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What Is Coaching?
Coaching is a method of helping others who share commonalities. In this case, shared custody or split-family living issues would be the common thread. It is not therapy. It is not treatment. It is not counseling. It is not consulting.
Coaching is a way to help people make the best use of their own resources. It is a way to bring out the best of people's own capabilities and problem solving skills. Coaching helps people set goals and then reach those goals. Coaching is goal and results oriented and can be a great accountibility method to solve issues.
Coaching typically takes place on a one-to-one basis, and can be in person, though for this program it will done solely through telephone and e-mail contact. Successful coaching can happen in just one session. Coaching can be short-term, where the coach helps a client create a vision, achieve a specific goal, or complete a particular project; or it can be long-term, where the client wants coaching for a number of projects and goals.
What : Coaching and Support
Who : Anyone looking to feel not alone in the co-parenting, shared custody arena
Why : To talk with others who may be in similar situations that you are, and maybe to find ways to handle problems, or to have someone help you work through something.
Where : From the comfort of your own home via telephone
When : Group Sesssions are Monthly and Individual Sessions can be sheduled
How: To help people attain the results they want in life coaches use a variety of tools. They teach, explore alternatives, inspire, act as a sounding board, build confidence and capability, facilitate learning, ask questions, listen with compassion, develop skills, create ownership, provide a challenge, act as a model, and explore potential. A coach often acts as a partner, providing clients with tools, support, and structure to achieve more than they might be able to do by themselves.
Coaches do not, however, explore past issues. While such "issues" may emerge in a coaching session, a coach is more typically concerned with helping clients to achieve results in the present and the future. A coach may, however, help a client to identify or articulate blocks or obstacles to gaining the desired results. This may be one way of acknowledging current realities. At the same time coaches typically assist clients to discover their inner resources and other alternatives which can reduce or eliminate such barriers.
Virtually anyone can benefit from coaching. To determine whether a coach might be of value to you, consider any of the following questions: Are you getting the most out of your life? Are you doing what you value most in life? Are you enjoying your life when your kids are away. Are you fully present with them when they are home? Are you effectively communicating with your co-parent? If you answered "no" to any of these questions, it does not mean there is anything the matter with you, or that you have a "problem." What is does mean is that you want to gain results; you want to accomplish more in life; and you most likely want to build on your own strengths and resources to get where you want to go. A coach might be able to help you gain the results you want in the way you want.
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