Our unique coaching program is specifically designed to address the needs of graduate students.
ICF defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
If you struggle with communicating effectively with your professors, supervisors or peers in your academic or professional pursuits, coaching can help you develop the communication skills necessary for success.
Graduate students often need to establish strong connections with peers, mentors, supervisors and sponsors. This coaching program can assist you in building meaningful relationships that can support your academic and career goals.
Overcoming self-doubt and imposter syndrome is essential for graduate students to feel optimistic in their studies and achieve their dream careers. Coaching can help boost your confidence and self-belief.
You possess the talents and skills needed for success, but sometimes self-limiting beliefs hold you back. Coaching can empower you to pursue your ideal career and live the life you aspire to lead.
This coaching program can help you manage stress when facing challenges, like balancing additional responsibilities alongside academic engagement. It equips you with effective strategies.
Coaching offers tools to prioritize tasks and manage time efficiently. This leads to increased productivity, helping you achieve more in less time for a balanced life.
Sina Halvaei
Past Student
It was such an incredible experience to learn and practice the coaching frameworks and effective conversational skills. I am not the same person who started this class. Through this class I improved my active listening skills and developed my coach-like presence. Since incorporating these skills into my daily conversations, the quality of my conversations has improved. This program is the beginning of a lifelong journey.”
This was a fantastic program which was able to cater to the needs of students who are working and studying at the same time. The style of the facilitators was very calming, very kind. But it was also effective and efficient in giving us the experience of theory and practical coaching.
Natalia Bussard
Past Student
Orkhon Gantogtokh
Past Student
I found this coaching course to be very productive and rewarding. I’m involved in an education consultancy, so I find coaching is a necessary skill for my future career and my everyday interactions with my family, friends and colleagues. It’s a really essential skill. And I think that every graduate student should take this course.
The Coaching Program was really helpful in providing a great framework to ask powerful questions and be curious, and to learn about what you need to do to make someone feel open and connected. We learnt how you can provide a space for someone to be open to coaching as well. I think it was a great program to understand what it takes to be an effective coach.
Anne Ling
Past Student
Patricia Unung
Past Student
I learnt about being present for the other person and also being an active listener. One difficult thing to learn was that I don’t have to provide answers to the person. You only have to assist a person to navigate and discover themselves. You have to withhold your prescriptions.
The GSS Effective Communication Coaching Program is designed to empower graduate students to become confident and effective communicators. Through hands-on practical exercises, students will develop a coaching mindset and learn to apply coaching skills and frameworks to enhance their interactions with peers and colleagues. By fostering stronger relationships and improving communication quality, students will gain the essential tools and refine their communication abilities to excel in their academic and professional pursuits.
The GSS conducts the Effective Communication Coaching Program twice a year — from February to March, and from October to November. The half-day Career Coaching Program session is held twice a year too, typically on a Saturday in February and September.
Registration for the respective programs opens in January and September. Detailed registration information is advertised via the GSS weekly newsletter and our social media channels (@ubcgss on Instagram).
You can also send us an email coaching@gss.ubc.ca throughout the year to receive a reminder when registrations open. Please note that the coaching program spots fill up fast.
Beata Chami is an organizational psychologist and certified coach. Beata serves as an external coach with the Coaching@UBC program. Her passion is fostering spaces where people can show up as their best selves both personally and professionally. Beata specializes in workplace health and well-being, having worked in municipal, healthcare, non-profit, and hospitality industries for the past decade. Much of her experience lies in psychological safety and health promotion, which has led to her interest and involvement in mental health advocacy within organizations, schools, and the community. In her spare time, Beata enjoys running, playing soccer, and spending time with loved ones.
Lily is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). As a certified organizational coach and a leadership coach, Lily partners with individuals and groups to enhance their leadership capacity and navigate through challenges and opportunities with confidence and ease. Lily holds a Master of Education and a Master of Computer Engineering. Lily is currently serving as an associate coach with the Coaching@UBC program, a mentor coach with the Certificate in Organizational Coaching program, and a leadership development coach with a few other organizations. Prior to becoming a professional coach, Lily worked 20+ years in Higher Education and IT.
Learn about who you are, and the qualities you need to feel engaged in the work you do. Through hands-on learning, group discussions, and creative approaches to career growth conversations, you will spend time engaging in evidence-based approaches that will prepare you to make effective career decisions, and feel more hopeful about the life you want to lead.
Andrea is a Certified Organizational Coach and an accredited coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation. She is the Founding Director of Doubleknot Works and a Mentor Coach & Instructor for UBC’s Organizational Coaching program. She is the lead instructor for the Career Coaching Masterclass (UBC), and trains career coaches and counsellors globally. Andrea is a trained Facilitator in the LEGO® Serious Play® Method and Materials, and enjoys building connections between career development, coaching, and creativity.
For general inquiries on the coaching program and questions, please email coaching@gss.ubc.ca
604.822.3203 / info@gss.ubc.ca
452 – 6371 Crescent Road
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T1Z2
Monday – Friday
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
