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Wouldn’t it be amazing if you were better able to work with the subconscious part of the brain? To be able to not just access, but influence your clients’ limbic system, and in turn the negative attitudes that prevent them from reaching their potential?

Of course it would!

And this is precisely what emotional intelligence is all about: recognising how subconscious negative attitudes, and the emotions they trigger that can stop us in our tracks, but how these same attitudes can be challenged and changed with a significant positive impact on feelings, thoughts and behaviour.

95-99% of people’s daily habits are managed by the subconscious brain – the limbic system.

Yet many coaches still see coaching as a primarily logical process – helping people engage with the more rational parts of the brain.

So how do you as a coach access your clients subconscious and influence their limbic system?

That is where this two-day course comes in!

Join Steve Neale, highly-experienced trainer, psychologist and co-author of Emotional Intelligence Coaching for this one-off course on Emotional Intelligence with Coaching.

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:

• How the emotional part of the brain, the limbic system, works and why it is essential to all aspects of coaching
• A model of the Limbic Performance system and how to utilise this as a tool to increase your effectiveness in coaching
• A simple 3 step model for coaching clients from the inside-out
• An understanding of the essential role Self Belief plays in coaching and how to help clients develop health Self Belief through coaching
• Tools for developing your own self-awareness and becoming more mindful of your own thoughts, feelings and actions.
• The LEAD Model of Other Awareness and how to apply it in coaching.

Have the option of online follow-up access to the Limbic Performance System model.

If you are a student and want to find out more about this course, watch our webinar with Steve Neale as he gives an introduction to the limbic system and walks us through some ideas of Emotional Intelligence Coaching. Simply log on to Animas Connect.

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

The journey I’m taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I’m seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

Haruki Murakami

Undoubtedly, most of us have been caught up in some sort of vicious cycle at least once in our lives, continuing to repeat unconstructive behaviours and finding no way out of breaking it. Eating unhealthily, staying in toxic relationships, overspending whilst in debt – If we haven’t faced it ourselves, we have experienced it through friends and family, or have seen clients who are stuck in the pattern and unable to come out of it.

It can be a real stumbling block, and often feels like a lost cause…

So how great would it be if we were able to decode patterns to access our inner self and understand why we have conflicts? Why certain circumstances make us react in ways we know are harmful but unable to stop? And how to bridge the gap between what we think we should want and what we actually want?

Really useful right? And it’s entirely possible!

Join Nishe, Animas Trainer, Integrative Coach and Hypnotherapist at this insightful lecture.

The talk Decoding Patterns to Access Inner Selves will look at questions around decoding patterns and breaking cycles, and provide you with a perspective of working with inner selves (Internal parts of our whole self.), and the positive impact that it can have for both you, and your clients.

This is for you if:

• as a coach you are interested in work around identity
• you want to help clients to not just find their patterns, but break them
• you want to better assist your clients in finding their truth

Through a mix of theory and group discussion, you will explore –

• What an inner self is and Nishe’s perspective on how they are created.
• Brief insight into the value of working with inner selves.
• Nishe’s 3-step approach to starting this work with some practical tips.
• Gain insight into an integrative approach that combines various aspects of the Animas DTC with the speaker’s areas of interest.

If you are yourself struggling, or have clients who resist to even acknowledge patterns, are unwilling to get out of their comfort zone or really tussle with relationships, then you will find this talk both brilliantly interesting and practically useful.

So come and join us for what promises to be a great evening, and as always, the Animas Team look forward to catching up with you all at the bar after the lecture!

Nishe Patel Biography:

As an Integrative Coach & Hypnotherapist, she experiences real enjoyment from working with people to explore the patterns that exist in their thinking, and present in their behaviours and use of language.  Patterns that ultimately hold them back from having what they most want.  She works as a true partner with her clients, responding to their needs and encouraging them as they make progress toward their desired outcomes.  As part of this work, Nishe recognises the value of having a varied toolkit that allows her to tailor her approach to each client, and she continually researches and develops her proficiency in different techniques.

