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Positive Psychology emerged as a field of scientific study in the 1990s, concerned on human potential and the makeup of happiness and wellbeing; our thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It investigated how we could focus on our strengths instead of our weaknesses, on building a good life instead of fixing a bad one, on taking an average performance on to a great one and shifting those who are struggling into a functional level.

Roy F. Baumeister’s (2013) research showed that happiness and a sense of meaning in life do not necessarily go hand-in-hand, indicating that focusing on positive emotions alone will not bring the fulfilling and satisfying life you crave.

Join us for this one-off two-day course in Positive Psychology, which is aimed at trained or in-training coaches who are looking at taking the next step in their coaching practice.

This course will help you understand more about what motivates people, and about the pillars of a good life. You will develop a language to celebrate your clients’ strengths and become more clear about that thing that everybody seems to chase their whole life: Happiness. You will also receive a downloadable ebook to accompany the course.

Coaches will gain a better understanding about the psychology of flourishing and human potential, and how the industry is now integrating positive psychology into the practice and focusing on character strengths, optimism, life satisfaction, well-being, gratitude, compassion, self-esteem and self-confidence and hope. How this subject offers us ways to apply its findings with individuals and groups.

You will also discover how coaches might work with clients who might have experienced negative thoughts, liming beliefs, depression and a lack of meaning in their lives.

The course has been recognised by the International Coach Federation as providing 12 hours of Continuing Coach Education and so can be used for coaches renewing their ICF credentials.

Through a rich mix of trainer-led sessions, peer practice and experiential exercises, you will explore:

• Introduction to the science of positive psychology and its short history
• Exploring the pillars of happiness and wellbeing
• The value of positive psychology in coaching
• Character strengths – what is right with you?
• Mindsets – A positive psychology perspective on change, stuckness, limiting beliefs and potential
• Resilience, mental toughness and post-traumatic growth
• Optimism – reframes, positive outlook vs explanatory style
• Flow, engagement and motivation
• Evidence-based applied positive psychology: Psychological interventions
• Positive psychology assessment and psychometrics
• The future of positive psychology – A positive tale about the dark side of life

After completion of the course you will receive a downloadable PDF certificate demonstrating that you have completed 12 hours of Continuous Coach Education as Accredited by the International Coach Federation and 12 hours of Recognised CPD with the Association for Coaching.

If you want to find out more about what positive psychology can bring to your coaching approach check out this interview with the facilitator of this CPD, Yannick Jacob.

This CPD training will be capped at 40 attendees. 

As coaches, we are naturally mindful of our approach, ethics and facilitating a space that is in best service to the client.  While focusing on holding the space for our clients, it’s equally important that we have the time and space to to process our own thoughts, feelings and reflections after each session.

Supervision is a valuable space for coaches to work through the considerations, challenges or issues that are inevitably faced in practice.  

We recognise that for many coaches, having a space facilitated by a Supervisor allows for support, constructive feedback, healthy challenge, mentorship and the opportunity to address gaps in knowledge. All of this ultimately raises coaching standards and works to minimise any habits that may have been adopted along the way which may not be best practice.

The Coaching Supervision Programme offers 6 months of support in which you will be able to attend 6 x 2hr sessions once a month in a small group of no more than 6 coaches.

Across the events page, you can also choose which Supervisor you would like to work with.

For this specific offering you will be working with Todd who has a wealth of experience, is an ICF credentialed coach and ICCS qualified Supervisor.

The Coaching Supervision Programme is designed to:

• Support Coaches in their client journeys offering a theoretical, psychological, philosophical and/or ethical lens 
• Help with sessions that feel heavier or more difficult
• Provide restorative support to the coach and explore dynamics that might happen under the surface of coaching
• Develop your own inner-supervisor
• Shed light on who you are as a coach and your natural coaching style
• Facilitate In-depth discussions around ethical issues
• Explore parallel processes and systems of impact
• Diversify  tools or interventions that may be used in the coach-client space
• Reinforce standards of practice and working with coaching boundaries
• Challenge coaching relationship dynamics
• Reduce blind spots and widen multiple perspectives

Programme Dates

• Thursday 14th October 2021, 10:00 – 12:00
• Thursday 11th November 2021, 10:00 – 12:00
• Thursday 9th December 2021, 10:00 – 12:00
• Thursday 13th January 2022, 10:00 – 12:00
• Thursday 10th February 2022, 10-12:00
• Thursday 10th March 2022 – 10am- 12:00pm

About your trainer Todd Roache

Todd is an ICF certified coach, supervisor, and trainer with Animas Centre for Coaching. 

