Joseph O’Connor – författare

Everything we do, and sense, happens through our brain. In Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching, highly experienced coaches Joseph O’Connor and Andrea Lages ask and answer the question: ‘How can we use our knowledge of the brain to help ourselves and others to learn, change, and develop?’.

This book will show you how to apply insights from the latest neuroscience research in a practical way, in the fields of personal development, coaching and cognitive therapy. Accessible and practical, it begins with an overview of how the brain works along with an explanation of how our brain changes due to our actions and thoughts, illuminating how these habits can be changed through neuroplasticity. Understanding the neuroscience of goals and mental models helps us to work with and change them, and clarity about emotions and the emotional basis of values can help achieve happiness. Most importantly, neuroscience illuminates how we learn, as well as the power of expectations. The book also explores the key lessons we can take from neuroscience for high performance and leadership. Eminently accessible, this book gives you new tools to help yourself and others create better futures. As a whole, the book will provide you with a new respect for the depth and complexity of your thinking and emotions.

Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching, with its clarity and practical application, will be essential reading for coaches in practice and in training, as well as leaders, coach supervisors and HR and L&D professionals, and will be a key text for academics and students of coaching and coaching psychology.

Everything we do, and sense, happens through our brain. In Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching, highly experienced coaches Joseph O’Connor and Andrea Lages ask and answer the question: ‘How can we use our knowledge of the brain to help ourselves and others to learn, change, and develop?’.

This book will show you how to apply insights from the latest neuroscience research in a practical way, in the fields of personal development, coaching and cognitive therapy. Accessible and practical, it begins with an overview of how the brain works along with an explanation of how our brain changes due to our actions and thoughts, illuminating how these habits can be changed through neuroplasticity. Understanding the neuroscience of goals and mental models helps us to work with and change them, and clarity about emotions and the emotional basis of values can help achieve happiness. Most importantly, neuroscience illuminates how we learn, as well as the power of expectations. The book also explores the key lessons we can take from neuroscience for high performance and leadership. Eminently accessible, this book gives you new tools to help yourself and others create better futures. As a whole, the book will provide you with a new respect for the depth and complexity of your thinking and emotions.

Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching, with its clarity and practical application, will be essential reading for coaches in practice and in training, as well as leaders, coach supervisors and HR and L&D professionals, and will be a key text for academics and students of coaching and coaching psychology.

**Vinnare av Irish Post Easons Novel of the Year 2019**

”En oerhört underhållande bok om vänskap och kärlek ur alla aspekter, men den är också på ett rörande och ibland överraskande sätt en berättelse om alltings obeständighet, om förlust och verklig lojalitet.”The Guardian

”Bländande … elegansen och subtiliteten i hans prosa är perfekt anpassad för att gestalta den njutning och kreativa uppfinningsrikedom som var den viktorianska eran, och som han s roman på ett så fantastiskt sätt väcker till liv.”Sunday Times

”En sinnrik roman … O’Connors bok är enormt imponerande och helt oförglömlig.”Sunday Mirror

Abraham var en ivrig teaterbesökare, recensent, en försynt beundrare från Dublin och blivande författare. Henry var en av den tidens stora aktörer, en diabolisk uppenbarelse med stora gester och livsfarlig inlevelse. Ellen var kanske den mest sammansatta konstnären av de tre, hon spelade Ofelia, lady Macbeth, Margareta i Faust och Desdemona i Othello, och trollband sin samtid.

Abraham som hette Stoker i efternamn, och blev mer känd under smeknamnet Bram, gick till historien med sin femte roman Dracula. Henry hette Irving i efternamn och gick till historien i största allmänhet, kanske mest för att ha inspirerat till porträttet av den blodtörstige greven från Transsylvanien. Ellen Terry hänförde Oscar Wilde och målaren Sargent, och lever vidare både i dikt, bild och minne än i dag. De tre utgjorde en dynamisk trio som skådespelare (Irving och Terry), teaterdirektör (Irving) och ekonomichef (Stoker) på Lyceum Theatre i London, en epok som lyser än i dag.

I Joseph O’Connors roman Skuggspel spelas denna dynamik upp, skuggsidorna och laddningarna mellan dessa tre, mot en fond av det viktorianska Londons sexualpanik och nattliga mord. Framför allt är det en roman om det kreativa sinnet och om hur erfarenhet, intryck och fantasi kan ingå de mest märkvärdiga legeringar, hur en excentrisk teaterdirektör kan transformeras in i litteraturen som den odödlige odöde framför andra, greve Dracula.

"Skuggspel är rolig, smart, ömsint, klock och skriven med millimeterprecision."Colum McCann

"Joseph O'Connor är den enda författare jag vet som kan få en att skratta och gråta i samma mening."Lawrence Norfolk

"Underbar. Så vackert skriven."Sir Derek Jacobi

Coaching is very big business. Over the last decade it has become one of the most popular approaches to personal and business development.

Coaching books tend to focus on just one method, and just one of five main areas: Executive coaching (for senior business people); Business coaching (for companies to improve results); Life coaching (for people who want a better sense of fulfilment and wellbeing); Sports coaching (for individual athletes); Team coaching (for teams in sport or business)

Pragmatic and informative, How Coaching Works is the first to explain the key concepts that underpin all of these different areas. It also explores how different ideas have blended to give rise to what we know as ''coaching'' today, and singles out what works.

The authors are two of the world''s leading experts in this field. In How Coaching Works they have created a must-have book for practising coaches, students and anyone interested in the subject.