April 2018 Coaching Report

UPCOMING WEBINARS Courage, Care and Presence in Coaching RESEARCH YOU WANT TO KNOW Showing Up: Courage, Presence and Power in Coaching Relationships-April 19th Coaching at Every Stage of Change-May 9th COACHING REPORT DIRECTOR'S CORNER An integrative literature review on the impact of life coaching on courage, fear and anxiety.   Save the Date: 2018 Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference The Four Virtues of a Leader: Navigating the Hero's Journey Through Risk to Results by Eric Kauffman EVENTS Chip Carter on A Return to Listening April 2018 BOOK OF THE MONTH COACHX What is the most courageous thing you’ve done in coaching? Was it speaking a truth to someone in power? Was it caring enough to confront someone in a way he/she needed? Was it showing up authentically to present and create an environment that was an ideal balance of compassion and confrontation to help your client grow? Are you aware of what can encourage your clients or yourself? What kinds of questions, reflections or comments can we pull together at moments like these? One of the things I love about coaching is how it offers clients so many different pathways to access their courage, and therefore, to make more choices available to them. The field of psychology has a long history of treating anxiety and reducing stress. In coaching, we can focus on those issues, but more excitingly, we can also focus our work on helping our clients access the courage they can’t connect with on their own. I remember understanding this differentiation clearly in one of my very first coaching classes at Mentor Coach in 2003. My teacher was Bonnie Hill and she described the following vignette: You are working with a client who is deeply anxious about a meeting they have to run where the participants are highly important to the organization. We were to come up with questions for the client. We did the usual, what could you do to this or that. After a bit, we petered out, the questions were all fine, but without realizing it, we were all hooked by the obvious solution to the obvious problem: the need to decrease anxiety. Bonnie posed a question that was very different, and with a tone of voice that was warm and challenging. She asked, “When you see yourself in front of the room, leading this meeting, who do you want to be?” Think about that question for a moment. I’ve thought about it for over fifteen years now. Who do you want to be? This way of thinking is an entirely different pathway to development. It elicits an entirely different way of thinking and pulls on a different aspect of our identities. It also activates different neural networks in our brains. Coaching can help clients access their purpose, values and intentions in order to help counter the clashing assumptions that can block them. If we can be fueled by purpose, and led by our values, whether or not we feel confident (a subset of courage) isn’t what will make us successful. Confidence in ourselves can be replaced by confidence in what we are meant to be doing and to our process of coaching. Who we want to be is a conduit for what the people in the room need to hear. The more we are in the spotlight, the less it is about ourselves. It’s about the people we are there to serve. We will explore these concepts in different ways this month at the Institute. On April 19th, Eric Kaufmann (no relation!) will present his webinar: Showing Up: Courage, Presence and Power in Coaching Relationships. If you can’t make it – we will have it recorded and made available on our website. Eric has previously presented at our 2017 Annual Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference. You can watch his conference talk: Beyond Beliefs: Going Further with Mindfulness, Courage and Compassion on our website, as well. Our featured research article explores what unlocks courage and reduces anxiety in coaching. It’s a great article written with academic sophistication and real pragmatism. Kudos to the author, Joanna Jarosz. An integrative literature review on the impact of life coaching on courage, fear and anxiety artfully walks us through a number of theoretical perspectives and research studies. Joanna explores: How are courage, fear and anxiety characterized in the theoretical and empirical literature on life coaching? What is the role of life coaching in enhancing courage, and helping with fear and anxiety? What is the mechanism for explaining potential improvement (or lack thereof)? What results have been documented or suggested in the literature? A key aspect in Joanna's research is the coaching relationship. Who do you want to be in your coaching sessions? How can you create an environment that allows your clients to expand the range of what is possible for them?  Thanks for being with us, Carol     Think about that question for a moment. I’ve thought about it for over fifteen years now. Who do you want to be?  This way of thinking is an entirely different pathway to development. It elicits an entirely different way of thinking – and pulls on a different aspect of our identities. It also activates different neural networks in our brains.   Coaching can help clients access their purpose, values and intentions in order to help counter the clashing assumptions that can block them. If we can be fueled by purpose, and led by our values, whether or not we feel confident (a subset of courage), isn’t what will make us successful. Confidence in ourselves can be replaced by confidence in what we are meant to be doing and to our process of coaching. Who we want to be is a conduit for what the people in the room need to hear. The more we are in the spotlight, the less it is about ourselves. It’s about the people we are there to serve.   We will explore these concepts in different ways this month at the Institute. On April 19th, Eric Kaufmann (no relation!) will present his webinar: Showing Up: Courage, Presence and Power in Coaching Relationships. If you can’t make it – we will have it recorded and made available on our website. Eric has previously presented at tour 2017 Annual Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference. You can watch his conference talk: Beyond Beliefs: Going Further with Mindfulness, Courage and Compassion on our website, as well.   