Neuroscience is revolutionising coaching: it helps us understand
the biological basis of our behaviour. This includes the behaviour
of the coach and the client.This practical and much needed book
explains basic brain functioning and offers a guide to using this
knowledge to advance our coaching and make our practice more
effective. It builds extensively on the fact that we do now know
that feelings underly all decision-making and focuses coaching on
helping clients establish intelligent emotions as the basis of
their own decision systems. Using a systemic model of emotions,
energy and change, Paul Brown and Virginia Brown show coaches how
to integrate the client's life experience into coaching and create
change. This is a must read for all practising coaches."This book
is scattered with insightful, thought-provoking and occasionally
beautiful analogies and metaphors, which any reader would be
hard-pressed not to be challenged by. The (unrelated) Browns
absolutely illustrate the importance for coaches of having an
understanding of how the brain works." Coaching at Work, March
2013"The OU coaching series always provides a reliable read for the
coach and this is no exception ... The authors have kept the
neuroscience refreshingly simple, choosing to focus on key evidence
based principles of relevance to coaching.The key message for
coaches is that our work is undamentally about being in
relationship, using our own 'self' to create safe attachments for
our clients in which they can recognise their habitual patterns of
response, move to wondering and active experimentation thus
creating new connections in their brain which serve them better."
The International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching, Volume X Issue
2, December 2012 "This book is a delicious feast of neuroscience.
As coaches we leave the authors' table satisfied and nourished. But
when we settle back to savour the delicacies, we realise that the
feast is in us now: our coaching can never be the same. We can no
longer use neuroscience to honour our coaching. We must change our
coaching to honour neuroscience. In this way Brown and Brown move
us from smug satiation to a new kind of hunger: for the courage to
help our clients change their brains. A coach's job, they assert,
is to create the conditions for this change to happen. Bravo!"
Nancy Kline, President, Time To Think, UK"It's rare to find an
accessible, engaging book that combines current neuropsychological
theory with working examples for executive coaching. At last here
is one that brings the two together seamlessly. Well written and
informative, the authors delight the reader from the first to the
last page, creating rich pictures through metaphor, case studies
and highly practical models. Their emphasis on the importance of
trust in enabling change and development within the coaching
relationship is particularly welcome in these often reductionist
times. And their curiosity and wonder is catching - they do not
profess to know all the answers, but give us much food for thought
about our own coaching practice. This book gives coaches (and in
fact anyone involved in people development) a thorough grounding in
this increasingly important subject; it really is a must-read for
new or experienced coaches alike, and one which I think rightly
deserves to become a classic text." Linda Aspey, Managing Director,
Coaching for Leaders"At last, a book that embeds the practice of
coaching into what we know of how the brain works - rather than one
that tells you about the brain, then leaves the coach to work it
out; or one that tells you about techniques, then adds in the brain
information as something of a 'P.S'. This book works at many
levels: whether for the coach with a fresh curiosity about the
neuroscience, or one already using some knowledge to inform their
practice, all the fundamentals are there, in a style that avoids
over-simplifying, yet makes the complex accessible and 'ready to
use'. This is a gem of a resource for the coach who wants to take
their practice beyond technique into robust knowledge and
understanding of what's going on in the client's brain, the coach's
brain and, indeed, between the two brains as they interact. It
helps us to understand why what works, works; and what might be
happening when what we expect to work simply doesn't." Ann James,
Executive Coach / Director, Thinking Space"At long last, a rigorous
book on neuropsychology that is both palatable and practically
applicable for executive coaches. I like the way it develops an
approach starting from the way the brain works rather than adding
in information about the brain to the way the coach works. There
has been so much demand for a relevant knowledge base around
neuroscience, and I think that most coaches will find this book an
invaluable source and aide memoire." Dr Tara Swart, Neuroscientist,
medical doctor and executive coach, Executive Performance
Ltd."Introducing the basic functioning of the brain, this book
shows that humanity and high performance are indeed fraternal
twins. Growing relational resonance is likely to become a core
aspiration for readers. Neuropsychology for Coaches is for
executive coaches and their clients alike, with its down-to-earth
metaphors and examples that make the complex processes of the brain
easier to grasp and manage. A most useful guide!" Anette Prehn, MA
in social science, brain-based executive coach (PCC), author of
Play Your Brain"In a world of psuedo-theory and airport quick
reads, Professor Paul Brown and Virginia Brown offer something most
refreshing: hard science married with the intimate relationship
between coach and executive. At last the foundation is
neuroscience: understanding how the brain operates in the intricate
dance between cognition and emotion. Through eminently readable
explanations of the brain's critical centers and the chemicals that
affect what we do, the authors empower coaches to step beyond the
black box and manage the most important tool in the leader's
arsenal. Certainly this book will influence how we teach rising
senior leaders in the military and government at National Defense
University." Dr. Christina L. Lafferty, National Defense
University, Washington D.C, USA"Paul and Virginia Brown have done a
great job in reviewing a lot of the burgeoning research and
literature on Neuropsychology and making it accessible and useable
by executive coaches in their work. Neuropsychology is providing
coaching with a richer understanding of how Humans, relate, respond
and react as well as the brain's brilliant ways of adapting,
changing and rewiring its own connections." Peter Hawkins,
Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, founder and
Chairman Emeritus of Bath Consultancy Group & co-founder of
Centre for Supervision and Team Development, UK
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