As a group supervisor, one of his greatest passions is holding space for coaches to not only discover the resources and interventions to serve their clients powerfully, but to find their true and unique voices as coaches. 

He loves to work with coaches involved in all kinds of client work, from executive coaching, to integrating coaching with the Arts, to coaches exploring the depths of their empathy and intuition. The common thread in the diverse supervision groups he runs is a love of coaching and a call towards a deep authenticity of being. 

There’s one thing all clients have in common (as do we). They are all human.

And being human isn’t easy. We are beset by inescapable conditions – and we’re aware of them! Mortality, sense of individual selfhood, responsibility of choice, uncertainty, fluid meaning.

Combined, these conditions can leave us with a sense of existential angst as we question how to live well as a human. We might even find ourselves asking questions such as “What is the point?” or “What is the meaning of my life?”

There’s no doubt that such big questions are often at the heart of coaching but how do you identify when a client is dealing with them and work with them on something that seems unsolvable?

Join Sasha van Deurzen-Smith, existential coach and academic registrar at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling as she explores the teachings of renowned philosophers such as Sartre, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and shares new ideas on how to coach around this enigmatic topic.

This two-day course for qualified coaches opens the door for existential work and will set you on a journey to deepen your work and widen your scope.

Existential coaching works with a variety of universal issues such as freedom, responsibility, meaning and authenticity as well as the fundamental understanding of the subjective nature of each unique human experience.

You will immerse yourself in a rich combination of theory and practice, developing new and refreshing dimensions to help clients to explore existential dilemmas. You’ll gain insight into how the dynamics around a particular issue might be simply a microcosm for the way the client experiences and sees themselves in the world, and in relation to others.

Emerging from existential psychotherapy, this approach is grounded in a highly relational, thoughtful and dynamic ethos that empowers clients to face up to the challenges of being human.

Though aimed at practitioners or aspiring practitioners who would like to move away from tricks and tools towards a more relational and reflective approach, This course is suitable for anyone who wants to find new ways of working that are client-centred and rooted in thinking about life in an open and philosophical manner. It will help you to connect with clients on a human level, with a focus on ‘being with’ rather than ‘doing to’.

The workshop comprises additional personal exercises to help you to understand how existential ideas relate to your own personal life, including illustrative case studies to help ground the learning in real life scenarios. You will also receive a downloadable ebook to accompany the course.

The course has been recognised by the International Coach Federation as providing 12 hours of Continuing Coach Education and so can be used for coaches renewing their ICF credentials.

Through a rich mix of trainer-led sessions, peer practice and experiential exercises, you’ll learn:

* Philosophical ideas from thinkers such as Sartre, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche

* Ideas from Existential Practitioners van Deurzen and Yalom

* How to apply phenomenology in your coaching practice

* The 4 Worlds model and how to employ this in coaching

* How to think about coaching issues with greater depth.

* Personal exercises to gain a greater understanding of how existential ideas relate to your own life

After completion of the course you will receive a downloadable PDF certificate demonstrating that you have completed 12 hours of Continuous Coach Education as Accredited by the International Coach Federation.

This CPD training will be capped at 40 attendees.

About Sasha van Deurzen-Smith:

Sasha is the course leader of the school’s MA in Existential Coaching, and deputy course leader for the MA in Existential and Humanistic Pastoral Care and MSc in Autism and Related Neurodevelopmental Conditions.

She has an MA in Existential Coaching and specialises in working through creative dilemmas, issues around self-esteem, and has experience working with adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Watch Sasha’s talk on Existential Coaching here.

As coaches, we are naturally mindful of our approach, ethics and facilitating a space that is in best service to the client.  While focusing on holding the space for our clients, it’s equally important that we have the time and space to to process our own thoughts, feelings and reflections after each session.

Supervision is a valuable space for coaches to work through the considerations, challenges or issues that are inevitably faced in practice.  

