BSA half-day seminar – Supportive Conversations with an EDI Focus

• Date: December 02, 2022
• Time: 13:30 – 16:30
• Cost: BSA Member – £100, Affiliate Member – £150, Non-member – £200
• Audience: Head, Deputy Head, Inclusion Lead, Head of Boarding, Boarding staff, teaching staff, medical staff, DSL, Admissions staff, BSA and BAISIS, SACPA and HIEDA members
• Platform: Zoom (online)

Course outline

This three-hour interactive workshop will explore the potential of applying the Coaching Mindset and coaching skills in conversation with young people about sensitive topics, many of which are related to EDI.

The session will begin by first exploring what coaching is and is not by identifying the many forms of help and ways to conduct a conversation. Then we will layer our understanding with skills you can immediately use with your young people.

You will walk away having learned foundational coaching skills and activities, including The Forms of Help Spectrum, the Coaching Mindset, Effective Questions, Three Ms of Listening and more.

This workshop will also highlight the value of applying Graydin’s coaching model, Start With Heart, within a conversation. The model puts the young person at the centre of the conversation by emphasising the importance of understanding values and motivations in order to navigate challenging conversations with greater ease.

This workshop is for those who are new to coaching and not for those who are already advanced coaches.

Training topics will include:

• Voice what is really going on for them
• Articulate the help and support they need
• Raise awareness, shift perspective and take action
• Find their own solutions and ways forward

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Speaker: McKenzie Cerri, Co-founder of Graydin

McKenzie has over 15 years of experience in coaching and teacher-training within education. She is one of the co-founders of Graydin, an organisation working to revolutionise the ways we support, empower and connect within the school environment. Together with more than 175 schools and universities worldwide, Graydin has been at the forefront of the coaching movement in education since 2011. Prior to Graydin, McKenzie was a youth coach and worked closely with the Maudsley Hospital eating disorder unit to develop content for suffers and carers. Born in California, now based in London, UK, she took her first personal development course at age nine.

Justin Muston, Head of Staff and Student Formation, Rugby School

Justin is Assistant Head at Rugby School, leading on Staff and Student Formation, including EDI policy.  He is a certified professional coach, trained under CTi, and a WRAW Master Practitioner.  He has been at Rugby for quite a long time, with previous stints as a Housemaster and Head of VIth Form.