Join us for this on-demand webinar, Three Mental Habits That Create Connection, where you’ll explore how to shift from skill-focused to connected coaching and gain insights into how coaching presence facilitates transformation.
Who is This For?
- New and experienced professional coaches, including team and group coaches, who want to move from skill-focused to connected coaching
- Coach educators who want to deepen their understanding of coaching presence and connected coaching
- Individuals in experiencing coaching who are interested in learning more about how coaching works to unlock transformation
What You Will Learn:
- Learn the three mental habits that will help you embody a coaching mindset while coaching.
- Identify typical emotional reactions to clients and how to quickly shift back to being present.
- Distinguish judgment as an emotional reaction so you can “catch and release” your thoughts to prevent them from corrupting your presence and connection.
Course Details:
Join us for this 90-minute webinar, originally presented to the ICF Coaching and Human Capital Community of Practice, on how to shift from skill-focused coaching to connected coaching, where the coach’s presence facilitates the transformational process, where insights emerge more quickly and awareness is profound.
You will learn three mental habits for deepening your presence and observe the use of these habits in a coaching demonstration.
You will also learn how to identify typical emotional reactions to clients and how to quickly shift back to being present, as well as how to distinguish judgment as an emotional reaction so you can “catch and release” your thoughts to prevent them from corrupting your presence and connection.
Finally, you will get access to resources you can implement immediately in your coaching practice.
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- Coaching & Human Capital
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