We recognise that for many coaches, having a space facilitated by a Supervisor allows for support, constructive feedback, healthy challenge, mentorship and the opportunity to address gaps in knowledge. All of this ultimately raises coaching standards and works to minimise any habits that may have been adopted along the way which may not be best practice.

The Coaching Supervision Programme offers 6 months of support in which you will be able to attend 6 x 2hr sessions once a month in a small group of no more than 6 coaches.

Across the events page, you can also choose which Supervisor you would like to work with.

For this specific offering you will be working with Nisha who has a wealth of experience, is an ICF credentialed coach and ICCS qualified Supervisor.

The Coaching Supervision Programme is designed to:

• Support Coaches in their client journeys offering a theoretical, psychological, philosophical and/or ethical lens 
• Help with sessions that feel heavier or more difficult
• Provide restorative support to the coach and explore dynamics that might happen under the surface of coaching
• Develop your own inner-supervisor
• Shed light on who you are as a coach and your natural coaching style
• Facilitate In-depth discussions around ethical issues
• Explore parallel processes and systems of impact
• Diversify  tools or interventions that may be used in the coach-client space
• Reinforce standards of practice and working with coaching boundaries
• Challenge coaching relationship dynamics
• Reduce blind spots and widen multiple perspectives

Programme Dates

• Monday 15th November 2021, 17:30-19:30
• Monday 13th December 2021, 17:30-19:30
• Monday 17th January 2021, 17:30-19:30
• Monday 21st February 2021, 17:30-19:30
  
• Monday 14th March 2022, 17:30-19:30
• Monday 11th April 2022, 17:30-19:30

About your trainer Nisha Vyas

Nisha is an ICF certified coach, Animas trainer and coach supervisor; she is passionate about helping coaches and leaders with high aspirations step up to the next level of their full potential. As a member of the Animas training team, she delivers the Foundations and Cognitions modules. She also runs bespoke training and coaching programmes in the corporate world of Football and Sports. In addition to this, Nisha is a coach and mentor for a schools intervention programme, providing support to children aged 11-16.

 As a supervisor Nisha is passionate about empowering Coaches to feel confident within their practice – regardless of the level of their coaching experience. She helps coaches to strengthen their skill-set whilst embracing their authenticity and maintaining their unique styles. 

Expand your impact from one-to-one to one-to-many with group coaching skills.

Interested in expanding your coaching skill set? Feel like you might enjoy, or excel at coaching in a group dynamic? Then come and join us for one of our most popular CPDs, the accredited certificate in Group Coaching, and learn the skills and knowledge required to work both dynamically and effectively with groups!

According to the influential Ridler Report, the demand for group coaching is growing exponentially, and for good reason: it works.

Why?

Well, group coaching is time and cost-effective for sponsors and participants, transformative for the group, and rewarding for the coach, so it is no surprise to see its popularity and demand continue to grow.

This course will equip you to take your coaching into a group dynamic with confidence using a set of new skills and practices that bring group work to life.

Whether you wish to offer action learning sets for senior management, a mastermind experience for entrepreneurs, or a large facilitated session for a whole organisation, group coaching can be used in countless contexts.

Our Certificate in Group Coaching will give you the skills and knowledge to work dynamically with groups and sets you on a path of creative group work that will only deepen and become richer over time.

To help you get the most from the specialist topics covered on this course, we dive straight into the specific content without revisiting the core tenets of coaching. This ensures that the full two days are focused on the specialist skills, knowledge and concepts which add to your existing coaching skills. You will also receive a downloadable ebook to accompany the course.

Over the course of two days you’ll enjoy a blend of learning approaches to give you the best foundation for mastering the skills you learn.

You will explore:

• The Psychology of Groups
• Becoming attuned to, and working with, group dynamics and their meaning
• A number of key frameworks to understand and analyse groups
• Creating and facilitating Action Learning for focused inquiry
• Creating and facilitating Balint groups for generative conversation
• Running World Cafe sessions for large group creative discussion
• Running Open Space sessions for large group, self-directed exploration
• How to turn group coaching into an effective part of your business

As with all Animas training, the course is both instructional and experiential and includes:

• Trainer led teaching
• Collaborative group work exercises
• Practice sessions in small and large groups
• Discussion time to explore ideas and questions