Our blogs
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.
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?
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’?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Your role in working with children
Hear from Assistant Professor Rachel Strisino about the reasons to study towards a degree in Early Childhood.
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.
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.
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.
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?
The Great Resignation
What is the role of Coaching during the great resignation?
Re-imagining Lifelong Learning in Higher Education
Hear from Dr Nalita James about her keynote speech in 2921 European Continuing Education Network Forum.
The Future of Coaching
We look at the history of Coaching in order to imagine its future.
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.
Nurturing an anti-racist baby
How we can approach this in Early Childhood, according to course teaching fellow Maggie Crowly.
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.
World Social Work Day 2021
Ubuntu: I am because we are.
Dialogue and the art of listening
How does Coaching approach the art of listening?
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.
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
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.
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.
Wish to read more student blogs? See what our students have been writing at Warwick's unique student blogs platform: OurWarwick.