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STC® DIPLOMA
(Senior Practitioner)
HYBRID

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Full Price: GBP £9,345

PAY IN 4 INSTALLMENTS : GBP £9,600

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PAY IN FULL: GBP £8,495
PAY IN 4 INSTALLMENTS: GBP £8,800
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Program Overview

A year-long program, delivered over 8 modules, through a hybrid of virtual and in-person sessions, self-study, group supervision, we support you in an immersive learning experience.

Designed to build on your substantial knowledge and experience and deepen your experience of creating, developing and leading teams by supporting you in applying your learning to a ‘live’ client assignment. It offers the expertise of highly experienced coaching faculty and support of an experienced, international learning community.
It provides the theory, tools, information, support and learning experiences to help you build and develop your skills as a systemic team coach.

You must have completed the Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate (Practitioner) and attended all four Group Supervision/Action Learning sessions, before you can start the Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma program.

  • This is the highest level of Systemic Team Coaching®
  • Integrate Systemic Team Coaching® thinking and some of the practice into coaching
  • Improve self-awareness and understanding of the wider system and how it impacts on teams and organizations
  • Gain greater insight into how teams work including dynamics, relationships, goals and purpose
  • Gain new strategies to enable to engage, motivate and empower teams to perform more effectively
  • For those who have completed the Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate (Practitioner)

Program Structure

Module 1 – Setting the stage for Systemic Team Coaching®

  •  1/2-day virtual

Module 2 – Engaging with the team in its context

  • 3 days In-person

Module 3 – Noticing and working with complex organizational challenges

  • Part 1 – 1/2-day virtual

Module 4 – Noticing and working with complex organizational challenges

  • Part 2 – 1/2-day virtual

Module 5 – Working with complex dynamics in the team and its wider systemic context

  • 3 days In-person

Module 6 – Working with complex challenges

  • 1/2-day virtual

Module 7 – Transitioning the team, the coach engagement and harvesting the learning

  • 3-days In -person

Module 8 – Assessment and evaluation

  • 1.5-hour VIVA

Preferred participant experience

This program is suitable to those who have experience in facilitation, coaching and developing teams or who have worked in organizational development. You will need to have completed the Systemic Team Coaching® Certificate Practitioner before attending the Diploma Senior Practitioner program.

For those wanting to develop and expand their team coach competence and become among the most highly qualified team coaches in the field today.

Suitable for:

  • Experienced individual coaches with at least three years’ practice, having completed either training equivalent to ACC (ICF) or Practitioner Level (EMCC)
  • External or internal consultant or HR Business partner with five years+ career in organizational development and extensive coaching experience. You will be expected to be able to present your theoretical framework for coaching teams.
  • An experienced senior team leader with coaching skills

In all cases you will need to secure a client team, or be a leader of your own team, in order to complete a case study – which will be an important opportunity to experiment and practice your developing systemic team coaching skills.

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Benefits

This Master level program has been developed for experienced executive coaches and consultants who wish to strengthen and deepen their team coaching practice.

Working with a client team, you will be supported to become one of the most highly skilled team coaches in the industry today. You will receive regular supervision and over the course of the 8 modules.

Our faculty have combined their experience of organizational consulting, executive coaching, group dynamics, organizational psychology and other related disciplines, as well as many years the senior levels of business, to provide an exciting, experiential program.

They will support you to:

  • Gain a clear understanding of the theory and methodology of Systemic Team Coaching®
  • Create your own model of Systemic Team Coaching® based on our Systemic Team Coaching® approach and marketing statement
  • Develop the skills to practice as an excellent Systemic Team Coach
  • Gain deep personal understanding of yourself in your roles as a team member and coach and clarity about how to further build your expertise in this professional field
  • Become licensed to deliver Team Connect 360 – our unique online team diagnostic
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Our Approach

We have built an enviable reputation for executive coach training, leadership, and team coaching training, which equips participants with the skills to challenge themselves and their clients.

We are proud of our Partnership’s approach:

  • You are our primary focus
  • Our training is experiential
  • We are business focused
  • We support you to become an authentic coach and develop your own signature approach and presence
  • We support you to think of how you will market yourself as a Team Coach
  • We provide on-going support through our alumni of Systemic Team Coaches helping you remain connected to others in the field.
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How you will learn

During the program, you will work with and in the following contexts:
  • The faculty team
  • Whole learning group comprising all members of the program facilitated by the faculty
  • Your external client team:
    • between modules meeting with your organizational
    • client team
    • during the modules examining your performance
    • as a team coach
    • receiving supervision from faculty
Practitioner teams of four‑eight, working together on their client teams and providing supervision to each other. This will be facilitated by a member of the faculty in support of the practitioner team’s learning
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Team Connect (TC360) Diagnostic Instrument

AoEC in partnership with Professor Peter Hawkins has taken his 20 years of extensive research and development in high-value teams and created an online team diagnostic instrument Team Connect 360 (TC360) based on his 5 Disciplines model.

