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Kate Nowlan, CEO of CiC, elected President Elect of EAEF (Employee Assistance European Forum)
Posted 28th July 2010 
The 9th Annual EAEF Conference was held in Brussels at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, 16th-18th June.
The title of the Conference was 'EAP: Ready for radical change?' and speakers from the European Commission, the European Foundation for Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), Accenture, DuPont addressed a full conference with attendees from Europe, Australasia, South Africa, US & Asia – exploring issues of employee engagement, workplace wellness, and staff retention. Popular workshops included such topics as online counselling, positive psychology, creativity in the workplace and new ways of communication.
Manuel Sommer from Portugal was elected President of the EAEF for the next two years, and Kate Nowlan, CEO of CiC, as President Elect.
APEAR Conference (Asia Pacific Employee Assistance Roundtable)
Posted 20th July 2010
'Driving Business Competitiveness: Investing In Mental Fitness & Employee Engagement'
Singapore June 11–12 2010
Mr Hawazi Daipi, Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Manpower & Ministry of Health, Singapore opened the Conference and keynote speeches were given by Paul Heck (Global Manager Employee Assistance and WorkLife), DuPont and Dr James Allen, (Medical Director, Chevron). Yam Keng Mun, President of APEAR, emphasised the important contribution that EAP's have as a cost effective solution for employees – encouraging wellbeing and productivity at work.
Kate Nowlan, CEO of CiC, led a very well attended breakout group on 'Coaching for Personal Mental Fitness for Work' which explored the effectiveness of coaching in the workplace – particularly for middle management – addressing issues of stress management and resilience and worklife and wellbeing issues.
View the APEAR conference programme.
Get active at the CiC Summer Seminar!
Posted 19th March 2010As winter slowly fades, many of us will be hoping to get out and about again. With this in mind, the CiC Summer Seminar in June will focus on Employee Engagement and Wellbeing. Our seminars always stimulate much lively debate and interesting discussion, and we hope you’ll join us.
Led by Guy Longshaw, a Management Coach and Business and Wellbeing Consultant, the seminar will be held on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at the Women’s University Club in London, from 9am to 2pm.
No organisation can thrive unless its staff and managers feel healthy and motivated, so come along to find out how you can create an environment that gets the very best out of your organisation’s employees.
The event is free of charge for CiC clients and will be followed by a buffet lunch, providing ample opportunity to reflect on material presented and meet with fellow professionals. To find out more or to book your place please e-mail the CiC team at seminar@cic-eap.co.uk or call us on 020 7937 6224.
CiC staff run so you can talk!
Posted 19th March 2010Two CiC colleagues are in the final stages of training for this year’s London Marathon, which takes place on April 25. Karen Roach, who joined the company as a consultant in February, and Philip Pescud, who is a counsellor on the CiC Confidential Care Adviceline, are both running to raise money for WPF Therapy, the country’s largest charitable provider of low-cost counselling and psychotherapy.
Amazingly, this is Karen’s second marathon. She’s hoping to raise £2,000 and beat her time of five hours and 17 minutes. “No, I am not crazy to run the marathon again!” she told her local paper. “I want to do it because I want to help people receive affordable counselling and therapy - especially with the credit crisis where families need help but might not get it because they don’t have the money.”
CiC was actually founded by WPF back in 1988, when the charity decided it wanted to extend its counselling services into the corporate sector. WPF, which is also now a leading provider of training for counsellors and psychotherapists, finally moved out of our Kensington campus in 2009 and is now based in London Bridge.
Philip, who is also aiming to raise £2,000, trained as a psychodynamic counsellor at WPF.
Unlike Karen, though, this is his first attempt.
“I have always watched the marathon from the safety of my sofa!” says Philip. “Once or twice, I stood on the street cheering the brave ones on, but I never thought I had the willpower or the knees to get me round. I decided in September to give it a go and began training after Christmas.”
If you would like to sponsor either Karen or Philip, log on to www.justgiving.com/KarenRoachVLM2010 or www.justgiving.com/Philip-Pescud to donate.
