International Coach Federation Competencies — References and Resources

NOTE: we have elected not to use an academic APA style as is typical for a reference section, nor have we always included the original research (in many cases, we have instead included an interesting, readable article about key findings). We want to bring you these resources in the most accessible, user-friendly way possible. Our goal is that you delve in and enjoy a deeper exploration!(Please note that research is cited under the earliest competency where it appears, and is not repeated even if cited in subsequent competencies. Also, all links have been verified through Google Chrome and may or may not work using other browsers.)

COMPETENCY #1

Positive and Negative Emotional Attractors and Intentional Change – Anita Howard, 2006 (citing Richard Boyatzis’ work)

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/02621710610678472

The Neuroscience of Trust – Brad Winn and Paul Zak, 2014

The_Neuroscience_of_Trust.pdf

To Trust or Not to Trust: Ask Oxytocin – Mauricio Delgado, 2008http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-trust-or-not-to-trust/

COMPETENCY #2

The SCARF Model – David Rock, 2008

www.your-brain-at-work.com/files/NLJ_SCARFUS.pdf

The Ebb and Flow of Attention in the Brain – Trey Hedden and John D.E. Gabrielli, 2006

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v9/n7/full/nn0706-863.html

COMPETENCY #3

Do Mirror Neurons Give Us Empathy? – Greater Good, 2012

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/do_mirror_neurons_give_empathy

Coaching With Compassion Can “Light Up” Human Thoughts – Think, 2010

http://blog.case.edu/think/2010/11/15/coaching_with_compassion_can_alight_upa_human_thoughts

Connect to Thrive – Emma Seppälä, 2012

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-it/201208/connect-thrive

The Compassionate Mind: Science shows why it’s healthy and how it spreads – Emma Seppälä

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2013/may-june-13/the-compassionate-mind.html

Building Trust – The Blanchard Companies, 2010

http://www.kenblanchard.com/img/pub/blanchard-building-trust.pdf

The Neural Bases of Social Pain: Evidence for shared representations with physical pain – Naomi Eisenberger, 2012
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3273616/

Three Keys to Change – Alan Deutschman
http://www.fastcompany.com/75905/three-keys-change

COMPETENCY #4

BOOK: Science of the Heart, Exploring the Role of the Heart in Human Performance HeartMath Institute, 2016

https://www.heartmath.org/research/science-of-the-heart/

Intuition and Evidence—Uneasy Bedfellows? – Trisha Greenhalgh, 2002http://bjgp.org/content/bjgp/52/478/395.full.pdf

The Polyvagal Perspective – Stephen Porges, 2008http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1868418/

Your Heart and Stomach May be Smarter than you think – Ed Decker, 2013

http://www.rewireme.com/explorations/your-heart-and-stomach-may-be-smarter-than-you-think/

BOOK: The Master and His Emissary – Iain McGilchrist, 2009, Introduction here: http://www.iainmcgilchrist.com/The_Master_and_his_Emissary_by_McGilchrist.pdf
The Neuroscience of Mindfulness – David Rock, 2013

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-rock/the-neuroscience-of-mindf_b_2908665.html

Humor Triggers Our Reward Centers – Harvard “On the Brain” Newsletter, 2010http://hms.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/HMS_OTB_Spring10_Vol16_No2.pdf

Rethinking Feelings: An fMRI Study of the Cognitive Regulation of Emotion, Oschner, et al, 2002

http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~ochsner/pdf/Ochsner_Reapp.pdf

Emotions Directly Influence Learning and Memory Processes – Neuroscience News, 2015

http://neurosciencenews.com/learning-memory-emotion-limbic-system-2393

COMPETENCY #5

Victims’ perceptions of support attempts: What is helpful from whom? – Dakof & Taylor, 1990

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2308075

BOOK: Mindsight, The new science of personal transformationDaniel Siegel, 2010

http://www.drdansiegel.com/about/mindsight/ (short intro to Mindsight)

The human brain is intrinsically organized into dynamic, anticorrelated functional networks – Michael D. Fox, et al, 2005

http://www.princeton.edu/~njclub/2007-10-10_papers/Fox+etal_2005.pdf

Mindfulness and the Art of Noticing Things and Work and Play – Ellen Langer, 2014

http://www.biznews.com/health/2014/12/02/ellen-langer-mindfulness-art-noticing-things-work-play/

Why Labeling Emotions Matters – Amelia Aldao, 2014

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sweet-emotion/201408/why-labeling-emotions-matters

 

COMPETENCY #6

Perceiving active listening activates the reward system and improves the impression of relevant experiences – Hiroaki Kawamichi et al, 2015

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270393/

Neuroscience and Leadership: the Promise of Insights – Boyatzis, 2011

http://iveybusinessjournal.com/publication/neuroscience-and-leadership-the-promise-of-insights/

How Curiosity Changes the Brain to Enhance Learning – Neuroscience News, 2014

http://neurosciencenews.com/curiosity-memory-learning-neuroscience-1388/

COMPETENCY #7

Antagonistic neural networks underlying differentiated leadership roles – Boyatzis et al, 2014

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3941086/

Thinking makes it so: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to emotion regulation – Kevin Ochsner, James Gross, 2003

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2004-00163-011

The Ebb and Flow of Attention in the Brain – Trey Hedden and John D.E. Gabrielli, 2006

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v9/n7/full/nn0706-863.html

Relative reward preference in primate orbitofrontal cortex – Tremblay & Schultz, 1999

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10227292

 

COMPETENCY #8

Carol Dweck Revisits the Growth Mindset – Carol Dweck, 2015

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/23/carol-dweck-revisits-the-growth-mindset.html

The Aha! Moment: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Insight – John Kounios and Mark Beeman, 2014

http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/18/4/210

Beyond money: Toward an economy of well-being – Ed Diener & Martin Seligman, 2004

Ochsner_ER-SCN_chap.pdf

COMPETENCY #9

An overview of intentional change from a complexity perspective – Richard Boyatzis, 2006

http://www.case.edu/provost/ideal/doc/Boyatzis_2006_intentional_change.pdf

BOOK: Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom—Rick Hanson, 2009

Interview with Dr. Rick Hanson—The Mindful Word, 2012

http://www.themindfulword.org/2012/buddhas-brain-interview-rick-hanson/

Cognitive Reappraisal of Emotion: A Meta-Analysis of Human Neuroimaging Studies – Jason T. Buhle et al, 2013

http://dept.psych.columbia.edu/~kochsner/pdf/Buhle%20Reapp%20Meta%202013.pdf

Creative Minds: Making Sense of Stress and The Brain – NIH Director’s Blog, 2014

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2014/03/18/creative-minds-making-sense-of-stress-and-the-brain/

COMPETENCY #10

BOOK: The Master and His Emissary – Iain McGilchrist, 2009, Introduction here: http://www.iainmcgilchrist.com/The_Master_and_his_Emissary_by_McGilchrist.pdf

COMPETENCY #11

Accounting and decision making under accountability: a social neuroscience perspective – A. Sluga, 2015

https://www.erim.eur.nl/people/aljaz-sluga/