TRAININGS FOR COACHES & THERAPISTS
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Level Up Your Coaching With Evidence-based Skills To Help Clients Develop Emotional Efficacy
Helping clients develop a powerful relationship with their emotions is an essential coaching skill. When clients lack the knowledge and skills to effectively navigate their emotions, they can end up stuck in a trance of reactivity that leads them away from what matters.
Emotions are our primary motivational system. They inform the 35,000 choices we make everyday. How people relate to their emotions directly shapes the choices and levels of wellbeing and performance.
Accessing increased freedom, creativity and power comes from learning to align your actions with what matters most, and bring your feelings with you. Effective coaches have the skills to help clients harness their emotional experience while staying focused on what matters.
And yet, in the field of coaching there is a lack of training, understanding—even disagreement— about the role of emotion in coaching and how to work with it responsibly, skillfully and ethically. As a result, many coaches avoid or struggle with working with emotion. This significantly limits the learning and depth what’s possible for clients in coaching.
WHAT: In this training, you’ll learn how to assess your client’s level of emotion efficacy and learn the latest in neuroscience, learning theory and evidence-based skills to help your clients develop greater emotional intelligence, psychological flexibility and resilience. Participants will receive a certificate of completion for the Working With Emotion In Coaching training.
FORMAT: Split-classroom. Participants are expected to review materials for each session and to view 30-45 minute videos prior to sessions 2-5. Participants will receive a certificate of completion for the Working With Emotion In Coaching training.
OBJECTIVES
Distinguish ethical emotional work in coaching from working with emotion in clinical contexts
Describe the role of emotions in motivation, learning and decision-making
Apply the 4 core evidence-based emotion efficacy skills
Conduct a functional analysis of your client’s behavior related to experiential avoidance
Lead a structured experiential practice to enhance performance in moments of choice
WHEN/WHERE: The live portion of this course will take place through 2-hour sessions on Zoom over 6 weeks from 5-7 pm PST on: Thursdays April 4, April 11, April 18, April 25, May 2 & May 9, 2024.
(A Zoom link will be emailed to registrants the week before the training).
WHO: This training is designed for professionally trained coaches who want to integrate core emotional efficacy skills to boost the effectiveness of their coaching.
COST: $695 (includes live sessions and on-demand materials)
Cancellations and Refunds: A full refund is available to registrants who cancel their registration at least one week before the first workshop start date minus an administrative processing fee of $15. If canceled within one week, no refund will be issued. Please cancel registration here.
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A C C E P T A N C E & C O M M I T M E N T
T H E R A P Y (A C T) T R A I N I N G
Activating Psychological Flexibility for Anxiety, Trauma
& Emotional Dysregulation (up to 7 CEs available)
Getting stuck when working with who are psychologically inflexible is a common experience for therapists. But it can often feel like fighting a losing battle where, despite your most powerful clinical tools, there is little to no real progress.
This often happens because, in addition to knowing WHAT to do to expand your client’s behavioral repertoire, you also need the skills and confidence to know HOW to create the context for transformation. By learning to make expert-level therapeutic moves with ACT you can help clients decrease suffering and live a more meaningful life -- regardless of their diagnosis or level of functioning.
While many clinicians learn and understand the basics about ACT, they often lack confidence when it comes to disrupting psychological inflexibility in session.
This 1-day training takes you all the way through the ACT model using process-based cognitive-behavioral strategies to accelerate psychological flexibility across a wide range of diagnoses and improve client outcomes.
This ACT webinar will help you enhance your ability to work with common clinical presentations including: Stress, Anxiety and Depression, Emotional Reactivity and Emotional Dysregulation, unprocessed Trauma/PTSD, Substance Abuse and Compulsive Behaviors
OBJECTIVES
Identify core underlying processes related to mental health and wellbeing.
Distinguish between the 6 psychological flexibility processes in the ACT hexaflex model.
Apply “open” skills to address experiential avoidance and past and/or future focus.
Utilize “aware” skills to address over identification with self as content and cognitive fusion.
Demonstrate “engage” skills to address lack of meaning and purposeful action in context.
Conduct experiential exercises to enhance the learning, retention and recall of new ACT skills.
WHO: Mental Health professionals or students (under supervision).
WHEN/WHERE: Friday, April 26, 2024 8:30 am- 4:30 pm PST hosted online by PESI.
COST: $249 professionals
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F O R C O A C H E S & T H E R A P I S T S
Help your clients develop a powerful
relationship with their emotions and choices
Because emotions are your primary motivational system, they inform the 35,000 choices we make everyday. As a result, your relationship with emotions is at the heart of the choices you make and the actions you take.
