The Science of Coaching
We are a world-class Center of Excellence for the innovation of coaching practices, dedicated to delivering best evidence-based practice and expert services in the field. We are providing a range of services which will help you develop and implement innovative ideas.
The European Coaching Center, within the Institute, evaluates the effectiveness of coaching interventions, tools, techniques, and processes. It is a Center of Excellence dedicated to data collection and evidence-based health and productivity research, with implica
tions for cognitive-behavioral coaching. The cutting-edge research strengthens the Institute's educational services by constantly updating the course content. The Institute develops cutting edge professional coaching tools, techniques, and resources trough the research conducted by our Center using a scientific approach to the coaching programs and testing best practices, techniques, processes, and practical models.
Research shows that in order to achieve successful change, the mental aspects which underlie a person's and/or a group's actions are the critically important elements, which require rigorous assessment and management. As professional coaches we are aware that only validated cognitive and behavioral techniques can achieve genuine, sustainable, and measurable results. Changing behavior with the right techniques can have a dramatic, beneficial impact on human dynamics, the cultural and environmental context of an organization, and the organization's performance. However, changing behaviors and strong emotions is not an easy work when it comes to changing a lifetime’s habits. It is therefore important that we understand how to professionally use the cognitive and behavioral tools that are related to our particular area of practice and expertise.
One of the reasons why cognitive-behavioral techniques are employed by professional coaching practitioners is that they allow for data to be gathered on specific targeted behaviors, impacting the practice of a professional skill. By using appropriately validated cognitive-behavioral changing technology, these targeted behaviors can easily be measured and their effectiveness evaluated in a rigorous manner. Cognitive-Behavioral Coaching, with its emphasis on research and evidence, provides individuals and organizations with a validated system that greatly increases their chances of obtaining lasting behavioral change.
The International Coaching Institute and its European Coaching Center are connected with the following new frontier research programs:
- The Platform for Robotics/Robotherapy and Virtual Reality Therapy (www.psytech.ro) (Centers and Laboratories)
- The Platform for Advanced Imaging - fMRI/EEG - in Clinical Cognitive Sciences (www.psychotherapy.ro) (Centers and Laboratories)
Research projects/programs
Emotion-regulation and mental health in the workplace
Project Director: Oana Gavita, Ph.D
This project is a joint collaboration with the West University Timisoara supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-RU-PD-2011-3-0131 https://sites.google.com/site/emotionregulationworkplace/home
Research group in Cognitive-Behavioral Coaching for Performance & Human Development
Group Leaders: Oana Gavita, Ph.D. & Sebastian Pintea, Ph.D.
https://sites.google.com/site/cognitivebehavioralcoaching/home
http://www.clinicalpsychology.ro/2011/01/
You can now receive free psychological intervention for anxiety by enrolling in a research project which uses exposure through Virtual Reality.
- Do you feel very anxious before giving a speech or a making a presentation?
- Do you feel very anxious while travelling by the plane?
- Do you avoid being by yourself in the crowd or getting out in public places because of your strong fear?
You can now receive with NO COST evidence-based psychological intervention through the studies we are conducting on our Platform of Virtual Reality “Matrix” and the SkyRa Platform for Advanced Imaging. In order to participate to one of the studies we are running, you can send us an email at coaching.clinicalpsychology@gmail.com. First step will be the psychological asessment for checking your eligibility for our projects.
Emotion-regulation processes in parenting and evidence-based parent programs
Principal investigator: Oana Gavita, Ph.D.
This is a line of research aiming to investigate the effect of emotion-regulation strategies for parental distress and parent practices and their involvement in child adjustment; also, we are aiming to enhance parent programs based on the innovative findings in fundamental research and test their efficacy/efficiency (psychotherapeutic or coaching parent programs) in the treatment of child disorders and promotion of child adjustment.