Introduction to Relational Team Coaching

What changes when we view team coaching not simply as a process of driving action and achieving outcomes, but as an exploration of the relationships through which teams make sense of their world and work together?

In this Team Coaching Circle session, we will explore the key premises underpinning a relational approach to team coaching and how these challenge some of the assumptions commonly associated with traditional coaching practice, including action orientation, pragmatism, and control through tools and techniques.

Relational practice offers an expanded perspective, inviting team coaches to attend to the multiple realities held by team members, the dynamics of human relationships, and the ways teams collectively create meaning. Rather than focusing exclusively on solutions, interventions, or desired outcomes, this approach encourages greater curiosity about what emerges between people and how relationships shape the team's experience and possibilities for change.

Through provocations, reflective questions, small-group discussions, and large-group Q&A, participants will have the opportunity to examine their own assumptions and explore what a relational perspective might open up in their practice.

About the Speakers:

Dorothee Stoffels, BA/DipSW, MSc, MA | Team and Executive Coach, Organisation Development Practitioner and Programme Director

Dorothee is an experienced Team and Executive Coach and OD practitioner. She holds an EIA from the EMCC at Senior Practitioner level. Originally trained as a systemic psychotherapist, she has always taken a keen interest in how organisations function as systems and her interventions focus on the relational aspects of human interaction and change. She has worked internationally with individuals, teams and organisations for over 14 years in a variety of sectors. She is the Programme Director of the Team Coaching Programme at Ashridge Business School and one of its founding

members.

Simon Cavicchia, MA (Oxon), MSc, MSc, Dip. Supervision, APECS Accredited | Organisation Development Consultant, Executive Coach, Team Coach and Supervisor

Simon is an internationally experienced OD Consultant, Accredited Executive Coach, Coach Supervisor, Team Coach, Process Consultant, Facilitator and Lecturer. Simon draws on his experience in consulting, deep human systems understanding and psychology to enable organisations to

successfully navigate the complexities of transformational change processes, develop leadership cultures and individuals. He is a member of faculty on the Team Coaching Programme at Ashridge Business School and leads year 2 of the Masters in Executive Coaching.