Global HR Forum 2014 | D-1 | The Art of Emotion Coaching

Global HR Forum 2014 | D-1 | The Art of Emotion Coaching * John Gottman Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Washington * Julie Gottman President & Co-Founder, The Gottman Institute Moderated by * Peck Cho Distinguished Professor, Dongguk University Emotion coaching is described in Gottman and DeClaire’s ‘Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child’. Emotion coaching is a new approach to parenting that focuses in on moments in a child’s life when he or she is experiencing an emotion as an opportunity for intimacy and teaching. It is an approach to listening to a child and connecting with the child’s inner world. The form of parenting described by Hart & Risley in their powerful book ‘Meaningful differences in the everyday experience of young American Childen (1995)’ was also a form of emotion coaching. Emotion coaching has spurred a great deal of new research. Emotion coaching has now been evaluated and found to be effective in 3 randomized clinical trials by Australian psychologist Sophie Havig