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  • As emotions are generated deep in the brain, the emotional experience feels personal. Emotions are like an endlessly changing stream of internal music on the lone voyage of the self.

    Yet, without other people the brain would not be able to generate the emotions that we claim so adamantly as our own. In her book How Emotions are Made, Lisa Feldman Barrett explains that our emotions are both a social and cultural construction that emerge from our interactions with each other and the culture around us.

    Language is a perfect example of a cultural construction. In many languages, there are words for emotions that do not exist in others. Many of you reading this right now are able to think of several words in your native language or in a second language which the English language doesn’t define.

    If a concept for an emotion does not exist in a language, does that mean that this emotion is not felt? Feldman Barrett argues that yes, language has a direct impact on emotional granularity - the ability to identify and name emotions with specificity.

    If a culture does not have a word for an emotion, it is more difficult to reference this emotion in our personal experience or in conversation with another person.

    An absence of words for a wide variety of emotions in one’s vocabulary, can reduce emotional granularity. Therefore, we could all benefit from learning foreign emotion concepts to increase our emotional literacy.

    On December 8, Lisa Feldman Barrett will join us for a public webinar on The New Scientific Understanding of Emotion, in which we’ll explore a radically new scientific understanding of what emotions are, how they are made, how they work, and how to navigate one’s emotional life.

    Register

    Let’s Expand the Emotion Constructs of the IOC Community

    There is substantial evidence that emotional granularity is closely linked to linguistic granularity. The more finely grained your vocabulary, the more precisely your brain can identify what’s happening in the body and calibrate your brain’s resources and demands accordingly.

    Studies show that people who exhibit higher emotional granularity go to the doctor less frequently, use medication less frequently, and spend fewer days hospitalized for illness.

    We can increase each other's emotional granularity by sharing the language constructs that are unique to our own cultures. We invite you to share an emotional construct that is unique to your native language or a second languages. We will create a resource for our community with all the emotion constructs shared. In doing so we will help each other become more emotionally granular.

    Register

    With gratitude for this amazing community,
    The IOC Team

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    Blair Johnson and Rebecca Acabchuk completed a review (2018) titled: What are the keys to a longer, happier life? Answers from five decades of health psychology research. They set out to share the field’s history, main themes and prominent findings, noting: “Health psychology emerged in recent decades as an important contributor to a broader effort aimed to ameliorate the most pressing health-related issues in the world today: health, medical care, stress and coping, and how best to prevent, treat, and/or manage chronic disease.”

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  • Mountain peak with clouds

    While there is an abundance of stressful or low moments for all of us in pandemic time, coaches are also experiencing peak moments in coaching. What is a peak coaching moment? Czech authors Honsová and Jarošová published a lovely qualitative paper on peak coaching experiences (2018). Here is a summary of the research, as well as actionable tips for coaches.

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  • Emotions: as hard to predict as the weather

    What if it turns out that we don’t know much what about what others are feeling now or what they will feel in the future? Thanks to the groundbreaking work and theory developed by psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, who presented at our 2019 conference, we are learning that emotions (akin to the weather) are constructed anew in every moment by our brains predictions, not triggered by what’s happening or fitting into consistent categories like anger, fear, or sadness. Further, by naming others’ emotions, we can disrupt their own experience of emerging emotions and the meaning the emotions convey.

    Share
    /
  • Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 11:30am to 1:00pm

    We invite you to learn how you can use some of the techniques used by social scientists to ground your coaching in a research-based foundation. This can involve incorporating research from thought leaders into your practice or using your own data to gain greater insights into your methodologies.  

    Go to Registration Page

  • Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm

    How are you feeling? Have you been riding a roller coaster of emotions lately? A blend of anxiety, stress, and frustration?  You aren’t alone. In this highly interactive session, Dr. Marc Brackett, director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of Permission To Feel, will share strategies that can help make the ride a little smoother.

    This is a public webinar. Attendance will be limited to the first 1000 people. The recording will be emailed to all registrants.

    Register

  • Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm

    Presenter:  Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD

    In this talk, we’ll explore a series of experiments about emotion whose conclusions seem to defy common sense. We’ll learn that common sense is wrong, and has been for 2000 years. In the process, we’ll dispel several of the most widespread fictions about emotions that lurk in boardrooms, classrooms and bedrooms around the world. We’ll then explore a radically new scientific understanding of what emotions are and how they work.

    Register

    This is a public webinar. Attendance will be limited to the first 1000 people. The recording will be emailed to all registrants.
    By signing up for this event I agree to be added to the IOC email list and receive updates, event invites, and  resources from IOC.

