Home > Coaching With Act Coaching with ACT: Mindfulness, Values & Emotional IntelligenceIntroductory ACT workshops are suitable for executive coaches and life coaches looking to develop new skills. They introduce coaches to new perspectives, strategies and skills, with a particular emphasis on mindfulness skills and values-guided behavioural change. The 2-day introductory ACT workshop is equally useful for coaches and therapists because ACT is not a model of mental illness; ACT is a model for optimal psychological functioning. Thus the tools, techniques and strategies used in this model are exactly the same, whether you are doing therapy or coaching; all that differs is the psychological content you are dealing with. Whether dealing with suicidal thoughts (in therapy), or worries about work (in coaching), the same tools and techniques are used. Likewise, whether dealing with depression or panic (in therapy), or work stress and low self-confidence (in coaching), the same methods are utilised. ACT & Coaching
ACT in the Corporate World ACT and Motivation Benefits of Mindfulness in Life and Work Mindfulness is a hot topic in behavioural psychology. Experts increasingly recognise that developing mindfulness skills is an effective way to improve performance, reduce stress, enhance emotional intelligence, increase life satisfaction, and develop leadership skills. These experts include such luminaries as Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, and Richard Boyatzis, author of Resonant Leadership. The ACT model, with its emphasis on mindfulness, values and action, is ideally suited for both executive coaching and life coaching. Values provide inspiration, motivation, and direction. Mindfulness skills provide many benefits, including the ability to reduce stress, rise above self-limiting beliefs, improve focus, develop self-awareness, facilitate calmness, and handle difficult emotions such as frustration, resentment, boredom and anxiety. ACT interventions can be incorporated into other coaching models, or ACT can be used as its own self-contained model.
In the corporate world, ACT is usually known as Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) or Mindfulness-Based Emotional Intelligence Training (MBEIT). My own corporate training program, based on ACT, is called Psychological Flexibility Training. (For more information, visit my other website: www.psychologicalflexibility.com) ACT has been used with a wide variety of organizations in the UK and the USA, with excellent results: reduced stress, increased satisfaction, and improved performance. In Australia, it has been effectively used with the NSW police department for the last 5 years!
The practise of mindfulness enables you to:
All of this boils down to 3 major benefits: improved performance, reduced stress, and greater satisfaction in work and life.
A major problem encountered in coaching is that clients fail to make important changes. In other words, they set themselves goals but fail to follow through on them. Common reasons for this include:
ACT effectively deals with these barriers through:
One of the hardest tasks for a human being to achieve is to accept those things that are out of their control. Of course, we all pay lip service to the serenity challenge: 'Have the courage to change those things that can and should be changed; the serenity to accept those things that can't be changed; and the wisdom to know the difference.'
If only that were as easy as it sounds! In both our personal life and our work life, we all struggle again and again with issues over which we simply have no control. Through the use of mindfulness skills, ACT helps clients develop the capacity for true acceptance (which is not the same as resignation or tolerance).
During this two-day workshop you will experience a wide variety of ACT-based exercises, and you will be encouraged to work with your own personal issues and challenges, to get a sense for yourself of how powerful this approach is. You will be lead through these exercises in the same way as you would instruct them to your clients. You will also receive extensive support materials, including a free copy of Russ's ACT-based self-help book The Happiness Trap, plus a professionally-recorded CD of mindfulness skills.
You will learn:
You will receive:
There is no other course for coaches in Australia that delivers such a wealth of powerful tools, practical skills, and personal growth, in the space of only two days.
Duration: workshops run from 9am - 5pm on day 1, 9am - 4pm on day 2 Locations: Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney Fees: $395 (Students $335)
The 2-day Coaching Workshop is exactly the same workshop as the 2-day Introductory ACT Workshop for therapists. For detailed information about locations and dates, and/or to register for a workshop, click here
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