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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.

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

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.

In the last 10 years we have seen an increase in the number of young people looking for Life Coaching both within an educational context and outside of it.

There are now an increasing number of educational facilities looking to incorporate coaching into their curriculums for students and to have ‘in house’ Coaches for students and staff to support wellbeing, careers, communication, relationships, leadership and much more.

With our Accredited Certificate in Youth and Education Coaching we aim to support this growing market with Coaches who are equipped to coach young people both privately and within educational settings.

We will be exploring many of the issues that arise with coaching young people as well as the challenges and rewards that show up.

There will be practical and theoretical elements in the course that draw on aspects of Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (CBC) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), deepening our understanding of motivation and exploration of emotions.

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:

• The key areas of coaching young people and the nature of the relationship
• How to create trust and rapport when meeting resistance
• Growth mindset and the adolescent mind
• Aspects of ACT for coaches working with adolescents
• How to use practical tools for exploration of values and emotions
• ABCs of anxiety
• Safeguarding and responsibility
• Working within an educational environment

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 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.

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

Clean Coaching is more than just Clean Language. It is a combination of exploratory processes and a way-of-being as a coach. If we consider our clients to be creative, resourceful and whole, then Clean Coaching is a powerful way to facilitate them to access their resources and harness their natural creativity to make new connections outside their current paradigm or way of looking at the world.

On this immersive and interactive two-day workshop you will learn the basics of using a Clean approach in your coaching. We will explore the value of tapping into your client’s imagination to help them connect with their own inner wisdom and resources in new and creative ways, including:

• What is Clean Coaching?
• How to ask Clean Language questions to help your client connect to their own inner wisdom
  and resources
• Harnessing the clients use of metaphor as a doorway to their inner patterns of thoughts,
  feelings and behaviour
• Using Clean processes involving physical space, movement, drawing and the power of
  repetition
• Observed demonstrations of Clean Coaching
• Practice Sessions and ongoing practice pairs / triads
• Overcoming the common challenges of working with Clean, and becoming a catalyst for the client to connect with their own creativity and resources (to self-actualise)

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

• Why a Clean approach can be so valuable in encouraging creativity and generating paradigm
  shifts
• A set of clear frameworks that you can incorporate into your coaching straightaway,
  covering each aspect of GROW
• An introduction to the advanced Clean Coaching training course which consists of XX
  deep-dive modules
• How exact use of the client’s words, invites a different response than summarising or
  paraphrasing
• How the delivery of your interventions (tone of voice, pauses, inflections, pace) will impact
  how the question is received by the client
• How to introduce Clean Coaching to your client
• The boundaries of Clean Coaching and therapy
• About Clean Action Space – creating a clean action plan
• Making a Clean Start (including the PRO model)

Who is this training for?

Newly trained and experienced coaches looking for new approaches to help their clients gain new insight and experience deep and sustainable paradigm shifts. As well as coaches who have previous training in Clean and are looking for a refresher or confidence builder.

The course has also 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.

Additional information:

Attendees should ensure they are in a private space with room to move around. They will need pens (different colours), loose paper, blue tack.

Clean Coaching offers processes and techniques that support the client to access their own resources and creativity in ways that other forms of coaching often cannot reach. In addition, it does so in ways that are specifically designed and boundaried, to avoid the coach “polluting” the space or influencing the clients sense-making with their own interpretations and assumptions.

It uses language, physical space, the body, drawings, symbols and objects to invite the client to step outside their regular paradigm and enter a space of invention, creation, connection.

Clean Coaching can be used as a complete coaching approach, or coaches may incorporate elements of Clean Coaching into their existing practice.

You can find out more about Clean Coaching and Clean Language in this video interview with course facilitator Bronwyn Nash.

Clean Coaching is more than just Clean Language. It is a combination of exploratory processes and a way-of-being as a coach. If we consider our clients to be creative, resourceful and whole, then Clean Coaching is a powerful way to facilitate them to access their resources and harness their natural creativity to make new connections outside their current paradigm or way of looking at the world.

On this immersive and interactive two-day workshop you will learn the basics of using a Clean approach in your coaching. We will explore the value of tapping into your client’s imagination to help them connect with their own inner wisdom and resources in new and creative ways, including:

• What is Clean Coaching?
• How to ask Clean Language questions to help your client connect to their own inner wisdom
  and resources
• Harnessing the clients use of metaphor as a doorway to their inner patterns of thoughts,
  feelings and behaviour
• Using Clean processes involving physical space, movement, drawing and the power of
  repetition
• Observed demonstrations of Clean Coaching
• Practice Sessions and ongoing practice pairs / triads
• Overcoming the common challenges of working with Clean, and becoming a catalyst for the client to connect with their own creativity and resources (to self-actualise)

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

• Why a Clean approach can be so valuable in encouraging creativity and generating paradigm
  shifts
• A set of clear frameworks that you can incorporate into your coaching straightaway,
  covering each aspect of GROW
• An introduction to the advanced Clean Coaching training course which consists of XX
  deep-dive modules
• How exact use of the client’s words, invites a different response than summarising or
  paraphrasing
• How the delivery of your interventions (tone of voice, pauses, inflections, pace) will impact
  how the question is received by the client
• How to introduce Clean Coaching to your client
• The boundaries of Clean Coaching and therapy
• About Clean Action Space – creating a clean action plan
• Making a Clean Start (including the PRO model)

Who is this training for?

Newly trained and experienced coaches looking for new approaches to help their clients gain new insight and experience deep and sustainable paradigm shifts. As well as coaches who have previous training in Clean and are looking for a refresher or confidence builder.

The course has also 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.

Additional information:

Attendees should ensure they are in a private space with room to move around. They will need pens (different colours), loose paper, blue tack.

Clean Coaching offers processes and techniques that support the client to access their own resources and creativity in ways that other forms of coaching often cannot reach. In addition, it does so in ways that are specifically designed and boundaried, to avoid the coach “polluting” the space or influencing the clients sense-making with their own interpretations and assumptions.

It uses language, physical space, the body, drawings, symbols and objects to invite the client to step outside their regular paradigm and enter a space of invention, creation, connection.

Clean Coaching can be used as a complete coaching approach, or coaches may incorporate elements of Clean Coaching into their existing practice.

You can find out more about Clean Coaching and Clean Language in this video interview with course facilitator Bronwyn Nash.