"Breakthrough Conversations For Coaches Consultants And Leaders | Mental Health

Conversational effectiveness is a barometer of human thriving and facilitating insightful conversations is a powerful method for accelerating psychological change and collaboration. This ground-breaking professional book provides a map of Breakthrough Conversations together with a practical toolkit for enhancing awareness emotional resilience and creativity. Neuroscience mindfulness and psychological research shows that awareness is pivotal to skilful conversations. By supporting clients to observe and manage their own body-brain states during conversation they can learn to switch on the physiological systems that support more authentic agile and attuned interactions. Three body-brain states reactive habitual and reflective – characterised as Red Amber and Green (RAG) - are differentiated in terms of body-sensations and behaviours and these correspond to predictable interactive patterns. Facilitated to experience more emotionally resilient conversations clients access their natural capacities for collaboration compassion and shared creativity. This journey through the five stages of Breakthrough Conversations drawing on the RAG frame and a number of other practical models is richly illustrated with case studies from working one-to-one and with pairs. Coming to see conversations as a dance driven by the interactions of underlying needs and emotions frees clients to make paradigm shifts in their self-awareness and interpersonal effectiveness. This book and the approach it outlines will be essential reading for coaches consultants leaders and all professionals seeking to choreograph more insightful conversations. |Breakthrough Conversations for Coaches Consultants and Leaders | Mental Health