1st Edition
Social Therapeutic Coaching A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work
Combining social therapeutics with the practice of coaching, this book guides coaches and mental health professionals in how to coach groups and couples using this innovative method.
Drawing from the authors’ combined 50 years of experience, Social Therapeutic Coaching: A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work empowers practitioners to break away from focusing on individual change to focusing on groups and their emotional growth. Early chapters touch on the history of coaching and powerful discoveries of social therapeutics before diving into how to lead a social therapeutic group. Sackett and Dabby explain how to incorporate the concept of human relationality into coaching sessions, demonstrating how it extends group work beyond assembling like-minded individuals with similar goals into bringing together diverse people with diverse issues that they want to work on and grow around. It also brings a fresh lens to working with couples, in which the focus is on discovering what "the relationship" needs, rather than trying to get individuals to compromise, change or work towards a preconceived shared vision for an end goal.
Written in an accessible style and filled with extensive case studies and examples, Social Therapeutic Coaching provides a powerful toolkit for coaches, counselors, psychotherapists, social workers, HR and talent development professionals, community-based leaders and social entrepreneurs.
Introduction Part I: How Did We Get Here? 1. A Brief History of Coaching 2. The Emergence of Social Therapeutics 3. Why Groups 4. Seeing Emotional Growth as the Path to Transformation Part II: Coach as Social Therapeutic Group Leader 5. The Social Therapeutic Group Leader 6. Group Coaching Nuts and Bolts Part III: The Social Therapeutic Couples Coach 7. Social Therapeutic Couples Coaching 8. Couples Coaching Nuts and Bolts Part IV: Applied Social Therapeutic Case Studies 9. Six Case Studies 10. Conclusion
Biography
Carrie Sackett is the founder of ZPD Coaching and an IABC Gold Quill award-winning employee engagement professional. She serves as an Associate at the East Side Institute in Manhattan, USA.
Murray Dabby, MSSW, is the Director of the Atlanta Center for Social Therapy and co-founder of innovative group-based therapeutic programs—The Couples College and Curtain Up, Anxiety Down.
"This is a rare book that succeeds in uniting theory and practice. Even rarer is doing it with such joy. As a practical-philosophical guide, Social Therapeutic Coaching brings the history, concepts and practices of social therapeutics to the field of coaching and, in the process, enriches both of them."
Lois Holzman, PhD, Director, East Side Institute, USA
"The innovations of social therapeutics inform my coaching practice every day. This book is a ground-breaking offering for co-creating trust, connection, belonging and community; and, most importantly, for supporting our clients to achieve their goals in life and work."
Elizabeth C. Hechtman, MS, PCC, CPCC, Past President, ICF Philadelphia
"Sackett and Dabby define a new niche in the modern coaching industry. Social Therapeutic Coaching introduces new/old knowledge so that coaches can help the masses during this rather difficult time of “humaning”. This book is brilliant on so many levels."
Michael Tucker MA, PCC, CSM, CSPO
"I have experienced the power of social therapeutic group and couples work as a client. It has changed my own life and my practice as a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Sackett and Dabby teach tools for emotional closeness. I encourage practitioners of all types to read it."
Aneil M. Shirke, M.D., Ph.D., FABPN, FABP
