21/07/2026
We train the mind hard. We train technique harder. But this work coaching, mentoring, supervising does not happen only in the head. It happens in the body that tenses when someone cries.
As those who took part in Dr Hayley Linthwaite’s recent EMCC Global webinars will tell you, it happens in the breath you hold without noticing. It happens in the cultural lens you didn’t know you were wearing until someone challenged it.
Continuous Personal and Professional Development (CPPD) goes beyond traditional professional development by also supporting the ongoing development of practice and professional identity.
Imagine, a skilled mentor, years of experience deep, sits across from a mentee who suddenly breaks down. How should the mentor hold space? What is the tension the mentor is holding? What is the feeling the mentor going through? Some of us handle grief well while some of us feel awkward and wonder what should we say?
Holistic alignment means treating the practitioner as more than a skill set, whichever chair they sit in coach, mentor, or supervisor. CPPD goes beyond courses and finds the right balance between achieving outcome and doing with things that build the person behind the role: rest, movement, art, silence, community, grief work, joy.
We as the EMCC Global CPPD Centre for Excellence team want to invite you to feel these and dare with us.
This week, notice one moment in a sessions/conversations you consistently react to and where you reacted from an old habit instead of from presence. Don’t fix it, just name it. Write one sentence about what triggered it.
And why do you find it hard to notice it or tend to ignore it as a signal?
REFLECTION: What part of you still sits outside the room, whatever your role inside it?
