Men’s Self-Leadership Compassionate Coaching

Build Resilient, Authentic Leadership Through Compassion and Clarity
Self-leadership coaching for men who want to thrive under pressure and lead with emotional intelligence.

What is Self-Leadership Compassionate Coaching (SCC)

elementas is delighted to offer you a new method of business leadership coaching that is simple and effective.  It is an approach informed by hands-on experiences in business, from big corporations to SMEs. It is born from extensive research, training, and wisdom from mindfulness experts worldwide. 

This innovative approach to leadership is called self-leadership. It integrates traditional executive business coaching with the latest understanding of mindfulness, compassion leadership and emotional regulation techniques. Our approach improves business leaders’ quality of life, resilience, and overall well-being, which they can share with their employees, customers, and loved ones.

Benefits for Leaders

Self-leadership coaching will help you motivate and lead yourself and others in demanding business environments by cultivating self-compassion, resilience and better communication. You will develop capacity for presence, awareness and methods to hold more difficulty and regulate your emotions under stress. Leading to more clarity and wisdom. Ultimately this translates to resilience and wellness in work, life and play.

What is Compassion, and what does it have to do with Leadership?

The UK’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development annual Health and Wellbeing at Work Survey (2022) states that workers “want leaders who are not afraid to show compassion.” 

“… When we help ourselves and have a warm, accepting sense of ourselves, we are better able to have a warm and accepting appreciation of all those we lead, work with and encounter, therefore enabling us to show them compassion more easily” Professor West 2022

About Lou Booth’s Research-Backed Coaching Approach

Self-Leadership Compassionate Coaching was born out of Lou’s love of business coaching and her five years of study and research for a Master’s in Mindfulness Studies from Aberdeen University, where she could bridge ideas from theory to practice. These sessions bridge science with practice, fundamental tools, and resources that you can use immediately in your business role and daily life. Lou will show you how, by developing the qualities of self-compassion, you can reduce the impact of stress and build wellness by using inner psychological resources for resilience. 

Lou Booth (elementas founder)

Executive Coach, Wellness and Mindfulness Practioner Masters in Mindfulness Studies, BA (Hons) Management and CIM Marketing DipM

07715814833 Lou@elementas.co.uk

“Compassion involves the recognition of suffering, adds warm-heartedness to empathy and includes the move to reduce suffering if possible.

Self-compassion is when we apply that attitude and feeling to ourselves.”

Dr Hanson (2023) Author of Resilience

Working together, you will have the tools and techniques to quickly feel motivated and confident to apply these learnings and tools to your daily life to:

The Benefits of Self-Leadership Coaching

  • Self-lead from a place of being centred and authentic.
  • Manage your challenges, pressure, and stress while staying happy, healthy and well. 
  • Quickly access your inner wisdom for insights and clarity in the moment.
  • Develop self-care, strength, and courage, and build a positive, resilient mindset. 

You will:

  • Master the skills to recognise and regulate your emotions under stress. 
  • Learn to be with and tolerate difficulty without denying or being overtly triggered. 
  • Acquire new tools and techniques, be motivated, find courage and strength for wise action and success.
  • Explore expressions of compassionate leadership; tender yin and tough yang. You will track your gaps and determine what you must do to achieve balance. 
  • Develop a grounded, safe methodology for confidently delving into your inner landscape with accurate emotional intelligence—working out what’s up! 
  • Feel more confident in navigating your external business terrain with ease.
  • Discover more calm, clear focus and wisdom and insights in the midst of a noisy and distracting world.
  • Experience more purpose, more motivation, and more satisfaction.

We will build the foundation with an understanding of compassion for others and self and what this means to you. We will create a process for reflection and a methodology for cultivating the three elements of self-compassion, and together, we’ll chart your progress digitally.  You will reboot your natural inner wayfinder to navigate your journey more confidently.

You will experience the joy that comes from skillfully being in the moment (as opposed to ruminating or distracting), handle the highs and lows better, and move through challenges quickly with self-care. 

