Mindful Coaching: How Mindfulness Can Transform Coaching Practice

Content: Machine generated contents note: Dedication --
Acknowledgements --
Foreword by Sir John Whitmore --
What you will find in this book --
Introduction --
Section 1: Overview --
1 Definitions, origins and relevance to coaching --
Defining mindfulness --
Present moment, happy moment --
A brief orientation to coaching --
2 A brief history of mindfulness --
Not just Buddhist --
3 The impact of mindfulness --
We can change our spots and learn new tricks --
Benefits of mindfulness --
Section 2: Fundamental principles --
4 Presence --
Definitions --
Setting up a practice --
5 Curiosity, enquiry and non-judgement --
Curiosity --
Enquiry --
Non-judgement --
6 Attunement and resonance --
Mirror, mirror --
Defining attunement --
Resonance --
7 Compassion --
Compassion in coaching --
Developing compassion through mindfulness --
The loved one --
Someone neutral --
'The enemy' --
All beings --
Benefits --
Better outcomes --
8 Being and doing --
Doing versus being? --
Letting go --
Emotion regulation systems --
Own goals? --
Acceptance --
Back to the future --
Pressing pause --
Section 3: Working with mindfulness in coaching and mentoring --
9 Developing, supporting and nurturing the coach --
Session preparation --
Within the coaching session --
After the coaching session --
10 Introducing mindfulness to clients --
Appropriateness --
Overcoming resistance --
Making the business case for mindfulness --
Running mindfulness programmes --
11 The FEEL model --
FEEL: a model for applying mindfulness --
The model --
Client issues --
12 Stress, anxiety, depression and work-life balance --
The good guy and the bad guy --
How stress affects us --
Approach and avoidance orientation --
Discrepancy-based processing --
How mindfulness can help --
Remedial coaching --
The great god of busyness --
13 Resilience, happiness and wellbeing --
Definitions --
What makes us resilient? --
How mindfulness can help --
Health and wellbeing --
14 Uncertainty, change, complexity and interconnectedness --
Uncertainty --
Change and impermanence --
Complexity --
Systems and interconnectedness --
15 Working with leaders --
What makes a leader resonant? --
Dissonance and burnout --
More mindful leaders --
Mindfulness within leadership models --
Emotional intelligence --
16 Ethics --
Accountability --
Mindfulness and ethics --
Leadership characteristics --
Challenging --
Desire --
Tips on using mindfulness to promote ethics --
17 Working with emotions --
Self-awareness --
Self-management --
Social awareness and relationship management --
Self-esteem, self-compassion and self-acceptance --
Growth in self-criticism --
Not easy --
Recommended mindfulness practices --
18 Creativity --
Getting out of our own way --
'Mistakes' and mindfulness --
Mindful music --
Helping our clients be more creative --
Creative thinking --
Using mindfulness with the client --
Tips for using mindfulness for creativity in clients --
Recommended mindfulness practices --
19 Mindfulness and other approaches --
Mindfulness in movement --
Gestalt --
Integration --
Somatics --
Ontological coaching --
Transactional analysis --
Transpersonal coaching and psychosynthesis --
Self-actualization --
Multiplicity/sub-personalities --
Cognitive behavioural coaching --
Acceptance and commitment therapy --
Thinking environment --
Inner Game --
Section 4: The future --
20 The Mindfulness in Coaching survey --
Coaches' experience of mindfulness --
Direct benefits for coaches --
General comments --
About the survey --
21 The future is mindful --
Trends --
Conclusion --
References --
Further reading.