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The Psychology of Coaching Certificate Programme
These new AEC programmes look at the psychological underpinnings to coaching through an exploration of relevant psychological models with a view to enabling experienced coaches to enhance and deepen their own practice. The emphasis is on translating psychological principles into practical coaching applications. Such frameworks offer models, techniques and tools which enable the coach to make sense of the personal challenges faced by many clients, while also providing the conceptual base for developing and applying psychological literacy.
Background
There has been a growing interest within the coaching profession in what is called the ‘psychology of coaching’ driven by the desire on the part of coaches to find new ways of working with and understanding their clients at a deeper level. This is supported by Kilburg (2000), Peltier (2001), West and Milan (2001) and Graham Lee (2003). The development of what Lee calls ‘psychological mindedness’ or 'psychological literacy' enables coaches to work on a psychological or emotional dimension – an area which many coaches do not feel fully equipped to explore.
The AEC in developing its Master Coach Model (2001) was at the forefront of executive coach training by emphasising the development of a psychological skill base as essential for effective coaching – alongside that of core coaching skills, business and organisational skills.
While psychology in this context is a broad and diverse field, the emphasis here is on the capacity of the coach to think about the cognitive and emotional world of the client which underpins his/her behaviour.
Professional benefits
This programme encourages the coach to develop a greater level of psychological competence to:
- manage the client relationship
- work with sometimes conflicting boundaries
- work with strong emotions
- recognise and manage complex psychological conditions
- transition between different levels of interfacing systems – psychological and organisational
Alongside the capacity to be curious about and to fully understand the client from a psychological perspective, there is also the capacity on the part of coaches to have a willingness to be reflective about their own experience, history, thoughts, feelings, motivations.
Core curriculum / Structure
The structure of the Psychology of Coaching Programme is modular. To complete the Certificate in the Psychology of Coaching, you need to complete:
- Introduction to the Psychology of Coaching workshop
- 2 x Coaching Skills Workshops (choice of Gestalt, TA, CBT or Somatic Cognitive Coaching/Bodywork)
- 3 x 1 hour individual Practice / Integration / Supervision Sessions
- Theoretically-based Reflective Essay
Practice / Integration / Supervision Sessions
These sessions provide opportunities to further develop skills learned on the programme and in particular to integrate them into your current model of practice through supervision of your work with coaching clients and continued personal exploration.
Aims
- Increase effectiveness and confidence in using psychological tools and techniques within a coaching context
- Practice integrating psychological interventions, choosing what, when and how - with a view to increase the effectiveness of the coaching
- Explore personal coaching style through a ‘reflective mirror’ which allows focus on what gets evoked for you when working for your clients and how that can enhance/limit the work
- Fulfillment of the obligations necessary to achieve the Certificate in the Psychology of Coaching
Primary Objectives
- Supporting the growth and development of the coach
- Improve the effectiveness of the coach/client relationship through the exploration of specific work issues which may be challenging
- Deepening the understanding of self as coach and how personal limitations can inhibit the development of the client system
- Ensuring standards of quality and ethical practice
- Developing new insights, tools and techniques for coaching interventions
- Developing interpersonal sensitivity and skills to a deeper level
Alternatively, you can take any of the workshops as ‘stand alone’, including the superb Introduction to the Psychology of Coaching.
The Learning Context
All workshops contain a solid conceptual framework combined with experiential learning in pairs and small groups with opportunities to practice in triad groups (coach, client and observer). Support Study Packs are designed to support pre-workshop preparation and implementation of the workshop learning through pre-course reading, in-course handouts, reference material etc.
INTRODUCTION TO THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COACHING:
Developing Psychological Literacy
2 day workshop
Here the focus is on broad psychological principles to develop an emotional and psychological dimension to coaching practice. We will explore the contributions of psychology to being a coach, as opposed to doing coaching and how as coaches we can grow our self awareness.
