1. Transformational coaching and mentoring Mentoring CPD & Supervision

2. Theoretical Influences Psychodrama – cathartic moment Gestalt Psychology – shifts in client self awareness (psychological shift) Genlin’s Focusing – ‘felt shifts’ physical sensations relating to issue and shifts in thinking Systemic Family Therapy – creating systemic shifts in interlinking relationships Levels of Learning – –Receipt of data –Single loop (skill learning) –Double loop (challenged single loop) –Seeing the world as it is, rather than coloured by someone else’s views. The self is irrelevant

3. Four key elements of Transformational Mentoring 1.Changing meaning schemes ‘Meaning schemes’ are specific beliefs, attitudes and emotional reactions. Changing these helps a mentee achieve ‘perspective transformation’ 2. Working on multiple levels Attending to physical, psychological, emotional and purposive elements and how they combine in the current situation 3. Creating a shift in the room Freeing the mentee from stuck perspectives using CLEAR 4. Four levels of engagement Fact, Behaviour, Personal Feelings and assumptions values/motivational routes.

4. Outcomes of transformational coaching 1.Enabling double loop learning by creating a shift in the mentee’s mindset and emotional framing 2.Moving beyond new awareness and insight, to create a ‘felt shift’ in the room, where the mentee’s way of engaging with the issue changes – including 1.Language and metaphors 2.Body language (posture, breathing, way of speaking) 3.Ways of relating to the coach (engagement and eye contact) 4.Increased commitment to action 5.Newly rehearsed ways of presenting the issue forward.

5. Exercise One Think of a situation that you have been involved in recently. –What were your meaning schemes? – beliefs, attitudes and emotional reactions. –What level are you able to attend to? – What physical, psychological, emotional and purposive elements are you able to recall that related to this situation

6. CLEAR Model 1.Contracting (boundaries and focus of the work) 2.Listening to the issues that the mentee brings: listening for content, feelings and ways of framing the story. Look for critical areas. 3.Explore with the mentee what the dynamics are, both working relationship and the mentor and mentee relationship 4.Action – explore new actions with the mentee 5.Review the processes and agree the next stage.

7. Four Levels of Engagement 1.Level 1: Data – Collecting data about the issue. This will create facts (what happened, when, how and who with) 2.Level 2: Behaviour – Patterns of interaction. Look for behaviour patterns and helps the mentee out of repeating negative behaviour patterns. 3.Level 3: Feelings – These relate to why people demonstrate repeat patterns of behaviour. The mentee need understand how feeling relate to these patterns 4.Level 4: Assumptions – To change feeling we need to address the related assumptions. These stages are work on simultaneously rather than in order

8. Mapping CLEAR to the four levels. 1.Contracting – levels 1 and 2 2.Listening – levels 2 and 3 3.Explore – levels 3 and 4 4.Action – Levels 4, 3 and 2 5.Review – All levels

9. Exercise two Returning to the issue you discussed before, list, under separate headings, –the facts about the situation, –your behaviours relating to the situation, –your personal feelings about the situations –Your assumptions relating to the situtaion

10. What do shifts look like? 1.Level 1: Physical appearance – the mentee might look brighter, open or more engaged 2.Level 2: New behaviours – these relate to the issue brought to mentoring and may be experimental and less predictable. 3.Level 3: New emotional tone: these can be realisations, Durr moments (mentee hits their head and say ‘oh yeah’) 4.Level 4: New mindsets – the situation holds less negative power for the mentee. New possibilities; doing things differently.

11. Exercise three What made a difference to this situation? – –what caused shifts? –What levels do you thinks shifts occurred at? –What would need to be different to generate shifts at different levels?