Our featured research article explores what unlocks courage and reduces anxiety in coaching. It’s a great article written with academic sophistication and real pragmatism. Kudos to the author, Joanna Jarosz.  An integrative literature review on the impact of life coaching on courage, fear and anxiety artfully walks us through a number of theoretical perspectives and research studies. Joanna explores: How are courage, fear and anxiety characterized in the theoretical and empirical literature on life coaching? What is the role of life coaching in enhancing courage, and helping with fear and anxiety? What is the mechanism for explaining potential improvement (or lack thereof)? What results have been documented or suggested in the literature?   A key aspect in her research is the coaching relationship. Who do you want to be in your coaching sessions? How can you create an environment that allows your clients to expand the range of what is possible for them?.   Thanks for being with us, Carol     Courage, Care and Presence in Coaching Director's Corner An integrative literature review on the impact of life coaching on courage, fear and anxiety.  RESEARCH YOU WANT TO KNOW Joanna Jarosz, Suite Coaching, Barcelona, Spain JJarosz1612@gmail.com International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, Vol. 15, No.2, August 2017  Abstract: The demand on techniques, approaches and processes that have a positive impact on courage, fear and anxiety is very high in general population. The evidence-based and theoretical literature supporting life coaching as a successful approach building individual courage and helping with fear and anxiety is scarce. This integrative literature review synthesizes data from previous research studies about the impact of life coaching as an intervention to enhance courage and decrease fear and anxiety. Findings obtained in this study suggest that life coaching is a reliable approach that may enhance individual courage and decrease fear and anxiety. Joanna’s abstract truly does not do justice to the richness in the article. If you want to take yourself on a deep dive, read the article and start exploring some of the theorists and researchers she cites – they are THE classics in the field. She unpacks aspects of coaching and takes you through the literature on courage, fear and anxiety. But then she addresses the big questions most research articles don’t, in her words: "What are the mechanisms of what happens in coaching that explains the potential improvement (or lack thereof)?" Here is an outline pulled directly from what Joanna writes in her article. These can help your coaching! The mechanism explaining the potential improvement (or lack thereof): Accessing courage itself hinders the development of fear and anxiety – e.g., focus on building courage vs. reducing anxiety. (You can think of them as antagonistic, building one can reduce the other.) Exploring existential issues, and having someone to help the client face them alone is a courage-building exercise. Exploring core fears in a safe environment (which requires the coach to support, but also gives space to the client). Trust and Truth: first create trust (safety), then challenge with the truth. Both are key and can result in increasing the client’s awareness of a larger set of choices that are available. Self determination theory is a key theory toward helping the client explore their core psychological needs. Autonomy, relatedness and competence builds up the internal reservoir of strength that can help the client access and build courage. Over time courage can be internalized as they access their psychological resources and develop a positive cycle where increased self-awareness and emotional regulation build self-responsibility and commitment. This cycle then strengthens courage and results in higher self determination Applied positive psychology: building positive experiences and skills, looking for what is right and cognitive hardiness and resilience FEAR: Building hope and self -regulation, with a focus on positive outcomes can reduce fear. Broaden and build theory. Downey, his focus is increasing openness to learning and focus, seeing the available choice points between growth and fear as a core aspect of coaching. The relationship creating "a place to play" where courage can be developed. The Four Virtues if a Leader: Navigating the Hero's Journey Through Risk to Results by Eric Kauffman This book is ideal for leaders and coaching clients who have a passion for their own journey of growth and change. This journey begins by ushering a group of people from the familiar to the unknown and unfamiliar to accomplish new outcomes and results. Executive coach and mindfulness expert Eric Kaufmann explores four field-tested cornerstones of conscious leadership, the essential attributes found in the classic hero’s journey and evolution:   What am I creating? It takes diligent care to being intentional and focusing on: “What am I creating? Intentional focus combines self-awareness with vision. What am I avoiding?  It takes courage to move toward what you’d rather avoid. For leaders, fear is the gatekeeper to your true power. What am I sustaining?  The hero’s journey demands perseverance – the grit for persevering through fatigue and discouragement toward your long-term goals. What am I yielding?  Controlling the journey is an illusion, hence letting go, or yielding to faith in the journey’s contribution to growth is vital to overcome doubt and stay fully committed to your work. This simple and powerful leadership framework speaks to anyone who is dedicated to personal growth and evolution, and catalyzing the same in others.   