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BOOST Global Competence for Advancing
Social Inclusion and Career Paths for
Vulnerable Women
PART 1: Coaching scheme

Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise
their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of
imagination, productivity and leadership, International Coaching Federation

Across the world, women are more likely to face vulnerability than men. Often women are categorised
as a "vulnerable group" with an emphasis on personal vulnerability. However, they are not inherently
vulnerable, but different contexts place them in situations which create vulnerability. Then, multiple
levels of discrimination are inherent.

The experience and potential vulnerabilities of women and men are significantly different. Migrant
background and cultural differences often give women lower social status and livelihood
opportunities, placing them in a position of dependency on men. Lack of educational opportunities
make it more difficult for them to access labour market and career progression.

The BOOST project was conceptualised considering that is essential to ensure continuity and resources
to keep empowering these women, meeting their specific needs, and offering them new resources
giving them the opportunities for advancing their social inclusion and career path.

The BOOST 4-level coaching model is devised as a life coaching approach aligned with the four
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competencies dimension indicated in the 2018 PISA Global Competence Framework . This approach
was developed to help trainers, career counsellors, social workers, intercultural mediators, or other
professionals working to support women in vulnerable situations, to cope with such challenging
situations by mobilising the different dimensions that characterises global competence. The aim is to
unlock existing competencies to boost these women personal and professional potential.

BOOST 4-LEVEL COACHING MODEL

GLOBAL
4 Awareness of global issues

CULTURAL
3 Knowledge and intercultural sensitivity

INTERPERSONAL
2 Building interpersonal relationships

PERSONAL
1 Values and personal skills

Figure 2 - BOOST 4-level coaching model

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3 https://www.oecd.org/pisa/Handbook-PISA-2018-Global-Competence.pdf, (last access on 09/11/2021)