  • Thursday, December 17, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

    This highly interactive webinar covers the phenomenon of "silencing" in the executive suite — highlighting key original research findings; Dr. Carrie Arnold will review strategies successful people have used to recover and lead with voice currency.

    Go to Registration Page

  • Wednesday, January 13, 2021 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm

    It is more important than ever to learn how to identify burnout and especially, how to buffer against it. Drawing from her deep knowledge of human behavior, Stanford University-trained psychologist and Board Certified Leadership Coach, Dr. Jacinta M. Jiménez, will deliver a presentation to reveal 3 key science-backed steps to address burnout in uncertain times.

    Speaker:  Jacinta M. Jiménez, PsyD, BCC

    Register

    This is a public webinar. Attendance will be limited to the first 1000 people. The recording will be emailed to all registrants.
    By signing up for this event I agree to be added to the IOC email list and receive updates, event invites, and  resources from IOC.

  • The Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) is creating transformative change in the way people relate to and work with each other. CTI is the largest and oldest coach training and leadership development organization in the world—and the only program to teach its ground-breaking Co-Active Model. CTI was the very first organization accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF), has trained over 65,000 coaches worldwide, and today trains more new coaches each year than any other training program.

    CTI helps coaches and leaders around the globe navigate toward stronger relationships, integral solutions, and creating meaningful impact in the world. The work CTI does goes beyond training. Participants are guided through ground-breaking, contextually relevant learning experiences that ignite transformation and a lifelong commitment to expressing leadership.

    Co-Active Professional Coach Training & Certification: The Co-Active Professional Coach Training series is widely recognized as the most rigorous professional coach training and certification program in the industry. This program will prepare you to coach anyone with confidence, on any topic, supported by the Co-Active Model, which is known as the most flexible and proven model in the coaching world.
    https://coactive.com/training/coach-training/

    Co-Active Leadership Training: Today’s leaders need to be agile, collaborative, and, most importantly, relationship-focused—able to connect with, engage, and empower employees. Co-Active creates a new language of leadership that’s transforming business, organizations, and communities throughout the world.  https://coactive.com/training/leadership-training/

    Co-Active Coaching Toolkit: Get resources such as performance awareness appraisals, job performance wheels, corporate client profiles, corporate client discovery checklists, and more.   
    https://learn.coactive.com/toolkit-registration


    The Co-Active Model from CTI on Vimeo.

Director's Corner

  • As emotions are generated deep in the brain, the emotional experience feels personal. Emotions are like an endlessly changing stream of internal music on the lone voyage of the self.

    Yet, without other people the brain would not be able to generate the emotions that we claim so adamantly as our own. In her book How Emotions are Made, Lisa Feldman Barrett explains that our emotions are both a social and cultural construction that emerge from our interactions with each other and the culture around us.

    Language is a perfect example of a cultural construction. In many languages, there are words for emotions that do not exist in others. Many of you reading this right now are able to think of several words in your native language or in a second language which the English language doesn’t define.

    If a concept for an emotion does not exist in a language, does that mean that this emotion is not felt? Feldman Barrett argues that yes, language has a direct impact on emotional granularity - the ability to identify and name emotions with specificity.

    If a culture does not have a word for an emotion, it is more difficult to reference this emotion in our personal experience or in conversation with another person.

    An absence of words for a wide variety of emotions in one’s vocabulary, can reduce emotional granularity. Therefore, we could all benefit from learning foreign emotion concepts to increase our emotional literacy.

    On December 8, Lisa Feldman Barrett will join us for a public webinar on The New Scientific Understanding of Emotion, in which we’ll explore a radically new scientific understanding of what emotions are, how they are made, how they work, and how to navigate one’s emotional life.

    Register

    Let’s Expand the Emotion Constructs of the IOC Community

    There is substantial evidence that emotional granularity is closely linked to linguistic granularity. The more finely grained your vocabulary, the more precisely your brain can identify what’s happening in the body and calibrate your brain’s resources and demands accordingly.

    Studies show that people who exhibit higher emotional granularity go to the doctor less frequently, use medication less frequently, and spend fewer days hospitalized for illness.

    We can increase each other's emotional granularity by sharing the language constructs that are unique to our own cultures. We invite you to share an emotional construct that is unique to your native language or a second languages. We will create a resource for our community with all the emotion constructs shared. In doing so we will help each other become more emotionally granular.

    Register

    With gratitude for this amazing community,
    The IOC Team

Featured Research

  • Assorted metal keys on a white background

    Blair Johnson and Rebecca Acabchuk completed a review (2018) titled: What are the keys to a longer, happier life? Answers from five decades of health psychology research. They set out to share the field’s history, main themes and prominent findings, noting: “Health psychology emerged in recent decades as an important contributor to a broader effort aimed to ameliorate the most pressing health-related issues in the world today: health, medical care, stress and coping, and how best to prevent, treat, and/or manage chronic disease.”

