Institute of Coaching - Conference

2014 Conference Video: Opening Remarks with Carol Kauffman PhD

Danad t Deek — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:56:48 +0000

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Carol Kauffman PhD, Executive Director, opens the 2014 Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference sponsored by Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital and the Institute of Coaching.

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Kauffman, Carol

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Video

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Internal/Organizational Coaching, Health / Well-being, Positive Psychology, Life Coaching

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Coaching Competencies, Coaching Basics, Conference, Conference 2014

The Power of Wisdom in the Age of AI

Danad t Deek — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:16:24 +0000

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The world is undergoing massive technological changes, and AI will be an integral part of this next chapter of life. While computer intelligence is increasing at lightning speed, there are elements it will never replace, including the power of human connection and presence. Yes, we need answers to certain questions AI will provide, but there are other questions that can only be accessed when we are able to receive support through the presence of another person, someone who is able to foster genuine human connection and empathy.

While some jobs will be replaced, other opportunities will present themselves, and our job is to navigate this time and continue to offer our own gifts and talents. This talk will explore this topic, looking at how we can both harness the emerging power of AI, while also remembering what is most essential to our life and work that no machine can replace.

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Video

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Health / Well-being

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Conference, Conference 2024, Wisdom, Artificial Intelligence

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Brain Energy: Lifestyle Interventions for Mental Health

Danad t Deek — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:12:37 +0000

Author:

Palmer, Christopher

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Mental disorders are a growing crisis and are now the leading cause of disease burden and disability worldwide. Although current treatments can work, they fail to work for far too many people. The brain energy theory integrates decades of clinical, epidemiological, basic science, neuroimaging, genetic, and metabolic research into one coherent theory: mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain. This theory integrates biological, psychological, and social theories of mental illness and offers new treatments that come with the hope of long-term healing as opposed to just symptom reduction. This presentation will offer a high-level overview of the brain energy theory and some of the lifestyle treatments that it offers, including changes in diet, exercise, hormones, substance use, sleep, and some of the nuances and concerns with current treatments.

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Video

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Health / Well-being

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Conference, Conference 2024, Mental Health

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Climate-conscious lifestyle: Are you in need of a makeover?

Danad t Deek — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:10:10 +0000

Author:

Johnson, Mary Margaret

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Climate change is the greatest global threat to health. Moreover, last year the United Nations declared that a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a human right. This session will provide an overview of how climate change is impacting our health, especially for the most vulnerable, and strategies that each one of us can implement to help minimize the impact.

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Video

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Health / Well-being

Resource Topics:

Conference, Conference 2024, Climate Change

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Unlocking Growth Through Intelligent Failures: The Strategic Advantage of Embracing Fallibility

Danad t Deek — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:06:27 +0000

Author:

Edmondson, Amy

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The hyper-competitive business landscape has leaders trapped in a dilemma: embrace risks and the inherent possibility of failure, or avoid them and stagnate? Harvard Business School Professor and bestselling author Amy Edmondson says while most missteps can be avoided, intelligent failures are gold mines of learning and innovation. As she explains in her highly anticipated new book, “Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well” (September 2023), leaders can transform their perspective on setbacks by embracing the intelligent failures that are vital to innovation.

She likewise uncovers how basic and complex failures can reveal and prevent future recurrences. With Edmondson’s approach, leaders and teams gain specifically tailored practices, skills and mindsets for taking smart risks and using their inevitable mistakes as springboards for profound learning and competitive differentiation.

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Video

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Health / Well-being

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Conference, Conference 2024

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What Actually Makes Us Happy? Lessons from an 85-Year Study of Life

Danad t Deek — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:03:00 +0000

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Waldinger, Robert J.

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For most of the 20th century we measured our wellbeing solely on the basis of gross domestic product. In the last 20 years, people have taken a serious look at what makes us happy. The UN publishes a yearly report that identifies the conditions that people say they need to live a happy life, and they are fairly uniform across all cultures and income levels. These factors include social support, health, freedom to make life choices, and trust. Yet when we survey millennials in the US about their most important life goals, they tell us that they want to become rich and famous and achieve a great deal at work.

