Main description:

Jon Hill and Joe Oliver introduce the Acceptance and Commitment Coaching (ACC) model with clarity and accessibility, defining it as an approach that incorporates mindfulness and acceptance, focusing on committed, values-based actions to help coachees make meaningful changes to their lives.

Acceptance and Commitment Coaching: Distinctive Features explains the ACC model in such a way that the reader will be able to put it into practice immediately, as well as offering sufficient context to anchor the practical tools in a clear theoretical framework. Split into two parts, the book begins by emphasising ACC's relevance and its core philosophy before providing an overview of its key theoretical points and the research that supports it. The authors also explain the six key ACC processes: defusion, acceptance, contact with the present moment, self as context, values and committed action, and explain how to use them in practice. Hill and Oliver address essential topics, such as the critical work needed before and as you begin working with a coachee, how to use metaphor as an effective tool as a coach, and they finish by offering helpful tips on how to help coachees maintain their positive changes, how to make ACC accessible to all types of client, how to manage challenging coachees and how to work with both individuals and groups using ACC. Aimed specifically at coaches, the book offers context, examples, practicality and a unique combination of practical and theoretical points in a concise format.

Acceptance and Commitment Coaching: Distinctive Features is essential reading for coaches, coaching psychologists and executive coaches in practice and in training. It would be of interest to academics and students of coaching psychology and coaching techniques, as well as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) practitioners looking to move into coaching.

Contents:

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Part 1: The Distinctive Theoretical Features of ACC

The World According to ACC

Why ACC?

Relational Frame Theory (RFT) for Dummies

ACT Coaching Research: The Evidence

Philosophy 101 for Coaches: Functional Contextualism

Defusion

Acceptance

Contact with Present Moment

Self as Context

Values

Committed Action
Part 2: The Distinctive Practical Features of ACC

What We Talk About When We Talk About ACC

Assessment

The Matrix

Formulation

The Workability Game

Use of Metaphor

Facilitating Cognitive Defusion

From Struggle to Acceptance

Be Here Now: Helping Coachees Contact the Present Moment

Introducing Self as Context

What Really Matters: Success Through Values

Helping Coachees Take Committed Action

Persistence and the Power of Habit

Mindfulness on the Move

Working With High Performers

Managing Tricky or Unexpected Moments

Six Mistakes We Have Made (And What We Learned)

A Simple Six-Session ACC Model

ACC for Group Coaching, Training and Development

References

Index