We are delighted to announce our Gathering for coaches and supervisors in the Asia Pacific region. Our programme offers sessions created by our friends and colleagues in the region, and those with long-term relationships in Asia Pacific. We hope you will find sessions thought-provoking, fresh and innovative and you will leave with ideas, insights and new connections.
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Felicia Lauw is from Singapore and works in equal partnership with people to co-create sustainable growth for our society through healthy, energising and honest dialogue. She sees herself as a thinking partner and facilitator via coaching supervision, executive coaching, and systemic team transition consulting and coaching. She has 30 years in business and organization transformation change experience and served clients from 35 countries. She brings together critical thinking from her Computer Science background and heartfelt relational and reflective competence by weaving Neuro Linguistics Programming (NLP), Conversational IntelligenceTM, Leadership Embodiment and supervisory competence and capacity to effect behavioural and systemic change. Felicia is an EMCC EISA accredited Coach Supervisor, EIA Master Practitioner and an ICF PCC. She is a winner of 2020 EMCC Global Supervision Award.
Jo Birch has over 30 years’ experience as a psychotherapist and executive coach. An accredited supervisor, she remains an active contributor to the counselling, psychotherapy, coaching, and supervision communities — formerly Chair of BACP Coaching and board member of AoCS and EASC.
Currently the holder of the EMCC Global Supervision Award, Jo’s work is recognised for her long-standing professional contribution and leadership in supervision practice. As Director of Crucial Difference, she leads an international team providing supervision training for coaches and supporting leadership development across the helping professions and beyond.
A regular journal contributor, Jo is editor of Coaching Supervision Groups: Resourcing Practitioners (2022) and co-editor Coaching Supervision: Advancing Practice, Changing Landscapes (2019) in the EMCC Mastery Series, and previously series editor of Thinking Global for Coaching Today.
Jo is committed to creating a more just and inclusive world. Having lived and worked in diverse inner city environments, she integrates multicultural learning into her work, delivering training in multiple languages (including English, Russian, and Chinese) and expanding her own cultural understanding through the study of Urdu and Spanish.
Shirley has extensive cross-cultural experience as a coach, mentor, and supervisor. Her background in global human resources gives her a unique perspective on leadership development. Shirley has developed expertise in using creative tools and art-based approaches to explore difficult dynamics when language falls short. Her work with imagery and embodied approaches, honed over 30 years, provides clients with a new way of thinking and processing their experiences, applicable both in-person and virtually.
