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.

It’s back! The much anticipated Animas London Christmas Party and it’s better than ever.

This year we are taking our party to new heights and celebrating circus-themed style in a central London bar – Trapeze!

We have gone all out and found a funky new venue with the bonus feature of entertainment!

At this one-off awesome party you will be:

• Sipping on your free welcome prosecco
• Dancing the night away to a London DJ
• Be awed by a fire dancer act
• Enjoying a delicious buffet

All whilst in the great company of the Animas community, trainers, mentors and the team.

We would absolutely love to see you there and party the night away with you.

Partners, friends and children over 21 are all welcome to maximise the fun!

We expect tickets to fly off the selves so book yourself in ASAP! This is running on a first-come-first-served basis.

Coming on your own? Don’t worry! We are a friendly bunch and many students are in the same situation so it is easy to make new friends.

All the details you need to know:

Where: Trapeze, 89 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3HX

Closest Tube: Stone’s throw from Old Street Station

Date: 4th December 2019

Doors open: 7.15pm

Time: 7.30pm – Late

Food: A tasty finger buffet & desserts.

Drinks: A free prosecco on arrival, more drinks can be purchased at the bar.

So start practising your juggling skills and we will see you there for some festive fun!

The Animas Team

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

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.

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.

Coaches will 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Coaches will 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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. 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

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.

The power of generative attention and how it can be used in coaching is an asset to bring to any coaching practice. This Thinking Environment Masterclass is designed to build on that knowledge and deepen your understanding of the ten components that make it what it is.

This Masterclass is aimed at certified coaches and coaches in training to build on their understanding of a Thinking Environment and how the Time to Think approach can be used in their coaching.

Throughout this day, you’ll discover the answers to the most common questions about the Thinking Environment: what is it, and why is it different?

You’ll cover the ten behaviours that nurture our best thinking, which are known as The Ten Components of a Thinking Environment. They include:
– Attention
– Equality
– Ease
– Appreciation
– Encouragement
– Feelings
– Information
– Difference
– Incisive Questions
– Place

Each Component is powerful alone, but it’s when all ten work together that the process has its transformative impact. We will deep dive into these components to give you a real understanding what this impact is and how it’s felt. We will also explore the power of appreciation in depth, of giving and receiving it with confidence.

The session is interactive, immersive, supportive and is facilitated in a Thinking Environment, led by Lucy Gourlay, a certified Time to Think coach. Each attendee will get the chance to experience and practice cultivating a Thinking Environment, by being both the thinker and the listener, and will receive a workbook, handouts, and a completion certificate.

You will need a pen, notepad and a timer or stopwatch. To fully immerse yourself in this Thinking Environment it is important to attend without distraction (where possible). Try to set yourself up somewhere you feel comfortable and free to talk, and that helps you to feel that you matter.

About your trainer Lucy Gourlay

Lucy was introduced to Nancy Kline’s Time to Think as part of a leadership development training course nearly 20 years ago, and since that day it has been an intrinsic part of her  life. Lucy went on to deliver leadership training as part of her career journey, as well as many years in customer service, management and leadership roles. She is a certified Time to Think coach and is part of the TTT collegiate of professional coaches. Lucy works as a Time to Think and Transformational Life coach and is about to launch a new podcast, Lucy Loves, incorporating her love of listening and love of laughter.

Jung defined the Shadow as that which we hide, repress or deny. In that sense we are guaranteed as coaches to veer into shadow territory – both our clients’ and our own – as we work with the unloved, unknown or hidden parts which often sabotage progress.

But the shadow is also 90 per cent “pure gold”, according to Jung. So how do we unearth and integrate those powerful positive qualities we have exiled? And how do we practically navigate in this subconscious realm without triggering natural defenses or projecting our own issues onto our clients?

Led by author, coach, and seasoned Animas trainer Nick Thorpe, this rich and practical one-day Masterclass is aimed at certified coaches and coaches-in-training. Using creative exercises to glimpse our own and others’ shadows, we’ll investigate playful ways to integrate and befriend them, like the personal animal “daemons” in Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials trilogy.

Expect both theory and practical application as we work together in different group sizes, including breakout rooms, coaching pairs and in a solo writing exercise. We’ll learn to recognize both our clients’ shadow and (much harder) our own, using tools and sources ranging from the Johari Window to Robert Bly to the Work of Byron Katie.

We’ll ponder:

• What is the shadow and how is it first formed?
• How to know whether you are projecting your own shadow or encountering another’s.
• Using dreams and nature as a powerful short-cut to shadow and the subconscious
• How the shadow can turn toxic in organizations and society as a whole

The sessions will be interactive, immersive, supportive and facilitated by Nick Thorpe, who draws on years of group facilitation and training in Men’s Circles and mixed groups such as Animas, bringing real-life examples from both his private coaching and travel-writing adventures.

We’ll send you reading and resources to support your learning. Please bring a pen, notepad and a timer or stopwatch, and for fullest immersion please create for yourself a distraction-free space where you’re comfortable and free to talk.

About your trainer Nick Thorpe

Nick Thorpe is an award-winning writer as well as an experienced coach, trainer and supervisor. His most recent book, Urban Worrier, tracked his adventures in the “lost art of letting go”, and as an Animas trainer he is known for his warm and intuitive style and willingness to share personal examples. An ICF-credentialled coach and supervisor with his own client-centered practice, Nick has particular experience in mid-life transition and facilitating men’s circles, completing a foundation course in process-oriented psychology, and various leadership development training modules with the Mankind Project, which uses a form of shadow work.