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Why do coaches need to understand trauma? This book highlights the role coaches must play â and how it differs to psychotherapists â in supporting clients with trauma. A role that both enhances the coach's skills and supports their clientsâ personal development.

Trauma isnât an event, it is a lasting internal process through which the âhere and nowâ of life experience is affected by the âthere and thenâ of traumatising experience. Vaughan Smith provides a way to understand the internal process that affects all aspects of our physical and mental wellbeing. While providing an introduction to the theory of trauma, the main focus is on practical application within the context of coaching; distilling Franz Ruppert's theory of the surviving self and the healthy self.

Written for practitioners, this important text raises trauma awareness, addresses the âwhat if?â questions many coaches have and provides a clea

Table of Contents
Introduction
What are we talking about?
The internalisation of trauma
A way of conceptualising trauma
The Surviving Self
The Survival dynamics
Trauma, Leadership and Teams
Boundaries, Challenges and Healing

Coaching and Trauma

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      Publisher Open University Press
      Published 18 August 2019
      ISBN-13 9780335248421
      978-0335248421
      ISBN-10 033524842X
      Also in:
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Why do coaches need to understand trauma? This book highlights the role coaches must play â and how it differs to psychotherapists â in supporting clients with trauma. A role that both enhances the coach's skills and supports their clientsâ personal development.

      Trauma isnât an event, it is a lasting internal process through which the âhere and nowâ of life experience is affected by the âthere and thenâ of traumatising experience. Vaughan Smith provides a way to understand the internal process that affects all aspects of our physical and mental wellbeing. While providing an introduction to the theory of trauma, the main focus is on practical application within the context of coaching; distilling Franz Ruppert's theory of the surviving self and the healthy self.

      Written for practitioners, this important text raises trauma awareness, addresses the âwhat if?â questions many coaches have and provides a clea

      Table of Contents
      Introduction
      What are we talking about?
      The internalisation of trauma
      A way of conceptualising trauma
      The Surviving Self
      The Survival dynamics
      Trauma, Leadership and Teams
      Boundaries, Challenges and Healing

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