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Meta-Skills for Coaches
One-day trainings for internal and external coaches
MCI has developed a range of Advanced Training Days which enables coaches to become much more effective and confident in their work. These training days make a great difference to the impact of coaches' work and significantly increase the value of coaching in organisations.

Through MCI Training Days, coaches will:

  • Develop advanced skills and insights
  • Gain a wide range of valuable information
  • Experience first-class Coaching Supervision
  • Experience structured practice in subtle/powerful meta-skills
  • Become much more confident, competent and effective coaches

Training in Coaching Supervision Skills
This two-day training is for Senior and Executive coaches who wish to use supervision in a peer learning context. Coaches will leave with a thorough grounding in the central principles and practice of Coaching Supervision and they will be trained in the Full Spectrum model developed by Edna Murdoch of MCI which includes the classic 7-eyed model of supervision.


Coaching Presence
Coaching Presence is the foundation for all effective coaching. Edna Murdoch has run workshops on this concept since 2001 and has developed a unique and powerful training programme which includes insights from the seminal work of Peter Senge and from the Psychology and Practice of Presence. We work with the body as well as the mind, drawing on contemporary developments in Neuroscience, Emotional Intelligence and Energy Management.

Building the Internal Supervisor.
The best coaches are aware of the full range of their body/mind information in relation to client work and are able to use this at any given moment to create interventions which are accurate, perfectly timed and which give the maximum chance for real shifts in client behaviour and practice. Learning how to recognise and use the Internal Supervisor, gives coaches this very empowering addition to their skill set.

Working with difficult client situations.
Coaching across a range of professional and business issues requires that coaches can meet many client needs. These may be surprising at times and can take the coach to the limit of their experience and ability. This training day equips coaches to remain steady and competent, no matter what client situations present. We look at classic problem areas and leave room for those 'in situ' which coaches want to address.

Coaching/Counselling borders.
'After three sessions, all coaching is personal coaching'. How do coaches work with personal material without straying into Counselling? What are the differences? How does a coach recognise and assess what a client presents? How does a coach recognise their current limitations - and then progress beyond them? This very informative and valuable workshop gives coaches great insights and increases their awareness in key areas, so that coaches develop new skills and work safely with clients. This workshop also enables the coach to sustain their energy by building boundaries based on a firm foundation of understanding.

Psychology of Relationships.
The MCI team are trained in the Psychology of Relationships. We use insights from Transactional Analysis, the Insights Programme, Energy Management and other well established ways of understanding what goes on in a working relationship to deliver a training which is greatly valued by coaches. When a coach understands the relationship between coach and client, and can see in an instant what either enables or disables the 'flow' of the work, they can respond intelligently to ensure that the work progresses powerfully.

Making Masterful Coaching Interventions.

  • Image work
  • Working with metaphor
  • The Magic Box
  • The Pendulum

A marvellous smorgasbord which gives coaches training in the use of a range of powerful advanced tools which are rarely available on coach training programmes. This training day greatly increases the coaches' options and gives them much more flexibility in their work.

Group Coaching
The MCI team are trained in group work and have experience in designing and running groups. Coaches in organisations know the many benefits of group coaching. This training day enables the coach to develop all the skills and tools necessary to establish and run coaching groups which are clearly focussed, expertly managed and thoughtfully structured. The day will look at: Enhanced Listening, Leadership Style, Organisation of groups, Process Skills and Group Dynamics.

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