What happens when you stop managing emotions and start mining them for insight?

Most coaching approaches treat emotions as something to regulate, reframe, or move past. But when we skim the surface of what clients feel, we miss the richest data available: signals carrying essential information about their values, needs, and direction. The result? Sessions that stay intellectual, insights that don't stick, and change that stalls.

Emotions aren't obstacles to coaching, they're accelerants! When you know how to help clients decode what they're feeling, you unlock faster clarity, deeper self-awareness, and momentum toward meaningful action (and, this starts with YOU engaging your own emotional wisdom). This session will give you practical, evidence-based tools to make emotions a core part of your coaching practice… not as a detour, but as the direct path to transformation.

Key Takeaways

✅ How to normalize emotions in coaching — approaching feelings with neutrality, curiosity, and openness, and helping the people you work with do the same

✅ A practical framework for turning emotional moments into coaching breakthroughs

✅ Techniques to help the people you work with notice, name, and value what they feel — unlocking insight that drives real change

Who Should Join

This session is for coaches, facilitators, and leaders in transition who want to deepen their practice with evidence-based emotional intelligence. Whether you're building a coaching business, leading development programs, or helping teams transform, you'll gain practical tools to make emotions a powerful lever for insight and change. You're invited whether you're already a certified coach, a manager growing your leader-as-coach skills, or simply coaching-curious.

Why Join Live

While the recording will be available afterward, participating live gives you the chance to interact with the Six Seconds global coaching community — share experiences, practice tools in real-time, and get peer feedback in a dynamic, emotionally intelligent learning space.

Why We Do These Live-Online Free Sessions

Six Seconds is a nonprofit dedicated to increasing emotional intelligence worldwide. Through Coaching Connections, we support a global community of practitioners committed to human-centered, evidence-based coaching. Join us — together we're raising the bar for what coaching can do.

Six Seconds is an ICF Business Partner, and we hold accreditation at ICF’s highest level – and we collaborate with EMCC as well. Learn more about Emotional Intelligence Coaching here.