COACHING AT THE
CENTRE FOR COACHING
Whoever you are, whatever your age, whatever the situation or problem which you are
facing, coaching may help you to focus on developing and achieving successful solutions.
Coaching can enhance performance at work and facilitate the pursuit of
excellence. Our consulting rooms are located in
Bromley, south east London. For more details, please contact our Director, Peter
Ruddell.
INDIVIDUAL COACHING OR TRAINING PROGRAMMES
The Centre offers coaching based on the cognitive-behavioural approach. Also the Centre specialises in running training programmes for the individual trainee on the following topics:
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Positive Approaches to Managing Pressure and Stress
- Assertion and Communication Skills
- Improving Self-acceptance
- Challenging Performance Interfering Thoughts (PITS)
- Public Speaking
- Coaching for performance
- Coaching for excellence
- Coaching for health
These training programmes are usually held at the Centre over a one-day period. However, shorter or regular sessions can also be arranged. One of the advantages of individual programmes is that the client and trainer or coach can focus solely on the relevant issues. The trainers are also experienced therapists.
APPROACHES TO COACHING ON OFFER
COGNITIVE & COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOUR COACHING
These coaching approaches combine the use of cognitive (thinking) and behavioural techniques to help clients to modify their
performance interfering thinking (PITs) into performance enhancing
thinking (PETs) and thereby changing their self-defeating behaviour, thinking, attitudes and beliefs.
MULTIMODAL COACHING
Multimodal therapy developed by Professor Arnold Lazarus and adapted by
Professor Stephen Palmer to the field of coaching, is a technically eclectic and systematic approach. The approach is technically eclectic as it uses techniques taken from many different psychological theories and systems, although it does not necessarily adhere to the theories concerned. The techniques and interventions are applied systematically, based on data from client qualities, the therapist's clinical skills and specific techniques. The approach focuses on seven key areas: Behaviours, Affect (emotion), Sensations, Images, Cognitions (thoughts), Interpersonal and Drugd/biology and the aide memoire BASIC I.D. arises from the first letter of each.
PROBLEM FOCUSED/ SOLVING COACHING & TRAINING
Problem-focused or problem-solving coaching is a method of teaching or training clients to identify current problems in their lives and then to learn a series of steps in order to overcome them. The approach is double headed: first tackling the emotional aspects of a problem; second, once this has been achieved, dealing with its practical aspects. It is a cognitive-behavioural form of
coaching or training.
RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOUR COACHING
Rational emotive behaviour therapy developed by Dr Albert Ellis and
adapted by Professor Stephen Palmer & Michael Neenan to the field of
coaching, is a system of counselling or psychotherapy which teaches clients how their belief systems largely determine how they feel about and act towards situations, problems and life events in thier lives. It focuses on four types of thinking that largely cause stress: Rigid demands such as 'musts' and 'shoulds'; awfulizing such as, 'Life is really awful'; low frustration tolerance, e.g. 'I can't stand the pressure of work'; Damnation of self or others, e.g. 'As I failed my exam, I am a real failure as a person'.
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