Enhancing Resilience using Cognitive Behavioural Coaching
Professor Stephen Palmer PhD CPsychol FAC MISCP Accred
Enhancing employee resilience is becoming a popular topic since the
downturn in the economy. This paper will consider the resilience
construct and will identify the characteristics commonly associated with
resilience. It will highlight recent research which indicates the
percentage of coaching psychologists reporting that they undertake
resilience coaching within their practice.
A cognitive behavioural coaching approach to enhance resilience will be discussed which includes a
range of techniques and strategies. Eliciting Resilience Undermining Thoughts (RUTs) and developing
Resilience Enhancing Thoughts (RETs) will be included. There will be an opportunity for delegates to
quickly identify their own key RUTs. Specific items covered in this paper include:
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What is resilience?
The key characteristics associated with resilience
The three C’s of Hardiness
The cognitive behavioural coaching approach
Resilience Undermining Thoughts (RUTs) and thinking errors
Resilience Enhancing Thoughts (RETs)
The ABCDEF cognitive behavioural model and techniques used in coaching to enhance
resilience in work or personal domains using the 5 column RET coaching worksheets
How imagery techniques can be used to enhance resilience
A brief overview of some of the resilience measurement scales
About the Presenter
Professor Stephen Palmer PhD is an award winning Chartered Psychologist, an APECS Accredited
Executive Coach and Supervisor, and International Society for Coaching Psychology Accredited
Coaching Psychologist and Supervisor. He is on the new BPS SGCP Register of Coaching Psychologists
and he is Fellow of the Association for Coaching. He has written or edited 40 books including the
Handbook of Coaching Psychology: A Guide for Practitioners (with Whybrow, 2007) and Cognitive
Behavioural Coaching in Practice: An Evidence Based Approach (with Neenan, 2011). He is UK Coordinating Editor of the International Coaching Psychology Review, and Executive Editor of Coaching:
An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. He is Director of the Coaching Psychology
Unit at City University and Director of the Centre for Coaching, International Academy for
Professional Development Ltd, London. He was the first Chair of the BPS Special Group in Coaching
Psychology and currently the Treasurer. He is President of the International Society for Coaching
Psychology. For over 10 years he is a Visiting Professor in Work Based Learning and Stress
Management at The Institute for Work Based Learning, Middlesex University. His interests include
astronomy, coastal walking and art.