Perspectives and challenges for the study of brain responses to coaching: Enhancing the dialogue between the fields of neuroscience and coaching psychology

Article: The interest in coaching psychology and neuroscience have been steadily increasing over the past 15 years. However, the two fields have not yet established consistent dialogues underpinned by experimental research. This paper highlights the importance of such dialogue for the growth of evidence-based coaching and how coaching psychology could benefit from previous neuroimaging and electroencephalographic studies in the field of psychotherapy and task-specific brain functioning to design research protocols that could significantly contribute to our understanding of how coaching works at the brain level and how coachees could best achieve results.

Article: Brain aging: A Ianus‐faced player between health and neurodegeneration

An interesting article on neurodegeneration.

Citation: Vanni S, Colini Baldeschi A, Zattoni M, Legname G. Brain aging: A Ianus‐faced player between health and neurodegeneration. J Neuro Res. 2019;00:1–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/jnr.24379

We are pleased to announce that Dr Gisele Dias PhD has joined the Centre for Neuroscience faculty. Dr Dias is a neuroscientist, psychologist and coaching psychologist. She is Director of the Coaching Psychology Unit and member of the Translational Neurobiology Unit at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.

She has published several original articles and review papers in both psychology and neuroscience journals. This includes articles on coaching psychology and also the problems involved in undertaking neuroscience research applied to the field of coaching psychology.

Her main research areas of interest are the neurobiological correlates of coaching outcomes and the interface between coaching, positive psychology and mental health/wellbeing. She is first author of “Cognitive-behavioural coaching: evidence-based and solution-focused human development”, published in Brazil in 2015 by Editora Cognitiva.

Professor Stephen Palmer,  said, “We are really pleased that Dr Gisele Dias has joined the team. Her experience in both coaching psychology and neuroscience brings together two fields that are of great interest to our students at our affiliated centres which are attached to the International Academy for Professional Development.”

Centre for Neuroscience, London, officially launched on 6th May 2016

The International Academy for Professional Development Ltd and the National Wellbeing Service Ltd launched the Centre for Neuroscience on 6th May, 2016 to focus on developing and providing neuroscience courses that are linked to the programmes already provided by our associated centres and faculties, the Centre for Coaching and the Centre for Stress Management.

Director, Professor Stephen Palmer PhD said, “We are delighted to launch the Centre for Neuroscience. We already include neuroscience and psychobiology in our lectures on various courses at the International Academy for Professional Development and our centres. However, many of our students and alumni have expressed an interest in learning more about neuroscience linked to stress, resilience, wellbeing, health, psychotherapy and coaching. We will be launching courses in 2016 to support their interests.”

The International Academy for Professional Development Ltd was established in 2010 to bring together approved centres and faculties of expertise that provide professional development courses and programmes to professionals around the world.