Mindful Coaching - How Mindfulness can Transform Coaching Practice

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Foreword by Peter Hawkins
What you will find in this book
IntroductionPart 1: Overview01 Definitions, origins and relevance to coaching
Defining mindfulness
Present moment, happy moment
A brief orientation to coaching02 A brief history of mindfulness
Not just Buddhist03 The impact of mindfulness
We can change our spots and learn new tricks
Benefits of mindfulnessPart 2: Fundamental principles 04 Presence
Definitions
Setting up a practice05 Curiosity, enquiry and non-judgement
Curiosity
Enquiry
Non-judgement06 Attunement and resonance
Mirror, mirror
Defining attunement
Resonance07 Compassion
Compassion in coaching
Developing compassion through mindfulness
Benefits
Better outcomes08 Being and doing
Doing versus being?
Letting go
Emotion regulation systems
Own goals?
Acceptance
Back to the future
Pressing pause
Part 3: Working with mindfulness in coaching and mentoring09 Developing, supporting and nurturing the coach
Session preparation
Within the coaching session
After the coaching session10 Introducing mindfulness to clients
Appropriateness
Overcoming resistance
Making the business case for mindfulness
Running mindfulness programmes11 The FEEL model
FEEL: a model for applying mindfulness
The model
Client issues12 Stress, anxiety, depression and work-life balance
The good guy and the bad guy
How stress affects us
Approach and avoidance orientation
Discrepancy-based processing
How mindfulness can help
Remedial coaching
The great god of busyness13 Resilience, happiness and wellbeing
Definitions
What makes us resilient?
How mindfulness can help
Health and wellbeing14 Uncertainty, change, complexity and interconnectedness
Uncertainty
Change and impermanence
Complexity
Systems and interconnectedness15 Working with leaders
What makes a leader resonant?
Dissonance and burnout
More mindful leaders
Mindfulness within leadership models
Emotional intelligence16 Ethics
Accountability
Mindfulness and ethics
Leadership characteristics
Challenging
Desire
Tips on using mindfulness to promote ethics
17 Working with emotions
Self-awareness
Self-management
Social awareness and relationship management
Self-esteem, self-compassion and self-acceptance
Growth in self-criticism
Not easy
Recommended mindfulness practices
18 Creativity
Getting out of our own way
'Mistakes' and mindfulness
Mindful music
Helping our clients be more creative
Creative thinking
Using mindfulness with the client
Tips for using mindfulness for creativity in clients
Recommended mindfulness practices
19 Mindfulness and other approaches
Mindfulness in movement
Gestalt
Integration
Somatics
Ontological coaching
Transactional analysis
Transpersonal coaching and psychosynthesis
Cognitive behavioural coaching
Acceptance and commitment therapy
Thinking environment
Inner GamePart 4: The future20 The Mindfulness in Coaching survey
Coaches' experience of mindfulness
Direct benefits for coaches
General comments
About the survey21 The future is mindful
Trends
ConclusionReferences
Further reading
Index

About the author

Liz Hall is an award-winning journalist and coach. Awards include the Periodical Training Association's Journalist of the Year award and the Association for Coaching's Award for Impacting (Leadership/External Focus) Service to the Wider Community for 2010-11.

Liz Hall is the editor and co-owner of Coaching at Work magazine, has written and worked for publications including The Guardian; The Financial Times; The Observer; The Daily Mail, People Management; Personnel Today; Training magazine; Employers' Law; Spirituality & Health and Mandala Magazine. She has written publications including The Employers' Guide to Screening Employees and The Employer's Guide to Monitoring Employees.

Summary

Mindfulness is a way of paying attention to the present moment, helping us become more aware of our thoughts and feelings so that instead of being overwhelmed by them, we are better able to manage them. Mindful Coaching is a comprehensive guide to using mindfulness effectively in coaching. It enables coaches to work closely with their clients on a range of issues, including work-life balance, stress management, decision making, coping with ambiguity, dealing with crises, employee engagement, heightening focus and clarity, improving listening and communication, and increasing presence. Mindful Coaching includes a range of real-life examples and practical exercises to enable coaches to become more resilient in their practice, something that is of particular importance at a time where coaches are facing increasing challenges in defining clarity in their work.

Foreword

Illustrates how 'mindful leadership' can be used to deal with the increasing challenges, choices and ambiguities of the times we live in

Product details

• Authors: Liz Hall, Hall Liz
• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.01.2015
• EAN: 9780749476106
• ISBN: 978-0-7494-7610-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 240 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 580 g
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Mentoring & Coaching, Management: leadership & motivation, Management: leadership and motivation, Personnel & human resources management, Personnel and human resources management