When clients lack emotional efficacy they can end up stuck in a trance of reactivity that leads them away from what they care about and how they want to show up, personally and professionally. This is also why low emotion efficacy negatively impacts client behavior, wellbeing and performance. People with low levels of emotional efficacy tend to struggle with:
Low levels of awareness and fluency around emotional experience
Chronic styles of reactivity or over-control
Disconnection from values, meaning or direction
Rigidity around beliefs, biases and behavior
Preoccupation with past and future
Unhelpful behavior patterns that obstruct wellbeing and performance
Since an estimated 75% of therapy clients and 38% of coaching clients struggle with low emotion efficacy. it’s essential that therapists know how to help clients harness their emotional experience while staying focused on what matters.
You want to help your clients cultivate high emotional efficacy by giving them the broadest range of tools possible.
The Emotion Efficacy Training protocol offers psychoeducation grounded in neuroscience, learning theory and contextual behavioral science, four evidence-based emotional efficacy skills, recorded and live demos and experiential practice. Multiple studies suggest that emotion efficacy skills can significantly increase distress tolerance, emotion regulation and values-based choice-making across diverse populations.
Clients will learn to:
Decode emotion triggers (defaults + values)
Observe all parts of emotional “STUF”
Surf emotion waves instead of reacting
Clarify and act on values in moments of choice
Regulate emotions when needed to act on what matters most
Track the function of actions using the WTF? (What’s The Function?) inquiry
Practice skills in an activated state so the learning ‘sticks’
The training can be integrated in other coaching or therapy approaches as an adjunct to helping clients increase their wellbeing and performance.
This course will utilize a split classroom format including 4 two-hour live sessions + on-demand content and videos. For each of the four live sessions, participants are asked to first review course materials and watch one video demo. The live sessions are experiential and require a willingness to engage in dyad practice with other participants.
WHEN: The 2024 spring cohort is currently full. Click “notify me” below to be notified for the next available cohort training. WHERE: A confirmation and Zoom link will be emailed the week before the training
WHO: This training will be conducted by Aprilia West, PsyD, MT, PCC and is designed for mental health professionals (and students under supervision), behavioral analysts and professional coaches.
COST: $500 professionals/ $250 students (under licensed supervision)
Cancellations and Refunds: You can cancel your registration up to 24 hours after purchase by requesting a refund here.
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F L E X I B I L I T Y F O R C O A C H E S
Using acceptance and commitment skills to
increase wellbeing and performance
As an effective coach, you help your clients break free from unhelpful, rigid behavior patterns that keep them from tapping their full potential. It requires skillfulness to help clients tap the mindfulness, mindset and meaningful moves necessary to upgrade their choices and actions. Learning how to coach for psychological flexibility will help you boost your coaching, not just for positive change but transformation.
Psychological Flexibility coaching, (aka Acceptance & Commitment Coaching) was born out of the same research and theory around psychological flexibility processes found in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)— a therapy grounded in behavioral science and supported by over 1000 randomized controlled trials (Hayes, Strosahl & Wilson, 1999; ACBS, 2020). When people have high levels of psychological flexibility they can act in values-consistent, contextually adaptive ways in their personal and professional lives (Hayes & Smith, 2005).
In recent years the processes targeted by Acceptance & Commitment Coaching have become more widely recognized as a powerful form of evidence-based coaching (Bond, Flaxman, van Veldhoven & Biron, 2010; Flaxman & Bond, 2010; Gardner & Moore, 2007).
In this 3-part training series (3 hours over 3 weeks), you’ll learn to:
Identify core underlying processes related to performance & wellbeing
Distinguish 6 psychological flexibility processes to track in session
Apply “mindfulness” skills to address experiential avoidance and past and/or future focus
Apply “mindset” skills to address over identification with self as content and cognitive fusion
Apply “meaning” skills to facilitate purposeful action in context
Utilize metaphors and experiential exercises to enhance the learning, retention and recall of new skills
WHEN: The 2024 spring cohort is currently full. Click “notify me” below to be notified for the next available cohort training
WHERE: This training will be help on Zoom in 3-hour time slots across four weeks. A Zoom link will be emailed upon registration and the week before the training
WHO: This training is designed for therapists & professional coaches who want to use psychological flexibility skills to boost the effectiveness of their coaching.
HOW: This training will be experiential. All participants are required to watch an hour-long introduction to psychological flexibility beforehand.
COST: $500
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FLEXIBLE SELFING FOR COACHES AND THERAPISTS
Using parts work to enhance psychological flexibility
Integrating a contextual behavioral view of self with parts work (think: brand archetypes, chair work and Internal Family Systems) this 3-hour webinar with Dr. Aprilia West will teach you to use parts work flexibly and functionally to enhance psychological flexibility.
Distinct from more rigid, less agile approaches, the Flexible Selfing approach honors each part of the client (versus pathologizing certain parts, e.g., Saboteur, the Judge, etc). This allows for a much deeper decoding, awareness and integration of the client’s experience and paves the way for relating to themselves in more intentional, compassionate and context-sensitive ways.
In this 5-hour webinar you’ll learn to:
Describe the relationship between selfing and psychological flexibility
List consequences of inflexible selfing
Identify and name parts and their function in context with your client
Utilize experiential exercises to enhance a flexible relationship with experience