Professor Diana Aguiar Vieira, professor and investigator at ISCAP/IPP participated in the “Afirmar os Psicólogos - 1º Congresso Nacional da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses”, on April 18 to 21, 2012 at Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa. In recent years we have witnessed the proliferation of coaching both in the entire world as also in the Portuguese context. Despite the growth of training and information in the area of coaching, research into their effects has been scarce. The purpose of this paper was to analyse to what extent the training in the coaching area influences the...

Coaching Awards 2011 – December 03 was the day, the special day: a day to recognize the new Partners, a day to recognize the new Coaches and Coaching Trainers and a day to celebrate and to share experiences.Before dinner, there was the chance to watch some presentations done by Maria Adelaide Santos, Joaquina Cunha, Miguel Condesso e Patrícia Leite.Then, it was time to listen to good music, to dance, to celebrate and have fun.

Diana Aguiar Vieira participated in the "2nd Conference of the Association for Coaching UK" organized in partnership with the University of East London. The theme was "Resilience for Coaches and Their Clients" and took place on July 14, 2011, on the Docklands campus of the University of East London, London, England. http://www.acukconference.com/ One day after, on July 15, 2011, Prof. Diana Aguiar Vieira met with Professor Christian van Nieuwerburgh from the University of East London, responsible for research in the area of coaching at this university, to present the research she...

Prof. Diana Aguiar Vieira will participate in the “1st International Congress of Coaching Psychology Spain", in Barcelona, on October 11 and 12, 2011. For more information about this congress, please follow the link: http://coaching.psychology.congress.spain.copc.cat/index.php/es/

The ISPC-International School of Professional Coaching in Portugal has established new protocols with a new Institutional Partner, AIP – Associação Industrial Portuguesa and also with two new ISPC-Local Partners, Consultua and TGA. We have scheduled two international conferences and three seminars with Portuguese partners in order to promote Coaching to more people, teams and organizations. We do believe that our success is your success!

ISPC has been playing a very important role in the training of new Coaches and Trainers all over the world and therefore has developed several courses and workshops in different countries. Some have just finished and others are about to begin: 1. First level of Coaching in Italy, Milan: 8, 9 April and 6, 7 May2. First level of Coaching in Dominican Republic: 25, 26, 27 of April3. Completion of the first promotional level 2, in Mexico, last January 304. Level II, Madrid, begun in March 25, 20115. Workshop "Wake up Coaching", Barcelona: April 1, 2011. (22 people attended this workshop)6....

The Fantastic Team from Monchique carried out a dynamic teamwork project, on March 21, via skype, with the aim to know the Group and trace its path. To this end, it was created a wheel of life which, once filled by each of the elements of the group, was reported and analysed within the group. This is just one in a million ways we have to build, create, explore, ... all our potential as human beings or teams.

Seminar "COACHING PARA UM PORTUGAL MAIS POSITIVO"April 1 2011 Seminar AEP, International School of Professional Coaching and EXPONORFrameworkIn a context where public and private organizations and their professionals are called upon to develop a new and more positive attitude, also a more entrepreneurial and more focused on the desired objectives, it Is us, organizations and people, who are increasingly called out of our comfort zone to make ourselves better explorers and facilitators of the potential human development. Coaching has emerged as an important tool to help us change and...

The sixth Edition of the Certified Professional Coaching Trainer-CPCT will take place on April 15, 16, 17, 29, 30 and May 01, 2011, in Lisbon, Portugal.This is an unprecedented training program in Europe and participants become Internationally Certified as Coaching Trainers, which means a reinforcement of the International Exchange of ISPC Trainers.

Given the exponential development of Coaching in recent years, it becomes especially relevant to do research in this area in order to give credibility to the practice of Coaching. To this end, the ISPC, the AEP - Associacao Empresarial Portuguesa, the APCoaching,Lda.,and Portal do Ser - Centro de Desenvolvimento Pessoal have established a protocol with the ISCAP/IPP in order to achive the mentioned aim.The research will be led by Dra. Diana Vieira, professor and investigator at ISCAP/IPP.