Transformational
coaching and
mentoring
Mentoring
CPD & Supervision
Theoretical
Influences
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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 –
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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
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.
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
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5.
Language and metaphors
Body language (posture, breathing, way
of speaking)
Ways of relating to the coach
(engagement and eye contact)
Increased commitment to action
Newly rehearsed ways of presenting
the issue forward.
Exercise One
Think of a situation that
you have been involved in
recently.
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What were your meaning
schemes? – beliefs, attitudes and
emotional reactions.
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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
CLEAR Model
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5.
Contracting (boundaries and
focus of the work)
Listening to the issues that the
mentee brings: listening for
content, feelings and ways of
framing the story. Look for
critical areas.
Explore with the mentee what
the dynamics are, both working
relationship and the mentor
and mentee relationship
Action – explore new actions
with the mentee
Review the processes and
agree the next stage.
Four Levels of
Engagement
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4.
Level 1: Data – Collecting data
about the issue. This will create
facts (what happened, when, how
and who with)
Level 2: Behaviour – Patterns of
interaction. Look for behaviour
patterns and helps the mentee out
of repeating negative behaviour
patterns.
Level 3: Feelings – These relate to
why people demonstrate repeat
patterns of behaviour. The mentee
need understand how feeling relate
to these patterns
Level 4: Assumptions – To change
feeling we need to address the
related assumptions.
These stages are work on
simultaneously rather than in order
Mapping CLEAR to
the four levels.
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Contracting – levels 1 and 2
Listening – levels 2 and 3
Explore – levels 3 and 4
Action – Levels 4, 3 and 2
Review – All levels
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
What do
shifts look like?
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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.
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?