“where attention goes, neural firing flows and neural connections grow”

Siegal D, 2018

Testimonials

“…I need to be kind to myself, to be kind to others, to understand other people to lead… by example…I don’t think I can be a good leader without recognising I need to look after myself…”
Nathan, IT Operational Director Consultancy

You will strengthen your personal and professional relationships to ensure support and experience for a better quality of life. Together, we will hardwire and build additional psychological resources by focusing on your wins, fueling your resilience and well-being.

“And the biggest ones is that’s difficult is to congratulate yourself… I mentioned in one of the earlier sessions… quite deep and meaningful.” “… helps you have some form of toolkit…. self-compassion will be about using some practical tools for me that will be supportive in work and home and everything else.”

“A treasure chest”.

Chris MD Culture and Creative Industries

Like any transformational process, Compassionate Self-Leadership takes focus, persistence and effort. The results are astonishing. 

Like learning to put your own life jacket on first !

I am excited to reveal that the third participant has just completed the process and agreed to be a case study (coming soon).

Below is an example session schedule and an appointment form for discussing improving your personal and business health. I will guide you through the process of balancing challenges with care.

Session 1 – Your Leadership Consultation – We will explore and map your wellness needs, aims, aspirations and goals. Together, we will decide the areas to focus your energy on that will benefit you best. Drawing upon tools from neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, executive coaching, MSc mindfulness, compassion and insights training, I will teach you how to fail faster and move on quicker with less criticism—moving through change to get results and find new meaning to thrive and flourish.We will go through the 5-minute online reflective journal.

Session 2 – Compassion and Self-compassion— What does compassion for self and others mean to you? As foundational practices for the coming weeks, we will start to use the 3 main tools that you will be using over the coming weeks and months.  

Session 3 – Recognising Your Negative Habitual Tendencies and Flow of Compassion. We’ll identify strategies to build on what you are good at so you can cope better and become more resilient with practical actions to make quick personal improvements.

Session 4 – Tools for Calm, Clarity and Motivation. Linking sessions 3 and 3, we will work together to move from difficulty, confusion and distraction to rest, clarity, awareness, and presence, harnessing your inner resources, including patience, resilience, and courage.

Session 5 – Focus, Clarity and Discernment Dealing in Change and Transition – Building on session 4, we will strengthen your focus, clarity and discernment to handle unplanned and unforeseen situations better.

Session 6 – Developing Communications with Self and Others – Building on your self-awareness and awareness of others. We will work on your ability to hear better and communicate more effectively in your day-to-day conversations. We will deal with tricky emotions, including the internalised “inner critic”. I will share techniques to harness your emotional intelligence and ways to ground yourself before navigating tough conversations.

Session 7 – Bringing it all together – In your review session, we appraise your progress. Together, we will share insights in the overview of your journey infographic from your digital diary. We will celebrate where your strengths are, the challenges you have overcome and the treasures and resources you have cultivated through your endurance, courage and commitment to your path. Bringing you the strength and insights to continue to apply this approach personally and professionally. Your tried and tested resources as your own personalised tool kit and treasure chest for your resilience and wellness.

Cost: £1950 includes an initial 1-hour consultation and 6 x 90-minute sessions. £250 deposit is required before the first session. Split payments are available by contract agreement.

Timescale: Your sessions are planned around your needs. Most clients meet weekly for the first few sessions, then fortnightly, and then 3-4 weeks for the remainder of the sessions, depending on what we are working with. Session 1’s one-hour consultation will be by phone or video conference. Compassionate Self-leadership Sessions can be online, face-to-face, or hybrid.

Sessions: Your sessions will be with elementas owner and founder Lou Booth. Lou holds a Master of Science in Mindfulness from Aberdeen University. Her specialist area of research is in applying Mindful Self-compassion to Leadership Coaching.

To book your sessions (limited evening availability), please fill in the contact form or WhatsApp or call Lou on 07715814833

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References

BOOTH, L. (2023) Mindful Self-compassion Research- A Pilot Model for Coaching Male Business Leaders MSc Studies Mindfulness Aberdeen University. 

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