A key part of Newfield ontological coaching is the domain of emotions. Typically, this is an area that most coaching schools skirt around or else avoid completely.<\/p>\n
However, together with the domains of language and body, the emotional domain is a fundamental element of what makes us human and cannot be ignored when working as a coach.<\/p>\n
The majority of line managers with whom I have worked would much rather ignore emotions and\/or pretend that they are not important. This is true about their own emotions and the emotions of the people around them. It would be so much more convenient if I could pretend that people were brains on sticks and operated like machines in a factory. The problem is, that\u2019s just not the way human beings function.<\/p>\n
As a result, in our program, we dive headlong into this area and introduce key distinctions that enable you to work effectively with your own emotions and those of the people around you.<\/p>\n
The classic approaches are to try and \u201ccontrol my emotions\u201d or to numb them out. Neither of these prove effective in anything but the very short term. So many managers I see spend their whole working day, supressing their emotions, in a futile attempt to be \u201cobjective\u201d and \u201crational\u201d only to see that pesky emotion burst out inappropriately when they get home with their spouse and children.<\/p>\n