EMOTIONS IN COACHING

Welcome to the latest edition of the Association for Coaching’s (AC) Newsletter. This week:

• Join Bevis Moynan for a new AC webinar series to explore emotional resilience
• Listen to an insightful podcast conversation with distinguished professor Richard Boyatzis on why coaches should focus on relationships, primary emotions and vision.
• Read Ipek Utun’s fascinating article on why shadow work is also mining for gold and so important for coaches to work with.

What do you do when strong emotions show up in a coaching session?

Join us on January 14 2025 for a new four-part webinar series with coach and trainer, Bevis Moynan focusing on the role that emotions play during the coaching journey and how to work safely with them as a coach. Bevis will lead a practical series to explore how, as a coach, you can enhance your emotional resilience while increasing your ability to help your clients in this space.

Over four webinars, we will explore emotions and the role they play in your clients’ lives and decision-making processes. This awareness can then be shared to help your clients navigate challenging times emotionally while maintaining a coach approach rather than a therapist’s approach.

You will learn:

• How to help clients navigate their patterns and cycles of anger and guilt without self-sabotaging
• How to help clients more effectively handle grief, sadness and loss 
• How to overcome patterns of anxiety and anxiousness by exploring the hidden emotions beneath
• How to help clients begin to loosen the grip of compulsive and addictive patterns of behaviour
• How to embed this new knowledge around emotion into your coaching practice

This is available to members and non-members, and non-members will receive a year’s free associate membership. It is worth 6 CPD hours.

Find out more and register for the series here.

Find out why coaches should help clients focus on vision, rather than goals, and what part primary emotions and relationships play in the coaching journey

Listen to an insightful podcast episode as host and coach, George Warren, is joined by Distinguished Professor in organizational behaviour, psychology and cognitive science, Richard Boyatzis. They discuss how coaching needs to focus on the bigger dreams and visions of clients, instead of goals.

Richard shares his research-based knowledge on what can help us navigate the current perma-crisis we are in. He challenges the coaching world to examine if their current methods are producing the results we think they are, and asks us all to think more holistically – towards ourselves and our clients to combat the excessive narcissism of our modern world and bring a brighter future for all.

You will learn:

• The power of resonant relationships, compassion, mindfulness, playfulness and spirituality
• Why effective coaching and leadership work with primary emotions such as hope and caring

A thought-provoking and powerful conversation!

Listen to this episode here

Listen to the full series ‘The Conscience of Coaching’ here

“Shadows grow in the dark and lose their power with light and as we see them, we can interrupt them easily and return to our more grounded centre.”

Ipek Utun

In the July edition of our Coaching Perspectives magazine, coach, mentor and shadow work facilitator, Ipek Utun explains how working on oneself, revealing the source of our own shadows, means we discover renewed energy and how to be of best service to our clients. Ipek shares her own transformative journey with shadow work and how it is also mining for gold. She explains the impact of this work and why it matters for coaches. A fascinating article!

Access all editions of our Coaching Perspectives magazine here.

We hope you enjoyed this newsletter and encourage you to explore our wide variety of resources on our website here. Or if you would like to go directly to our Digital Learning Hub click here. If you have any questions or would like to contribute to our podcast, digital learning, or magazine, please email us at enquiries@associationforcoaching.com.

The Association for Coaching (AC) is a leading independent, not-for-profit global professional body dedicated to promoting best practices and raising awareness and standards of coaching worldwide. Our purpose is to inspire and champion coaching excellence, advance the coaching profession, and make a sustainable difference to individuals, organizations and society.