- Overview of the development of psychotherapy
- Key principles of the 3 mainstream schools of psychotherapy
- Differences between coaching and therapy/counselling
- Boundary management
- The nature of change – working with resistance
- Working with emotional material
- Working with personal history -understanding the impact of childhood experience on adult development
- Psychological mindedness – what is it, how to develop it
- ‘Being’ a coach – coach qualities, creating the conditions for change – contributions of person centred psychology
Facilitator: Marjorie Shackleton
GESTALT COACHING SKILLS WORKSHOP
2 day workshop
Developed by Fritz Perls in the 1960’s, a Gestalt approach is hugely helpful when dealing with the complexity and ambiguity of today’s organisations, when more usual rational approaches no longer provide the solutions. A Gestalt framework offers a way of being, of developing presence so that the coach acts as a powerful role model in his/her work.
Gestalt utilises a holistic approach which:
- integrates the cognitive, emotional and behavioural aspects of relationships
- supports good communication and understanding
- acknowledges the function of resistance and irrational behaviour
- recognises how people and events are systemically connected in organisations
- employs the use of the coach as ‘self’ in a unique way
Overview of the Workshop:
Gestalt Process of Change
- Increase your sensory awareness so that you are more responsive to the mood and atmosphere of the client
- Sharpen your observations of what you see, hear and feel in client systems
Cycle of Experience
- Learn how the Gestalt Cycle of Experience can be used as a dynamic model to understand individual and group development
Resistance to Change
- Learn about the paradoxical nature of change
- Understand the structure’ of resistance in coaching practice
Facilitators: Marjorie Shackleton & Peter Burditt
TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS COACHING SKILLS
2 day workshop
Originating as a model of psychotherapy by Eric Berne, a Canadian psychiatrist in the late 1960’s, TA is now widely recognised in the fields of organisational development and education as well as counselling and psychotherapy. TA is considered an approach which is easily accessible yet highly applicable to coaches for understanding individuals, relationships and communication. TA offers a:
- picture of how people are structured psychologically
- theory of communication as well as a model for analysing systems and organisations
- theory of child development
Overview of the Workshop
The Ego State Model
- Understand how people function and express their personality in terms of behaviour
- Learn how to apply the Parent Adult Child model as a way of understanding and working with difficult relationships
- Develop strategies aimed at creating and enlivening more effective relationships
Strokes, Drivers and Games
- Learn about the importance and value of stroking patterns and how they relate to the quality of our relationships and stress levels in organisations
- Understand how different learning styles affect work performance
- Learn to identify the psychological games played out in teams
Life Scripts
- Learn about how a ‘life story’ created when we are very young impacts on our lives as adults
- Learn how to use script analysis as a way of understanding how people inadvertently set up problems for themselves and what they can do about it.
Facilitator: Marjorie Shackleton
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COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL COACHING
2 day workshop
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (aka: CBT) based coaching is heavily influenced by the work of Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis. It takes the view that how we react to events is determined by how we think about them. So, by examining and re-evaluating our belief systems and thought patterns we can develop more effective behaviours. A CBT approach offers a time limited, goal directed, here and now approach aimed at helping individuals develop action plans for change.
Overview
- Learn to identify negative or irrational thought patterns which lead to ineffective behaviour and hinder performance
- Apply models of structured problem solving which allow individuals to draw on their own problem solving capability
- Sharpen your skills in identifying irrational or unrealistic belief systems which are self limiting
- Learn how to ‘unstick’ your client through a reframe of self defeating behaviour
- Learn new ways of ways of working with the relationship between thoughts and emotions leading to behaviour change
Facilitator: Marjorie Shackleton
SOMATIC COGNITIVE COACHING AND THE POWER OF ‘BODYWORK’ IN EXECUTIVE COACHING
2 day workshop
At its simplest, Somatic Cognitive Coaching, a development of ‘Bodywork’, is paying attention to and acting on, the vast amount of information from our own and others’ bodies, as well as our thoughts and perceptions and how one informs and dynamically interacts with the other.