On the program, you will experience the instrument and learn how it can be used. On successfully completing the program you will become a licensed user and so have the option of using the instrument with your professional clients.

Accreditation

This program holds the EMCC (European and Coaching Council) Team Coaching Quality Award, at Senior Practitioner Level, enabling you to be one of the most certified in the field.

EMCC Global (European Mentoring and Coaching Council)

The AoEC holds the Global Team Coaching Quality Award (Senior Practitioner level) conferred by the EMCC for the Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma.

Graduates of the Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma have completed the training requirements for EMCC Global Individual Team Coaching Accreditation at Senior Practitioner level.

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ICF (International Coaching Federation)

Until 2023, the Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma was accredited for 121 ACSTH (Approved Coach Specific Training Hours). The ICF no longer offers this accreditation, but the hours can be used towards an ICF credential via the portfolio route and the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching.

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For more detailed information see the ICF website

Modul 1
The Tranformational Shift to senior Practicioner
Led by Prof. Peter Hawkins with guest presenter
  • Understanding what the world needs in terms of a shift in human consciousness
  • How Systemic Team Coaching® contributes to what the world needs
  • Understanding the shift from a redesigning action lodge to a transforming action logic
Modul 2
Team Dynamics: Coaching the Transformational Shift in the Room
Led by Colm Murphy and Dr. Catherine Carr with guest presenter
  • Seeing the team’s story including the traps and cul-de-sacs
  • How to shift the frame through spatial, temporal and holographic holding capacities
  • How to dance with resistance
Modul 3
Building the Muscles to See and Act Systemically
Led by Prof. Peter Hawkins and Dr Catherine Carr with guest presenter
  • Understanding that “being” change happens here and now, inside out
  • Using self as instrument of change to be the change the team needs
  • Using Sentic states to shift yourself to shift the room
Modul 4
The Tranformational Shift to senior Practicioner

Led by Colm Murphy with guest presenter

  • Making the systemic pattern seeable and feeable
  • Seeing the team as part of an organisational pattern and dynamic
Modul 5
Coaching the Team in Live Partnering Engagements with Stakeholders

Led by Inge Simons with guest presenter

  • Understanding that partnership is not created by partners
  • Exploring who does the partnership serve
  • How to contract, prepare and orchestrate live-partnering, and turn it into actions
Modul 6
Working with Complex Organisational Challenges as STC (Team Choaching as part of Organisational Partnering)
Led by Prof. Peter Hawkins with guest presenter
  • Understanding the organisational transitions
  • Guest CEOs conceptualizing the transitions their organisations have gone through and how STC supported that transition
  • Understanding the CEO challenge for your learning group to respond to
Modul 7

Choacing Teams of Teams

Led by Inge Simons with guest presenter

  • How to support a team in developing next levels of teams
  • The architecture of a “team of teams” event
  • The methodology for live “team of teams” events
Modul 8
Working with Complex Organisational Challenges as STC (Part 2)
Led by Prof. Peter Hawkins with guest presenter
  • How to partner, engage and co-create with a potential client
  • How to introduce “team of teams” perspectives into your dialogue
Modul 9
Flexing the Needs of Different Types of Teams
Led by Colm Murphy and Dr. Catherine Carr with guest presenter
  • How to team coach project teams using STC with agile principles
  • How to do Board Reviews and move to Board Development
  • Managing the challenges of family businesses
  • Working with culture and other diversity in teams
Modul 10
Developing the Learning and Self-coaching Team
Led by Inge Simons with guest presenter
  • How to grow the capacity of the team and team leader to increase the team’s ability to develop themselves right through the team coaching journey
  • How to structure review meetings with team leader and HR leader to grow their capacity as team coaches
  • Embedding learning habits, methods and rituals in the team that will sustain beyond their learning
Modul 11
Developing as integrated Team Coaching Culture across the Organisation
Led by Colm Murphy and Dr. Catherine Carr with guest presenter
  • Key elements of team culture
  • How to develop internal resources to coach own teams
  • Using technology to create a teaming culture
Modul 12
Integrating the Learnig and Defining the Way Forward
Led by Colm Murphy and Dr. Catherine Carr with guest presenter
  • Charting the shift in my thinking, doing and being
  • Understanding how I have extended my range and impact of my work
  • The shift from redefining to transforming
  • Extending the ripple of our work
  • Continuing to sift human consciousness
PROGRAM LEADS

Adrian Lim

Adrian is an experienced Executive Coach, Systemic Team Coach and Supervisor, based in Singapore.

