C4C Practice Café
Monthly forum, for you to practice either coaching or mentoring, helping you build your experience and practice hours.
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This programme is supported by York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, using funding from the Department for Work and Pensions' Get Britain Working Economic Inactivity Trailblazer.
Overview
As part of our Conversations for Change programme, we are delighted to introduce our C4C Practice Café. It offer a safe, supportive and informal environment for you to practice coaching or mentoring and build your confidence and experience alongside your peer group.
The Practice Café runs monthly, for 90 minutes over lunchtime as a drop in session. It is open to anyone who is currently enrolled on one of our training programmes (either coaching or mentoring), those who have recently completed coaching or mentoring training, or those looking for opportunities to practice.
The Practice Café offers the opportunity to connect with their peers who are likewise learning to coach or mentor. Wherever possible, you will be matched with someone on your programme, at your level of training and experience and/or someone outside of your own business or organisation.
For those required to document practice hours as part of your programme, conversations held in the Practice Café can count towards these hours.
Who can attend?
Employers in York and North Yorkshire currently enrolled on our coaching or mentoring training programmes
Employers in York and North Yorkshire who have recently completed coaching or mentoring training.
Employers in York or North Yorkshire looking to practice coaching or mentoring.
Forthcoming Dates
What to Expect
Each Practice Café session will:
- Commence with a brief check in, where a thematic focus is proposed (deep listening, contracting, purpose setting etc).
- Devote 70 minutes to practice in pairs or triad groups, and give feedback to one another.
- Conclude with a group debrief and reflective discussion.
Trainers will be on hand to join discussion groups as required, answer questions or support reflection.
You do not require your own student training insurance to join in the Practice Café.