Find out more about Nishe Patel here: https://www.animascoaching.com/about-animas/our-team/nishe-patel/

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 (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.

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.

Coaches would also 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.

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.

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 postraumatic 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

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.

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In our society, a lot of us are meeting what Abraham Maslow called our “basic needs” and are now looking to move further up the pyramid towards self-actualisation. Not only do we want our needs to be met, we want to lead happy and fulfilling lives.

Martin Seligman, founder of Positive Psychology describes it as the ‘scientific study of optimal human functioning that aims to discover and promote the factors that allow individuals and communities to thrive.’

Often our coachees are looking to feel better about certain aspects of their lives this can be anything from relationships, to finding meaning, better health or self-growth. Positive psychology enables us to get into the heart of the matter and offers coaches a broad variety of theories, tools and interventions to assist clients on their journey towards greater wellbeing.

Join us for this lecture with Yannick Jacob, formerly Programme Leader of University of East London’s MSc Coaching Psychology.

This lecture is aimed at qualified and in-training coaches who are curious about what it takes to live a happier and more fulfilled life and what positive psychological science may contribute to the process.

You’ll find out how we as coaches may deal with clients who are “negative” in their thinking and learn some practical tools and interventions to apply to yourself as well as your clients.

Through a rich mix of theory and group discussion you will learn:

• Why happiness is important
• An introduction to the science of Positive Psychology
• Theories of happiness & psychological wellbeing
• Practical ways of integrating Positive Psychology with yourself and your clients

Continue your evening after the lecture at the bar with the Animas Team and Yannick himself. A great way to catch up with fellow students, your favourite trainers and mentors!

About the Speaker:

Yannick Jacob is an Existential Coach (MA), Positive Psychologist (MSc), Coach Trainer & Supervisor, Mediator (conflict resolution) and the former Programme Leader of the MSc Coaching Psychology at the University of East London. He works with coaches, leaders and anybody who considers themselves to be in a “position of great responsibility” to gain clarity, make choices, build resilience and navigate their life and/or business. Yannick believes in balance, values a strong sense of awareness (self & others), he loves to make people think a little more deeply and he’s passionate about helping his clients develop the courage to live across the full spectrum of human experience as the true pathway to sustainable happiness. For over a decade now Yannick has studied happiness, optimal human functioning and all things wellbeing (MSc Applied Positive Psychology) as well as the depths and complexities of the human condition and how they show up for people, particularly in the coaching room (MA Existential Coaching). Yannick presents at conferences internationally and his book, An Introduction to Existential Coaching, is out now via Routledge. Learn more about Yannick, his work and his philosophy at www.existential.coach or, if you are a coach or integrative practitioner looking for supervision or training, check out www.RocketSupervision.com.

Join Robert Stephenson as he gives his first talk as the new Animas CEO.

Becoming a Chief Executive Officer may be a popular dream for many.  For some of us, it can remain a fantasy or potentially not even considered as a potential path.

Robert will share his own experience on how he became CEO and will explore with us how to become the CEO of our own lives to enable us to prepare for those yet unseen opportunities.

Together, we will explore how to prepare yourself mentally, physically and emotionally.

This lecture is aimed at all Animas students & alumni and anyone with an interest in coaching.

At this lecture through group discussion, you will explore how you might become the CEO of your life and the captain of your own ships.

Extend your evening with Robert and the team at the bar after for fruitful conversations.

We hope to see you there!

Trauma is defined as damage that has been done to the psyche. This happens when the psyche cannot withstand a high level of stress and has to split to survive; the individual dissociates from the experience, becomes numb, ‘plays dead’, withdrawing emotionally and cognitively from the reality of what is happening.

This could be anything from difficult births that impact the infant to sexual or emotional trauma.

While a good number of people are able to move past certain traumas with the help and support of those close to them, perhaps family or friends, teachers or care-workers … some are unable to do so.

