The Craft of the Secure Base Coach

Within The Craft of the Secure Base Coach, the authors take a new and combined approach to the professions of coaching and counselling to provide a guide for professionals wanting to better assist individuals and teams in periods of transition.

Based on up-to-date scientific insights, and grounded in concepts from attachment theory, this book explores the themes of life transition based on the authors' own Transition Cycle model, and how professional coaches and counsellors can become a secure base for their clients during sometimes traumatic and transitional periods in their lives. Consisting of two parts, the first part of this book focuses on how to become a secure base coach, using case studies to illustrate how readers can affect real change with their clients when providing humanity and proximity to the professional relationship. The second part provides a more practical guide to working with individuals and groups, and how to apply the themes of the Transition Cycle to help with guiding transition.

This will be a valuable resource for coaches, counsellors and therapists, as well as those currently in training. It will also be of use to leaders wishing to learn more about their coaching skills, as well as social workers and grief counsellors/therapists.

Jakob van Wielink is an international leadership coach and trainer. He is a pioneer in the application of secure base thinking to coaching, therapy and counselling. Jakob is the initiator and founding partner at The School for Transition and an affiliate of the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition.

Klaartje van Gasteren is an international leadership trainer and coach. She is a shining light in the leadership development of organizations, (executive) teams and professionals. Klaartje is a partner at The School for Transition.

Marnix Reijmerink is a founding partner in The School for Transition. He works internationally as a coach and trainer with teams, organizations and their leaders. Marnix also trains fellow coaches and trainers in working with individuals and teams.

Anne Verbokkem-Oerlemans is a leadership coach and trainer specializing in the embodiment of the craft of the secure base coach. She is also a supervisor for fellow coaches and trainers and an affiliate of the School of Transition.

Leo Wilhelm is an executive in the Dutch central government, a leadership coach and an affiliate of The School for Transition.

Riet Fiddelaers-Jaspers, PhD., is a trainer and grief therapist. She a is a pioneering author in the field of attachment, loss and grief and an affiliate of the Expertise Centre for Coping with Loss.