Arts and Creativity in Coaching

Using Arts and Creativity in Coaching: Ethical Considerations

Dr Andrea Giraldez-Hayes is an internationally respected coaching psychologist, supervisor, and consultant. She is a Senior Lecturer and Clinical Director of the positive psychology and coaching psychology arm of the Wellbeing and Psychological Services Clinic at the University of East London’s School of Psychology. She is also a renowned public speaker at conferences in Europe and Latin America. Andrea has co/authored books and published on peer reviewed journals. Her main research interests are the boundaries between coaching and therapy and the use of arts and creativity in coaching psychology and supervision. She is currently the chair of the British Psychological Society’s Coaching Psychology Training Committee.

Dr Max Eames is a chartered psychologist, senior-accredited psychotherapist, executive coach, BPS-registered applied psychology practitioner supervisor (RAPPS), and co-director of the University of East London’s Wellbeing and Psychological Services Centre, heading its counselling and psychotherapy services activities. As a senior lecturer, Max interrogates in his teaching the boundaries and overlaps between counselling, psychotherapy, and coaching psychology. His research interests examine the therapeutic use of metaphors, imagery, metacognitive rationales, and other conceptual frames in encouraging creative, mindful, and adaptive understandings of both psychological distress and psychological wellbeing.