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Nick is the founder and CEO of the International Centre for Coaching Supervision and Animas Centre for Coaching. A coach since the early 2000s, Nick established his coaching school in 2008 to bring transformational practice to coach training, perhaps never quite expecting to go on to be one of the largest coaching schools in the world. Nick’s fascination with coaching supervision was born of his work developing new coaches in the early years of their professional practice and along with a Masters in Psychological Coaching at Metanoia he went on to study coaching supervision at two centres of excellence before deciding to develop his own unique school based on integrative practice and a focus on depth work. His own style of coaching and supervision emerged from the existential school but with a liberal willingness to borrow, magpie-like, from any theoretical approach that could usefully bring additional perspectives. This ultimately led

Coaching and developing coaches have long been Mia’s greatest professional passions. Starting her career in corporate leadership development in 1998, from 2006 Mia moved into external consultancy roles at renowned firms Brathay, SHL and JCA Global. These positions gave her the opportunity to build a substantial executive coaching portfolio and hundreds of hours of client experience. Mia trained as a coaching supervisor on the first Animas Diploma in Coaching Supervision programme. In 2017, Mia started her own coaching and supervision practice and works collaboratively on leadership, coaching and coach development engagements. She supervises coaches working internally within large organisations, and independent coaches offering executive or life coaching to their clients. She enjoys both the forensic enquiry into specific coaching challenges and the wider-ranging conversations reflecting with her supervisees on their personal and professional development. Mia resists the benign authority figures of the teacher, the security guard and the nurse often

Since 2008 Yannick has been helping people think and grow, personally and professionally, through a range of services. With a background in Psychology (BSc), Applied Positive Psychology (MSc) and Existential Coaching (MA) Yannick was the Programme Leader of the MSc Coaching Psychology at the University of East London (2015-2018) and has developed and facilitated ICF-accredited coach training for Animas Centre for Coaching as well as taught at a number of other institutions, schools and universities. Yannick has been writing about coaching and presented at conferences internationally. His first book, An Introduction to Existential Coaching, has been published by Routledge, the world’s leading academic publisher. Yannick is a facilitator and course consultant for the internationally renowned Positive Psychology Practitioner Certificate and teaches at The School of Life. In his private practice Yannick works with coaches, leaders and anybody who considers themselves in a “position of great responsibility” to gain clarity, make