Coaching masterclasses

There is a famous quote attributed to Fritz Perls, the father of Gestalt psychology, and sometimes referred to as the Gestalt prayer:

“I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.”

Perls articulated that one of the most important concepts of a Gestalt approach  is that to be present is to unite our attention and consciousness. This leads to “awareness” — an awakening, where attention and consciousness come together in the present moment in order to further our personal growth.

Join Liz and Sally to explore how we can use the ideas and approaches from Gestalt to support our clients, ourselves and our comfort with the unknown.

Liz is a Partner at Catalyst 14, works as a professional coach, coach supervisor and coach trainer and has worked alongside Damion for many years. Liz’s coach training was underpinned by a Gestalt approach and she has enjoyed playing with, and being challenged by, the principles and practices of Gestalt over the years. Liz blends these principles into her work, particularly in the use of creative approaches in her coaching, and in trusting in what is emerging when working with her clients.

Sally works with individuals, teams and organisations, to develop their potential to lead, to manage and to effect change. In all her work, Sally endeavours to meet people where they are and to create with them a safe and supportive space in which they can pause and really notice what is going on. Sally has spent many years using the ideas and approaches of Gestalt in her work as a coach and facilitator and runs an annual Gestalt retreat in Devon.

How to purchase a place on this masterclass

This is a paid-for online workshop costing £50 + VAT / applicable taxes. It takes place on 8 May 2025 at 10am (UK time). You can purchase your place on it here.

Since the pandemic, one of the constant themes that coachees bring to us is a sense of overwhelm within their work and wider life.

Embodied Systemic Coaching offers coaches a modality to work creatively with this theme in a way that fundamentally shifts the client’s energy, capacity and resourcefulness.

In this experiential CPD session, you will learn a high-impact way of working with a coaching client that will offer insight into where the coachee is focusing their energy and time and how this meets with their purpose.

This session will be delivered by Damion Wonfor, Founder of Catalyst 14. Damion is an experienced Executive Coach, Coach Supervisor, Mindfulness Teacher and Constellator. He has been involved with Executive Coaching and People Development for over 25 years. His focus is on supporting clients to develop a deep sense of presence and impact within their work so they can live meaningful lives. His practice is underpinned by Mindfulness, Humanistic and Eastern psychology and Embodied Systemic Methods and Constellations.

How to purchase a place on this masterclass

This is a paid-for online workshop costing £50 + VAT / applicable taxes. It takes place on 30 June 2025 at 10.00 (UK time). You can purchase your place on it here.

In her book ‘Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men,’ Caroline Criado-Perez writes that the gender data gap is “not generally malicious, or even deliberate. Quite the opposite. It is simply the product of a way of thinking that has been around for millennia and is therefore a kind of not thinking.”

In this session, we work from the assumption that we are all steeped in ways of thinking — often invisible to us — that shape us and our actions and ways of being as well as our attitudes and beliefs.

We then explore how our attitudes towards difference and others have also been shaped by the narratives and ways of thinking in which we have been immersed. We think together about how we can work to go beyond what we have learned, so that we can be better advocates for diversity and equality in our coaching and with our coachees.

Aboodi Shabi has been working in executive coaching and coach training since the mid 1990s and has several years of international coaching, training and leadership development experience. He has delivered ontological coach-training programmes all over the world. He is currently on the faculty of Henley Business School’s coaching programme, and also plays an active role on Henley’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. He is a regular speaker on the international coaching circuit and an invited guest tutor on mastery in coaching at several European coaching schools. He has been on the ICF global coaching board and was founding co-president of the UK ICF Chapter. He is currently on the Association for Coaching’s UK leadership team and on the editorial board of Coaching at Work magazine.

How to purchase this recording

This masterclass is recording of a recently-held webinar. You can purchase the recording here.