Join us for this on-demand webinar, Relational Trauma, Neuroscience, and Coaching, where you’ll explore the neuroscience of relational trauma and gain insights into how you can better support your clients.
Who Is This For?
- New and experienced professional coaches who want to deepen their understanding of the neuroscience of relational trauma and how to better support clients impacted by it
- Individuals interested in experiencing coaching who want to learn more about the neuroscience of trauma
What You Will Learn:
- Identify the typical patterns followed by those who tend to create relational trauma in others and how to recognize them.
- Explore how neuroscience can help us understand why they behave this way.
- Recognize the critical impact of education for both coach and client, and why typical coaching, team building, and OD strategies are NOT effective when dealing with those high in narcissism — and what to do instead.
Course Details:
Join us for this impactful on-demand webinar, originally presented to the ICF Coaching and Human Capital Community of Practice.
This session offers a fascinating look at the neuroscience of relational trauma, the unfortunate prevalence of relational trauma in today’s world and our coaching clients, how to recognize the impact on individuals and organizations, and a bit of what we can do in coaching to support those affected while staying in integrity with the ICF Core Competencies and Code of Ethics.
Following this session, you will be able to identify the typical patterns followed by those who tend to create relational trauma in others and how to recognize them; you will also better understand, through neuroscience, why they behave this way.
This session will also help you recognize the critical impact of education for both coach and client, and why typical coaching, team building, and OD strategies are NOT effective when dealing with those high in narcissism — and what to do instead.
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