Skills
BEFIRS are an example of what skill?
Bonus points if you can name what the acronym stands for!
Attending
B = Body Language, E = Eye Contact, F = Following I = I-Thou, R = Relaxation
Something a person holds about themselves, limiting their capacities and abilities
Limiting beliefs
This stage of the '5 Phase Lesson Plan' involves a question, video, or exercise that introduces the problem, topic or skill. It stimulates thoughts or feelings in the participants
Stimulus
The main concerns of this Stage are typically centered around belonging
Orientation Stage (Forming)
Awareness/attention is on oneself and how what’s being said matters to self. "What does this mean to me?"
Level One - Internal Listening
A figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two unlike things that have something important in common
Metaphors
ICF = “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.”
Is a collaborative relationship between a trained coach and a client looking for self-discovery, self-awareness and a deeper sense of satisfaction and fulfillment.
Happens in an environment where clients can freely express their emotions, be profoundly heard, manage their internal blocks, clarify their intentions and desires, and become more self-directed.
Are trained in fundamental skills including listening, empathy, cultivating insightful reflections and asking powerful questions.
The relationship itself creates the container which holds the client throughout the process and is the fertile ground from which the client grows.
Definition of Life Coaching
In this part of the '5 Phase Lesson Plan', participants have the opportunity to practice the new skills or behaviour they’ve learned about in the lesson. This supports the integration and assimilation of the learning
Skill Practice
Typical Questions asked at this Stage are:
• What more can we accomplish?
• What is a way we can do this will satisfy everyone?
• How can we work with everyone’s strengths to meet our goals/objectives?
Production Stage (Performing)
A client in this 'Stage of Change' is not yet ready to change, but is thinking that something may need to shift in the future, but they’re not sure what that is
Contemplation
"I get the sense that ______, does that connect with you?" This is an example of what skill?
Intuition
Define Attending Skills and explain their relevance in coaching
Attending is when a coach uses verbal and nonverbal behaviours to demonstrate to a client that they’re listening.
Attending skills are fundamentally a listening skill
This stage of the '5 Phase Lesson Plan' explains the reason or purpose of the lesson and how it pertains to the needs of the group
Rationale
The outstanding characteristics of this Stage are frustration, conflict, lack of unity, and testing out behaviours
Dissatisfaction Stage (Storming)
Includes everything the listener can observe with their senses: what they see, hear, smell, and feel, intuit. The tactile as well as the emotional sensations. Also called, environmental listening
Level Three - Global Listening
The ability understand the emotional experience of another, connect with that experience from within oneself, and have an appropriate, compassionate response
Empathy
Discovering, clarifying and aligning with what the client wants to achieve
Encouraging a client’s self-discovery
Eliciting client-generated solutions and strategies
Holding the client responsible and accountable
To have adequate and ongoing training in the field from reputable teachers.
A commitment to their personal development
As stated by the ICF, these are all examples of what?
Role and responsibility of a coach
Observes group process
Helps keep group focused
Discourages group from going off topic
Ensures that everyone participates
Protects members from getting attached
Points out and helps to resolve conflicts
Are all examples of what?
Responsibilities of a life skills facilitator
In this Stage, the group members start to share feedback with each other, what it was like participating in different roles and what each member learned about themselves
Termination Stage (Adjourning)
All of the attention and focus on the other persons expressions, emotions, what they say and how they say it. It is the level of empathy, clarification, collaboration
Level Two - Focused Listening
Name the 6 steps to problem solving
1. Recognize that there is a problem
2. Identify and own the problem.
3. Brainstorm possible alternatives/solutions.
4. Choose a possible solution
5. Implement the decision
6. Evaluation
Define the differences between coaching and counselling
Coaching focuses on the present and how to move into a desired future.
Coaching doesn’t to attempt to unearth and heal wounds from a person’s past.
Therapists and counsellors delve into a client’s past in order support the healing of a person’s traumas or developmental disruptions
Counsellors provide support for those suffering from addictions and mental health disorders, while coaching does not.
During group development, Withdrawing, Intellectualizing, Generalizing, Projecting, Interrogating, Competing, Blaming, Sub-grouping & Scapegoating are examples of what?
Defence mechanisms
This Stage is not necessarily as definitive as other stages but starts with a decrease in dissatisfaction and ends with neutral or positive feelings on the other
Resolution Stage (Norming)
How would you work with a client in Contemplation?
Encourage evaluation of pros and cons of behaviour change
Brainstorm and identify new possible outcomes
Explore motivations to change and not change
Validate lack of readiness
Be clear that the decision is theirs