Psychology for Coaches

Do you wonder if you should know more psychology to be an excellent coach? Are you looking for new practical tools? Do you want to broaden and challenge your thinking? Or are you just hungry for fresh ideas...

Top speakers, serious learning, great networking and great fun – welcome to the leading Psychology for Coaches course!

This practical and inspiring course gives you a “map of the territory” of the psychology relevant to coaching. It takes you in turn through each of the core domains of psychology, and introduces you to leading edge thinking that is already transforming coaching and the coaching-based management style.

Who Is This Programme For?

What The Course Will Give You

Additional Benefits

The course fee includes all materials and refreshments each day.

For those logging Continuing Professional Development time, the full course represents 20 hours of structured learning and is fully accredited by Meyler Campbell and The Solicitors’ Regulation Authority (SRA).

Course Methods

Designed to stimulate discussion and real learning.

University-style lectures, plus corporate-type small group work to deepen learning.

Practical case studies, research evidence and the real world experience of the tutors will be used to demonstrate the psychological principles that underpin successful coaching.

Course participants will also be invited to share their own experiences and current coaching issues.

Programme Content

1 - Freud & Psychoanalysis
The dark unconscious forces…
2 - Behaviourism
Are we trainable rats or innately gifted?
3 - Humanistic Psychology
The learning instinct and how coaches can unleash it.
4 - Cognitive Psychology
Avoiding common thinking errors, and techniques to deal with blocks.
5 - Social Psychology
Clients (and coaches) are far more affected by our context / team / tribe than we imagine: understanding systemic forces to coach for real change.
6 - When Things Go Wrong
The facts about cross-cultural coaching; and psychopathology: what exactly are narcissists, psychopaths etc, how to spot them and how to deal with them.
7 - Motivation*
They can do it but will they?! Research published in the last 5 years gives coaches greater ability to help clients build motivation.
8 - Neuroscience*
The utterly fascinating brain, including how we learn, and therefore how we need to coach.
9 - Psychometrics
A comprehensive review of all the sweets in the psychometric sweetshop, and how to use them wisely.
10 - Positive Psychology
How high performance occurs, the science of good character and more.

(* Modular course only)

Testimonials

“Two interesting, relevant and helpful days – overall a very good investment of my time.” Debbie Sallis, Air Systems HR Director, BAE Systems
“A fabulous two days – I have lots of neurons joining up and lots more thinking to do!” Ali Willocks, Business Coach, Willow Point Associates
“The lectures were excellent – well paced, engaging and informative.” Ted Beardsall CBE, Deputy Chief Executive, Land Registry
“Brilliant – congratulations!!” Verity Lewis, Head of HR, Württembergische
“Excellent. Helpful discussion and practical ideas.” Valerie Robert, HR Director Household Western Europe, Procter & Gamble

Course Directors

Dr Henry Marsden

By training a research psychologist, Henry is a member of the Meyler Campbell Faculty, and also runs the consultancy Kingston Jones. He worked for almost a decade with a prestigious global law firm as the Head of Learning and Development and Head of Human Resources within Europe, and has a PhD in improving decision-making processes. But he wears his learning lightly, and is a warm, funny, and highly engaging speaker with a strong practical bent, and a real understanding of the challenges facing senior people in organisations. To keep his thinking fresh he also continues to work in academia as a Visiting Lecturer in Psychology at Europe’s largest teaching University.

Anne Scoular

Originally a diplomat and international banker, Anne retrained as a psychologist and is now Managing Director of coaching consultancy Meyler Campbell, a leading provider of learning and development for senior business coaches. She has taught coaching at several Universities including London Business School, and has trained many of the UK's leading professional coaches and business leaders. She was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 2006 in recognition of her thought leadership in business coaching, and is active internationally in business coaching accreditation and advisory panels. Anne was the original designer of the Psychology for Coaches course and her passion for the subject shines right through it.

Daniel Burke

Daniel is a former senior Partner at global consultancy KPMG. After leaving KPMG he retrained as a psychologist, and became a co-founder of The Alliance, a group of senior executive coaches, and a Meyler Campbell Business Coach Tutor. He was on the Inaugural US Positive Psychology Coaching Training with Martin Seligman, and in 2007 published in the leading Positive Psychology academic journal his research on coaching and motivation. Daniel has a fascination with making training events lively and engaging – for PfC he organises brief role-plays which bring the research material vividly to life, and tracks down rare historic archival film footage to show you.