The coaching industry has over-focused on differentiating therapy from coaching. This well-placed concern with professional integrity and scope-of-practice has served to create limitations and barriers. Essential learning occurs as clients move through adversity, and integration of the lessons that exist within the pain – the intra-traumatic growth that clients can experience – has been curtailed by this hesitation.
OBCAMS provides collaboration and networking opportunities for academics and professionals from a wide spectrum of coaching and mentoring interest. We introduce a range of coaching and mentoring topics in an informal setting and stimulate lively discussions and debates. The society has approximately 80 members, comprising academics, students and practitioners from across the region.