Compassionate coaching leverages positive emotion to help individuals make sustained, desired change in their lives. Coaching for compliance, sees coaches attempt to help others change in desired ways, even if it’s not driven by a genuine internal desire to do so.

In this session, you’ll examine important distinctions between these approaches, the different neurophysiological effects triggered by each approach, plus you’ll explore 3 key implications for your coaching that can be applied to your practice.

1. Helping others achieve sustained, desired change requires artfully managing the tension between the positive and negative emotions.
2. Helping others change sustainably involves helping them toggle back and forth appropriately between the analytic and empathic neural networks.
3. Helping others achieve sustained, desired change is greatly facilitated by encouraging them to anchor their change efforts in the context of a personal vision.

When coaching with compassion, you leverage positive emotion to help clients make sustained desired changes. When you coach for compliance, you help others change in ways they feel they should, even if it’s not driven by a genuine internal desire to do so.

This session examines the growing body of neuroscientific research on coaches leveraging an understanding of emotional, hormonal, and neurophysiological processes to facilitate the learning and growth of their coaching clients.

• Your clients are more likely to make sustained desired change when your coaching helps them experience more positive than negative emotion.
• Coaching with compassion arouses positive emotions and triggers neurophysiological states that facilitate learning and change.
• Coaching your clients through the five discoveries of the intentional change process is an effective way to help them make and sustain desired change.