Praise for Mindful Coaching -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- What you will find in this book -- Introduction -- Part ONE Overview -- 01 Definitions, origins and relevance to coaching -- Defining mindfulness -- Present moment, happy moment -- A brief orientation to coaching -- 02 A brief history of mindfulness -- Not just Buddhist -- 03 The impact of mindfulness -- We can change our spots and learn new tricks -- Benefits of mindfulness -- Part TWO Fundamental principles -- 04 Presence -- Definitions -- Setting up a practice -- 05 Curiosity, enquiry and non-judgement -- Curiosity -- Enquiry -- Non-judgement -- 06 Attunement and resonance -- Mirror, mirror -- Defining attunement -- Resonance -- 07 Compassion -- Compassion in coaching -- Developing compassion through mindfulness -- Benefits -- Better outcomes -- 08 Being and doing -- Doing versus being? -- Letting go -- Emotion regulation systems -- Own goals? -- Acceptance -- Back to the future -- Pressing pause -- PART THREE Working with mindfulness in coaching and mentoring -- 09 Developing, supporting and nurturing the coach -- Session preparation -- Within the coaching session -- After the coaching session -- 10 Introducing mindfulness to clients -- Appropriateness -- Overcoming resistance -- Making the business case for mindfulness -- Running mindfulness programmes -- 11 The FEEL model -- FEEL: a model for applying mindfulness -- The model -- Client issues -- 12 Stress, anxiety, depression and work-life balance -- The good guy and the bad guy -- How stress affects us -- Approach and avoidance orientation -- Discrepancy-based processing -- How mindfulness can help -- Remedial coaching -- The great god of busyness -- 13 Resilience, happiness and wellbeing -- Definitions -- What makes us resilient? -- How mindfulness can help -- Health and wellbeing.

14 Uncertainty, change, complexity and interconnectedness -- Uncertainty -- Change and impermanence -- Complexity -- Systems and interconnectedness -- 15 Working with leaders -- What makes a leader resonant? -- Dissonance and burnout -- More mindful leaders -- Mindfulness within leadership models -- Emotional intelligence -- 16 Ethics -- Accountability -- Mindfulness and ethics -- Leadership characteristics -- Challenging -- Desire -- Tips on using mindfulness to promote ethics -- 17 Working with emotions -- Self-awareness -- Self-management -- Social awareness and relationship management -- Self-esteem, self-compassion and self-acceptance -- Growth in self-criticism -- Not easy -- Recommended mindfulness practices -- 18 Creativity -- Getting out of our own way -- 'Mistakes' and mindfulness -- Mindful music -- Helping our clients be more creative -- Creative thinking -- Using mindfulness with the client -- Tips for using mindfulness for creativity in clients -- Recommended mindfulness practices -- 19 Mindfulness and other approaches -- Mindfulness in movement -- Gestalt -- Integration -- Somatics -- Ontological coaching -- Transactional analysis -- Transpersonal coaching and psychosynthesis -- Cognitive behavioural coaching -- Acceptance and commitment therapy -- Thinking environment -- Inner Game -- PART FOUR The future -- 20 The Mindfulness in Coaching survey -- Coaches' experience of mindfulness -- Direct benefits for coaches -- General comments -- About the survey -- 21 The future is mindful -- Trends -- Conclusion -- References -- Further reading -- Index.