A one-hour live webinar. Recording will be available ONLY to those who register for the event

The webinar will introduce delegates to:  

• An evidence-based definition of coaching. 
• Key coaching concepts; capacity building, reflection and adult learning theory. 
• Five characteristics for successful coaching interactions.  

Coaching is a conversational clinical approach which complements existing therapeutic  strategies and programmes. Therefore, the approach can easily be implemented by therapists in their next therapy session for tangible, rewarding results for their clients.

Speaker Bio:

Elena Loraine 

Founder of TheSpeechie., BMedSci, MRes, NIHR Fellow (2018), Churchill Fellow (2017) 

Elena Loraine is a speech and language therapist and clinical academic. She has trained  speech and language therapy teams across England within the National Health Service  (NHS) and SLT University students in POCA, a practical and evidence-based coaching  approach. Elena researched a federal funded early intervention model in her Churchill  Travelling Fellowship to the USA in 2017 where she was first introduced to the use of  ‘coaching’. She then further designed and developed a coaching training programme in  her National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded research project. Elena brings  her experience as a speech and language therapist, working both in the NHS and private  sector, along with insights from her academic research into her training courses. She has  presented nationally and internationally, including the Division of Early Childhood  International Conference (USA) and at the Royal College of Speech and Language  Therapists (RCSLT) events.