Coaching training is a free additional offer for students in the Business Psychology master’s program. Over three semesters, the recently certified students have undergone coaching training while pursuing their degrees. In doing so, they learned the approaches and methods of systemic coaching and were able to apply them. The training aims to qualify them to use their perspectives as members of Generation Z to assist other (young) people with their individual concerns. Central goals of coaching can be to work on decision-making and action-taking skills, to strengthen and maintain performance capabilities, and to develop self-management skills.
Georg Müller-Christ, a sustainable management professor, initiated the training together with the psychologist PD Dr. Iris Stahlke and the research assistant Lisa-Marie Seyfried. The University of Bremen’s team designed the program with experts from the European Association for Supervision and Coaching (EASC). EASC is a European coaching association that develops guidelines for training coaches and reviews their implementation.
Institute for Sustainability Coaching Founded
The students received their certificates as part of the founding ceremony of the Institute for Sustainability Coaching at the University of Bremen. The research institute is headed by Georg Müller-Christ and Iris Stahlke. It pursues the goal of developing the concept of sustainability coaching for decision-makers, leaders, teachers, and students. “Coaching usually takes place as part of a two-person relationship, in which the coach helps the coachee to identify and achieve their own goals,” says Georg Müller-Christ. Sustainability coaching is about taking into account not only individual but also community goals such as sustainability and equity. Incorporating such considerations might make decisions more complex and can lead to dilemmas and higher trade-off costs. This is another reason why sustainability considerations rarely occur in traditional coaching.
“The coaching training for students, which will begin every winter semester in the future, is the first service the institute has developed,” says Iris Stahlke. The institute’s team is currently working on other formats, such as networking meetings and training days for coaches.
Further Information:
https://www.uni-bremen.de/inc (in German only)
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Georg Müller-Christ
Institute for Sustainability Coaching
Phone: +49 421 218-66780
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