Social and Emotional Intelligence: New Thinking, New Choices in Life Coaching

Dr. Clare Steffen, The Founding and Executive Director of Coaching Choice College and CE4coaches explores social and emotional intelligence (SEI) from a multi-faceted model. This handbook allows life coaches and therapists to examine SEI and consider ways to utilize it with clients to improve their ability to create healthy relationships, make healthier life choices, and to develop a philosophy for living that is sustainable. The Cognitions of Choice (COC) developed by Dr. Steffen provides the client with the tools to learn about their thinking process and to better understand ways it is connected to how they manage and regulate emotions. The COC model is an approach to assist clients in understanding how to move automatic thoughts that can be unhealthy into a conscious choice that supports wellness. Through each step, the client can learn how to invite, investigate, and initiate new choice thinking. The integration of COC with SEI offers a way for coaches and therapist to utilize a variety of cognitive-behavioral approaches, and to teach the client how to connect to meta-thinking, and ultimately utilize mindfulness in their every day lives. The social and emotional intelligence (SEI) handbook is designed to assist life coaches and therapists in bringing a practical application of SEI to life coaching. Teach your clients how to develop the traits, skills, and abilities of SEI for practical application in everyday life. Ultimately, the clients can be taught these methods and will display an improved ability to identify, regulate, and manage their emotions in various relationships. Taking SEI from the conceptual to the practical is a way to assist clients in making the desired life changes and to create a new philosophy for living. Understanding how thinking, feeling, and behaviors impact underlying beliefs is crucial in changing old patterns of thoughts that fuel poor life choices. New thinking, New choices is the way to help your clients become the best version of themselves and to guide them to healthier living.