Description
Book SynopsisNeuroscience is revolutionising coaching: it helps us understand the biological basis of our behaviour. This includes the behaviour of the coach and the client.
This practical and much needed book explains basic brain functioning and offers a guide to using this knowledge to advance our coaching and make our practice more effective. It builds extensively on the fact that we do now know that feelings underly all decision-making and focuses coaching on helping clients establish intelligent emotions as the basis of their own decision systems.
Using a systemic model of emotions, energy and change, Paul Brown and Virginia Brown show coaches how to integrate the client's life experience into coaching and create change. This is a must read for all practising coaches.
"This book is scattered with insightful, thought-provoking and occasionally beautiful analogies and metaphors, which any reader would be hard-pressed not to be challenged by. The (unrelated) Browns absolutely
Table of Contents
Series editor's preface
Preface
Biographical beginnings: making sense of the brain
Regulation and Relationship: carrier signals between coach and client
Oxytocin and other clever chemicals
Wondering: the basis for knowing and change
Neurobehavioural modelling (NBM)
Behavioural change that sticks
Relationships that affect change and development
Affective interaction
Intelligent emotions
NBM revisited
Glossary
Bibliography
