Emotion coaching is about helping children to become more aware of their emotions and to manage their own feelings particularly during instances of misbehaviour. It entails validating children’s emotions, setting limits where appropriate and problem-solving with the child to develop more effective behavioural strategies. In effect, emotion coaching techniques instil the tools that will aid children’s ability to self-regulate their emotions and behaviour. It enables practitioners to create an ethos of positive learning behaviour and to have the confidence to de-escalate situations when behaviour is challenging.

Why do Emotion Coaching?

Gottman’s research has shown that emotion coached children:

• Achieve more academically in school
• Are more popular
• Have fewer behavioural problems
• Have fewer infectious illnesses
• Are more emotionally stable
• Are more resilient

The research demonstrates that emotion coaching:

• Helps children to regulate, improve and take ownership of their behaviour
• Helps children to calm down and better understand their emotions
• Helps practitioners to be more sensitive to children’s needs
• Helps create more consistent responses to children’s behaviour
• Helps practitioners to feel more ‘in control’ during incidents
• Helps promote positive relationships

What participants say about Emotion Coaching

It makes the children feel more secure and gives them a vocabulary to talk about how they are feeling instead of just acting out. This helps them to be more positive and happier.

– (Practitioner

I think emotion coaching has changed completely how I parent and I have been totally raving to all my friends about it.

– (Parent)

When people, like, take the mick out of me, like, in class I’d just get angry and I just hit ‘em. Now the teacher talks to me and it calms me down – the other kids don’t really pick on me now ‘cos they know that I don’t react.

– (Young Person)

Overview of the Training Programme

‘Emotion Coaching’ Training Day – Monday October 3rd 2016 9.30 – 4.30 with Dr Sarah Temple

Doctor Sarah Temple is working as a portfolio NHS GP in Somerset.  With more than 20 years’ experience working with children and young people both within General Practice and Mental Health Services, Sarah has a special interest in the link between child and parental wellbeing. She is currently leading the ECHAP Somerset Emotion Coaching programme across Somerset.

Term Two – Cluster follow up – Tuesday 22nd November 2 – 4.30 PM Castlewood, North Somerset

Facilitated by Neil Harris – High Impact Families

Coaching with Young people training day – Friday 3rd February 2017 9.30 – 4.30 with Judith Tolhurst

Judith Tolhurst has been working in education for 23 years as a teacher, head teacher, and currently as a coach and trainer. She set up her business, Coachlamp Ltd, ten years ago and specialises in coaching head teachers and senior leaders in education. Among her clients are the States of Guernsey, Bath Spa University. She is a fully qualified coach and a full member of the Association of Coaching. She has a B.Ed. from London University and a M.Ed. from Bristol University. Judith has published two books on coaching and how to use it in an educational setting.

Term 4 – Cluster Follow up – Wednesday 22nd March 2017 2 – 4.30 PM Venue TBA

Facilitated by Neil Harris

Get in touch to book a place!

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• Provide as much stability and consistency as possible
• Accept your child’s emotions and emotional responses
• Talk about your own feelings
• Encourage children to talk about feelings without judgement
• Model emotional regulation
• Teach children positive self talk
• Identify typical situations that cause emotional outbursts and help children plan strategies to help them manage these
• Praise children’s efforts to regulate their emotions.

Coaching for Progress are currently developing programmes to help children effectively emotionally regulate. Email us for more details.

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Pupils were trained in workshops on how to become effective Peer Tutors and they did a fantastic job. We feel confident that under the Leadership of Lynne and Tay the project will become a key part of this innovative school. Headteacher Lynne reported:

The children thoroughly enjoyed the peer tutoring session. They learned to recognise the skills they needed to be effective peer tutors, such as building rapport, active listening and asking effective questions and they were able to get a good understanding of how a session might work using the LEAP model. The resources provided will enable us to continue with the training at school and we are all very much looking forward to putting peer tutoring into practice across the school. A big thank you to Neil for making it so enjoyable and accessible.

All the best, Lynne

Look out for some new exciting developments on our website in the weeks ahead as we start to work in Partnership with Dr Sarah Temple on Emotion Coaching!

Happy 2016

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