It is something that sometimes is brought into a coaching space/dynamic and as coaches, we sometimes have a hesitation to work with clients who have psychological challenges as we feel it is out of our depth and potentially belongs within the realm of therapy. This may be due to our experience as a coach, or understanding of the boundaries of coaching

At what point do we as a coach decide we can work with a client and how challenging or deep does the coachee’s issues have to be for us to feel as though we should perhaps pass them over to a therapist? And furthermore, is this the only answer?

And might we as coaches work with clients who have experienced trauma without changing our profession?

Join us for this one-off course introduction to Coaching with Trauma.

This course ran by the author of Therapist into Coach (2006), Julia Vaughan-Smith, is an introduction to working around those trauma survival responses, by focusing on the healthy non-traumatised resources within individuals.

Aimed at trained or in-training coaches who are looking at taking the next step in their coaching practice and potentially coaching clients who have suffered trauma.

This course is uniquely designed as a taster as to what working with trauma could be like and whether it is for you.

The course has been recognised by the International Coach Federation as providing 6 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:

• What a trauma response is and how it can show up within the coaching space
• An understanding of the impact of early experience on the psyche (mind, body and emotions)
• What environmental causes of such responses in early life
• The risks involved with taking a clients account of trauma
• Professor Franz Ruppert model of the split in the psyche
• How to apply the model of the split in the psyche in coaching, including how to use it with clients
• How to identify trauma survival responses (survival strategies, survival identity and survival dynamics) in themselves and clients and what to do about them
• Personal grounding exercises to use with clients and yourself
• How to recognise if in an entangled relationship with clients and what to do
• How to navigate sensitively coaching a client with trauma
• Coaching boundaries and supervision/responsible practice

Julia Vaughan-Smith author of, Therapist into Coach, is a highly experienced coach and qualified integrative psychotherapist.

She has over 25 years of experience in the field of coaching and organisational development. 15 years of experience in private practice as a qualified and registered integrative and humanistic psychotherapist, 8 years training in Family & Systemic Constellations and in Identity Orientated Psycho-Traumatology and the Intention Method, as developed by Professor Franz Ruppert.

Julia is currently working towards becoming an independent author. Her upcoming book Coaching with Trauma will be released in August 2019 and available on Amazon.

“A large amount of energy goes into hiding emotion, especially in the workplace, and yet this provides the real powerful essence of who we are and what we achieve in life. Emotional intelligence is about recognising how negative attitudes and the emotions they trigger can prevent us from reaching our potential. These attitudes can be challenged and changed with a significant positive impact on feelings, thoughts and behaviour.” (Neale, Emotional Intelligence Coaching, 2009)

95-99% of people’s daily habits are managed by the subconscious brain – the limbic system.

Yet many coaches still see coaching as a primarily logical process – helping people engage with the more rational parts of the brain.

So how do you as a coach access your clients subconscious and influence their limbic system?

That is where this two-day course comes in!

Join Steve Neale, highly-experienced trainer, psychologist and co-author of Emotional Intelligence Coaching for this one-off course on Emotional Intelligence with Coaching.

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:

• How the emotional part of the brain, the limbic system, works and why it is essential to all aspects of coaching
• A model of the Limbic Performance system and how to utilise this as a tool to increase your effectiveness in coaching
• A simple 3 step model for coaching clients from the inside-out
• An understanding of the essential role Self Belief plays in coaching and how to help clients develop health Self Belief through coaching
• Tools for developing your own self-awareness and becoming more mindful of your own thoughts, feelings and actions.
• The LEAD Model of Other Awareness and how to apply it in coaching.

Have the option of online follow-up access to the Limbic Performance System model.

If you want to find out more about this course, join our upcoming webinar with Steve Neale as he gives an introduction to the limbic system and walks us through some ideas of Emotional Intelligence Coaching. To register, click here.