Book OF THE MONTH Chip Carter on A Return to Listening APRIL Showing Up: Courage, Presence and Power in Coaching Relationships April 19, 2018 4:00 PM-5:15 PM Presenter: Eric Kauffman Host: Jeff Hull coachx How can we improve the critical skill of listening? There is a strong convergence of mindfulness and listening skills. Chip Carter discusses how mindfulness and meditation, when used together, can provide space for clients to feel safe and heard. UPCOMING WEBINARs Presenter: Jim Prochaska and Janice Prochaska Host: Margaret Moore Stages of Change lie at the heart of the TTM (Transtheoretical Model). Studies of change have found that people move through a series of stages when modifying behavior. While the time a person can stay in each stage is variable, the tasks required to move to the next stage are not. Certain principles and processes of change work best at each stage to reduce resistance, facilitate progress, and prevent relapse. Those principles include decisional balance, self-efficacy, and processes of change. Only a minority (usually less than 20%) of a population at risk is prepared to take action at any given time. Thus, action-oriented guidance mis-serves individuals in the early stages. Guidance based on the TTM results in increased participation in the change process because it appeals to the whole population rather than the minority ready to take action. Surprisingly, none of the leading theories of therapy contained a core construct representing time. Traditionally, behavior change was often construed as an event, such as quitting smoking, drinking, or overeating. TTM recognizes change as a process that unfolds over time, involving progress through a series of stages. MAY Coaching at Every Stage of Change May 9, 2018 12:00 PM-1:15 PM Reflect for a moment about times and situations in your coaching conversations when you hold back. Whoa, don’t read on. Reflect for a moment… This isn’t the holding back that your mom drummed into you. You know, “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything.” Or, “be polite to people.” Or, “use your inside voice.” No, this isn’t being polite, or wise, or appropriate, but holding back because you’re anxious and scared; you’re protecting yourself and avoiding discomfort (loss of reputation, relationship, money, respect, authority, status). Your clients want your empathy, and they also need your full presence. It’s imperative that you, as coach, “Show Up,” that you shine your authentic expression. It’s enlivening to you, and it’s a powerful demonstration to your client to shine in their own life. Being authentic, it turns out, isn’t a matter of some absolute, singular self, but an unfolding state of presence; a state that is fed by courage and compassion. Coaching from this state catalyzes every coaching interaction and discussion. Program Benefits: Accelerate clients’ ability to clarify their gifts and talents Move from pleasing and colluding to challenging and enlivening Feed personal and professional growth and effectiveness events Centered around the investigation/study, which was supported in part by a grant from the IOC, Investigator: V.S. Nanduri PhD, explores the perceptions of participants on the effects of coaching a year after the coaching ended. A Conversation: The Effects of Coaching with V.S. Nanduri, PhD IOC Roundtable Learning Event: Los Angeles May 16, 2018 11:00 AM-1:00 PM You can now pre-register for the 2018 Annual Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference on our website. Fill out our simple online form to get early-bird notification of registration details! Videos and highlights from the 2017 Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference are now online! Pre-Register for 2018 Annual Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference We invite you to share your research on all aspects of coaching during the 2018 Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference, organized by the Institute of Coaching, McLean Hospital, and Harvard Medical School on September 28th – 29th 2018 at The Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel, Boston, MA. We invite submissions of proposals for: Oral paper presentations: Accepted papers will be presented in oral sessions according to topics. Posters: Accepted posters will be arranged in an exhibit during the poster session, with opportunities to interact with authors and audience. The purpose of these sessions is to have a stimulating exchange of information and discussions about coaching theory, research and its relevance to practice, as well as to expand the network of coaching researchers. Visit the Research Sessions website for information on paper and poster submissions and to create an account. Submission are open and the deadline for the receipt of submissions is May 1, 2018. 2018 Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference Research Sessions call for papers This month, we would like to bring attention to an IOC Gold Sponsor: Meyler Campbell. Meyler Campbell has been committed to IOC for multiple years through sponsorship, underwriting the development of important resources, like the IOC Research Digest. They are a highly collaborative UK partner that supports the Institute's mission to bridge the latest science to coaching practice. Meyler Campbell trains senior people to coach in organizations. Their clients fall broadly into two groups: senior leaders, managers and HR professionals who want to coach well as part of their role; and people from businesses looking to transition to a portfolio coaching life. Their fully accredited Mastered Program (formerly known as the Business Coach Programme™) has an unrivaled reputation in the market for its business focus, bespoke approach, and strong results. Businesspeople and professionals from a vast range of backgrounds, together with many of the world’s most successful freelance coaches, have trained with this renowned leadership development community. For many organizations, Meyler Campbell is the first port of call when they want to develop internal coaching capability, and a trusted name when hiring externals. Thank you Meyler Campbell for your sponsorship and support of the Institute! Our sponsors are critical to supporting the mission of the Institute by providing support for our forums, education offerings, and other materials. 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