The disconnect is due at least in part to what we are told we should want and should make us happy, through constant bombardment from media about what life should look like. The Harvard Study of Adult Development is one of the only studies in history to track the same people from adolescence into their 90s, to find out what really makes us thrive. We find that the breadth and depth of our relationships with others are keys to wellbeing as we age – not just happiness, but physical health. Loneliness is toxic, and many people are lonely. We find that material things make us less happy than experiences. Although relationships are key to our thriving, we have stopped investing in others over the last 70 years. Beginning with the arrival of television in every home, and increasing with the advent of our electronic screens, we have greatly diminished the frequency with which we invite others to our homes, have family dinners, and invest in community activities and religious institutions. We must actively tend to our connections with others in order to foster our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of those we care about.

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Video

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Health / Well-being

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Conference, Conference 2024, Well-Being

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The Wisdom of Constructive Communication for Navigating Relationships in Tough Times

Danad t Deek — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 03:59:22 +0000

Author:

Stephens, John Paul

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How we respond to each other in good times and bad is at the heart of human relationships. Our capacity to share both positive and negative emotions and experiences is a marker of the quality of our connections with each other, but can be challenged by the stressors we encounter as we move through a fractious and pain-filled world.

Expressing both positive and negative emotions must be done constructively so that relationship partners can learn and grow from their mutual sharing. In this talk, I will explore what “constructive” communication is, what it is not, what it takes to practice it, and the role of coaching for strengthening this important skill.

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Video

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Health / Well-being

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Conference, Conference 2024, Wisdom

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Day 2 Opening, Ellen Shub Award for Coaching for Social Good & Poster Award Presentations

Danad t Deek — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 03:55:35 +0000

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Day 2 Opening

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Video

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Health / Well-being

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Conference, Conference 2024, Poster Award

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A New Role for Coaching: "Midwife for Midlife Wisdom"

Danad t Deek — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 03:51:02 +0000

Author:

Conley, Chip

Summary:

What if midlife isn't a crisis, but a chrysalis, a time for radical transformation? That's one of the questions NY Times bestseller author and MEA founder and CEO Chip Conley asks in his new book, “Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better With Age." Chip's midlife wisdom school, MEA, and book are meant to be a PSA to the unexpected pleasures and joys of midlife.

On average, we’re becoming wiser, less reactive, more generous, and happier as we get older. Our life has gained a rich patina. Coaches have the capacity to midwife their midlife clients through this deeply transformative era of their life, but there haven't been enough schools and tools for this life stage. Like a midwife, a coach doesn’t have to be called in for the dramatic moments, just at the exciting time of birth, but can support the whole person throughout the entire process. In this expansive and expanding role for coaches, they too need tools, self-awareness and the presence to be truly available with clients during what can be a challenging transition. In this engaging review of the research into midlife, an emergent time of possibility and creativity, Chip will offer guidance for coaches to source their own inner wisdom--to move beyond competency to mastery--in their commitment to manifest the fullest potential of their clients--and themselves.

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Video

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Health / Well-being

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Conference, Conference 2024, Wisdom

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Challenge Your Growth: Developmental Coaching to Foster Healthcare Professionals

Danad t Deek — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 03:46:16 +0000

Author:

de Pagter, Anne

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Healthcare professionals are very engaged despite the extreme workload and responsibility they face day in and day out. As staff shortage, exhaustion and burn-out is linked with reduced quality of care, it is of utmost importance to optimize support programmes to foster engagement, optimal professional development and lifelong learning among healthcare professionals. How to initiate evidence-based support interventions? Developmental coaching may be part of the solution.

In this session, Dr. Anne P.J. de Pagter will bring science and practice together to discuss coaching research focused on healthcare professionals. She will share insights from an ongoing nationwide initiative to provide coaching to medical students, residents, physicians, and nurses across multiple hospitals in the Netherlands.

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Video

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Health / Well-being

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Conference, Conference 2024, Developmental Coaching

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