Key Points: - What is mindfulness? - How can it benefit your clients? - How can mindfulness and coaching come together? - What makes integrating mindfulness and coaching difficult? - Three easy integrations of mindfulness and coaching

1. Integrating
Mindfulness in
Coaching
IOC ROUNDTABLE
FEBRUARY 28, 2020

2. Agenda
WHAT IS
MINDFULNESS?
WHAT ARE ITS
BENEFITS?
HOW CAN
MINDFULNESS
INTEGRATE WITH
COACHING?
WHAT MAKES
THE
INTEGRATION OF
THE TWO
DIFFICULT?
THREE EASY
MINDFULNESS
PRACTICES TO
EMPLOY IN
COACHING
WHAT MIGHT
YOU TRY?

3. What is mindfulness?

4. What is
mindfulness?
Defined different ways by different
people.
All definitions center on mindfulness as
being a state of awareness and/or a
process of attention that generates
awareness.
Jon Kabat Zinn’s definition considers:
◦ what mindfulness is
◦ how it’s developed
◦ its impact
◦ why it’s important.

5. “Mindfulness
is…
awareness, cultivated by paying
attention in a sustained and particular
way: on purpose, in the present
moment, and nonjudgmentally.
It is one of many forms of meditation in
which we engage in: systematically
regulating our attention and energy,
thereby influencing and possibly
transforming the quality of our
experience, in the service of realizing the
full range of our humanity and of our
relationships to others and the world.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn

6. Would
mindfulness
be beneficial
for our clients?

7. Benefits of
mindfulness
include:
After > 20 years, MBSR research has
provided evidence that mindfulness:
Reduces:
◦ levels of emotional exhaustion
◦ stress
◦ depression
◦ anxiety
Improves:
◦ feelings of personal accomplishment
◦ self-compassion
◦ quality of sleep and relaxation.

8. How do you see
mindfulness and
coaching coming
together?

9. How can be
mindfulness and
coaching be
integrated?
Mindfulness can:
•set the stage for deeper more
meaningful coaching
•sometimes do what coaching
can’t
•help to continue the work
between coaching sessions

10. What makes
integrating
mindfulness
and coaching
difficult?

11. What makes integrating
mindfulness and
coaching difficult?
It can feel like an agenda within the
coaching – like something the coach
is pushing
We can feel like we don’t know
enough
It can be hard to know the work of
coaching versus the work of
mindfulness (i.e. where and how to
employ each modality)

12. Employing
mindfulness
with clients…
What have you tried?
How did it go?

13. Three Easy Integrations of
Mindfulness and Coaching
Mindfulness of the body
Metta Meditation
Vipassana Outloud

14. Mindfulness of
the Body

16. Mindfulness of
the Body
What is mindfulness of
the body?
What is a body scan?
How do you do it?

17. Mindfulness of
the Body

18. Mindfulness
of the Body
How was it?
What might the value be?
When might you use
mindfulness of the body?

19. Why Mindfulness of the Body
is Important
Your body is always right here, right now.
Your physical body is inextricably connected with your
breath, your heart and your mind.
Your body sensations can be a focal point around which to
gather and unify a scattered mind
Your body reveals that everything rises and passes away.
- Anne Cushman

20. Metta Meditation

21. “With mindfulness, loving kindness, and
self-compassion, we can begin to let go of
our expectations about how life and those
we love should be.”
- Sharon Salzberg

22. Metta
Meditation
What is metta?
How is it practiced?

23. Metta Meditation

24. Metta
Meditation
How was it?
What might the value
be?
How might you use
metta with clients?

25. Why Metta Meditation?
Because it’s who we are, it’s what our true
nature is, consciousness and love itself.
We are interconnected.
Fear arises from a sense of separateness and it
loses its grip as we perceive our connectedness
to others and to life.

26. Vipasana
Outloud

27. Vipasana
Outloud
What is it?
How is it practiced?

28. Vipasana
Outloud

29. Vipasana
Outloud
How was it?
What was the value of
it?
How might you use it?

30. Why Vipassa Outloud?
Clients can feel like they need to perform, to
have “right”, “good” answers.
Clients can operate from their heads, cut off
from the information in their bodies
It gives clients a way to BE with themselves
when that can seem unbearable.

31. Integrating
Mindfulness
and Coaching
What are you taking
away?
What might you try?

32. Thank you

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