Adrian has over 20 years of marketing and product management experience in the consumer electronics, telecommunications and IT solutions industries. He co-authored the book ‘Into the WILD – Creating a Coaching Culture at the Workplace’ in 2021.

Fluent in both Mandarin and English, Adrian has built, led and managed physical and virtual teams across the globe. He has also accumulated in-depth appreciation of global mindfulness, cultural diversity and international business practices in Asia and around the world.

Adrian is an ICF credentialed Professional Certified Coach (PCC), accredited and certified in Meta Team, GENOS Emotional Intelligence, Everything DiSC, Emergenetics, Design Thinking and LEGO® Serious Play.

PROGRAM LEADS

Paul S H Lim

Paul has worked with Renewal Associates for over ten years, first as a client organisation and since then as an Associate. He is an experienced Leadership Development Practitioner, Executive Coach, Systemic Team Coach, Coach Supervisor and Change Consultant, based in Singapore.

His last corporate role was heading the leadership development centre in the Singapore public service and before that he was Regional Director / Managing Director with established consulting firms, working across Asia-Pacific. His clients value his depth and breadth of experience and his sensitivity to the cultural context of Asia, where he operates. He is fluent in English and Chinese, as well as dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien. He is also conversational in Bahasa Melayu.

Paul is an accredited coach and is certified in the use of a variety of assessment and profiling instruments such as: Hogan Leadership Series, MBTI, Conflict Dynamics, NLP, Bates Executive Presence and Leadership Team Performance, MBSR, Action Learning.

PROGRAM LEADS

Pamela Maguire

Pamela Maguire is an Executive Team coach and Supervisor. She uses a systemic eclectic approach to coaching supervision with individuals and with teams allowing the issue and solution to emerge through tapping into a range of models, theories, techniques, and processes choosing the most pertinent for the person, team, or issue.

In supervision, Pamela focuses on the needs of the team and the organization and takes into consideration the individual, the team, the organization’s stakeholders as well as the team coaches and their clients. She sees the function of the supervisor as Qualitative by helping the coach focus on what she/he is not seeing, not hearing, or not allowing themselves to feel or not saying; Developmental in that she helps the coach to develop her/his internal supervisor and reflective practitioner and resourcing by providing a supportive space for the coach to process what they have absorbed from the client and the clients’ system. She brings a blend of business acumen and human understanding and space of unconditional regard for her supervisees.

PROGRAM LEADS

Hellen Hettinga

Hellen has been associated with Renewal Associates since 2020, building on a partner relationship with Peter since 2015. An ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), certified supervisor of coaches, mentors and consultants and facilitator in change leadership.

Hellen partners with individuals, teams and organisations navigating complex challenges in uncertain environments. Her intention is to enable conversations that matter and to create conditions for learning collectively for people and planet to thrive.

With an international corporate background and leadership experience in various sectors and countries, she works mostly with multinational organisations. She encourages embodied learning – connecting head, heart and body, ‘being rather than thinking the change’. Inviting stakeholders in the room, including the non-human ones, she challenges clients to show up as whole persons. Holding a deep curiosity and sensitivity for diversity, she believes in the power of community. Her style is described as warm with a strong, calm presence. She is known for her capacity to work with ethical dilemmas.

PROGRAM LEADS

Professor Peter Hawkins

Peter Hawkins, Chairman of Renewal Associates, co-founder of the Global Team Coaching Institute, Emeritus Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, and Senior Visiting Fellow, at Civil Service College (Singapore), is a leading consultant, coach, writer, and researcher in organizational strategy, leadership, culture change, team and board development, and coaching. He has worked with many leading organizations all over the world including Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South Africa, and America coaching Executive Teams and Boards and facilitating major change and organizational transformation projects. He has coached over 100 boards and senior executive teams, enabling them to develop their purpose, vision, values, collective leadership, and strategy for the future, in a wide range of international, large, and small commercial companies, government departments, NHS Trusts, professional services organizations, and charities.

Peter is an international thought leader in Systemic Coaching, Executive Teams, and Board Development, President of both the Association of Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (www.apecs.org); and the Academy of Executive Coaching (www.aoec.com) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Windsor Leadership Trust. He has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences on learning organization, leadership, and executive coaching and teaches and leads masterclasses in over 50 different countries around the world.

PROGRAM LEADS

Steliana van de Rijt-Economu

Steliana van de Rijt-Economu(ICF PCC. ACTC certified) is an executive team coach with over 20 years of experience helping people and teams unlock their leadership potential.

Her professional background encompasses HR, organizational development, and leadership coaching and training for executives (E/VP, GM level) at Fortune 500 companies such as Shell, Vodafone, and Nike. With an academic foundation in Finance and Project Management, coupled with extensive practical experience in organizational and behavioral change and leader development, she excels in tackling complex challenges and seizing multifaceted opportunities within global matrix organizations.

