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37 Mindfulness in coaching: Choosing our attitude

Jonathan Passmore

Abstract

This short article focuses on a specific technique: Attitude Choice. The paper offers a short description of the process and when this technique may be most helpful within a coaching conversation. It builds on the previous papers which have briefly reviewed the science and potential for mindfulness approaches in coaching and other techniques.

As a technique paper, I have deliberately kept the discussion short, but for those interested in the wider evidence behind the application of mindfulness, a more detailed review is included in earlier papers, as well as other techniques which can be used alongside attitude choice (Passmore, 20171a, 2017b and 2017c). For a comprehensive review, readers may wish to review Michael Cavanagh and Gordon Spence’s critical review of the mindfulness literature (Cavanagh & Spence, 2013).

Keywords

Mindfulness coaching; meditation; coaching psychology.

Original publication details: Passmore, J. (2018, June). Mindfulness in coaching: Choosing our attitude. The Coaching Psychologist, 14(1), 48–49. Reproduced with permission of The British Psychological Society.

This paper is one of a series of papers focusing on mindfulness techniques that can be used by coaching psychologists with their clients (Passmore, 2017b, 2017c). The focus in this paper is on helping clients to be more aware of their attitudes through being more mindful. Using this approach should allow the individual ...