Historically Deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent creatives tend to be offered mentoring, the view being that they need help and advice and to be told what to do to progress their creative careers.
Sync knows that whilst this is one way to develop skills insight and understanding, coaching is another technique that allows participants to break through what feels currently possible so that individuals on our programmes can achieve their professional ambitions and is a standard practice used in leadership development.
Coaching is what makes Sync programmes so distinctive. It’s in everything we do.
Sarah Pickthall – Co-founder, Sync and Lead Coach
Coaching sits at the heart of all of our Sync Programmes. It’s about moving our participants forward though using coaching questions to unleash leadership potential.
Sync Intensives include 1:1 Coaching with one of our Sync coaches. and group coaching with Sync Leaders across different countries. Sync Twilight was one such programme that ran over 6 months in 2022/23 training 8 Sync Leaders to be coach facilitators, 4 in Australia and 4 in Canada.
We are dedicated through all our programmes to sharing coaching techniques so our leaders can use them in their professional lives.
What is different about Sync Coaching?
Co-founder Sarah Pickthall is a coach specialist and coach supervisor who trains others to be coaches too.
In coaching there is a belief that the coachee is the ‘expert’, they just don’t know it yet.
Alia Alzougbi – Sync Associate & Coach
Sync Coaching is always delivered by a person or people with lived experience of being Deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent, someone who is professionally trained and who has a raft of experience working in arts and culture. Coaches know and recognise some of the patterns of what can happen and in coaching sessions ask questions that will help new thinking to surface, so the coachee can try and think and act in different ways.
If you find your own answer or solution to a challenge or question it’s more likely you’ll act upon it.
Sarah Pickthall – Co-founder, Sync and Lead Coach
Sync Coaching Articles
Reflections from the Twilight Zone
Meeting in person together in Summer 2023 when Sync was in Toronto, Sync Leaders, Belinda Locke and Kristina McMullin reflected on the Sync Twilight a programme they both had trained in and delivered on in Winter 2022 and Spring 2023 online.
Coaching PHOW WOULD YOU LOVE IT TO BE?
Recently, Sync hosted a conversation with a group of Disabled and Neurodivergent coaches in Canada and the UK to explore the nuances and singularities of Disabled coaching, what brings us to coaching, and, and what we harness for ourselves and our communities in coaching relationships.