Overview:

This session will explore the psychological underpinnings of working and coaching in Cyberspace.  It will explore participants’ experience of working online (in cyberspace) and will focus on coaching in cyberspace. The session will be highly interactive, experiential and will use a variety of different activities to engage with your experience and with emerging practice and research. Tammy will integrate thinking from a number of psychological traditions with practice experience and up to date research.

Suitable for:

The session has been designed for all coaches who are curious and interested in using psychological understandings and emerging insights from research to inform and enhance their online practice.

Outline Content:

• Defining the parameters of cyberspace and the digital self;
• Social psychological impacts of the shifting boundaries of work-life;
• The neuroscience of technostress, technoinvasion and multi-tasking;
• Understanding the psychology of cyberspace: intimacy, alienation and online disinhibition;
• Coaching in cyberspace: working with the manifest and the projected;
• Benefits, opportunities and techniques for working in cyberspace.

By the end of the workshop, delegates will:

• Have explored their own experience of coaching online in the current context
• Understand key psychological factors at play when we are working digitally
• Applied some key ideas about the cyberpsychology of online behaviour
• Considered what is lost, and what may be gained from coaching online
• Have considered how to apply their insights and learning to 1-2-1 coaching and practised bringing these into their coaching

Duration: 1 x 4 hour online session

Cost: £150 + vat

Delivered by: Tammy Tawadros

Tammy holds a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and an MSc in HR/OD Consulting and is an accredited coach and coach supervisor. Tammy is a member of the CIPD and the BPS and the DOP (Division of Occupational Psychology). She has over 20 years experience of working as a coach. Tammy trained in family and group analytic techniques and worked in a mental health therapeutic community prior to training as a social worker.