Beyond Bias: Coaching for Inclusion
Expand your capability to coach across difference
A professional coach education programme that supports Coaches & Supervisors to understand the profound significance of diversity, social justice, equity and inclusion in Coaching, with a specific reference to race.
Our programmes are designed to be transformative and uplifting. We believe in fostering an environment of learning, growth, and solidarity—where there is no room for shame, but every opportunity for positive change.
Designed and delivered by our racial equity & belonging consultant and Executive Coach, Bernice Hewson. This programme is geared towards equipping you for action, providing you with the tools and confidence to make a tangible difference in your personal and professional life.
Course Details
Professional, accredited coaches and supervisors who want to achieve a deeper understanding of racial equity, and develop the skills and awareness to ensure all clients feel seen, heard and valued.
We approach antiracism with empathy and understanding, creating a safe space for everyone to learn and grow without fear of judgment.
- Intersectional Identity
- Shaping of self and shaping of our clients into socialised systems.
- The importance of our worldview in coaching
- Racial literacy – develop an understanding of key terms and concepts
- The Role of culture
- Racial bias & discrimination
- Belonging – Power & oppression in the workplace
- Antiracism in coaching
Delegates will receive an Advancing Racial Equity Learning Journal and workbook to accompany the programme.
Please make sure the address you provide when booking is the same as the address you would like this booklet to be posted to. The programme will offer a hybrid of synchronous and asynchronous learning. The live sessions will be supplemented with core knowledge modules to support the learning and reflection on your journey.
The programme includes 1 x 60-minute 1:1 coaching session. Dyadic reflective space offers an invaluable learning space outside of the group, offering you the opportunity to reflect on your own learning journey.
- Have practiced and developed skills in racial literacy and gained the confidence and competence to discuss race and racism effectively.
- Acquired a deeper awareness of your own racialised identity and understand how it shapes your perceptions and interactions.
- Gained insights into the racialised experiences of your clients, leading to the creation of more inclusive and supportive coaching spaces.
- Recognise the role of race and power in the coaching profession and practices, and feel equipped to discuss difference, inclusion, and belonging confidently.
- Understand that antiracism work is a liberatory and emancipatory process that centers humanity and dignity for all.
Online Only Programme
Module One: 24th January 2025, 10am to 12pm
Module Two: 31st January 2025, 10am to 12pm
Module Three: 14th February 2025, 10am to 12pm
Module Four: 28th February 2025, 10am to 12pm
Module Five: 14th March 2025, 10am to 12pm
- 19 hours total
- 5 x 2 hour online workshops
- 4 x 1 hour asynchronous learning modules
- 4 hours additional reading & journaling
- 1:1 Coaching session (60mins)
Programme costs £849 +VAT.
Bernice Hewson EMCC Senior Coach Practitioner (EQi Practitioner & DISC Practitioner) MA & BSc (Research Thesis: Antiracism in Exceutive Coaching)
16 CCE Points
- 8 Core Competencies
- 8 Resource Development
PLEASE NOTE:
This short course is not a “train the trainer” course. Our short courses generally provide introductions to complex and sometimes sensitive topics and the course and the materials provided are not designed to equip delegates to deliver training in these areas.
The materials provided by Barefoot on this short course, such as any slides or notes, are Barefoot materials, designed for your personal use as a delegate on the course. Please note that these materials should not be reproduced or distributed to third parties.
Bernice Hewson
Bernice Hewson is an accredited EMCC Senior Practitioner, a racial equity scholar, anti-racism educator, and the visionary founder of Raising Racial Consciousness Ltd. She collaborates with coach training providers and leadership teams that want deepen their knowledge and understanding of power, oppression and racial equity within their practice, their organisation and coach training curriculum.
Founder Raising Racial Consciousness Ltd www.raisingracialconsciousness.com