Emotional Coaching is a known strategy to help young people understand their emotions and therefore begin to self regulate and manage them moving forwards. If a young person is emotionally behind their age, it can make life quite difficult and frustrating for them. By helping young people understand why this is happening and giving them the tools to learn, they can begin to build their own resilience to life.
We start with what are perceived as the eight basic emotions-
- Joy and sadness
- Acceptance and disgust
- Fear and anger
- Surprise and antcipation
It was originally developed in the USA by the psychologist John Gottman, and is being used more and more in the UK to build emotional resilience. Thereby nurturing mental health and helping with learning & education.
Organisations like Emotion Coaching
Organisations like Emotion Coaching UK and the Attachment Research Community (ARC) are building evidence and further information can be found by clicking the links to their website.
How we can help…
We offer this type of coaching/counselling as research shows that emotion coached children:
- Become more emotionally stable
- Build resilience
- Succeed better in education
- Socialise and relate better to peers and adults
- Have fewer behavioural problem
- Have a better immune system
We also provide advice and tools for parents, foster carers or social workers to work and help the young people we see. Looked-after children particularly suffer from attachment issues, and these lead to a lack of emotional resilience. This is an important option to consider as it will affect their behaviour education and wellbeing.