FAQ

As positioned by UCLan Professors and Team:

Spectrum Transition Coaching is a comprehensive system for emotional transition that bridges the gap between therapy and performance coaching.  It can be applied to all ages and is mainly concerned with changing the client’s limiting relationship with the past so that the future can be realised. It embraces the concept that all clients are unique in every respect and that only they have the answers to their presenting issues for resolution.

Spectrum Transition Coaching is its own national governing body as it is unique as a model for trauma. It was launched at the University of Lancashire in 2013, where it was positioned as bridging the gap between therapy and coaching.

Spectrum Transition Coaching is neither counselling, psychology or psychoanalysis and so does not fall within the BACP’s remit. It does, however, use BACP codes of best practice as guidance for its coaches and trainers.

Spectrum is a non-trauma focussed approach that requires no content or detail around a problem. It is mainly interested in the emotional domain as this has the greatest influence on cognition and therefore, behaviour.

It helps clients recognise how emotion was stored at the time of the event and the consequential connections this has to other areas of life and how this has impacted on the current quality of life.

It has a unique tool for measuring the emotional load of a client, which is called a level of needs elicitation. This takes both a subjective and objective measurement determining whether the client is considered as low, medium or high level of need. This allows coaches to know whether or not the client falls within their scope of experience and qualification, which helps ensure safety for all concerned. 

Spectrum is based on creating behavioural change and when behaviours change over a prolonged period of time this equals evidence that deeper changes have occurred. The individual case studies that demonstrate behavioural evidence span over 5 years, which is considered to be a reasonable period of time to prove efficacy. 

We believe in testing the efficacy of the work a client has completed and the best and only measure is to re-immerse the client, with the support of the coach,  back into an experience that would have previously created the problem.   This  increases awareness around what has changed, helps transition and ensures adaptation. The end result is an acknowledgement, increased flexibility and greater results.

Behaviours are driven by emotion and if you change emotion, the behaviours change quickly, old cognitive triggers disappear and the client becomes more adaptable and achieves new results. It’s all about results.

Performance / life coaching takes a client from the present into the future asking generative questions focussed on solutions. It has no paradigm for emotional change. Transition coaching identifies what is holding the client in the past by asking a different set of questions and resolves this before helping the client move into the future.

There is a significant EQ component to transition coaching as the client learns who they are, how they feel and what they believe that creates the behaviours that either serve them or not. It helps the client learn about self from an unconscious perspective understanding why they do what they and what drives the strategies and behaviours they use.

With Spectrum Transition Coaching, we never claim cures on any level, but what we have measured is the wellbeing effect created by spectrum on those who present physiological conditions such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome and reflux. These are anecdotal but behavioural evidence suggests significant relief from symptoms associated to these.