She received the Global Women International Network award for her contribution to feminine leadership through her book: Mothers as Leaders

PROGRAM LEADS

Jonathan Sibley

Jonathan is an experienced coach who has been supporting organizational leaders since 2004. With his extensive background in systemic team coaching, he has been a valuable member of Renewal Associates’ coaching faculty since 2001. While based in New York City, Jonathan has gained international exposure, having lived in various countries and worked fluently in French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and English. Holding an MBA from INSEAD in France, he possesses a strong academic foundation.

Jonathan’s expertise lies in applying a systemic lens to help teams navigate the complexities of organizational and team dynamics, enhancing individual and collective performance. His focus includes assisting clients in evaluating their performance against stakeholder expectations, improving relationships, managing conflicts (both intercultural and within the same culture), and addressing blind spots and obstacles, including emotional management.

Certified as a coaching supervisor and having completed the Advanced Diploma in Systemic Team Coaching, Jonathan also holds certifications in various assessment tools and methodologies. His coaching experience spans diverse industries, including finance, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, automotive, luxury, and non-profit sectors. Presently, he leads a coaching initiative within a US government agency, overseeing 48 coaches and 24 teams.

As a board member of Coaching for Justice, Jonathan actively promotes the integration of a social justice lens in coaching engagements. Additionally, he continues to cultivate his linguistic skills and enjoys traveling whenever possible.

PROGRAM LEADS

Dr. Hilary Lines

Dr. Hilary Lines, Executive and Team Coach, Supervisor, Touchpoint Leaders, coaches leadership teams in the UK and internationally, and has particular experience in helping senior teams lead transformational change and integrate cultures post-merger. She has co-authored Touchpoint Leadership: Creating collaborative energy across Teams and organizations (Kogan Page, 2013), which describes her work and philosophy of leadership as a relationship.

Hilary has been Lead Faculty in the design and delivery of the Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma for the past 11 years. Hilary was Global Head of Partner & Leadership Development at PwC Consulting and coached the VP and Board of IBM’s EMEA Business Consulting Business before establishing her own Leadership Consulting and Coaching business. Her doctoral research examined the organizational factors that create bridges and blocks to the integration and development of R&D scientists in industry. She is a Master Practitioner Coach with AoEC and ICF PCC accredited coach.

PROGRAM LEADS

Dr. Catherine Carr

Dr Catherine Carr is a Professional Certified Coach, Master Corporate Executive Coach, Supervisor, Certified Master Team Coach, and Registered Clinical Counsellor with Carr Kline & Associates. She has a doctorate in executive coaching and leadership development and a Masters degree in counselling psychology. In 2012 Catherine won the Goulding Award for the most outstanding professional doctorate for her work on team coaching. She is the co-author of 50 Tips for Terrific Teams! and High Performance Team Coaching, several peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and magazine articles on team coaching.

Catherine trains and supervises coaches in Systemic Team Coaching. She is the Head of the Practitioner Program for the Global Team Coaching Institute and the North American lead for the international group, Resilience at Work. Catherine has expertise in public sector coaching, health, pharmaceutical, finance, IT, and environmental organizations. She is grateful to do work that supports people to be well, live well and to meaningfully contribute around them and to our world.

THE TEAM

Professor Peter Hawkins

Peter is one of the Global top 100 coaches and the international thought leader in systemic coaching, executive teams, and board development. He is an Emeritus Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, Honorary President of the Association of Executive Coaching and Chairman of Renewal Associates and joint founder and Dean of the Global Team Coaching Institute.

He has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences on learning organization, leadership, and executive coaching and teaches and leads masterclasses in Systemic Team Coaching in over 50 different countries.

He is the author of many best-selling books and papers in the fields of leadership, board and team coaching, systemic coaching, supervision, and organizational transformation (including Leadership Team Coaching, 2021 (4th ed); Leadership Team Coaching in Practice, 2022 (3rd ed); Systemic Coaching (2020, with Eve Turner); Supervision in the Helping Professions (2020, with Aisling McMahon) and Integrative Psychotherapy (2020, with Judy Ryde); Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy: Supervision, Skills and Development (2013, with Nick Smith); Creating a Coaching Culture, 2012; and The Wise Fool’s Guide to Leadership, O Books, 2005. 

Peter was joint founder, in 1986, of Bath Consultancy Group and its chairman until the company was sold in 2010 and has chaired three other company boards as well as being a trustee director of several charities. 

Peter Hawkins has consulted to a wide range of governments, and leading commercial, financial and professional organizations including Fortune 100 and FtSE 100 international companies  

He now supervises and mentors many coaching and consultancy businesses internationally as well as running international trainings and masterclasses. 

He lives on the edge of Bath, UK with 37 acres which he shares, with many animals and trees as well as his children and grandchildren and leaders who come on courses and retreats.