What is COMENSA

In the last five years, coaching and mentoring have sprung to prominence in South Africa. Because coaching and mentoring are relatively new, still-emerging disciplines in South Africa, a group of experienced business and life coaches initiated a discussion process in 2004 to facilitate the development and professionalisation of these fields. The result was Coaches and Mentors of South Africa (COMENSA) - the inclusive, umbrella professional association for individual and corporate providers and buyers of coaching and mentoring services.

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Being used more and more by individuals and organisations to facilitate change and enable self directed learning, coaching and mentoring have developed the one-on-one relationship between practitioner and client as one based on trust and shared values. Both coaches and mentors use an experiential conversational approach in a powerful developmental process for the client.

COMENSA's Mission is to support professional practice and a learning culture in coaching and mentoring through standards and ethics.

COMENSA's Vision is to empower people to achieve their full potential in a consciousness of sustainable well-being. The vision underlines COMENSA's integral commitment to the process of national development, transformation and empowerment in South Africa.

Empowerment is seen as a fundamental focus of the way that COMENSA does business, and of the business that COMENSA does. The empowerment initiative is to act as the organisation's professional conscience.

COMENSA is a professional association not for gain, incorporated under Section 21 of the Companies Act of 1973 as amended. COMENSA is not just an association of providers, but is inclusive of all those providing or using services.