ACT Your Way to a Values-Based Life! - Sarah Leach

Do you always seem to be taking steps that move you away from where you want to be? Ever wondered why? Defuse from those thoughts that hook you, accept what is, notice the story and do it anyway!

Based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and recommended by NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) in 2021 to help manage chronic pain, it is focused on the development of psychological flexibility. As a third wave cognitive behavioural approach, ACT allows you to live life in alignment with those things that are important to you, no matter how uncomfortable it might feel in the moment.

If you are interested in living a values-based life and want to support your clients to do the same, this session will help you understand and experiment with some of the basic principles of ACT coaching.

All coaches or leaders who are interested in living a values-based life and want to support their clients to do the same.

Sarah Leach is a Lecturer in Coaching at Henley Business School. She is an author and executive coach, running her own coaching practice since 2013 following ten years of corporate experience in the utility sector, leading and enabling business change.

Sarah has explored ACT coaching in _Third Wave Cognitive Behavioural Coaching: Contextual, Behavioural and Neuroscience Approaches for Evidence Based Coaches_ (edited by Sarah and Jonathan Passmore, 2022).

As a professional certified coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation, master strengthscope practitioner, and licensed Myers–Briggs Type Indicator and TMS practitioner, she draws on a number of tools to enable deeper insight and meaningful change for her clients. She has a particular interest in a strengths based approach to enabling change, career, leadership and work life balance topics. Sarah has a postgraduate diploma in management studies and is completing an MSc in Coaching for Behavioural Change.

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