Advanced Coaching Skills - Gestalt Embodiment

If you are constrained by traditional, performance coaching and want to work at a more profound and meaningful level, this programme is for you.

This experiential course introduces Gestalt principles and practice, focusing on how you as a coach bring your experience and somatic resonance into the coaching relationship, what is often called Use of Self as an Instrument of Change. Rather than searching for the "right" powerful question, the emphasis shifts to bringing your intuitive and emotional reactions to what is happening in the moment. It is more effective, and less effort.

What you will learn

Grounded in 100 years of psychotherapy research showing that the quality of the relationship is the single biggest factor in creating change, this programme will equip you to develop:

• How to create a relationship through dialogue that supports powerful change in your client,
  
• How to develop a somatic ‘resonance’ with the client, that allows you to share your thoughts, somatic reactions and emotional feelings without attachment, which means being fully on your clients' agenda.
  
• How to mobilise profound change through simply being present and letting go of needing to get a solution.
  
• How to use observations of what you see and hear in client context, to support change in the team or wider system.
  
• How to apply this approach to coaching teams

How the programme is structured

The workshop is highly experiential, drawing learning from personal and group experience. It covers sensory and emotional awareness, the paradoxical nature of change, and phenomenological ways of working. Coaching demonstrations, skills practice, peer feedback, and faculty supervision are woven throughout.

Who is this for

This course is designed for coaches and senior practitioners who have basic coaching skills and want to deepen their practice to bring about significant change in themselves, in others, and in their systems.

Accreditation

This is a certificate-level programme. On completion, you will receive a certificate of attendance from the AoEC. The programme has been awarded 15 CCEs (11.5 Core Competency and 3.5 Resource Development) by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

We are delighted to have John, founder and board member of Academy of Executive Coaching  ('AoEC')  coach us with his deep experience in Gestalt Coaching.  John's book, The Fertile Void helps to demystify complex Gestalt principles and translates them gracefully into clear and impactful ways to make a difference to our Coaching practice.  

This programme is designed to support your development in coaching. For those who would like to know more about the basics in Gestalt, please refer our Community of Practice webpage for more on Gestalt. A short article on the Gestalt theoretical position for Use of Self is available to support your learning.