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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.

 

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/

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

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