Coaching Psychology

Conference

It is with great pleasure that ”Coaching Psychologists” in co-operation with The Swedish Psychological Association invites you to Sweden’s first conference on Coaching Psychology.

The arrangement is part of ”1st International Congress of Coaching Psychology”

www.coachingpsychologycongress.org

Meet our speakers!

Stephen Palmer, Professor PhD is Co-convenor of the International Steering Committee for the International Congress of Coaching Psychology events. He is Director of the Centre for Coaching, London, an Honorary Professor of Psychology at City University and Director of their Coaching Psychology Unit, a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Work Based Learning, and a Director of adSapiens, The Swedish Centre for Work Based Learning, Gothenburg. He is an APECS Accredited Executive Coach and Supervisor, a Society for Coaching Psychology Accredited Coaching Psychologist, an IABMCP Diplomate in Professional Coaching,

and AREBT Accredited Supervisor, Coach & Trainer.

He is Honorary President of the Society for Coaching Psychology and was the first Honorary President of the Association for Coaching, and the first Chair of the British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology. In his 2004 BBC 1 television series, The Stress Test, he demonstrated cognitive coaching. He is the UK Coordinating Co-Editor of the International Coaching Psychology Review, Executive Editor of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, and Consultant Editor of The Coaching Psychologist. His publications include 35 books e,g. Dealing with People Problems at Work (with Burton, 1996), Achieving Excellence in Your Coaching Practice (with McMahon and Wilding, 2005), Handbook of Coaching Psychology (with Whybrow, 2007), The Coaching Relationship (with McDowall, 2010), and Developmental Coaching (with Panchal, 2011). In 2008 the British Psychological Society, Special Group in Coaching Psychology gave him the 'Lifetime Achievement Award in Recognition of Distinguished contribution to coaching psychology'. His interests include jazz, astronomy, coastal walking, writing and art.

Jens-Boris Larsen is a practicing coaching psychologist and seminar leader in Denmark. Graduated from the University of Copenhagen, Jens has studied leading edge practices for many years with a strong affinity towards ethics, human excellence and flourishing. As one of the founding member and chair of the Society of Evidence-based Practice, a society within the Danish Psychological Association, Jens is active in the developing an integrative approach to evidence-based coaching in Denmark, sharing research and perspectives with coaches and coaching psychologists in Denmark. In addition he organizes workshops with national and international figures in the field in order to make the widest range of coaching models and styles available to coaches and clients. His own style of coaching is based on positive psychology, solutions-focus, and behavioural and cognitive-behavioural models as well as models that support coaching engagements in situations where clients face overwhelming complexity. Recently, he has developed an interest in exploring classical education, classical in sense of forms of education that provides lasting value, and how the presence of the fruits of non-sectarian classical education, for example the Trivium in the West or the Four Arts of the Nobleman of Ancient China, can help coaches and clients deal with our current challenging societal and economical conditions. Jens’ strength of pattern detection has for years been an important asset in helping clients accentuate hope across a wide variety of coaching situations.

Magnus Larsson, licensed psychologist, PhD, associate professor at Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. His research has focused leadership, primarily focusing on how leadership is performed in everyday work interaction, based on close ethnographic studies of managers. He is currently engaged in a research project focusing on the practice of employee surveys as an organizational practice where the surveys emerge both as useful tools and as a problem for managers. He is also engaged in a pilot project studying learning processes in coaching with the aim of establishing a larger research project on coaching. He has published research in international and Swedish journals and books. Within the university context Magnus has been teaching consultancy and supervision within the psychologist programme at Lund University where he previously was responsible for the courses in work and organizational psychology as well as in various courses for professional practitioners.
As a consultant Magnus is engaged with MiL Institute in Lund where he has been a Senior Associate since 1996. He has been engaged in a number of leadership development programmes as programme director, learning coach and as responsible for personal leadership retreats as well as supervising other learning coaches working in leadership development programmes. During the last decade he has also worked as a management coach together with MiL Institute.
The second area within which Magnus has been engaged as consultant is with group relations conferences within the Tavistock tradition. He has worked as staff member at conferences in Sweden and in Denmark and is a board member of the Swedish organization AGSLO. The systems psychodynamic framework emanating from this group relations tradition is his major theoretical and practical framework within coaching. PRESENTATION IN SWEDISH

Julie Allan is a chartered and registered psychologist, organisational consultant and coach. She works to help people transition and change, individually and collectively, usually in relation to organisational contexts and endeavours. Previously she worked in writing and publishing, particularly for the BBC, following brief encounters with a well-known London department store and the world of theatre sound and lighting. She is trained in gestalt and personal construct approaches and is often engaged in leading edge practice, from her contributions to the complexity programme at the London School of Economics to her current work with wisdom in corporate contexts. She is keen on enquiry-based learning.

