Coach Responsibilities - ✔✔ *Discover, clarify, and align with what the client wants to achieve.
*encourage client self-discovery
*elicit
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*hold the client responsible and accountable.
What is coaching - ✔✔ A vehicle for helping people achieve a higher level of wellbeing and performance in life and work, particularly when change is hard. Partnership with clients in a thought provoking and creative process that inspires and supports them to maximize their personal and professional potential. Clients are the experts.
Successful coaching = - ✔✔ When clients mobilize internal strengths and externalizes resources for sustainable change.
Outcomes delivered by coaches - ✔✔ *increased self awareness and knowledge
*increased personal responsibility
*acquisition of new knowledge and skills.
*attainment of personal and professional goals
*sustainable behavior change
*increased life satisfaction
*increased self-efficacy
*developed sense of purpose and meaning
*becoming one's best self
Lifestyle related chronic disease - ✔✔ Counts for 50 percent of deaths - heart disease, stroke and cancer.
Diseases reaching epidemic proportion - ✔✔ Obesity, prediabetes, diabetes
Adults engaged in top health behaviors - ✔✔ 5 percent. 20 percent of adults are thriving.
Why the definition of Coaching is important - ✔✔ *Ensures appropriate scope of practice.
*Allows best practices to emerge.
*accumulates rigorous evidence base.
NBHWC Definition of Coaching - ✔✔ Certified Health and Wellness Coaches are professionals from diverse backgrounds and educations who apply defined, contemporary knowledge and skills to work with individuals and groups in a client-centered process, mobilizing internal strengths and external resources and empowering the client to achieve self-determined goals of sustainable belief and behavior change related to health and wellness in all of its aspects - physical, mental, relational, emotional, spiritual and environmental. It's a holistic practice.
Key Qualities of Health and Wellness Coaching - ✔✔ -Client-centered partnership.
-Develop intrinsic motivation and create sustainable behavior change? What do they authentically want for themselves?
-Client leads the way in determining their goals, with the coach's support. Info shared is focused on client's goals.
-Self-discovery and content education are used to work toward the client's goals. Resources and education should not be overwhelming to the client. Must ask permission to share information.
-Client self-monitors behavior to increase accountability within the context of an interpersonal relationship.
-"I do, we do, you do."
How Does Coaching Change Behavior and Lifestyle? - ✔✔ -Building growth-promoting relationships
-Eliciting self-motivation
-Increasing capacity and willingness
-Facilitating process of growth and improvement
-Going below the surface, getting creative and willingness to go outside of comfort zones.
What do Coaches Do? - ✔✔ Coaches engage in a process that allows clients to:
-Tap into their inner resources.
-Develop their strengths.
-Identify and clarify their values.
-Discover their external allies.
-Set and achieve goals.
-Monitor progress
-celebrate outcomes.
Coaching is most effective when: - ✔✔ -Establish trust and rapport
-step back and move out of the way
-commit to the client's expression of the best version of his or her authentic self
-celebrate the diversity and uniqueness of the individual
-focus on the client's goals and agenda
-employ the structure of specific coach-approach strategies
-gain expertise in communicating a coaching dialogue
-embody full presence
What Does NOT work when it comes to coaching - ✔✔ -Directing and leading
-Advising on what's best
-relying on extrinsic motivators
What Informs the Coaching Practice - ✔✔ -organizational dynamics - structure of one's workplace, home, common environment
-Behavior change modeling - creating sustainable change
-Positive psychology - positive reinforcement as an effective way to bolster motivation and trust in the effort to change.
Coaching Draws From These Theoretical Bases: - ✔✔ Adult learning theories
behavioral and social sciences
business management practices
client-centered therapy
cognitive behavioral psychology
emotional intelligence
goal setting and planned behavior
mindfulness research
motivational interviewing
neuroscience findings
organizational change and development
personality development
positive psychology
self-efficacy approaches
Transtheoretical Model of Change
Why should people seek a coach? - ✔✔ Evidence exists that health coaching can improve:
ADHD
Asthma
Cancer survivors
Chronic pain
Heart Disease
Diabetes
Osteoporosis
Physical activity
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