Developing Across Differences: Culturally Adaptive Coaching

“How does it feel to be ignored by your boss?” To be an effective coach, one is taught to have the client explore their feelings. While many U.S. American clients may be comfortable answering this question, a Norwegian client may share feedback that they are not comfortable talking about their feelings so early in the coaching process.

Culture matters in coaching. Culturally adaptive coaching matters in building trust, connecting with your clients, and providing space for them to have more productive coaching sessions and outcomes.

Course leader

Dr. Nagesh Rao

Target group

This course is for you if:

- If you are a workplace leader/consultant wishing to understand how to build a coaching practice within an organization.
- If you are a coach (all levels including exploring coaching as option) who seeks to acquire and/or improve your practice by using culturally adaptive skills.

Course aim

After this course you —and those you work with— will be able to:

Gain a better understanding of what coaching is and is not, how it can be used to support people in their development, and why it needs to be adapted to accommodate culturally diverse clients.

Practice culturally adaptive skills in coaching using silence, statements, and stories for clients/internal stakeholders to gain clarity, discover their own solutions, and develop across differences

Help clients/internal stakeholders learn the process of building an effective coaching practice within an organisation.

Credits info

6 hours of in-class learning and active participation using experiential methods.

Upon successful completion of the programme, the Summer School offers a Certificate of Attendance that mentions the workload of 6 hours (28 hours corresponds to 1 ECTS). Students can apply for recognition of these credits to the relevant authorities in their home institutions, therefore the final decision on awarding credits is at the discretion of their home institutions. We will be happy to provide any necessary information that might be requested in addition to the certificate of attendance.

Fee info

EUR 550: includes course and materials, optional evening programming