Bringing your Coaching Skills to a higher level
Learn coaching competencies with professional coaches in live, online sessions.
Recovery Coach Essentials
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Coaching Competencies: The 3-Legged Stool
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Discover the core skills that hold effective recovery coaching together:
asking good questions, listening deeply, managing your own stuff, and
treating the person as resourceful.
Skills Practice: Coaching Competencies
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Put the core coaching competencies into practice. Work with asking good
questions, active listening and treating the person as resourceful while
beginning to integrate Motivational Interviewing skills into the conversation.
Mindful Coaching
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Learn how presence changes a coaching conversation. Notice what is happening
in yourself, quiet the urge to fix, and become more fully available to the
person in front of you.
Skills Practice: Mindful Coaching
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Put mindful coaching into practice. Learn to notice your own reactions
while staying present, listening carefully and resisting the temptation
to move too quickly toward solutions.
Managing Your Stuff + Treating People as Resourceful
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Learn to recognize when your own experience, opinions and solutions are
entering the conversation, while developing greater trust in the person
you're coaching to find their own way forward.
Skills Practice: Managing Your Stuff
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Put Tuesday's learning into practice. Coach through situations that tempt
you to advise, fix or take over, while practising curiosity, restraint
and treating the person as resourceful.
Reflective Statements Through Active Listening
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Go beyond simply hearing the words. Learn to reflect meaning, emotion
and possibility in ways that help someone feel genuinely understood.
Skills Practice: Reflective Listening
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Practise listening for more than facts. Work with simple and complex
reflections, meaning and emotion to help the person hear themselves
more clearly and deepen the conversation.
Establishing Empathy
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Empathy is more than being kind. Explore how coaches create the
experience of being understood without assuming they know exactly
what someone else feels.
Skills Practice: Establishing Empathy
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Practise creating an experience of being understood. Use listening,
reflections and curiosity to communicate empathy without assuming,
interpreting or making the conversation about your own experience.