Mindful Coaching: How Mindfulness can Transform Coaching Practice

Hall, a journalist, coaching magazine editor, and coach, shows coaches and mentors how to use mindfulness in coaching to work with clients on work-life balance, decision making, crises and uncertainty, stress, emotions, resilience and well-being, listening, communicating, creativity, ethics, and other areas, including working with leaders. She explains what mindfulness is, where it comes from, and what research says about it, as well as how to apply it to the coaching process in general in developing presence, attunement and resonance, curiosity and non-judgment, and compassion, and the tension between mindfulness and coaching in terms of being vs. doing and present-moment vs. the future. She outlines a model for applying mindfulness and its connection to other approaches. She draws on the research and experiences of coaching and mindfulness practitioners, academics, psychologists, and neuroscientists, as well as her own experiences and those of her clients. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Practicing mindfulness can give people more insight into their emotions, boost their attention and concentration and improve relationships.Mindful Coaching shows coaches how to use mindfulness in working with clients on a range of issues including work-life balance; stress management; decision-making; coping with ambiguity; dealing with crises; employee engagement; heightening focus and clarity; communication; increasing presence; improved listening. With case studies, resources and tools, this book explains the benefits of mindfulness and illustrates how it can be applied with clients and how it can be useful in various situations.