Emotion Coaching

EMOTION COACHING COURSES – Please Note:

All places on Emotion Coaching courses are full and we currently do not have any further funding to continue this as a universal offer.  Should our funding change we will update this page.

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 Emotion Coaching is an approach to support parents to help their children when they feel distressed. It works for the little things and the big things. Emotion Coaching is a naturalistic parenting approach which has been observed in research to have a beneficial impact on children’s emotional and physical health, their capacity for empathy and their social relationships. The amazing thing is that we can learn this approach and adapt our parenting even if it isn’t our natural style or how we were brought up – we don’t even need to get it right all of the time to have a beneficial impact for our children.

Emotion Coaching was originally identified through research by Dr John Gottman and you can find out more about the approach from Emotion Coaching UK Emotion Coaching – United Kingdom (emotioncoachinguk.com)

What does the programme cover?

The programme covers some background psychology and neuroscience – which helps us to understand how children’s brains develop and how they function at different stages of development. We explore the emotional range and reflect on how we feel about different feelings, acknowledging that some are more comfortable for us than others. We think about how we as grown ups experience emotions and how we can soothe our feelings. We reflect on the emotions which our children experience and how these can be shown through different behaviours. We explore strategies together for identifying emotions and co-regulating our children’s emotions to help them to feel safe, secure, seen and soothed. We explore limit setting and think together about some useful scripts to help in these moments and we move on to think about how we can work together with our children to solve problems and help them to put right what might have gone wrong when they were distressed.

These are the key steps in emotion coaching and it is fundamentally about emotional and behavioural co-regulation and will help our children to develop more empathy and take more responsibility over time.

Who is the programme for?

Emotion Coaching is for everyone! Every child can benefit from this approach and it will support increased harmony, cooperation, calmness and togetherness in every home.