Psychology for leaders and business coaches.
Wonder if you need more psychology to be an excellent coach? Looking for new practical tools as a leader? Want to broaden and challenge your thinking? Or just hungry for fresh ideas…
Imagine a three-year psychology degree, distilled right down to the utter essentials – the key ideas and tools and downright astonishing bits that every leader and business coach should know. And made crystal clear by being anchored firmly in a timeline through history, with the context for each new approach compellingly explained – then brought right up to the future with a feast of weblinks, TED talks, etc. Delivered in bite-sized chunks so you can fit it easily into your busy work schedule. And where you learn alongside a small and fascinating group of your peers.
For a flavour of the Psychology Distilled series of seminars, please watch this short video highlighting the first in the series: Freud and Psychoanalysis.
Top speakers, serious learning, new tools and great networking – welcome to Psychology Distilled! (“PD”).
This practical and inspiring course gives you a “map of the territory” of the psychology relevant to business coaching. It takes you in turn through each of the core domains of psychology, and introduces you to leading edge thinking that is already transforming coaching and the coaching-based leadership style. Then each seminar in the series supports and challenges you to apply its insights to your own work, and to the great issues of the day.
The course fee includes all materials and refreshments each day.
For those logging Continuing Professional Development time, the full course represents 30 hours of structured learning.
Designed to stimulate discussion and real learning.
University-style lectures, plus corporate-type small group work to deepen learning.
Practical case studies, research evidence and the real world experience of the tutors will be used to demonstrate the psychological principles that underpin successful coaching.
Each 180-minute seminar is in two parts: an intensive lecture, followed by small-group discussion to embed the learning and develop personal insight and applications.
The course runs in a modular format – one seminar a month over ten months.
Wed 10th February
Summary
The first great modern psychology, out of fashion for decades, now newly relevant for leadership in VUCA world.
Dr Eyal Pavell and Assoc. Prof. Jon Stokes
What’s new
Brought up to date, recent theorists and implications for leadership and coaching.
Thurs 17th March
Summary
How do we invoke behaviour change and learning that ‘sticks’? Robust empirical evidence from the Behavioural Revolution to current research – indispensable lessons for coaches.
Dr Eyal Pavell and Emeritus Prof. Mary Watts
What’s new
Tougher on the implications for coaching: What does Behaviourism and recent research make clear we should do, that we currently don’t, and what we do, that we shouldn’t!
This seminar is now fully booked, please contact the office to be put on the waiting list.
Mon 18th April
Summary
Every person tells a story: listening, connecting and unleashing potential.
Dr Eyal Pavell
What’s new
Listening as a tool: theorists and practice on listening; personal narratives; dynamics between 2 people and how they play out in coaching; ‘listening in’: countertransference and the ‘participant-observer’ stance.
Monday 16th May
Summary
What is ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal’? What are Psychopaths? Narcissists? Plus a quick primer on Psychometrics.
Dr Eyal Pavell
What’s new
Mental health and illness; how to spot when things are going wrong; brief Intro to personality; ‘Corporate ills’: overview of measurement and psychometrics.
Weds 15th June
Summary
How do we make sense of the world? Are we rational beings? The Cognitive Unconscious, Cognitive Therapy and other coaching tricks of the mind.
Dr Eyal Pavell
What’s new
Overview of building blocks of cognition: perception, memory, learning and cognitive processes. Rationality and irrationality; the Cognitive Unconscious; Cognitive Therapy and its use in coaching.
Wed 13th July
Summary
How do we create change? How do we cope when change happens to us?
Dr Eyal Pavell
What’s new
Models of change; Purpose and Outcome; Change received and change initiated; Coping mechanisms. How does coaching create and support change?
Mon 12th September
Summary
Not just cogs in the wheel, but not quite masters of our fates: how our cultures, our roles and our environments affect us - and how coaching can help.
Dr Eyal Pavell
What’s new
To what extent are we ‘products of our environment?’ Exploring various forces: cultural, organisational dynamics including Group think, prejudice and stereotype, generational differences. Our vulnerability to perceptual and basic environmental influences. Practical coaching: best practices on identifying and optimising the environmental forces around us.
Mon 10th October
Summary
Insights from neuroscience that challenge and change how we coach.
Dr Geoff Bird
What’s new
With neuroscience moving so fast, we/Geoff have no clue what this will contain, but it will be the very latest research at the time relevant to coaching.
Thurs 10th November
Summary
What makes some people lead and others follow?
Dr Eyal Pavell
New Module
The psychology of power, authority, and charisma. Followship and the inter-dependency of Leadership. The stages of a leader; the types and Archetypes of Leadership. Coaching on leadership topics.
Monday 5th December
Summary
Living the good life; Life Stages; transitions; Psychological capital and resilience; Positive Psychology.
Dr Eyal Pavell
New Module
Human needs throughout the lifecycle and how this plays into coaching; what is psychological wellbeing? Coaching for resilience and adaptability. Performance enhancement. Positive Psychology.
“The lectures were excellent - well paced, engaging and informative.” Ted Beardsall CBE, Deputy Chief Executive, Land Registry
“Brilliant – congratulations!!” Verity Lewis, Head of HR, Württembergische
“Excellent. Helpful discussion and practical ideas.” Valerie Robert, HR Director Household Western Europe, Procter & Gamble
Eyal Pavell PhD combines his expertise as a Psychologist with 15 years of leadership development and coaching experience, helping many of the world’s most successful companies identify and develop key managers and executives. Eyal held senior roles in a leading global leadership development consultancy prior to starting his own coaching and leadership development practice, where he works with companies across industries and geographies. He is also an adjunct Executive Coach for senior executive programmes at IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland and a published author and invited speaker on coaching and organisational issues.
Other Guest Lecturers may join us on topics related to their particular expertise.
Although designed as a series, each seminar will also stand alone and you are welcome to book for as few or as many as you wish of the ten seminars.
Coffee and networking 2:45pm, Seminars 3.00-6.00pm sharp.
28 Portland Place, London, W1B 1DE
£160 + VAT per Seminar.
.10% discount for booking all ten seminars. Please call the office to pay.
Meyler Campbell Alumni should login to the Alumni section and make their booking in the discount section.
