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Inspire, Empower and Develop Young People through Coaching |
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Cognitive Behavioural Coaching |
From the original blog post at: transformationallifecoaching.co.uk
When I think of coaching and all that people believe coaching to be there is a strong emphasis on task-based approaches leading to a goal being achieved and quite often action plans that focus on doingrather than being.
Within CBC (Cognitive Behavioural Coaching) there are some key pillars that underpin client interactions.
- Coaching provides a safe place for personal exploration
- The dynamic of “effective coaching” allows for self actualization for the client
- It is fully person centred and integrative
- CBC allows deeper meaning for the client and their experience and goes beneath the goal as the focus of the session
Cognitive behavioural coaching focuses on the internal world of the client, which could include values, beliefs, cognitions, physiology, emotions and results.
That’s not to say that there isn’t an element of actions and goals built into the coaching interactions but the shift will happen for the client on a deeper level and this in turn can create new openings and a future focus on how they will show up in the world based on these shifts.
In today’s society people are wanting more than a quick fix and an action plan.
Many times people can achieve their goal quite swiftly but may return to the original place of frustration wondering how they got back to there and questioning themselves and they change they want.
The reason why, is that without working on the deeper structures of experience the client could just be going around in circles and not moving ahead with any sort of permanency.
This can create further frustration and can fuel the negative mind sets that could be underpinning the clients original challenges.
Within a typical CBC based session the coaching practitioner would be looking to work with the client on emotive, important issues for them and really get to the core of the clients difficulties by using simple and powerful questioning, a sense of holding space for the client and allowing the conversation to naturally flow without the coach needing to fix, provide solutions or work to an agenda of a hard and fast goal being in place.
As in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy the skilled coaching practitioner would be looking at faulty thought biases and how this could be impacting the client in negative ways. An example would be catastrophizing – “everything is always bad! – how many times have you heard this or possibly thought it yourself?
Through a CBC approach we can start to unpick what these thought structures are which will also affect clients physical responses and results both practically and emotionally . We can help clients formulate a different way of doing things with more positive results.
CBC can help with:
- Limiting beliefs
- Negative cycles of behaviour
- Low confidence and self-esteem
- Compulsive behaviours
- Interpersonal issues
- Any pattern that runs enough times for it to be a problem and so much more
Coaching isn’t a one stop for change but done skilfully, with congruence and trust the effects can be truly transformational.
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Confidence Coaching with Young People |
This blog post is from Robert Stephenson on our new youth coaching blog at http://dynamicyouthcoaching.com
Recently I have been working for Mousetrap Theatre Project, with a group of young people based in Southall. The young people are all taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh Awards, and at the end they have to do a presentation. This group is made up of young people who haven’t had lots of positive experience in making presentations, in putting themselves out there, in talking to large groups of people about their achievements.
With this in mind I was asked to help the group develop their confidence, which is something I come across quite often when working with young people. They often put up this front of ‘I’m ok’ and ‘I don’t care about anything’. However in my experience this is not always the case, in fact there are a lot of young people who do care and are will to work with you to develop their skills and confidence, so that they are able to make the best of their lives. With this particular group, we spent lots of time exploring what confidence meant to them, who they saw as having it, what it looked liked, getting all our ideas down. Read more
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Group Coaching with Young People |
One of the challenges when coaching groups, is managing all the needs and wants in the room. When working with young people this can become heightened, as the young people may not want to share the issues that they are facing.
A way to overcome this is to create a “character”.
A “character” can be created by getting one of the young people to lay on a large sheet of paper then draw around them, this outline can then be used as the focus for the group. And the group can then help the coach create the background for the “character”. This has to be managed as you want to create something that is far away enough not to be recognized as one of the young people, and yet similar enough for them to relate to it.
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case study #4 How the practitioner’s belief can influence the client’s results |
This case study is quite an important one for our person centred NLP approach, especially regarding the fourth of the six Sufficient and Necessary Conditions for change inspired by Carl Rogers: That the practitioner believes unconditionally that their client can change from within. It also illustrates very well the NLP presupposition that says “you can’t not communicate”.
I’ve got a client who is 81 year old and wants to lose weight. She’s an absolutely incredible woman and has got an amazing energy and joie-de-vivre. In her quest for happiness, she’s decided to fight her binging pattern and to get fit. I must say that she’s not binging much and generally eats healthy food, but she feels she’s not in control of herself in those situations and that saddens her. After having checked that the changes she wanted were ecological, we started to work using different NLP and hypnosis processes. Read more
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