
JGSG Panel: “Collaborative Hope in the Eye of the Storm – how do we coaches respond to these turbulent times?”
In this session, we have the welcome return of members of what is known as the Joint Global Statement Group – a collaboration of 13 coaching, coaching psychology, mentoring and supervision professional bodies and communities looking at the climate and biodiversity crisis and our profession’s role. The original statement was drafted in 2020 and first published in May of that year https://www.jgsg.one/ during the Coronavirus epidemic.
In the past few months, the members joining us have been working on an evolution of that statement, which is now being considered by all the signatories, along with a new and more user-friendly name! This reflects an appreciation that we have emerged into a new understanding of our landscape, of the need for sustainability, where the interconnectedness of our global challenges is clear and widely accepted. We recognise that the climate crisis cannot be viewed in isolation.
Join us as we explore some of the thinking that has led to this evolved version and what our role as practitioners can be.
The JGSG is a unique collaboration between 13 coaching, mentoring, supervision and coaching psychology professional bodies, including the CCA recently invited to join, who together have memberships of around 300,000 professionals worldwide. The JGSG’s work started in 2019-2020 as the AC, APECS, EMCC and ICF, joined later by APAC, discussed what our profession could do about the climate and ecological emergency, seeing our role as creating a safe space for dialogue, exploration, and learning, not prescribing one right course of action.
Together the 5 bodies wrote the Joint Statement on the crisis. It was published on 29th May 2020, and can be read here: https://www.jgsg.one/joint-global-statement/ or on the CCA website. Since then, 8 further bodies have joined, BPS DoCP, CCA, COMENSA, EASC, GSN, IAC, IOC and ISCP. Inclusion, curiosity, collaboration and compassion are central, with the group continuing to work together, meeting regularly and hosting roundtables.
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Presenter(s) Bio
Anna Brown Anna is an accredited master executive coach and supervisor who integrates nature into her practice, helping clients expand self-awareness, connect with purpose, and create lasting change. Her work spans executive coaching, coach supervision, action learning, and community building.
A Tavistock Institute Certified Supervisor, Anna provides tailored supervision, incorporating nature and systems thinking to foster insight, clarity, and ethical reflection. As a coach, she supports leaders through key transitions. With a deep focus on self and system flourishing, she blends her own senior leadership experience and coach training with her Executive MBA and a BSc in Environmental Science.
Passionate about fostering communities for a thriving planet, Anna co-founded the Coaching In & With Nature Pod within the Climate Coaching Alliance (CCA). She also serves as a Board Director for the Association for Professional Executive Coaching & Supervision (APECS), holding the Supervision and Sustainability portfolios and representing APECS on the Joint Global Statement Group.
Get in touch with Anna:
Website: www.shoyacoaching.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/annarbrown
Brian Lowell French provides coaching, teaching, and speaking on topics of leadership, coaching, diversity-equity-inclusion, sustainability, mindfulness, well-being, and purpose-finding. He is the author of the book, Harmonic Leadership - Leading with Inclusive, Mindful Caring, which he provides as a free gift at harmonicleadership.net. Brian is a Certified Coach (CC) through the IAC-International Association of Coaching, where he also serves on the Board of Governors and leads the Sustainability Coaching Team. He is also a certified mindfulness meditation teacher and holds certifications on many leading psychometric-assessments and leadership-theories. A lifelong musician, Brian weaves music into his leadership, coaching, and mindfulness sessions to create meaningful connections.
Rita Symons (EMCC) is a Master Practitioner coach and supervisor, who spent much of her career in the NHS, starting in public health and ending as a Chief Officer. to her coaching and supervision practice, she works systemically on several national programmes, as well as bespoke development focussed on leadership and inclusion. She is particularly interested in women's leadership, inclusion and belonging and psychological safety. She is the author of a book on Othering: 'Stepping Out of Otherness'. She leads the Global EMCC group on Climate Action and Sustainability. Rita lives in Shropshire, UK, and has two lovely grown up daughters.
Dr Rachael Skews CPsychol, Director, Cognus Consulting Ltd. is a chartered psychologist and behavioural scientist. Rachael’s research focuses on performance, wellbeing and behaviour change. Rachael is a thought leader on topics related to human performance, wellbeing and behavioural science. She has a background in organisational psychology, psychological research, health technology, and philosophy.
She is an internationally recognised subject matter expert in Acceptance and Commitment Coaching and Contextual Behavioural Science in the workplace. She provides coaching, training, supervision, and behavioural science consultancy through her consultancy practice Cognus Consulting Ltd. She has extensive experience consulting with clients across the private, public, and charity sectors.
Rachael is a Director of the International Society for Coaching Psychology (ISCP). She is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a full member of the BPS Divisions of Occupational Psychology and Coaching Psychology.
Hetty Einzig is a member of the Association for Coaching Global Leadership Team, as AC Director of Publications Strategy and Executive Editor of Coaching Perspectives, the AC global magazine. Hetty is an author, thought leader and leadership coach working globally. Her roots lie in transpersonal psychology, a holistic and values-based ontology that works with the cognitive, emotional, physical, spiritual and contextual as an ecosystemic whole. https://hettyeinzig.co.uk/.
Eve Turner is a coach and supervisor globally and author and co-author of several books, chapters, and articles including “Ecological and Climate-Conscious Coaching: A Companion Guide to Evolving Coaching Practice,” “Systemic Coaching” and “The Ethical Coaches’ Handbook.” She is a past chair of the body, “The Association of Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision” and volunteers extensively including co-founding the CCA – the Climate Coaching Alliance and founding the first learning network for supervisors, the GSN - Global Supervisors’ Network, in 2016.
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