Power Asymmetries: A Coaching CPD Workshop With Ashridge Faculty
Explore how power operates within coaching and supervision. This interactive CPD workshop invites you to notice, understand, and ethically navigate power dynamics to deepen your practice and client relationships.
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Hosted by Tammy Tawadros & David Birch
We live in a world that is increasingly polarised and where power is unequally distributed. As coaches and supervisors, we need to pay close attention to how these asymmetries show up in our client relationships. Power may be assumed or projected, socially encoded, or inherent in the very nature of the helping relationship. Noticing, exploring and making sense of these dynamics can open space for deeper awareness and more ethical practice.
This exploratory workshop will focus on three main areas of inquiry:
- How asymmetries of power are manifest and expressed in the coaching/supervisory relationship?
- How do we surface and make sense of power that is assumed, projected, socially encoded or arises from the helping relationship itself?
- How can perspectives on and conversations about power be used in service of our clients?
Meet the Speakers
Tammy Tawadros
Tammy is an experienced coach, organizational consultant, and work psychologist. She holds an MSc in HR & Organizational Consulting and is an Ashridge-Accredited Coach. Tammy's extensive experience includes executive coaching and leadership development, often using action learning and drama-based techniques.
Tammy also works with boards, senior teams, and cross-functional leaders to enhance their effectiveness and agility. She has worked with teams at all levels, helping them to build psychological safety, repair trust, and navigate complex change.
Tammy is increasingly engaged in exploring how individual and group level interventions help to sustain resilience in the face of continuous disruption, transition, and uncertainty, and in helping organizations to harness compassion and connection as a source of resilience, and a foundation for successful collaboration and innovation. She also has a particular interest in the topics of technostress, the stress engendered by engaging with the future of work, and in resilience generally.
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David Birch
David specializes in group facilitation, boardroom consulting and executive coaching. His strengths as a facilitator and coach come from his ability to create safe environments for honest reflection and dialogue, opening up new insights and perspectives on seemingly intractable problems.
After graduating in 1979, David worked as a teacher in the UK and Japan before joining the Industrial Society (now the Work Foundation) as a management adviser. This was followed by ten years as an internal consultant with Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) where he became a Director. He joined Ashridge in 2000.
David has a first degree in Geography from Leeds University and a PGCE from Durham University. He holds Masters degree in Organisation Consulting from Ashridge and Integrative Psychotherapy from the Metanoia Institute. He is accredited as a mediator, executive coach, supervisor and UKCP-registered psychotherapist and qualified in a range of psychometric instruments
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