The University is launching a new Coaching Programme for students, starting this month. If you're experiencing any challenges with engagement in your university experience, then coaching may be for you.

Coaching can support with:

• a sense of isolation or feeling like you don’t belong
• low self-esteem or personal challenges which may be creating emotional burn-out or stress
• financial or housing challenges, impacting on opportunities for you to engage with your learning
• organisation or time-management skills
• self-doubt based on stigmas associated with resits or repeating a year.

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What to expect from the coaching programme

If you apply for coaching and are selected, you’ll have the opportunity to attend six one-to-one sessions working with a professional coach, enabling a safe space for you to discuss things like how to:

• set meaningful and achievable goals
• explore possible solutions for any challenges you’re facing
• work through personal barriers
• create action plans for achieving personal success
• build resilience.

We especially want to support students who:

• identify as BAME
• are from deprived areas – read a UK government definition [PDF]
• are eligible for care leaver support at Sussex.

If this isn’t you, you can still apply for the Coaching Programme if you think it might help you.

Please note that the Coaching Programme is open to all taught students at the University, but students who are currently receiving, or about to receive, mentoring or study skills support through the Disabled Students’ Allowance, are not eligible.

The deadline for applications for this term’s Coaching Programme is Sunday 20 February 2022.

For more information about the Coaching Programme, see the Coaching Programme webpage.