The Ethical Guidelines were finally discussed and adopted by the Institute's meeting and the General Assembly in September 2017. The EASC would like to thank the Ethic Committee, led by Edith Mause, for their excellent work. We are very pleased with the result.

A summary of the ethics guidelines can be found in the download area of ​​the homepage:
Summary of Ethics Guidelines

The longer version and a guide on how the ethical guidelines can be used in education are available to the institutes and are available at the office.

We have continued our cooperation with ANSE, the European Association of National Supervision Associations, and will continue to intensify our partnership. Jan Koznar as member of the EASC board took part in the summer seminar of the ANSE in Rotterdam in 2017. Inese Stankus-Visa, from Riga, Member of the Board of ANSE, participated in the Institute's meeting, the lecture meeting and the EASC General Assembly in Berlin in September 2017. We have experienced the exchange with the ANSE and with Ines as professionally very interesting and on a personal note very friendly. As organizations, EASC and ANSE both pursue the goal of representing the interests of coaches and supervisors at European level, and it is extremely useful to formulate common ground and act together. As a medium-term goal, we have the focus on the establishment of professional supervision and coaching with a high quality level at European level. As a first joint step there is to be a working breakfast with EU politicians in Brussels next year. This is where we want to work together with ANSE and EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council) as three associations with a common concern.

We cordially invite you to the EASC CONGRESS on the 14th and 15th of September 2018 in Eichstätt. Our topic will be coaching and supervision in the face of rapid changes and increasing complexity and uncertainty in the economy and society as a whole. Under the keyword VUCA (volatility, insecurity, complexity, ambiguity), this change is discussed in science, in organizations and in the coaching and supervision community. We are interested in how VUCA affects the working conditions, the working methods and the training of coaches and supervisors.

As a key-note speakers, we have already been able to invite Prof. Stefan Kühl, an organization sociologist at the University of Bielefeld and Dr. Christoph Schmidt-Lellek from Frankfurt am Main.

We are meeting in the University of Eichstätt, where our cooperation partner Prof. Dr. Janusz Surzykiewicz is looking forward to hosting the EASC congress. Eichstätt is in Franconia, about 80 km south of Nuremberg. Sufficient accommodation in various categories is available.

In addition to the three key notes, we will plan workshops as usual, we are looking forward to your contributions from practice and from science. Please note the Call for Speakers.

Small incentive: Workshop speakers receive a 50% discount on the congress fees.

Congress program:

Thursday 13.09.2018

18.00 to 20.00 – Annual General Assembly of Members

Friday 14.09.2018

10.00 – Opening
10.30 – Key Note 1 –Prof. Dr. Stefan Kühl
12.00 – Lunch
13.00 – Key Note II Dr. Christoph Schmidt - Lelleck
15.00 – Workshops
18.30 – Plenary
19.00 – Congress Party 

Saturday 15.09.2018

09.00 – Come together
09.30 – Key Note III  N.N.
11.30 – Workshops
13.00 – Lunch
14.00 – Plenary EASC 2025
16.00 – Closing 

The key notes will be kept in English or translated into English.

Call for Papers: Please submit abstracts for workshops. The form for abstracts will soon be available on the homepage. (https://www.easc-online.eu/de/aktuelles/easc-kongress-2018/) As a European association, we prefer English as the workshop language. If you need a translation, we kindly ask you to organize this yourself.

Our offer of speakers from workshops: 50% discount on the congress contribution. (1 person per workshop)

Please submit the first abstracts to workshops until the 01.12.2017. We will include these first selections in the program. For further submissions up until 30.04.2018, the last free workshop places will be given.

For the setting up of training courses for Master Coaches, the EASC will offer a workshop for trainers and teacher supervisors on 19.02.18 in Berlin.

At this year's meeting, representatives from almost all EASC institutes from all over Europe participated, many regional groups were represented, of course all the boards and a few members who are simply members. Of course we are particularly pleased, because we are an organization that is very much benefiting from the encounters and regular interpersonal exchanges. We will therefore continue to link the Annual Meeting to the two-yearly EASC congress, or through events such as the lecturers meeting with lectures, institute meeting, or through workshops for members (such as the VUCA Workshop this year), and always provide for socializing and catering. Volker Tepp was also an excellent host with his coaching institute this year and has provided space, atmosphere and delicacies. Our many thanks to him!

The minutes are made accessible to all members, but here are some notes:

We have finalized the Ethics Guidelines with thanks to Edith Mause and the Ethic Committee.

Volker Tepp, Jan Koznar and Daniel Frey were confirmed for a further term of office in their board roles, with Susanne Rieger as chairman and Mathias Hofmann (who did not have to be re-elected), the Board continues its work with continuity. The financial situation examined and all in order. The CQS will continue to work with Sabine Busse-Kropla, Amina Baar-Baarenfels, Irena Svabova and Hans Günter Simon. We have new auditors: thanks to Peter Eichenauer and Brigitte Koch for taking over this important task, and many thanks to Petra Dröge and Rainer Chrupala for their commitment in recent years.

With 585 members, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep the expenses for mailing or bank collection to a reasonable level without the information of the members on changes to addresses and bank data. The Annual General Meeting has therefore decided (unanimously) to give some responsibilities to the individual members in this context so that the office can take care of the important things for all members. Please notify change of bank account and changes of email address and postal address directly to the office. The new regulation states that repayment and bank charges due to wrong bank or address data are to be borne by the respective members and not by the community.