How Acceptance and Commitment (AC) Coaching differs from ACT
Maximize Your Coaching Effectiveness In this post I’ll talk about how Acceptance and Commitment (AC) coaching differs from ACT. Acceptance and Commitment ( AC) Coaching and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) are similar but different Acceptance and Commitment Coaching takes the principles and practices of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and adapts them to fit the needs of coaches working in a variety of settings. The word therapy may have already sent up a red flag in your mind, but fear not, you can use the principles and practices drawn from ACT to help your coaching clients...
Read MoreHelp Your Coaching Clients Become More Psychologically Flexible Through Acceptance
Maximize Your Coaching Effectiveness In a recent post I discussed the six components of psychological flexibility. Valued Living, Mindfulness, Acceptance, Commitment, Observing Self, and Disentanglement ( Anstiss and Blonna (2014) . In this post I want to focus on Acceptance which has four components: accepting reality for what it is accepting what you can and cannot control accepting that trying to avoid, eliminate, or control painful internal factors actually makes them worse accepting that the best way to manage painful internal factors is to accept them, and co-exist with them as...
Read MoreHelp Your Coaching Clients Become More Psychologically Flexible Through Commitment
Maximize Your Coaching Effectiveness In this post I’ll show you how to help your coaching clients become more psychologically flexible through commitment. In a recent post I discussed the six components of psychological flexibility. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and AC Coaching have found that there are six key factors called core processes that contribute to becoming more psychologically flexible; Valued Living, Mindfulness, Acceptance, Commitment, Observing Self, and Disentanglement ( Anstiss and Blonna (2014) . In...
Read MoreHelp Your Coaching Clients Become More Psychologically Flexible Through Valued Living
Maximize Your Coaching Effectiveness In this post I’ll show you how to help your coaching clients become more psychologically flexible through valued living. In a recent post I discussed the six components of psychological flexibility. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and AC Coaching have found that there are six key factors called core processes that contribute to becoming more psychologically flexible; Valued living (defining valued directions). Contact with the Present Moment (mindfulness). Committed Action (commitment). Acceptance (acceptance). Observing Self (self-as-context)....
Read MoreAC Coaching and ACT Theory 101
AC (Acceptance and Commitment) Coaching applies the principles and practices Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to Coaching. ACT theory revolves around four key concepts: 1. The mind as a 24/7 thinking machine. 2. Current thinking and feeling are filtered through past frames of reference. 3. Words and language play key roles in well-being. 4. Thinking can’t be controlled, but behavior in response to it can be. It’s essential to understand these concepts in order to grasp the notion of psychological inflexibility and getting stuck. I’ll discuss the first concept. The Mind as a 24/7...
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