The International Society for Coaching Psychology (ISCP) is the member from the International Congress of Coaching Psychology Forum. The ISCP is organising this 5-day virtual congress. A number of the ICCP Forum members are also supporting partners of the virtual congress.
ISCP members and Individual members of the supporting organisations or sponsors can attend the keynotes and invited paper sessions on the afternoon of the 8th and morning of the 9th October at no cost. They can also obtain 50% discount for the masterclasses/workshops running from 5th to 9th October by using the Booking Code: ISCP2026. This reduces the price from £20 down to £10 per workshop.
This year, the masterclass and workshop trainers include Dr Siobhain O’Riordan, Dr Stephen Palmer and others Full trainer biographies are HERE. For booking click on links below. For further informational about the workshops scroll down this page.
Workshop 1. 14.00 to 16.00 BST. 5th October, 2026: Coaching with and for Nature with Nikki Ayles MSc, MAPP
Coaching with nature can offer clients and coaches a variety of cognitive, emotional and psychophysiological benefits, from improved focus, perspective and creativity, to increased synchronous alignment, as well as natural phenomena offering powerful metaphors that can lead to lead to valuable client learnings and breakthroughs. However, by also harnessing the construct of nature connectedness through coaching, especially with leaders, we may also be able to contribute towards addressing the wicked problems associated with biodiversity loss and the climate crisis.
Click HERE to book your place. ISCP Members and members of affiliated organisations can use the discount code when booking: ISCP2026
Workshop 2. 14.00 to 16.00 BST. 6th October, 2026: Coaching for Calm: Psychological Skills for Stress Regulation, Resilience and Wellbeing with Prof Stephen Palmer & Dr Siobhain O’Riordan
Coaching for Calm: Psychological Skills for Stress Regulation, Resilience and Wellbeing is a practical two-hour workshop introducing participants to coaching psychology approaches for helping individuals manage pressure, regulate stress and strengthen wellbeing. The workshop explores how people interpret stressful situations, how these appraisals influence emotional, physiological and behavioural responses, and how coaching can support more flexible and constructive ways of responding.
Participants will be introduced to the CALM Coaching Process:
Clarify what is happening and what the person would like to be different;
Appraise how they are interpreting and responding to the situation;
Look again to identify alternative or more flexible perspectives;
Mobilise strengths, resources and practical actions.
The CALM Coaching Process is a brief integrative cognitive-behavioural and solution-focused approach for helping people respond more calmly, flexibly and constructively to manageable stress and pressure.
Through reflection, discussion and paired coaching practice, participants will learn how to apply CALM to manageable, non-clinical sources of stress and pressure. The workshop also considers the importance of recovery, personal resources and sustainable coping strategies. It concludes with the development of a realistic personal action plan and provides a natural transition into the subsequent 45-minute experiential relaxation session.
Self-Coaching for Calm: The CALM Process to tackle stress & relax
Is there a growing need for Relaxation Based Coaching?
Click HERE to book your place. ISCP Members and members of affiliated organisations can use the discount code when booking: ISCP2026
Workshop 3 – Relaxation Club. 16.15 to 17.00 BST. 6th October, 2026: The Relaxation Club is led by Prof Stephen Palmer & Dr Siobhain O’Riordan
Join our Relaxation Club which will be facilitated by Prof Stephen Palmer and Dr Siobhain O’Riordan. The Multimodal Relaxation Method will be discussed and then attendees can try out the technique in the session.
If you are new to using relaxation techniques, then the Multimodal Relaxation Method introduces the ‘Relaxer’ to a range of different relaxation techniques providing the opportunity to try out Passive Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Diaphragmatic breathing, and imagery. (If you are interested to learn more about the Multimodal Relaxation Method, click on the relevant article links in Workshop 3 above.)
Multimodal Relaxation Method applied to counselling, psychotherapy and coaching
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Workshop 4 – 14.00 to 16.30 BST. 7th October, 2026: From power struggles to partnership: A brain-informed coaching psychology approach to parenting Using the ENCOURAGE model to build connection, agency and cooperation in families with Dr Gisele Dias & Dr Liory Fern-Pollak
Drawing on developmental neuroscience, Adlerian psychology and coaching psychology, this interactive masterclass explores how parents can move beyond cycles of conflict, control and disconnection. Using the ENCOURAGE model, it offers practical tools both for parents and for coaches working with parents to strengthen agency, connection, cooperation and confidence within families.
Click HERE to book your place. ISCP Members and members of affiliated organisations can use the discount code when booking: ISCP2026
Workshop 5 – 10.00 to 12.00 BST. 8th October, 2026: Stories of Divergence: Experiences of Facing and Embracing Divergent Paradigms, with Ms. Penny Adams, Steven Breger, Anna Dingani, Dr Anna-Rosa le Roux & Dr Gail Wrogemann
Every coaching relationship eventually reaches a point of divergence — a moment when the coach’s and client’s ways of learning, thinking, and being no longer align with the paradigms they have relied upon. It is the threshold where psychologists, coaches, and organisational leaders confront the unlearning required when lived experience begins to contradict their dominant assumptions.
This masterclass explores three such moments of divergence that are reshaping the coaching profession today, and what it means to help people not only cope with them, but also genuinely embrace them.
We begin with learning divergence — the recognition that there is no single “right” way to acquire, process, and apply knowledge, and what this means for how coaches design developmental conversations. We move to neurodivergence — exploring what it means to work with minds that are wired differently, and how coaching practice must adapt when the goal is not to normalise a client, but to help them build a life and career that works with their brain rather than against it. Finally, we turn to a divergence of a different kind entirely: coaching in the age of AI, where the paradigm shifting is not the client’s, but the profession’s own; as artificial intelligence reshapes how people learn, reflect, set goals, and relate to one another at work.
Each represents a different way of being, thinking, and working that resists the “one right way” assumption that coaching inherited. Drawing on phenomenologically lived experiences as well as human-centred coaching perspectives, this masterclass asks what it means to genuinely face and embrace divergence, rather than to manage, normalise, or fear it. Participants will leave with practical frameworks for recognising and working with divergence in their own coaching practice.
Click HERE to book your place. ISCP Members and members of affiliated organisations can use the discount code when booking: ISCP2026
Workshop 6 – 14.00 to 16.00 BST. 9th October, 2026: TBC