    Share
    /
  • Mountain peak with clouds

    While there is an abundance of stressful or low moments for all of us in pandemic time, coaches are also experiencing peak moments in coaching. What is a peak coaching moment? Czech authors Honsová and Jarošová published a lovely qualitative paper on peak coaching experiences (2018). Here is a summary of the research, as well as actionable tips for coaches.

    Share
    /
  • Emotions: as hard to predict as the weather

    What if it turns out that we don’t know much what about what others are feeling now or what they will feel in the future? Thanks to the groundbreaking work and theory developed by psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, who presented at our 2019 conference, we are learning that emotions (akin to the weather) are constructed anew in every moment by our brains predictions, not triggered by what’s happening or fitting into consistent categories like anger, fear, or sadness. Further, by naming others’ emotions, we can disrupt their own experience of emerging emotions and the meaning the emotions convey.

    Share
    /

News & Events

  • Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 11:30am to 1:00pm

    We invite you to learn how you can use some of the techniques used by social scientists to ground your coaching in a research-based foundation. This can involve incorporating research from thought leaders into your practice or using your own data to gain greater insights into your methodologies.  

    Go to Registration Page

  • Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm

    How are you feeling? Have you been riding a roller coaster of emotions lately? A blend of anxiety, stress, and frustration?  You aren’t alone. In this highly interactive session, Dr. Marc Brackett, director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of Permission To Feel, will share strategies that can help make the ride a little smoother.

    This is a public webinar. Attendance will be limited to the first 1000 people. The recording will be emailed to all registrants.

    Register

  • Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm

    Presenter:  Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD

    In this talk, we’ll explore a series of experiments about emotion whose conclusions seem to defy common sense. We’ll learn that common sense is wrong, and has been for 2000 years. In the process, we’ll dispel several of the most widespread fictions about emotions that lurk in boardrooms, classrooms and bedrooms around the world. We’ll then explore a radically new scientific understanding of what emotions are and how they work.

    Register

    This is a public webinar. Attendance will be limited to the first 1000 people. The recording will be emailed to all registrants.
    By signing up for this event I agree to be added to the IOC email list and receive updates, event invites, and  resources from IOC.

  • Thursday, December 17, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

    This highly interactive webinar covers the phenomenon of "silencing" in the executive suite — highlighting key original research findings; Dr. Carrie Arnold will review strategies successful people have used to recover and lead with voice currency.

    Go to Registration Page

  • Wednesday, January 13, 2021 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm

    It is more important than ever to learn how to identify burnout and especially, how to buffer against it. Drawing from her deep knowledge of human behavior, Stanford University-trained psychologist and Board Certified Leadership Coach, Dr. Jacinta M. Jiménez, will deliver a presentation to reveal 3 key science-backed steps to address burnout in uncertain times.

    Speaker:  Jacinta M. Jiménez, PsyD, BCC

    Register

    This is a public webinar. Attendance will be limited to the first 1000 people. The recording will be emailed to all registrants.
    By signing up for this event I agree to be added to the IOC email list and receive updates, event invites, and  resources from IOC.

Sponsor

  • The Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) is creating transformative change in the way people relate to and work with each other. CTI is the largest and oldest coach training and leadership development organization in the world—and the only program to teach its ground-breaking Co-Active Model. CTI was the very first organization accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF), has trained over 65,000 coaches worldwide, and today trains more new coaches each year than any other training program.

    CTI helps coaches and leaders around the globe navigate toward stronger relationships, integral solutions, and creating meaningful impact in the world. The work CTI does goes beyond training. Participants are guided through ground-breaking, contextually relevant learning experiences that ignite transformation and a lifelong commitment to expressing leadership.

    Co-Active Professional Coach Training & Certification: The Co-Active Professional Coach Training series is widely recognized as the most rigorous professional coach training and certification program in the industry. This program will prepare you to coach anyone with confidence, on any topic, supported by the Co-Active Model, which is known as the most flexible and proven model in the coaching world.
    https://coactive.com/training/coach-training/

    Co-Active Leadership Training: Today’s leaders need to be agile, collaborative, and, most importantly, relationship-focused—able to connect with, engage, and empower employees. Co-Active creates a new language of leadership that’s transforming business, organizations, and communities throughout the world.  https://coactive.com/training/leadership-training/

    Co-Active Coaching Toolkit: Get resources such as performance awareness appraisals, job performance wheels, corporate client profiles, corporate client discovery checklists, and more.   
    https://learn.coactive.com/toolkit-registration


    The Co-Active Model from CTI on Vimeo.