Lars-Eric Unest\u00e5hl, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/h3>\nBackground<\/strong>
Coaching and especially Developmental Coaching (DC) is based on the same philosophy and is using the same principles as Positive Psychology (PP) and Integrated Mental Training (IMT). Differences are more in methods of learning and development, where
Coaching emphasizes \u201cAction Learning and \u201cLearning through feedback#\u201d, Positive Psychology \u201cReflective Learning\u201d and IMT \u201cUnconscious Learning\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Positive Psychology (PP)<\/strong>
PP looks as human beings as self-organizing, self-directed, adaptive entities and wants psychology to focus on two neglected areas
1. Develope normal people to increased Productivity and Well-being
2. Using development of resources for Problem prevention<\/p>\nIntegrated Mental Training (IMT)<\/strong>
IMT is a systematic, long-term developmental training of mental skills, attitudes and processes. It is a cognitive and emotional training with emphasize on images more than thoughts and with focus on resource detection and development more than problem solving.
IMT was developed by Unest\u00e5hl in the nineteen sixties based on research of:
– Alternative states of consciousness
– Relationship between body and mind.
The training programs were tested in cooperation with the various Swedish national and Olympic teams during the nineteen seventies, introduced into the Swedish school system in the late nineteen seventies as Life Skills Training. It was applied to the areas of health and work in the nineteen eighties and became popular among the general population as a method of personal development from the early nineteen nineties.<\/p>\nKnowledge and Lifecompetence<\/strong>
Because studies show no correlation between success in School or University and success in Life, Mental Training and Coaching became the most important methods to transform abstract knowledge into real competence in dealing with life.
Coaching and IMT are both future oriented, solution focused, action directed and experiential based. Coaching for Development is the integration we have made between IMT and coaching in the last decade.<\/p>\nCoaching for development versus Problem Coaching<\/strong>
These two approaches have different assumptions:
Problem coaching assumes the client has all the resources needed to solve the problem Coaching for Development assumes the client often needs to develop new resources, skills, and behavior in order to reach the goal. Coaching for development is based on the same philosophy of change as is found in Mental Training and in Positive Psychology while most areas of society still follow the problem based or clinical model. In the problem coaching model, people want to change because of a problem or crisis. Coaching for development is based on the sport model, meaning that you can be satisfied with the present and still want – and be working and training- to reach a better situation.
So in the problem coaching model the direction of change is away from the problem, meaning that sometimes the result can be still worse (out of the frying pan into the Developmental Coaching, Integrated Mental Training and Positive Psychology Lars-Eric Unest\u00e5hl, Ph.D. 3 fire). The emotional basis for the change is mainly dissatisfaction and there can be a strong resistance to change as clients experience suggestions for change as criticism.
In problem coaching progress is followed by maintenance and problem solving is followed by inactivity. Coaching for development looks at life as a journey with continuous improvement.
In problem coaching suggested changes often evoke resistance as they are interpreted as blame, disbelief and that something is wrong. In Coaching for development, safety and security is not in the client\u2019s comfort zone, but in the change itself. It also gives the
necessary stimulation and challenge important for high quality of life.<\/p>\nProaction and Prevention as Problemsolving<\/strong>
Coaching is action oriented and has its basis in learning by doing. Tasking construct experiences, which through feedback provides adequate changes.
While the goal in problem coaching is to return to a \u201cpreproblem\u201d situation, (mostly with the help of retroactive actions), Coaching for development uses proactive methods to create a situation which is not only better than the present but also better than the preproblem conditions. This includes \u201cproblem solving\u201d but without having to work on the problems.
Our brain is more easily caught by problem thoughts and images. There are three reasons:
– A evolutionary survival mechanism
– The emotional components (emotions like fear catch our mind very easily)
– Problems are often more concrete than goals.
In order to change this perception, coaching for development works to decrease fear and other negative emotions and make goals clear and attractive. One part of that is to learn to think and talk in positive ways and to replace problem words with developmental ones.<\/p>\nCoaching for development and Psychocybernetics<\/strong>
In order to make even better progress Coaching for development combines the use of Mental Training tasks with goal programming. While Problem Coaching often stops when the clients\u2019 goals are clear and value based, Coaching for development translates the
intellectual goals to images, after which the goals are integrated and programmed. This seems to start an automatic process. The client often reports being more creative, and that they get solutions in an effortless way without conscious problem solving. They reach goals without knowing what took them to the goals.<\/p>\nSummary<\/strong>
Coaching for development and Developmental Self-coaching will complement ordinary coaching methods in a number of ways. For example:
– Coaching for development works in the same way with clients with problems and clients looking for continuous improvement. Developmental goals often include automatic problem solving.
– Coaching for development uses Mental Training tasks as homework to detect and develop resources, needed to reach attractive goals.
– Coaching for development uses the imagination to program goals in order to start a cybernetic process as a complement to the action plan and the homework.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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