Confidence.
We empower coaches and entrepreneurs with tools to deliver to a higher standard. Offering training for executive coaches and coaching companies on managing their clients’ big emotions, crisis moments, and suicidal ideation.
How would you handle it?
A fancy job title doesn’t protect you from difficult emotions and potential crisis.
Does your coaching company have an internal protocol for handling crisis and ideation sensitively and professionally?
76%
of executive coaching engagements end up addressing personal issues, not just job performance
According to an HBR study by leading coaching scholars.
2x
Entrepreneurs are twice as likely to suffer from Depression
And five times as likely to have bipolar or ADHD diagnoses.
69%
of completed suicides in 2019 were white males
The biggest risk is for ages 40-59 - like many executives and managers.
Why Silvercat
Benefit from our years of expertise in clinical practice, coaching, consulting, learning design and organizational psychology.
working with us
“Nina’s been the most professional and aware coach I've ever had.”
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“I was blown away at how Kim navigated through the topic and made it so digestible for non-experts in the room.”
Our Programs
Suicide Prevention and Crisis Management Training for Coaches & Human Resource Professionals
Suicidal ideation and attempts are on the rise. Many clients and employees speak about their private, scary feelings to their coaches and human resource professionals, but we’re caught without proper training and understanding how to help.
Silvercat Group offers bespoke programs for your organization in the form of custom-tailored suicide prevention protocols, live trainings, and self-paced trainings. This training is not a scary, statistical nightmare to make you afraid of going there with your clients. It is designed to improve your presence and comfort with the territory, and teach you a gentle approach for use with people edging toward crisis.
Our training is practical so the information you learn can be applied immediately. We have designed it for adult-learners who are professional executive coaches, life coaches, wellness coaches, and HR Professionals.
We outline learning objectives and practical advice that Coaches and HR Pros will be able to use immediately. We teach Coaches and HR Pros how to calibrate levels of risk and know how to handle it in a professional manner. We teach you how to intervene, make appropriate referrals, and self-manage at the right level. We use the gold-standard in current motivational interviewing, and teach the ever-elusive how during these pinnacle moments in coaching relationships.
Support for Eccentric Leaders
Silvercat Group offers productivity groups for people who don’t consider themselves “normal,” people for whom the usual stuff doesn’t work, and who start from a different mindset. Sometimes, we compare ourselves to the successful entrepreneurs of our time who wake early, function with a rigid schedule, and maintain particular habits that we can’t seem to do.
Not to worry! This is the group for YOU if you think big, use a lot of work-arounds, and don’t fit in! Often, our groups are attended by entrepreneurs, self-employed business owners, contractors/consultants, and creatives who get distracted by the next big thing. Some of our members are self-diagnosed with ADD and others have a clinical diagnosis. Many of our members flit from one shiny and new thing to the next, often not able to make traction on their work because they don’t know the next steps. We teach you how to increase productivity, reduce workplace shame, and lead from your strengths. Join us!
NEW CLASS FOR CORPORATE COACHES:
Managing Big Emotions
“Managing Big Emotions” helps develop coaches’ confidence in working with clients who are experiencing emotional upheaval and challenges, as well as helping coaches manage their own emotions during exasperating engagements.
Our research has indicated that many coaches haven’t had the training to know what to do when a client has an emotional outburst, or expresses continued disappointment, persistent anxiety, or ongoing depression.
We will teach your coaching cadre in a fun, interactive, day-long session using proven, evidence-based frameworks and methods.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this session, coaches will be able to:
Notice their triggers during a coaching conversation, and apply methods for resetting during session
Manage countertransference by examining the stories coaches construct about their clients
Navigate potentially polarizing coaching conversations across differences in political, religious, or scientific belief systems
Employ a risk-assessment framework to determine appropriate response to clients in crisis
Apply methods for moving clients toward getting therapy in a professional setting
Differentiate disquieting outpourings from cultural communicative norms
Use powerful questions to transform difficult moments
The class creates deeper connections among coaches in a practical yet light-hearted way, allowing coaches to feel cared for and experience a sense of renewal in their profession.
This class is facilitated using reliable frameworks, with discussion and structured role play. The material presented draws upon practices used in clinical psychology, Relational Gestalt Therapy training, suicide crisis hotline training, and the ICF Code of Ethics.