OBCAMS

Oxford Brookes University Coaching and Mentoring Society

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The aim of the Oxford Brookes University Coaching and Mentoring Society (OBCAMS) is to bring together researchers and practitioners of coaching and mentoring in order to explore evidence based practice and areas of interest to the field.

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 online. 

The society has approximately 150 members, comprising academics, students and practitioners from across the region.

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Society meetings

The society meets monthly on Thursday evenings between 5.00pm and 6.30pm unless otherwise stated on the programme. Please note that the recordings will not be available in order to encourage open discussions.

How to become a member?

Membership of the Society is available free-of-charge to anyone interested in their own professional development as a coach or mentor (practitioners, students, academics, etc).

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Upcoming sessions

The Experience of Team Coaching – From the Perspective of Practising Team Coaches, with Dr Gill Graves

27 March 2025, 5.00 - 6.30pm

There has been a surge of interest in team coaching in recent years. However, it is still invariably described as an emergent process, particularly when compared with one-to-one coaching. Team coaching is a challenging activity with the highs and lows much more extreme and magnified than for one-to-one coaching. It is also highly demanding of the coach since there is the need to manage simultaneously the coaching process and the interactions of team members.

Drawing on Gill’s doctoral research, this session will utilise the framework of the PiE Team Coaching ModelÒ, a model created during collaborative research with practising team coaches. The model presents team coaching as three distinct phases (Preparation, Intervention and Evaluation) with supervision running throughout an assignment, from start to finish, with a different foci of attention in each phase. 

The session will include breakout sessions enabling space for participants to discuss and reflect on their own practice.

Dr Gill Graves is a highly experienced executive coach, team coach and coach supervisor. Her work blends academic rigour with real-world application. She was awarded a Professional Doctorate in Coaching and Mentoring by Oxford Brookes in 2020 with her research focussing on the experience of team coaching from the perspective of practising team coaches. Gill is accredited as a Master Practitioner Coach by the EMCC and is member of Faculty at Judge Business School, Cambridge University.    

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