BSA half-day seminar – Foundational Coaching Skills for Supportive Conversations with Students (EDI focus)

• Date: March 14, 2023
• Time: 13:30 – 16:30
• Cost: Full Member – £100, Affiliate Member – £150,  Non-member – £200
• Audience: Head, Deputy Head, Inclusion Lead, Head of Boarding, Boarding staff and teaching, medical staff, DSL, Admissions staff, BSA and BAISIS, SACPA and HEIDI members
• Platform: Zoom (online)

This three-hour interactive workshop which 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.

EDI is personal. Whether you’re having a one-to-one conversation with a young person about their protected characteristics or helping a year group learn from a challenging situation, your role is to create psychological safety and encourage young people to speak their voice, understand the viewpoints of others and promote EDI. This workshop will provide skills and tools that can be used to support young people in any setting.

During this 3-hr long workshop, you’ll learn coaching skills and tools specifically designed to help young people:

• 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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Speakers: 

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, she was a youth coach and worked closely with the Maudsley Hospital eating disorder unit to develop content for sufferers and carers. Born in California, now based in London, UK, she took her first personal development course at age nine.

Fumi St Marthe, Inclusion and Diversity Ambassador and House Mistress, DLD College London

Fumi was born in Yorkshire but grew up in London and Zimbabwe. She studied Management Information Systems at Andrews University in Michigan and completed her MA in Educational Planning, Economics and International Development at the Institute of Education.  She gained her PGCE from King’s College London. She has teaching experience from a number of different settings and teaching positions. Fumi joined DLD College London in 2016 as a Business and Economics teacher. She regularly engages with the boarding team by attending weekend events and leading trips.  In her spare time, Fumi loves to hang out with her family, experiment in the kitchen, and (thanks to lockdown) tackle 3D puzzles.