Week 5- The Big Picture: Coaching Structure & Wellness Fundamentals Flashcards

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8 Parts of Impactful, Ongoing Sessions

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  1. Connect with client & inquire about their current state
  2. Check in on client’s progress
  3. Invite the client to choose the focus
  4. EXPLORE the topic
  5. Goals, Action Steps, & Adjustments
  6. Discover & reflect the client’s learning aha moments
  7. Give appreciation
  8. Ask for feedback
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8 Parts of Impactful, Ongoing Sessions

1- Connect & Inquire

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  • Re-connect with the client at the start of each and every session
  • Ask the client about their current state
  • Start with asking what is going well, as this generates good energy
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8 Parts of Impactful, Ongoing Sessions

2- Check-in on Client’s Progress

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Did the client complete prior commitments or action steps?
• YES > celebrate!
• NO > embrace the learning opportunity

If it was a NO, are the action steps still a fit?
• YES > re-commit
• NO > adjust, or toss & make a new one
Opportunity to deepen the client’s awareness
• Listen & ask powerful questions

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8 Parts of Impactful, Ongoing Sessions

3- Invite Client to Choose Focus

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Assist client in identifying the topic of focus for this session

  • How does this fit with the overall wellness vision & goals?
  • More than 1 possible topic? NARROW IT DOWN, may refer to prep forms
  • What feels important? Notice energy and sensations
  • Ask questions and provide reflections
  • Once the topic is chosen
  • ask permission to explore
  • use AI and MI to get more specific
  • consider stages of change
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8 Parts of Impactful, Ongoing Sessions

4- Explore the topic

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The heart of coaching
• Leads to client insight, breakthrough, or new
understanding

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8 Parts of Impactful, Ongoing Sessions

5- Goals, Action Steps & Adjustments

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• Establish or refine SMART goals
• Co-create action steps for the current week
• Adjust the plan if needed
Change is not always linear! (Miller & Rollnick, p. 203)
“The only real failure is not trying it in the first place. Every
failure is just another learning opportunity, giving your client
more information about how to refine the process.”

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8 Parts of Impactful, Ongoing Sessions

6- Discover & Reflect Learning

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  • Ask the client to voice their new self-awareness

• Speaking out loud not only shares with the coach, but
gives the client an opportunity to anchor learning
• Note client’s insights during session and reflect back

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8 Parts of Impactful, Ongoing Sessions

7- Appreciation

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Near the close of the session, express appreciation

for the work the client did during the session

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8 Parts of Impactful, Ongoing Sessions

8- Ask for feedback

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Ask for Feedback
• At end of each session, invite client to give feedback
• Did the session accomplish what they were hoping?
• Utilize feedback as tool for fine-tuning the coaching
• Client likely doesn’t have training in how to give feedback
• Ask for examples to increase clarity
• Monitor your emotional reaction; you are there for client
• Seek guidance from another professional if the feedback is emotionally upsetting

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What is wellness?

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  • A conscious, self-directed, and evolving process of achieving full potential
  • Multi-dimensional and holistic
  • Positive and affirming

“Wellness is generally understood as an advanced state of health; it presupposes that we endeavor to
discover and pursue our life purpose, cultivate fulfilling relationships, engage in meaningful work,
seek work-life integration, and care for our environment”

and WHO states- Fulfillment of one’s role expectations in the family, community, workplace, place of worship, and other settings”

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7- Dimensions of Wellness

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o Physical
o Social
o Emotional
o Mental
o Spiritual
o Occupational
o Environmental
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Definition of Well-being

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• Includes the presence of positive emotions and moods (contentment, happiness), absence of
negative emotions (depression, anxiety), satisfaction with life, fulfillment and positive functioning.
o Positive perception that life is going well
o Fundamental conditions to well-being include
 Adequate housing
 Employment
 Quality relationships
 Positive emotions and resilience
 Realization of potential

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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1- Physiological needs- food, water, warmth, rest
2- Safety needs- Security, safe
3- Belong and love- friends, intimate relationships
4- Esteem needs- Prestige, feeling of accomplishment
5- Self-actualization- achieving ones full potential

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Travis Illness Wellness Continuum

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o The Illness-Wellness Continuum incorporates Maslow’s concept of self-actualization
o Created in 1975 by John Travis, it’s one of 3 key wellness concepts in use today
o Shows the relationship between treatment paradigm & wellness paradigm
o Treatment paradigm stops at neutral; Wellness paradigm continues towards greater levels of wellness
o One’s orientation on the continuum is more important than their location (Are you
moving towards or away from optimum wellness?)
o A wellness stance involves high-level self-care to manage stress & emotions (No matter one’s level of symptoms or expression of disease!)

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Arloski’s 10 Tenets of Wellness

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  1. Wellness is a holistic concept.
  2. Self-esteem is a critical factor in change.
  3. Positive peer health norms encourage wellness lifestyle changes.
  4. Conscious living means becoming aware of all the choices we have and acting on them.
  5. A sense of connectedness grounds us in our lives.
  6. We are primarily responsible for our health.
  7. Increased self-sufficiency gives the confidence and power that overshadows fear.
  8. Time spent alone helps us to get to know ourselves better.
  9. You don’t have to be perfect to be well.
  10. Play!
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Structures of Consciousness (5 levels)

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Developmental model; we progress through these levels and are able to integrate aspects of each, giving us a greater sense of wholeness

Archaic
Intuitive/Magical
Mythical
Mental
Integral
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Structures of Consciousness

1st level- Archaic

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A sense of oneness with all that
is, with no separation between
self, environment, & creative
energy.

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Structures of Consciousness

2nd level- Intuitive/Magical

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Spontaneous knowing, connecting
to subtle energies, and a strong
sense of possibility

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Structures of Consciousness

3rd Level: Mythical

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Understanding reality
through nature,
imagery, and story

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Structures of Consciousness

4th Level: Mental

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Utilizes logic, scientific method, critical

thinking, and cause & effect

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Structures of Consciousness

5th Level – Integral

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  • Includes all the other levels, yet is greater than the sum of all the parts
  • Supports the development of high-level wellness
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Why Health & Wellness Coaching?

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• Lifestyle-related chronic disease-account for 50% of deaths
• Obesity, prediabetes, and diabetes are at epidemic levels
• The healthcare system is best for managing acute medical conditions and emergencies
• The expert approach does not always work!
o Especially for people who have low self-efficacy

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Why Health & Wellness Coaching?

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• Coaching is Different! Coaches are trained to:
o Help clients develop self-efficacy and autonomy
o Accept and meet clients where they are today
o Guide clients in doing mindful thinking, feeling, doing work that builds confidence
o Help clients define a higher purpose for health and well-being
o Reframe obstacles as opportunities to learn and grow
o Assist clients to tap into their own inner wisdom
o Encourage realistic goal setting
o Enable clients to build a solid support team
o Inspire and challenge clients to go beyond what they could do alone

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The Power of Positivity

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Barbara Frederickson identified 10 positive emotions that increase well-being
o Serenity
o Interest
o Hope
o Inspiration
o Awe
o Amusement
o Gratitude
o Joy
o Pride
o Love