Group Coaching
You will hear your own pattern in someone else’s story first.
For leadership teams, manager cohorts, founder circles and peer groups — where the group itself becomes part of the method.
Something happens in a group that cannot happen one-to-one.
In individual coaching, you have your defences with you. In a well-run group, somebody else describes their situation, you recognise it instantly — and only afterwards realise you have just diagnosed yourself. The insight arrives before the defence does.
That is the mechanism. My job is to hold the container tightly enough that people will actually be honest in front of colleagues, which is not a small ask and does not happen by accident.
I work with intact leadership teams who need to be able to disagree productively, with manager cohorts learning the same capability at the same time, with founder peer circles, and occasionally with groups of couples working through a structured programme together.
It is also considerably more economical per person than individual coaching, which matters when you are trying to shift capability across a layer rather than in one leader.
This is probably you if…
- Your leadership team is polite in meetings and divided outside them.
- You have promoted six managers this year and given them no shared language.
- The same interpersonal issue keeps reappearing across different pairs of people.
- You want coaching depth across a layer and cannot fund fifteen individual engagements.
- Your team has never once had a properly facilitated honest conversation.
- You are a founder with nobody at your level to speak to.
What you get
Specifics, not promises.
A container people trust
Explicit ground rules, enforced. Confidentiality within the group, no reporting upwards of who said what.
Structured peer coaching
Participants learn to coach each other, so the capability outlasts the programme.
Live issues, not case studies
We work on what is actually happening in your organisation this month.
A shared language
By the end, the group has common terms for conflict, feedback and repair — which is half the battle.
Individual top-ups
Optional one-to-one sessions alongside the group for people working through something private.
Themes report for sponsors
Where relevant: patterns and recommendations, never attributions.
The arc
How an engagement unfolds.
Every engagement is different in content and identical in shape.
Start hereScoping
What the group is, what it needs, and whether group coaching is genuinely the right instrument or whether you need something else.
Individual intake
A short private conversation with each participant before the group starts. Nothing shared, but it tells me what I am holding.
Contracting session
The group agrees its own rules in session one. Rules people write themselves get honoured.
The programme
Typically six to ten sessions over three to six months, mixing skill input, peer coaching and live issue work.
Close and handover
The group agrees how it continues without me, which is usually a peer coaching rhythm they run themselves.
Questions
Before you book.
Six to eight is the sweet spot. Below five it gets thin if two people are away; above ten there is not enough airtime and people start hiding.
Not automatically — that is exactly what the facilitation is for. Contracting, individual intake and how the first honest disclosure is handled largely determine the rest. In my experience the first person to be genuinely candid changes the whole temperature of the group.
Usually I advise against it for the first programme. The power difference distorts what people will risk saying. There are exceptions with mature teams, and it is a conversation worth having during scoping.
Substantially less per participant. Pricing depends on group size, duration and whether individual top-up sessions are included — get in touch and I will send a proposal against your actual scope.
Yes, and I run a good deal of it that way for distributed teams. Groups larger than eight are harder online, and I would rather run two smaller cohorts than one unwieldy one.
Yes. Structured couples group programmes work well for common territory — communication, conflict repair, parenting as a partnership — with private issues kept for individual sessions.
More answers on the full FAQ page
Next step
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