What educators are saying about C4E

"Everyone needs a coach to ask those important and difficult questions. This has been extremely helpful to me in my effort to find my value base and priorities. Highly recommended!"
John Steinberg, ex School Principal

"It was good to think aloud about my work situation. The best part was getting a direction to think about and try out in between coaching sessions. ​I can absolutely recommend this coaching." 
​Anne-Maj Olsson, Teacher
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"Setting aside an hour a month has helped me to find the dynamic balance between my professional and private lives in a challenging, bilingual, pre-school environment",
​Kara Fairchild, "Havet" Preschool Director

C4E, Coaching for Educators,
provides educational organisations
with easy access to professional, certified coaches
who volunteer their time to coach educators
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We work probono - free of charge.

C4E aims to provide for certified coaches,
​sustainable ways of:
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  • Contributing to the ongoing evolution of the education system in a respectful, creative and effective way
  • Demonstrating how our different coaching competencies are relevant to the world of education
  • Offering mutual support online, a library of coaching tools, access to coach training materials
  • Creating better learning conditions for students and young learners
  • Building and maintaining professional connections across the globe, and
  • Creating a 'caring coach' brand.
C4E aims to provide educational organisations with an innovative way of:
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  • Discovering what coaching has to offer educators whilst keeping within the confines of the school budget
  • Accelerating the ongoing evolution of the education system in a respectful, creative and effective way
  • Supporting the well-being and professional growth of educators
  • Introducing educators to the full range of coaching, and
  • Sustaining a coaching culture in the organisation. 
​C4E collaborates across countries.

We coach school administrators, head teachers,
subject teachers and class teachers
in Europe, Scandinavia and America.

We demonstrate the breadth, depth and effectiveness of
coaching for personal and professional development.

We train educators in coaching skills and tools.
Educators integrate a coaching approach
as a natural part of motivating their students
towards successful, meaningful and fulfilling lives.

We continue to support educators
as they develop their coaching skills and
increasingly apply them in coaching conversations
with colleagues, students and parents...

and with themselves.

Goals - by Dec 2019

One thousand schools will have been contacted by C4E and be better informed regarding using coaching in their school.

One hundred more educators will have experienced professional coaching and felt the benefits of being coached.

Fifty C4E coaches will have had a powerful and positive impact on the ongoing evolution of the education system, developed their experience of coaching, and widened their coaching portfolio.

Strategy - during 2019

  • C4E will connect coaches and educators in confidential coaching relationships, which are then measured for the results they achieved
  • Certified coaches apply (here) and after an interview with Martin Richards, have their profiles published on the "Coaching for Educators" website
  • Educators request coaching (here). Their request is reviewed and matched with a coach, particularly regarding language and location
  • C4E coaches provide each educator with a series of 4 coaching sessions over a period of 6 months, at no cost
    ​The generous offering of time and energy from C4E Coaches allows C4E to provide a range of services to large numbers of educators and education staff at minimal cost
  • C4E coaches also receive inspiration, information and encouragement through webinars and online resources.

Coaching is...

"Coaching is a collaborative, solution-focused, result-orientated and systematic process in which the coach facilitates the enhancement of work performance, life experience, self-directed learning and person growth of the coachee” 

​Anthony M Grant 1999
"Coaching is partnering with coachees in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires the coachee to maximize their personal and professional potential."


​ICF, International Coach Federation

Four Free Coaching Sessions from C4E

C4E offers these four coaching sessions for free:
  1. Building the coaching relationship, Choosing focus, Planning the topics
  2. Coaching Topic 1
  3. Coaching Topic 2
  4. Reflection, Learning and Next Steps

The Full Range of Coaching

Coaching applies to the full range of questions about Life and Work. Whatever your topics, your C4E coach can guide and support you across the full range, including:

Personal Coaching and Life Coaching,
Who am I, Why am I here and What shall I do about it?

Professional Coaching and Instructional Coaching What is happening, What do I want to happen and How can I bring that about?
Coaching Topics can include:
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  1. ​Mission: Why am I 'here'?
  2. Identity: Who am I?
  3. Values and beliefs: What is important to me / to us?
  4. Capabilities: What can I do?
  5. Behaviours: What do I do?
  6. Surroundings: What environment do I want to work in?

Confidentiality, Benefits and Questions and Completion

Confidentiality
Coaching sessions are confidential. C4E coaches are bound to follow the ICF Code of Ethics www.coachfederation.org/ethics 

Benefits
We know from coaching educators since 2014, that you will benefit enormously from pausing for a while and reflecting on what you are doing

Questions
​Together with a professional coach, who can ask the kind of questions you need to hear, you will progress much further, more quickly and have more fun than thinking about such questions on your own.
  • What's working? What's not?
  • Where is your focus? Where do you want it to be?
  • What can you influence? What can you not influence?

By signing up here you are going to receive individual coaching so that you can fully explore what coaching has to offer you, at no cost

Completion Feedback
On completion of the coaching, you are encouraged to send your feedback to the coach on the benefits of the coaching you have receiveed. Your feedback will be used to further develop the coach's coaching skills, and may be used, with your permission, to further promote coaching for educators.  A link to the feedback will be sent to you by e-mail.
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Martin Richards CPCC, dreas of educational evolution.

Ownership and Responsibility

Coaching for Educators is owned and operated by Martin Richards AB, a coaching and training company, founded in 1990, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Our mission is "to evolve the education systems around the world." Martin Richards AB has funded C4E since 2014. Contact here.
C4E offers additional education and training services to coaches and educators. A fixed portion of the proceeds from the additional services are earmarked for C4E site maintenance and C4E coach supervision.
C4E, Coaching for Educators, is owned and operated by Martin Richards AB, a coaching and training company, founded in 1990, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. ​Our mission is "to evolve the education systems around the world."