Who we are

 

EMCC UK is part of the Europe-wide European Mentoring & Coaching Council. Together our aim is to promote good practice and the expectation of good practice in coaching, mentoring and supervision across Europe. EMCC is an independent, impartial and non-profit making organisation.

As a membership community, we work together to maintain, influence, develop and progress high quality standards in coaching and mentoring in the UK. We support our members in a variety of coaching, mentoring and supervision contexts, including those who are self-employed or independent, those who work internally as part of an organisation, and those who provide training and qualifications to others.

We are leading the way in our standards, ethics and frameworks to aid professional practice. Our research, papers and journal attracts contributions from the best in the coaching profession. We provide renowned continuous professional development events. We do all of this through the work of our volunteers.

Our membership

 

In the UK we currently have over 3,000 individual and corporate members, including individual coaches, mentors and supervisors, public and private organisations (some with a varied number of in-house coaches and mentors, others who buy coaching and mentoring services), training companies, academic institutions and research bodies.

How we are organised

 

The work of EMCC UK is organised and run by our Executive Board and Governing Body. The Board ensures that the aims and values of EMCC are maintained and communicated. The Governing Body ensures that the organisation is run effectively and transparently, in the best interests of our members. Follow these links to find out more:

Our Governing Body – how our Governors and Board work together for the benefit of our members

Executive Board – our current Board members

The story of EMCC

 

Back in 1989, when professional coaching and mentoring in Europe was a new business practice, a group of like-minded practitioners came to the view that there needed to be a common code of practice and shared ethical base for coaches and mentors.

This group included people who are now regarded as the pioneers and original thinkers of the profession, many of whose books have become essential reading. Among them were David Megginson, David Clutterbuck, Eric Parsloe, Sir John Whitmore, Myles Downey and Peter Bluckert.

Their common bond was that not only were they themselves practitioners, they were also involved in training coaches and mentors. They wanted their students to recognise and work to a shared ethical standard not only to guide their practice, but to enable people who employed them to be able to rely on this as a mark of quality. They established EMCC, created our highly regarded Code of Ethics, and developed the European Quality Award which is granted to training organisations that meet stringent quality standards.

In the original group there were practitioners and trainers from several countries across Europe. Over the years EMCC has gained members in more than 28 different countries. There are now over 10,000 members worldwide.

EMCC UK was set up in 2004 and was fortunate to include in its leading members three of the original founders, who in 2008 were each honoured with the title Honorary Vice President. Today in EMCC UK, we continuously develop our thinking around ethics and standards and encourage our members and other practitioners to both test and develop their expertise through the European Individual Accreditation for practising coaches and mentors.

To enable our own organisation to develop, in 2009 we created an Executive Board, supported by an Advisory Council.