empowering clients to reach goals through coaching
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Empowering Clients To Reach Goals
Trevor Buser, PhD & Juleen Buser, PhDRider UniversityJanuary 28, 2016
Plan of Presentation
What is coaching?
Tapping motivation and strengths
Cultivating accountability for goals
Coach Training Program
What is Life & Career Coaching?Freud on “common unhappiness”
Coaching:Professional relationshipOptimizing wellnessScope of practice
Pathology “Normal Functioning” Wellness
Life & Career Coaching
Conspiring on the go to awaken ingenuity and promote resolution
now and again
PartneringAction orientation (and spontaneity)Focus on wellnessPresent tense
Human beings are conflict-resolving creatures
Naturally inclined to move toward: Reduction of ambivalence (MI)Equilibrium (Gestalt; Systems)Congruence; merging of ideal & real
self (Rogers)
Tapping Motivation & Strengths
To generate motivation for change, build awareness of conflict
Strategies
Tapping Motivation & Strengths
Timing of goal-setting
Cautious not to set goals too early Thorough understanding of difficulty Listening grants you the “right to be
heard”
Cultivating Accountability For Goals
Flow: (1) Understand difficulty(2) Understand want (what different?) & what client is doing to achieve want--------------Movement to Goals-----------(3) Understand client’s ideas for change(4) Generate additional ideas (if needed)(5) Make “big request”
Cultivating Accountability For Goals
Coach Training: Oxygen Mask PlacementCreating new channels of self-careSelf-exploration & self-efficacyCoping strategies (e.g., mindfulness, PMR)
Tolerance of ambiguity, self-compassion, acceptanceAuthenticity, spontaneity
Rider University Life & CareerCoaching Certificate Program
Bachelor’s degree:3 courses; 30 hrs. practice; cert. exam
Master’s degree in social/behvr science (e.g., education)2 courses, 30 hrs. practice; cert. exam
Master’s degree in counseling 1 course, 30 hrs. practice; cert. exam
For more information:[email protected] 609-896-5036 www.rider.edu