Coaching

 

Our proffessional Coaches are actively involved in promoting evidenced based and ethical best practise. Memeberships include the Association for Coaching and the Special Group in Coaching Psychology.

Coaching experties and applications include:

Coaching and Training Coaches and Coaching Skills

In addition to our own coaching service we training managers, trainers and other professionals concerned with development who can use coaching as part of their overall approach as well as those making the move into a full coaching profession. We also have experience promoted coaching cultures as part of organisational learning initiatives.

Systemic Coaching and Consultancy Methodology

We specialise in Systemic Coaching and Consultancy which utilises a unique, holistically integrated, Developmental Behavioural Modelling approach developed by John McWhirter, integrating coaching with all other major types of personal change work. Working holistically means that when coaching all other types of approach are available if necessary.

We all engage in learning, naturally ‘modelling’ the world, and we respond not so much to the world but our ‘model’ of it. Our successes and limitations are due to how useful, accurate and empowering our ‘modelling’ and ‘models’ are.

The Systemic Consultant works with the clients to explore and change the client’s behaviour, their tacitly held knowledge (Client’s Model) and the client’s personal learning habits and skills (Client’s Modelling). Utilising several areas for intervention and change.

The Systemic Consultancy approach is different but has similarities with some other approaches. It is person centred in that it is "non-judgemental". It is similar to solution focused approaches in that it is strategic and appreciates that solutions require crafting but in systemic consultancy we first work with the client to understand how problems are structured and how they work in the present so that solutions stay relevant and ecological. It is similar to existential approaches in that it holds central the idea that the client's experience is "significant" and "real" to them and that the most powerful source of change starts with them. It has similarities with Cognitive Behavioral approaches in that it appreciates the client's processing through thinking and feeling and Ericksonian approaches in that it appreciates the vast resources of life long and unconscious learning. It is a constructivist approach in that it appreciates that each of us "makes meaning" and we respond to our models of the world not merely the world its self. It is a systemic approach in that it appreciates the complex "internal" and "external" interactions that relate the client to him or her self and the world around them and that these complex interaction emerge into issues that can be more than the some of the parts. The Systemic consultant is a specialist in how problems are formed and solutions are constructed and how to move from the former to the latter.

The consultant and client work together to create solutions that are generative learning experiences and not just simple remedial ‘fixes’. They often draw from the client's personal resources that are dormant or as yet undiscovered. Changes made, owned and sustained by the client are then transferable to other situations and contexts.

For more information and training in Systemic Consultancy, DBM® and the work of John McWhirter go to

Sensorysystems.co.uk

Recommended reading:

McNorton, D. (2004) Counselling Fundamentals in the Workplace. Management Books 2000 Ltd 

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