Secrets of Success in Coaching

92 THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS IN COACHING

Tuning your emotional levels

You walk into a room full of people and immediately sense

an atmosphere. You don’t know why, but your emotions have

been triggered and you are alert to other people’s tension.

Although the neural mechanisms underlying this ability

are not fully understood, the recent discovery of a special

class of neuron, the ‘mirror’ neuron, has provided some

clues about how people make this instinctive connection at

an emotional level. They were first identified when a group

of researchers found individual neurons in the brains of

macaque monkeys that fired when the monkeys ...