Animas Faculty Lecture: Exploring the Psyche – Journey into the Workings of the Mind Through Coaching

We are delighted to announce former students Richard Owen and Isik Tlabar as the speakers for our next Animas Lecture –  Exploring the Psyche: A Journey into the Workings of the Mind Through Coaching.

The psyche is the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious. Our personality forms our psyche and is often ruled by our ego. So how do we identify when our client is acting unconsciously or from their ego?

This lecture will shed some light on this very rich and intricate topic. Richard and Isik will explore different aspects of the psyche and the impact that it has on us when out of alignment. Together they will cover a personality structure, how to identify when you are speaking from the ego and what disconnection is and how it can show up.

Often, our clients have ideas on who they are and where they want to be but struggle to find the motivation to reach these ambitions. As a coach, we can often feel as though we are going around in circles trying to discover what is standing in their path. After attending this insightful lecture you will gain greater insight as to how the unconscious can sabotage their goals and learn new ways to overcome these challenges.

If you are also interested in the work of renowned psychiatrist Carl Jung, and are curious as to where the name “Animas” originates from, then this lecture isn’t one to miss.

Over the course of this lecture you will explore:

• Tools on how to identify the ego to notice when your client is not being true to themselves
• Learn what the soul and spirit are, and how these archetypal forces being out of balance can cause discord in both our clients and ourselves.
• New ideas on how the personality is structured and how this may influence your client’s seemingly uncharacteristic behaviour

Richard Owen – Anima and Animus – Jungian Archetypes and Personality Models in Transformational Coaching.

Richard is an organisational psychologist and has a keen interest in the work of Carl Jung. Join Richard as he discusses how Anima and Animus are experienced in dreams, fantasy, relationships, stress and the development of our personality. Richard will share his own ideas and a system around Personality Parts™. He will introduce us to potential solutions on how to help clients overcome one-sidedness, blind spots and challenges in their lives.

Carl Jung, one of the most famous psychiatrists and psychologists to date, was a leading pioneer in unlocking the greater potential of the mind. His studies revealed psychological phenomena that are universal across human experience. Two such archetypal forces are Anima and Animus, the Soul and Spirit; both critical to creating balance and connecting us with our ‘unconscious’ mind. As inspiration for the name of Animas coaching, they are essential concepts for all of us to understand.

Isik Tabler – Ego Vs Truth

Isik has ran her own successful business since the age of 25. Join Isik as she walks us through how to become more intuitive with our clients and ourselves.

Isik suggests that in every moment in life, we make choices from one or the other: our ego or our truth. When you have the awareness to see which one you’re operating from, you have the power to make a new choice in what you want.

Isik will walk us through some of the teachings she has learnt that have helped her uncover her power.  She will guide us through a simple practical tool you can use in daily life in order to rise above your ego to come back to the truth, which can be shared with clients who would like to lead a more authentic life.

Biographies:

Richard Owen MSc

Richard Owen is an organisational psychologist and qualified Animas coach. He specialises in personality and psychometrics, especially Jungian Psychological Type. A trustee for the British Association for Psychological Type and mentee of renowned Jungian Analyst John Beebe, Richard regularly gives conference talks and has recently developed the Personality Parts™ model to bring a fresh perspective to working with personality in coaching.

http://personalityparts.com/

Isik Tlabar

Isik is an intuitive guide, writer and workshop leader. She empowers women to find their purpose and power in order to share their gifts in the world. She offers 1-1 intuitive guidance sessions for men and women as well as breathwork journeys, liberating people from their past traumas. Isik also leads workshops connecting women to their feminine power.

She writes openly and shares her vulnerability about her own life experiences which empower people to follow their truth and to be themselves unapologetically.

Follow her writing on Facebook (Isik Tlabar) or Instagram @isiktlabar.

www.isiktlabar.com

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We are delighted to announce Paul Z Jackson is joining us for our next lecture – Increasing Your Grit: How to Become a Resilient Coach.

