coaching professional bodies, but what do these this mean? How do I ‘use myself’ and what is my ‘presence’? Is my ‘presence’, the same as being ‘present’?

13 Nov 2023

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: The Power of Coaching

Hear from Ian Day about his reflection on Imposter Syndrome and how Coaching can play a role in overcoming it.

01 Nov 2023

I can still recall the feeling of being totally out of my depth when the first client came through the door

Meet our new Assistant Professor in Careers Studies and Coaching courses, Lynne Campbell, who is revisiting her feelings from 23 years ago when she first started her career, as she now shifts her working identity to a career in academia.

10 Oct 2023

Student support for adult learners

Elaine Moore, Welfare Officer from the CLL Student Support team, unpacks an extensive list of tips and resources for lifelong learners.

02 Oct 2023

My lived experiences of learning, teaching, and counselling across borders

Dr Sonia Gallucci recently joined Warwick Counselling teaching team from Italy. Hear from Sonia what her background is and why she chose to teach here.

04 Sep 2023

Your role in working with children

Hear from Assistant Professor Rachel Strisino about the reasons to study towards a degree in Early Childhood.

10 Jul 2023

Unleashing the Power of Team Coaching: Ignite Collaboration and Success

Hear from our Coaching course lead Ian Day about team coaching - what are the benefits, and the skills required from the team coach.

15 Mar 2022

World Social Work Day 2022 ‘Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind’

Hear from Jim, Senior Teaching Fellow in Social Work talking about the role of Social Work in battling global crisis in an interconnected world.

08 Mar 2022

International Women’s Day 2022: Imagine a gender equal world

Nalita James, Director of Academic Studies at the Centre, looks at what gender (in)equality looks like in relation to the current world where Ukraine is pushed to the centre of war and conflicts.

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04 Jan 2022

The Metaverse and coaching

Facebook has recently renamed as Meta, as the internet moves towards the ‘Metaverse’. But what is the Metaverse and what are implications for coaching?

30 Nov 2021

The Great Resignation

What is the role of Coaching during the great resignation?

24 Nov 2021

Re-imagining Lifelong Learning in Higher Education

Hear from Dr Nalita James about her keynote speech in 2921 European Continuing Education Network Forum.

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16 Nov 2021

The Future of Coaching

We look at the history of Coaching in order to imagine its future.

08 Jul 2021

Lifelong Learning and Me: Panel Event

Hear from Charlotte Jones, Director of Early Childhood programmes at Warwick about her reflection on play, drama and life in her recent teaching and student support experiences.

18 May 2021

Nurturing an anti-racist baby

How we can approach this in Early Childhood, according to course teaching fellow Maggie Crowly.

18 May 2021

Safety, play and learning in the Early Years

Working with children, how do we ensure that children are enabled to understand a potential source of harm, a hazard and a risk, where the outcome of an action may have an adverse outcome? Hear from teaching fellow Rachel Strisino.

15 Mar 2021

World Social Work Day 2021

Ubuntu: I am because we are.

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12 Mar 2021

Dialogue and the art of listening

How does Coaching approach the art of listening?

13 Jul 2020

How to make an impressive application for our degree in Early Childhood

Hear from course lead Dr Charlotte Jones on what to keep in mind when making an application.

21 May 2020

To be good neighbours

In response to Stuart Croft’s fourth original strategic priority for the University of Warwick during the COVID pandemic (to be good neighbours), I have been actively involved in Coventry’s Mutual Aid networks

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29 Apr 2020

Career Guidance provision in schools and colleges in England

Hear from Careers Studies teaching fellow John Gough about the career guidance work in England in relation to its history and context.

28 Apr 2020

Good enough parenting during the Covid-19 pandemic

Hear from Early Childhood Teaching Fellow Maggie Crowley about our potential relationship with parenthood during the pandemic.

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