Emotional Coaching is an enriching 12-week program that is designed to teach you how to help your emotions become an asset in your daily life. The program is divided into two stages. Below is an overview of these stages and what you will learn in them.

Stage One is called Emotional Mapping. During this stage of the program a thorough map of your current emotional world is created and you are taken back to the basics, teaching you the ABC of emotional literacy.

Stage 1 Emotional Mapping (approximately 4 weeks)

In Stage One you will learn:

• More about your current emotional world using emotional mapping
• What the emotional alphabet is and how to read it
• About the importance of emotional fitness and how to increase it
• When you are ready for Stage Two of the program

During Stage Two you will be taken deeper into your emotions, building upon Stage One, look at emotional logic, at the link between your thoughts and beliefs and your emotions and show you how your head and heart can work together as a team instead of competing against each other.

Stage 2 (approximately 8 weeks)

In Stage Two you will:

• Continue building emotional fitness and supporting your focus on the emotional alphabet
• Learn how to understand and use emotional logic and use it positively in your life
• Start Identifying challenging and confronting thoughts and beliefs that are preventing forward movement or having a negative impact on your emotions Understand the importance of helping your head and heart to work as a team

More detail about the content of the program can be found below

What is Emotional Intelligence?

The theory is that we all possess emotional intelligence. It is an essential part of our being that can have an enormous impact on our daily life. This theory also suggests that the fundamental aspects of our emotional intelligence is learnt when we are very young. If we miss out on learning essential skills at this early age, these became deficiencies when we are older. The good news is that with the right knowledge and support, emotional intelligence can continue to grow and develop for your entire life. This is where the emotional coaching program can assist you.

What is Emotional Mapping?

When you go on a journey somewhere, even a small journey, you often need a map to help guide you. A fundamental difference with this program is to take a good look around your emotional world, mapping it out in as much detail as possible. This information then guides the rest of our work together, and because this information has come from within you, a program specific to your needs is created rather than trying to make you fit the program. Further, we are starting from where you are at, working from the inside out to create more targeted, deeper and longer lasting results.

What is the Emotional Alphabet?

Every emotion is made up of many different sensations or parts. Anxiety is a good example. When you feel anxiety you often notice your heart rate will speed up and breathing will become shallow, butterflies flit in your stomach, sweating increases, muscles tighten and thoughts race. These sensations are called the emotional alphabet and when you get a number of them all together they spell an emotion, in this case anxiety. This is where you can be taught to notice and stay with your emotional alphabet so you can identify your actual feelings.

What is Emotional Fitness?

Now to stay with emotions and not avoid, run away or suppress them, you have to develop emotional fitness. Often people have very low emotional fitness because they avoid emotions. When you go to the gym for the first time (or after a prolonged period of absence), it is very challenging and you are sore the next day. However, with persistence and skill you build fitness and then your body can function better. You need to build your emotional fitness in the same way so your emotions will function better and you can use them more positively.

What is Emotional Logic?

Have you ever said there is no logical reason why I should feel this way, but there must be because I am feeling that emotion? This is difficult for many people because they are using intellectual logic instead of emotional logic to try to understand their emotions. Emotional logic does exist and is different to other forms of logic, but just as important. When you understand emotional logic you can start to use your emotions positively.

Why is it important to identify challenge and confront thoughts and beliefs that are having a negative impact on your emotions?

Sometimes negative thoughts or limiting beliefs get in the way of using your emotions intelligently and also inhibit the emotional coaching process. Some examples of these may include, men don’t cry, feeling fear is a weakness, anger is a negative emotion, there is no logical reason why I should feel this way, etc. If any of these negative thoughts or beliefs is present Dean can help you to transform these and change them to the principles inherent in emotional coaching.

Helping the head and heart to work as a team!

Many people find that they cannot use their head and heart together, or that they can actually work against each other. When you are confronted with a challenging situation you need all your resources to cope and get the best result. So you are bound to get a better result if your head and heart combine rather than compete with each other. This is the final stage of the program.