Fenella Trevillion MSc, BSc
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Master Coaching Supervisor-
2024 Coaching at Work Award: Contribution to Race Equity in Coachingpersonal info
Fenella has coached for 10 years and supervised for 4. She’s an accredited Master Supervisor and an award winner for her contribution to race equity in coaching.
Fenella grew up in apartheid South Africa and emigrated to the UK. Her career in public services was underpinned by the values of racial and social justice.
Like millions of people, she experienced the public murder of George Floyd as a deeply shocking event. Immediately for her, the question arose for her “how are we, in the predominantly white coaching profession, addressing race and racism?”. She actively sought answers through talking, reading, watching, listening and writing.
Fenella realised ‘us white coaches need to stop looking to Black and Brown colleagues for the answers, we must start with our own work and critically reflect on our whiteness and, build actions of resistance from there’.
Explorations covered deeply diving into popular culture, academic texts on race, whiteness, coloniality and formal learning events. From there, she built her new world view into her work. Alongside coaching/supervising she facilitated workshops sessions on:
• ‘Black Lives Matter: How does this matter for us as coaches and in our practice?’
• ‘Exploring our white privilege and fragility’
• ‘Talking about race and coaching across difference’
• ‘Working with Difference -Exploring Race’
• ‘Eco-consciousness decoloniality as narrative resistance to coloniality’ (jointly)
• ‘Burning Down Our Father’s House: Opening New Places of Power’
coaching skills
soft skills
- Leadership Coaching in the NHS
- Published articles;
• ‘Take a Look in the Mirror’
• ‘Are white coaches awake to our indifference to black minstrelsy?’