Diploma in Advanced Business & Executive Coaching
Diploma in Advanced Business & Executive Coaching Summary
| Duration: 10 months | |
| Schedule: Part-time |
| Starting: January 2013 |
| Fees: Please contact us |
| Programme Director: Geoff Pelham |
The programme is delivered over a series of six workshops.
Programme Content
Each workshop consists of elements of theory, coach practice and personal/professional development. Inputs from tutors include:
- The psychological dimensions to coaching and psychological mindedness, focusing on the psychological aspects of coachees' agendas and the personal/professional qualities required of the coach
- Mapping the field of psychological theories and approaches: describing and critically evaluating a range of psychological theories relevant to coaching
- The Person-Centered approach: the importance of the coaching relationship and the "core conditions" of empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard
- The Psychodynamic approach: unconscious processes in coaching, including transference and psychological defences
- Attachment theory: the importance of a "secure base" in coachng and repeating patterns of relating
- The Gestalt approach: the importance of awareness, the here-and-now, the "Cycle of Awareness" and strategic and intimate interventions
- Cognitive and Behavioural approaches: identifying and working with coachees' patterns of thinking and behaving
- Positive Psychology and the Strengths approach: exploring the key ideas of these contemporary theories and their application to coaching
- The "Use of Self" in coaching: theoretical background and practical application to coaching
- Creative approaches to coaching: bringing creativity into coaching, including working with image, metaphor, drawing, movement and dramatic enactment
- The boundary between coaching and counselling/psychotherapy: identifying the boundary and exploring ethical and referral issues
- Supervision of coaching work
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