In our VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world, times are unpredictable – both for us coaches and our clients. Many people are anxious around losing their livelihoods, as we all face an uncertain world economy and relentless change. It is of no surprise that burnout is on the increase. In this atmosphere of flux, people are naturally reluctant to take risks, fearing that making mistakes might cost them their livelihoods.

Join Paul as he discusses what resilience is and how we as coaches can prepare ourselves and our clients to meet the world in a more resourceful state so that we are mentally and emotionally equipped to deal with whatever comes our way.

Through a joint discussion of ideas, Paul will share his thoughts on the four dimensions of resilience:

• Mental
• Emotional
• Physical
• Social

During this interactive lecture, you will gain insight on:

How to build your resources, confidence and ability to adapt and respond to difficulties and setbacks

The principles for nurturing an atmosphere of support, collaboration and progress – for yourself and for clients

A practice for building individual resilience

Paul has trained more than 1000 coaches including senior executives and police officers. He co-authored the ground-breaking book, The Solutions Focus – Making Coaching and Change SIMPLE which was rated one of the Top 30 business books of the year in the USA. Paul is also the Director of leading change consultancy The Solutions Focus and has lectured at multiple universities across the UK.

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

According to the influential Ridler Report, the demand for group coaching is growing exponentially, and for good reason: it works.  Group coaching is time and cost-effective for sponsors and participants, transformative for the group, and rewarding for the coach.

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.

The skills needed for group coaching differ significantly from individual coaching. In a group the exploratory space the coach creates for everyone to share their challenges, ideas and wisdom with the other participants is paramount.

As a coach, you might still make direct interventions but you’ll also be calling upon your ability to facilitate participation, manage and harness dynamics and remain sensitive to the constant flow of energy and connection in the room.

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

In his final talk as operational CEO of Animas Centre for Coaching, and as he enters a new phase of life, Nick Bolton will share a message he believes all coaches need to hear and understand.

For many training as a coach, there is a belief that the coaching journey starts on day one of their course and ends with certification and a vague notion that after this come clients.

They are soon disabused of this by real life and as they rush headlong into trying to build a substantial coaching practice they are left frustrated, wondering what they’re doing wrong and even sheepishly letting it fall by the wayside.

For Nick, this essentially a fatal misunderstanding of how a life in coaching unfolds. When the truth is understood, the reality can be seen to be far more rewarding, meaningful and life-affirming.

Moving away from his recent focus on transformational dialogue, Nick will take a broader view of the profession and make an impassioned appeal for coaches to take a longer-term view of their emerging career, business and life as a coach and to bring patience, curiosity and joy to every aspect of the journey.

After 10 years running a coaching school and 18 years as a coach, Nick has seen countless coaching journeys unfold and has witnessed which core mindsets, behaviours and strategies lead to sustainable success as a coach.

He’ll describe what he has seen as the archetypal roadmap that, over many years, and almost like clockwork, enables the rise of the successful coach.

He’ll share how understanding this will ease the frustration, disillusionment and even resentment born from misunderstanding the stages and essential nature of an enduring coaching practice.

And he’ll lay out the core behaviours, habits and commitments that will bring you the coaching practice you want, which will last you a lifetime and reward you time and again with opportunities for growth, surprise and delight.

This is Nick’s most personal speech to date. He will use this as a time to share what needs to change in the minds and hearts of all coaches if they truly believe in the work they do and the difference they can make.

He will argue that only when we embrace a lifelong journey of mastery and impact, can we justly step into a place of power as a coach.

There’s no denying the success of mindfulness in recent years.

It’s used and promoted from the boardroom to the birthing room, and the classroom to the changing room, with business, health, education and sport all enthusiastically adopting it to help with wellness, stress-management, focus, performance and more.

But what does it mean for us as coaches? How can we use it, where and with whom? And, indeed, how does it fit with traditional, non-advisory coaching?