A trained supervisor of coaches and consultants, Julie also serves as Social Policy and Ethics Liaison Officer for the Special Group in Coaching Psychology (British Psychological Society) and is a member of the BPS Ethics Committee. She is an APECS accredited executive coach, accredited member of the Society for Coaching Psychology and a Member of the Association for Coaching. Publications include The Power of the Tale: Using Narratives for Organisational Success (Wiley 2002), Gestalt Coaching (with Alison Whybrow in The Handbook of Coaching Psychology, Routledge 2007) and a forthcoming chapter on ethics in coaching.

Wisdom has naturally emerged for her as an exploration consistent with professional and personal interests that include psychology, leader development, complexity, story and narrative, ethics and responsibility. It seems to her a timely topic for all those of us working alongside leaders, at all levels, whether in business or more broadly in our communities.

Founding partner and co-director of Irving Allan, Julie can be contacted at or find her profile on Linked In http://tinyurl.com/5se39rz

Reinhard Stelter holds a PhD in psychology and is Professor of Sport and Coaching Psychology at the University of Copenhagen and visiting professor at the Copenhagen Business School (Master of Public Governance). He is head of the Coaching Psychology Unit at the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, Copenhagen University. He is accredited coaching psychologist (Society for Coaching Psychology) and has received further training in psychotherapy, counselling, coaching psychology and applied sport psychology. He is the author and editor of one of Scandinavia’s most successful books on coaching (published in Danish and Swedish) with the English title “Coaching – learning and developing” (approx 25.000 copies sold). He is on the Editorial Board of the International Coaching Psychology Review and Associate Editor of Psychology of Sport and Exercise. He is editor and author of ten books and about 200 articles in scientific and research oriented journals or books. He is Honorary Vice-President of the Society of Coaching Psychology, Scientific Advisory Council member of The Institute of Coaching associated with Harvard Medical School, Invited Founding Fellow of the Institute of Coaching Professional Association, associate member of the Taos Institute, and advisory board member, senior coach and lecturer at Copenhagen Coaching Center. He has been on numerous scientific boards of international conference and many evaluation committees for professorial positions. His theoretical ground in coaching is inspired by phenomenology, systemic thinking, social constructionism and narrative and collaborative practice. In 2009-11 he has been leader of a research project – a randomized control trial – with a focus on narrative-collaborative group coaching, where he could document and positive effect of coaching on personal well-being and social recovery. In summer 2011 he is director of a course on “Coaching, Kirkegaard and Leadership” at the Copenhagen Summer University.

Paul O Olson has worked in international leadership positions since 1984, when he joined General Electric. There he had a succession of management and leadership roles for 11 years in GE Information Services as part ofregional andglobal teams serving major companies with mission-critical global IT and telecom infrastructures. GE has been consistently ranked one of the most admired companies for leadership practices in the world, mostly as #1.Paul regards his years there as formative and still hugely valuable experiences from a diversity of projects and processes to organise and drive strategic change and business development.From 1997 to 2009 he was founding member and Scandinavian partner of International Executive Search Federation (now 160 offices in 40 countries), including three years as one of five Global practice leaders. His mainareas were middle and top level recruiting andpsychological assessments,Management Team Analysis and executive coaching. Currently, Paul is an independent consultant and an associate partner at Styrelederskolen (The Board Academy) in Norway, wherehe runs the new Executive coaching & mentoring program, facilitates a workshop on change management and teaches psychology for the boardroom.He became a full member of Institute of Directors (London) in 2003 and is an active member ofthe German-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce. Paul has his MBA fromOslo, an MSc (Fil mag.) in psychology from Stockholm University and is currently in the final year of a Doctorate in Counselling psychology in London.