Susan Britton MCCICF Award-Winning Coach Educator, Neuroscience-Informed ICF/SHRM Coach Training, INSEAD Executive Masters in Change, Advocate for Evolutionary Shift from “Red Zone” to “Blue Zone” for Leaders, Coaches & Fellow Humans

Neuro Coaching Tip: Leveraging Gratitude’s Neurochemical Boost in Coaching

Name: Neuro Coaching Tip: Leveraging Gratitude’s Neurochemical Boost in Coaching
Uploaded: 2025-02-26T06:00:13+00:00
Duration: 1 min 22 s
Channel: Susan Britton MCC
Description: In this brief coaching tip, Susan Britton MCC explains that gratitude triggers a neurochemical boost that benefits the brain, body, health…

26 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief coaching tip, Susan Britton MCC explains that gratitude triggers a neurochemical boost that benefits the brain, body, health, relationships, and overall wellbeing. She proposes a concrete coaching technique for leaders: combine a standard coaching acknowledgment with a sincere expression of gratitude. By saying, for example, “I am so grateful that there are people like you leading with authenticity and courage,” the coach can activate gratitude‑related neurochemicals in both themselves and the client. Susan notes research indicating that expressing gratitude narrows the perceived gap between people, enhancing connection. The tip concludes with a personal expression of gratitude toward the audience.

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Susan with the Academies for Neuroscience Coaching out with a walking tip on gratitude. So if you think about gratitude and the neurochemical boost that it gives to your brain, your body, your health, your relationships, it's a really powerful tool that you can use. And here's a tip for how to use that within a coaching conversation. So let's say that you're working with a leader. You can use an acknowledgment and pair it with gratitude. So you could say something like to the leader, leader, I am so grateful that there are people like you out there leading in the way that you're leading, with authenticity, with courage, with all of the things that you're bringing to your leadership, and what a difference that can make and is making within you and your team and the people that you work with. So something like that would allow you to pair the gratitude neurochemicals with the, the coaching acknowledgement and be able to feel that within yourself. And as you feel that, the client is also going to experience experience that because there's fascinating research that talks about what happens in lessening the gap between me and another person when I express gratitude or you express gratitude. So that's a coaching tip on how to leverage gratitude, and just want to say I'm grateful for you as well.