How can it help us to coach more effectively when facing clients struggling with stress, overwhelm, perfectionism and other common coaching issues? And how can it help us manage ourselves better in the coaching space?

That’s where this two-day course comes in!

You will be immersed in the theory and practice of mindfulness for coaching, emerging with powerful new tools and the confidence to use them.

As has been experienced by both coaches and clients alike, mindfulness in coaching offers new ways to increase client insight, self-awareness and creativity, as well as tools and approaches to deal with challenging emotions, anxiety, hidden assumptions and stress.

More importantly however, it will help you to manage your own presence and emotions in coaching, offering ways to approach your coaching with a beginner’s mind and free yourself from distractions and assumptions.

Whilst this course has been designed primarily for coaches who are new to mindfulness and who want to bring this to their coaching practice, those with experience of mindfulness are also welcome as the course will help explore how mindfulness can fit alongside coaching.

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 7 Mindful Attitudes that will underpin your practice
• How to use meditation and mindful moments in coaching
• How to use mindfulness skills to coach around difficult emotions
• Ways to employ mindfulness to enhance client creativity and awareness
• To teach easy-to-follow mindfulness methods to clients
• To manage your own presence and emotions with mindfulness

We are delighted to announce Bronwyn Nash; Animas Trainer and founder of Magic Roundabout Coaching, as the speaker for our next lecture – The Magic of Metaphors and Creative Imagery in Coaching

Metaphors are used in every language; often several times a minute, and we are hardwired as humans to use and understand them.  When we begin working with our clients’ metaphors we can feel like “a kid in a sweet shop” – there’s just so much rich material to work with, whatever the client is facing, exploring or experiencing.

These symbolic representations give a unique perspective into how someone thinks, feels and experiences their world, helping our clients to sidestep cognitive blocks, access their subconscious resources and unlock new perspectives, in creative and transformational ways.

Join Bronwyn in this fascinating and interactive exploration of metaphors, visualisation and imagery in coaching, how these approaches work and their practical application.

We are delighted to announce a unique evening workshop on Gender, Identity and Coaching with Yael Nevo, a gender consultant and researcher.

Gender dynamics are all around us.  They influence everything from our most intimate choices to global events. Society is changing and gender norms are being challenged more than ever, demanding a need and readiness for a paradigm shift on gender relations.

Research and analysis conducted by Yael reveals that gender is a complicated social system. To put it simply, it is a way to organise society according to roles. Gender influences a wide range of social aspects from the most intimate individual identity and sexuality to big political world events.

Join Yael, as she explores how we can stay ahead of the curve and formulate ideas to navigate this ever more fluid field. In this workshop, Yael will share with us her understanding of what gender influences there are, terms to label them and how to identify if a client is having challenges around this topic.

Together you will explore “Gender discourse”- how gender is different from our biological sex and the impact this has on both coaches and clients.

This workshop is aimed at coaches who are in-training or have qualified and want to gain an understanding of how gender may be affecting their clients and their own perceptions and biases.

Using three key models, this interactive workshop will help coaches to have a deeper understanding of how gender affects both themselves and their clients.  You’ll learn:

• Gender glossary
• Gendered values
• Gendered story-telling

With these three models as your guide, you’ll explore:

• How to explore patterns of behaviour, perception and self-identity unconsciously shaped by gender and the social assumptions around gender
• A range of terms to assist in identifying and explaining when a client is facing issues around gender
• What “gender values” are and how values, often labelled “masculine” and “feminine”, influence everyday life and how these may be showing up for clients
• How “gender discourse” might increasingly form part of your coaching journeys and how you might approach this with your client
• The ability to use gender as a self-reflective tool, giving you an additional layer of self-awareness and an ability to notice when your own unconscious gender biases are at play.

Yael Nevo has been engaged in gender-related work and study for over fifteen years and holds an MSc in Gender and Human Rights. She is also Co-Founder of Genderscope – an award-winning gender consultancy.