The ABCDE Coaching Model

The ABCDE model is the primary technique involved in Cognitive Behavioral Coaching. Whether you’re learning to better coach clients or using coaching skills to deepen your own emotional intelligence, the ABCDE method can help you achieve your goals. In this course, you’ll learn how an Activating Event triggers automatic negative thoughts and behaviors. You’ll learn how to dispute irrational beliefs through the lens of Cognitive Distortions. And finally, you’ll discover routines that can help clients develop more positive beliefs. After this course, you’ll be able to use the ABCDE model to strengthen emotional intelligence in yourself or a coaching client.

This course is part of the Cognitive Behavioral Coaching Pocketbook, a series that provides tips, tools, and techniques for coaches and managers to facilitate transformational change.