Invitation from Division of Occupational Psychology Scotland Branch to attend

Facilitator: Prof Stephen Palmer PhD CPsychol FAC

The Royal Scots Club, Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, Scotland,

Friday, 31st July, 2009, 9.30am to 12.30pm (registration from 9.15am)

Rational Coaching is based on the Rational Emotive Behavioural Approach developed by Dr Albert Ellis. It is a cognitive-behavioural approach that is particularly suitable for personal/life, performance, executive and health coaching. This workshop introduces the basic theory and practice of Rational Coaching and includes the ABCDEF coaching framework for assessment and intervention for enhancing performance, increasing resilience and managing stress.

This workshop will also provide skills practice for practitioners who want to integrate a range of Rational Coaching skills within their coaching psychology and coaching practice.  Pre-workshop reading: Palmer, S. (2009). Rational Coaching: A Cognitive Behavioural Approach. The Coaching Psychologist, 1, 1, 12-18.

The objectives of this workshop are:

• To become knowledgable about the basic theory and practice of Rational Coaching
• To understand the differences between irrational and rational beliefs from the Rational Coaching perspective
• To become knowledgeable about developing healthy emotional goals if necessary
• To practise the assessment and disputation of the four key types of irrational beliefs and subsequently developing rational beliefs
• To  practise the ABCDEF model of Rational Coaching in relation to enhancing performance, increasing resilience and managing stress
• To use 5 column performance coaching worksheets

Workshop Facilitator:

Professor Stephen Palmer PhD is a Chartered Psychologist, an APECS Accredited Executive Coach and Supervisor, a Society for Coaching Psychology Accredited Coaching Psychologist, and Accredited Rational Emotive Behaviour Practice Supervisor and Fellow of the Association for Coaching. He has written or edited 35 books including the Handbook of Coaching Psychology: A Guide for Practitioners (with Whybrow, 2007) and Stress Counselling: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Approach (with Ellis et al. 1997). He is UK Co-ordinating Editor of the International Coaching Psychology Review, and Executive Editor of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. He is Director of the Coaching Psychology Unit at City University and Director of the Centre for Coaching, London. He was the first Chair of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology.