Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement for Coaches

This document is a statement of Rise's understanding of inclusion, diversity, and equality and what the implications are for our practitioner coaches and consultants. We work to the guidance set out by the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC). The definitions, the scope of the concepts, and the suggested implications can all be found in the EMCC Statement.

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Rise equality, diversity and inclusion statement

Definitions

Inclusion is an emotion, influenced by your mindset: Inclusion is effected when people feel respected, valued, trusted, safe, have a sense of belonging, and are able to be their best self.

Diversity is difference. Our differences include, but are not limited to, abilities, age, appearance, career, clothes, culture, disability, education, ethnicity, experience, gender, health, interests, marital status, nationality, parental status, philosophy, political views, religion, sexual identity, socio-economic background, thought processes, tribes and work experience. Some of these differences are permanent and some may change and shift over time. Our differences are what makes us unique.

Equality is treating everyone equally well. In practice this means that if we are to help individuals be, and do their best, we are likely to be treating everyone differently – if only slightly, because we are all unique. Treating everyone equally well, requires us to respond to people, having regard to their differences; not regardless oftheir differences.

At Rise...

We coaches aim to help everyone find their place in the world and develop their full potential. This means celebrating and encouraging diversity and seeking to foster an empowering culture with every individual, team and organisation we support.

An inclusive culture empowers all of us to connect, belong, and grow. Without diversity of thought and a commitment to equality for all, there is no moving forward. Equality, diversity and inclusion means maximising the opportunities for everyone’s talents and resources to be fully utilised and are both good practice and make business sense.

We actively assess how the equality, diversity and inclusion of the coaching services are working in practice, reviewing outcomes and taking action to address any issues. We bring issues to peer and individual supervision sessions where through these and other networking opportunities we take the are able to broaden our understanding and share our experiences.

European Mentoring & Coaching Council

Please visit the EMCC ED&I Policy/Statement where they set out their vision that the EMCC Family is an inclusive community in which every member, individual and corporate, feels respected, valued, trusted, safe, has a sense of belonging and can be their best self and do their best work for the benefit of society. This vision is one that we share and we remain focussed on:

helping our clients to better understand the rationale for creating and maintaining inclusive communities
helping our clients to see why managing inclusion, confronting discrimination, promoting equal opportunity, facilitating access and valuing diversity are key to maintaining inclusive communities and why that matters
helping our clients better understand their role in ED&I as they reflect on their behaviour, thinking, goals or actions.