Overview
This event is part of Psychology Week.
Coaching Psychology is by nature an integrative practice drawing upon the whole discipline of psychology rather than sitting solely within one area of practice.
Research conducted by a team based at the University of the Sunshine Coast is providing insights for practice that all coaching practitioners will appreciate. Consisting of both academic researchers and experts in work-based research and coaching psychology practitioners, the research team brings together a range of subdisciplinary perspectives that are contextualised for coaching practice.
This exciting event will include brief highlights from each research focus area followed by a panel discussion, inclusive of an audience Q&A. Join us for this exploration of selfcare, assessing the role of serious leisure at work, as well as preliminary results from a study exploring the effectiveness of coaching as a resource for work and life, allowing insights into your coaching or coaching psychology practice.
Pauline Willis will share an overview of context and connection for the research conducted to inform coaching practice (10 minutes), followed by three research presentations about self-care, serious leisure, and coaching:
- Self-care as a foundation for personal and professional success (20 minutes) by Dr. Kathryn Esparza
- Qualitative exploration of serious leisure as an affordance for recovery, role balance, and wellbeing in working adults (20 minutes) by Dr. Prudence Millear
- Preliminary findings from a study exploring the effectiveness of coaching as a resource for work and life (20 minutes) by Dr Roxane Gervais
This will be an interactive event. Questions from the audience are welcome and will be posted in the Zoom chat or the Q&A function in Zoom.
About the presenter(s)
Pauline Willis is an organisational psychologist providing services focused on individuals, teams and organisations. In addition to her organisational consultancy services, she is a coach and confidante to leaders and executives to enable them to maintain equilibrium with self-care at the core of what many leaders currently need for continuing effectiveness. She is also a provider of peer consultation and supervision for coaches, mentors, psychologists as well as leaders of small businesses seeking to embrace their own self-care and professional development as an integrated approach.
In association with colleagues at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Pauline is currently engaged with research in the areas of coaching, self-care, well-being, at work and serious leisure. Pauline’s historical research interests have focused on core and specialist competencies and standards for the coaching and mentoring industry. Her broader professional interests include technology, one health, circular economy, sustainability, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, human factors, and psychosocial health and safety.
Pauline is an international provider of consultancy coaching and supervision services working across a range of sectors and industries. Her primary focus has been high pressure high-stakes environments which have included, but not limited to, healthcare (human and animal), emergency services, fast moving consumer goods, banking/finance, professional sport, and Information technology. She has also lived and worked in the United Kingdom.
She has held a number of key roles in the profession of psychology as well as in the coaching sector. She served as a founding board member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council, is a past chair of the Coaching Psychology Forum and the British Psychological Society’s Special Group in Coaching Psychology (now the Division of Coaching Psychology) and is currently serving as the Western Australian State Chair of the Australian Psychological Society’s College of Organisational Psychologists.
Dr. Prudence Millear, PhD, is currently a Senior Lecturer in Psychology, in the School of Health, at the University of the Sunshine Coast, in Queensland, Australia and she completed her PhD in occupational health psychology at QUT in 2010. Her research interests focus on individual differences across the lifespan and how the characteristics of the person drive their experiences and behaviours in their work, family, and leisure roles. With an emphasis on personal agency and self-regulation, her researchexplores what makes for “good work” and the balance of roles and interests in adulthood, how personal characteristics influence the quality of jobs, relationships and family life, and leisure activities are the basis for a happy old age. In particular, Dr. Millear’s research explores the exuberance and happiness of those involved in serious leisure pursuits as this may lead to strategies for better mental health and greater well-being more widely. The importance of leisure as the conduit to being deeply engaged in complex and challenging tasks, amongst like-minded and welcoming people, doing something very meaningful to them, and feeling like they had accomplished something important.
Dr. Roxane Gervais, PhD, is a Chartered Psychologist and a Registered Occupational Psychologist in the United Kingdom. She is a coach and mentor, who provides coaching and consultancy services to organisations. She uses the core tenets of psychology within her practice, with expected standards set against an evidence-based approach to address those occupational safety and health issues that arise within organisations and enhance work conditions. Her extensive experience in stress and well-being issues; includes conducting research, presenting at international conferences and providing training. Her overall expertise allows her to provide various services that augments how she works with clients, including developing and facilitating training on organisational leadership, work-related stress and work-relevant mental health to support workers and organisations. She is an invited speaker at conferences, is widely published, leads projects internationally, and works across sectors and industries. She has worked in, and led, diverse teams, in both the public and private sectors, as well as in different countries, thereby enhancing her people skills.
Dr. Kathryn Esparza, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist, lecturer, and researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast. With extensive experience in private practice and previous experience in acute mental health services, she has worked with children, adolescents, adults, and families across a diverse range of mental health presentations. As a Board-approved supervisor for provisional psychologists and Principal Supervisor for Clinical Registrars, Kathryn is deeply committed to the development of the next generation of mental health professionals. Her teaching spans advanced counselling skills, transcultural counselling, parenting and child development, culturally responsive practice, and professional practice topics. She is particularly passionate about supporting clinician capability and fostering a skilled, sustainable, and culturally responsive mental health workforce. Kathryn's research interests include parenting and child adjustment, cross-cultural psychology, and migrant mental health. More recently, her research focus has expanded to examine the benefits of interprofessional education in allied health training programs and exploring self-care among practicing psychologists. Through her clinical work, teaching, supervision, and research, Kathryn is dedicated to advancing evidence-based practice and improving mental health outcomes for individuals, families, and communities.
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Target Audience
This activity is aimed at coaching psychologists.
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Duration of Access
This event will be recorded. The recording will be emailed to all registered within 2 weeks post event and available for viewing up to 90 days.
CPD
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