Coaching
Positive Psychology and Coaching are a perfect match. Coaching offers you tailored support for your professional and personal life. Miriam has an online coaching practice with clients in the UK, Europe, North America, the Middle East and New Zealand. The USP is Positive Psychology Coaching, an evidence-based coaching practice that draws on the science as well as coaching and clinical psychology. It’s defined as “a scientifically-rooted approach to helping clients increase well-being, enhance and apply strengths, improve performance and achieve valued goals” (Kauffman, Boniwell & Silberman, 2014). You’ll get to know your strengths in the sessions, which are the tools we use in coaching. Strengths are your assets, the positive qualities that support your wellbeing and resilience and give you your greatest potential for growth. Most of the training that we offer can also be delivered through one-to-one sessions.
Coaching can support you to:
- Develop a positive mindset
- Achieve your goals
- Raise and recover wellbeing
- Boost mental functioning
- Build psychological capital
- Manage stress
- Support resilience
- Discover your strengths
- Enhance performance
- Nurture a growth mindset
- Learn optimism
- Overcome imposter thoughts
- Identify your sense of purpose
- Find meaning in life
- Manage transitions
- Change careers
- Spark creativity
- Prevent burnout
- Transform your life for the better
Please email Miriam to find out more and book a chemistry call.
“Miriam is an excellent coach with a wonderfully warm
Miriam’s expertise is in the-positive-psychology-approach-in-coaching. As well as her own clients, she trains coaches in this methodology for the Association for Coaching and in-house coaching programmes.
“Thank you so much for the wonderful session. It was interactive, informative and uplifting! I can truly say it will change how I coach and mentor!” Dr Maria Mastrantonio, Executive Coach, Clinical Advisor, GP Appraiser.
EXECUTIVE COACHING: Tailored support for your professional life to help you achieve and go from strength to strength while maintaining your resilience.
“During the process I discovered my key strengths and have found great joy at bringing them into my work and life – they have significantly improved the results I am getting, the overall sense of happiness and wellbeing I feel every day and the confidence with which I live has soared. I feel more connected to myself, aware of who I am, confident in what I do, and hopeful about what the future holds for me, my business and my family. I would recommend working with Miriam to anyone looking to inject more positive potential into their lives and I would recommend to anyone interested in positive psychology to come with an open mind and a willingness to really give it a go. If you do, the results could be amazing. Mine have been.” Gareth Despres, Business Leader, Management Consultant.
“After relocating to a new job, I approached Miriam to equip myself with the right tools to adapt successfully to these changes. We outlined three key objectives that we tracked through our six coaching sessions. I achieved all of these objectives through being empowered by the tools provided by Miriam that were relevant to my own personal context. From my point of view, it was her personable, calm and approachable style as well as her knowledge of positive psychology which were the two key factors in the success of the coaching relationship. It has been a great journey and I will use her guidance and positive psychology techniques throughout my life” Carlos Torres, Head of Talent.
“Incredible team coaching from Miriam Akhtar. We came out of the coaching with a fresh outlook, she helped us to see how we can be using our strengths to create a more dynamic and energised workplace. Her approach is one which perfectly balances asking the right questions and actively listening to each team member. It’s something we’ve found so valuable to our working practice.” Lucy Barfoot, Director, Lightbox.
BUSINESS COACHING: Miriam has a strength in strategy and a track record in spotting gaps in the market. She built her business around her strengths and helps clients to do the same. She is a fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs.
“Miriam has a way of bringing ideas to the table that have not only challenged me but also helped me to grow as a leader in my business. I kind of expected that the focus of the content would be positive, since the topic is “positive psychology”, but the entire way each session was delivered was geared towards the positive – the delivery of each session was positive, the mindset encouraged was positive, and the ideas exchanged were motivated by the positive potential. I absolutely loved it.” We can all beat ourselves up, give ourselves a hard time, sit on our doubts and fears and be influenced greatly by them. Working with Miriam was totally different! It wasn’t about ignoring the negative or the difficult situations, it was more about focusing on the positive potential of what could be created, done and delivered and that I found to be extremely motivating.
THE PERMA PROGRAMME is a coaching package of 6 sessions which gives you extra benefits. As well as coaching, you gain an education in one of the best-known wellbeing frameworks – the PERMA model, where you get to be your own case study and experience first-hand the benefits of this approach for yourself. We explore Positive Emotions, Engagement (Strengths), Relationships, Meaning and Achievement with an extra session to cover any other key areas in positive psychology such as resilience and optimism. If you’re thinking of getting into the positive psychology professionnally then this is a way to get first-hand experience so that you can ‘walk the talk’.
“After completing the coaching programme with Miriam, I grew from a rather despondent outlook on life to one where I take the time to savour the moment while working towards goals that are important and meaningful to me. Miriam’s uplifting and encouraging manner is highly effective in teaching the positive psychology techniques and in guiding one to see various aspects of their life from a different perspective. The practice of positive psychology tools have increased my general sense of calmness and well-being and have also given me the confidence in knowing that I’m fully able to handle the challenges and opportunities life brings. Thank you Miriam!” VC, Senior Business Development Manager, Canary Wharf, London.
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