Key facts

Type	Weekly Classes
Location	Reading
Address	London Road Campus Reading
Dates	Mon 14 Jan to Mon 18 Mar 2013 Day: Monday Time of meeting: 7.00-9.00pm Number of meetings: 10
Subject area(s)	Psychology and Counselling
CATS points	10
Fees	From £165.00
Application status	Course withdrawn
Course code	R12P483PCW
Course contact	If you have any questions about this course, please email ppweekly@conted.ox.ac.uk.

Overview

Uses the key principles of the major theoretical approaches as a framework for an understanding of how this informs the practice of coaching

Description

The course, although linked very strongly to the theoretical foundations of coaching psychology, is very much focused on how theory informs coaching practice.
Each session will commence with an introduction to a different theoretical approach to coaching. The approach will be placed in the context of its historical development, its prominent thinkers and current uses.
In each case the core principles of each approach will be identified and linked to their application to the practice of coaching.
At all stages of the course students will be encouraged to reflect and share with the group their responses to all elements of the course both theoretical and practical.

Programme details

Week 1: What is Coaching?
Week 2: Psychodynamic: The Importance of Relationship
Week 3: Existential: Phenomenology and Bracketting
Week 4: Person Centred: Unconditional Positive Regard and Self Actualization
Week 5: Gestalt: Self Awareness, Dialogue and the Cycle of Experience
Week 6: Solution Focused: The Miracle Question
Week 7: NLP: Modelling
Week 8: Transactional Analysis: PAC Model
Week 9: Positive Psychology: The Tool Bag
Week 10: Ethics and What Next?

Background Reading:
Palmer S. & Whybrow A. Handbook of Coaching Psychology: A Guide for Practitioners (Routledge, 2007)
Cox E., Bachkirova T. & Clutterbuck D. The Complete Handbook of Coaching (Sage, 2010
Spinell E. Practicing Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World (Sage, 2007)
O'Conner J. Coaching with NLP (Element Books, 2004)
Stewart Dr I Transactional Analysis Counselling in Action (Sage, 1989)
George E., Iveson C & Ratner H. Problem to Solution (Brief Therapy Press, 1990)
Palmer S. & Whybrow A. Handbook of Coaching Psychology: A Guide for Practitioners (Routledge, 2007)

Staff

Course aims

Course Aim:
To allow students to develop their understanding of what coaching is from a theoretical and practical perspective.

Course Objectives:
1. To understand the key assumptions of the major theoretical approaches
2. To understand how these assumptions translate into the practice of coaching
3. To develop the students capacity for self reflection through dialogue, group discussion and practice sessions

Assessment methods

Students will be asked to identify what coaching means to them by selecting one of the modalities to which they felt particularly drawn and identify the key theoretical and practical assumptions of the modality. They will then be asked to demonstrate their reflective capacity by describing what drew them to chose this particular modality. (1000 words max.)

Teaching methods

The different theoretical approaches will be introduced by way of powerpoint presentation and discussion during the first part of the session.
The implications of these different theoretical perspectives and the implications for practice will then be practiced and reviewed in small and full class discussion.

Teaching outcomes

By the end of the course students can expect:
1. To be able to understand and differentiate between the theoretical approaches to which they have been introduced.
2. To be able to demonstrate this learning by identifying the key principles of each approach.
3. To be able to understand how these principles relate to the practice of these approaches at a general level.

Fee options

Programme Fee

EU Fee: £165.00

Non-EU Fee: £165.00

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