empowering clients to reach goals: life coaching

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:gradadm@rider.edu 609-896-5036 www.rider.edu