The programme runs for 10-12 months (depending on commencement date) and includes 3 study blocks (4 days, 3 days and 3 days), 2 sessions of individual coaching, 1 session of faculty supervision, peer supervision and 4 academic assignments.
Module 1
At the end of the Module, the participants will be able to:
- Distinguish the core concepts of the course (social sector related leadership & change facilitation, coaching and mentoring and reflective practice), how they relate, and identify precisely what is required of them
- Articulate the basic principles of reflective practice for the social sectors;
- Undertake foundational coaching and mentoring practices and exercises;
- Use assessment criteria and standards (i.e.: professional reflective practice standards) to guide their own development through the programme, and to understand how to guide the development of community leaders;
- Develop a broad plan for meeting the requirements for the course
Module 2
At the end of the Module, the participants will be able to:
- Distinguish between their espoused coaching and mentoring theories and their actual coaching and mentoring theories in action;
- Recognise their own theory in action and what informs it;
- Distinguish the factors that cause individuals to think, feel and behave sub-optimally versus productively (including values, assumptions, moods & states, emotions);
- Rearrange an articulated combination of coaching and mentoring techniques to guide community leaders though individual presenting issues to a standard equivalent of level 0 of the assessment criteria.
Module 3
At the end of the Module, the participants will be able to:
- Distinguish between their coaching and mentoring theory in action and their theory of practice;
- Recognise their theory of practice and make it explicit;
- Apply their coaching and mentoring theory of practice in actual situations;
- Articulate what leaders need to do to do
- Guide community leaders to foster relationships of care, trust, collaboration, experimentation, inquiry and risk-taking, to help their communities to become centres of inquiry, rather than targets of change, leading to greater capacity for community transformation
- Explore the assumptions and values underpinning effective versus ineffective coaching and mentoring theories of practice.
Module 4
At the end of the Module, the participants will be able to:
- Proactively review their own assumptions, values and action strategies toward continually improving their professional practice as leaders in their own right and as coaches and mentors of community leaders;
- Guide community leaders to explore their social sector related theories of practice behaviours and assumptions toward developing a more integrated social sector related meta-model;
- Guide community leaders to use theories of practice to unearth the underlying values that influence their decisions as leaders, and experiment with new norms and assumptions in their communities, testing these new theories of action;
- Help community leaders to construct and reconstruct their own social sector related meta-models (facilitation, coaching and mentoring) to bring about effective community outcomes.
- Help community leaders to intentionally articulate their social sector related meta-models;
- Guide community leaders toward reconstructive learning by creating situations and modes of collaboration, inquiry and discovery (i.e.: new group formations, task forces, teams, meetings) that present continual confrontation, build trust while challenging relationship norms and transform community processes and contexts in the process.
Module 5
At the end of the Module, the participants will be able to:
- Apply their coaching and mentoring meta-models in actual situations to a minimum standard of level 0 (as per the assessment standards – see Annexure D2);
- Ensure that community leaders can reflexively access, evaluate and adjust their social sector related meta-models in actual situations and different contexts;
- Evaluate their own growth needs with respect to developing as coaches and mentors in the targeted environment.
Module 6
At the end of the Module, the participants will be able to:
- Integrate all aspects of the programme;
- Complete their learning journey documents.