We can use this to significantly enrich the coaching experience, to enhance our effectiveness in facilitating group processes, and in some cases it may be the only way to help create powerful, sustainable changes for our client.
We are increasingly trained in our society, to emphasise verbal representation, abstracting all too easily from our reality and 'felt' experience.
Because of this, we often overlook the wealth of visual and “felt” information right in front of us, presented, perhaps unconsciously, by our client, and also experienced within us.
The AEC’s Bodywork workshop, designed by Nick Kitchen, is influenced by a diverse range of sources including the work of Lowen, Keleman and Goleman and the philosophies of Chi Kung and Ayurveda.
In this popular experiential workshop you will explore:
- The basic morphic types and their day-to day effect on our well-being and effectiveness.
- How our body (or our clients’ body) often holds onto old, unresourceful patterning, frequently outside of conscious awareness and how to begin to change this.
- Reading our clients 'real' communication and body language.
- How to create deeper, sustainable changes with your clients
- How to help our clients manage their stress better and indeed managing our own better
- How to work with this awareness in an executive coaching context without seeming weird!
Facilitator: Nick Kitchen
FACILITATORS
Marjorie Shackleton
Nick Kitchen - Somatic Cognitive Coaching: The Power of Bodywork
Peter Burditt with Marjorie Shackleton- Gestalt Coaching Skills
Marjorie Shackleton
With a psychotherapeutic as well as advanced coach training background, well-honed through extensive experience developing individuals and teams in the US, Canada and UK, Marjorie brings a unique blend of psychological and organisational experience to her work as an Executive Coach. Her individual developmental model is underpinned by the belief that sustainable, organisationally relevant change often requires engagement on a personal as well as business level. Marjorie’s particular interest is in leadership issues that arise when individual ‘drivers’ are in conflict with organisational needs and the creative solutions which emerge out of this so called paradox of leader-ship. Marjorie is also a skillful Coach Supervisor.
Nick Kitchen
Nick Kitchen is an inspirational trainer, conference speaker and consultant who has worked with both small and large British and multinational organisations over the last fourteen years, helping create new ways of working and sustainable change. Also a senior executive coach, his style works particularly well with dynamic senior people and “high potentials". As he assists individuals, groups and teams through complex change, developing business, or in assimilating new skills, Nick’s particular interest is in attending to the well-being and dynamic balance of both the visibles: targets, outputs, processes, and the less visible: the emergent, passion, spirit, relationship and sustainability.
Peter Burditt
Peter has over twelve years of experience of coaching at board level. He has been a Director of the Academy, is trained in Gestalt and is an Accredited AEC Supervisor. He has held very senior positions with a number of world class corporations and has been able to integrate much of his Gestalt training when Head of Global Strategy for a large international investment bank.He is dedicated to supporting people to reach their full potential and has a blue chip client base working as a senior executive coach and motivational consultant to a number of highly successful investment banking teams and other high-growth, innovative, global institutions supporting executives develop individual and corporate strategies for success.
Programme Fees
The fee for the Certificate in the Psychology of Coaching is £2,800 + VAT, which includes the Introduction to the Psychology of Coaching workshop plus 2 additional workshops from the list below:
Gestalt Coaching Skills
Transactional Analysis Coaching
Cognitive Behavioural Coaching
Somatic Cognitive Coaching: The Power of Bodywork
The Certificate also includes 3 x 1 hour individual practice, integration and supervision sessions plus assessment of your theoretically-based Reflective Essay.
Venue
This event takes place at The Gestalt Centre located in the heart of London near to Old Street station. (Tube Exit 4)
Gestalt Centre
62, Paul Street
London EC2A 4NA
Who to contact
To learn more about the Psychology of Coaching Workshop Series or Certificate contact:
Sue Burston
Telephone: +44
(0)1959 569 516
Email: training@aoec.com
Programme dates and online applications
Psychology of Coaching - Certified Programme
Psychology of Coaching - Certified Programme
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