HomePersonal coaching is one-to-one contact with someone that is designed to help the person clarify goals, develop the behaviors and attitudes to achieve those goals, and focus energy in the direction of achievement. The simple fact of having a focused coaching time every week is a motivation for people. It is a method for helping people achieve their dreams. Because the coach is an unbiased observer, he/she can often see the entire picture more clearly. While this process is not really new, the idea of personal coaching as a career is. Coaching differs from therapy in that there is no in-depth psychological processing and extensive focus on the past.
How does coaching using the Louise Hay methods differ from other coaching?
One of the fundamentals of Louise Hay's work is that loving yourself is a part of the solution, regardless of the part of your lífe you want to chanqe. So teaching clients to use mirror work and other techniques to love and accept themselves is part of coaching people from Louise's framework. In addition, this is a spiritual philosophy, so we know that there is a Power and Presence within us that guides and directs us. We don't have to do all the work!
What happens in a coachinq session?
In the first few sessions, the coach helps the person clarify and set their goals. The coach would begin teaching the fundamentals of personal change: loving yourseif, mirror work, changing negative thoughts, and using affirmations and visualization. As the sessions continue, the coach reinforces these tools. After setting the BIG goal(s), each week the coach reviews how the client has done in the previous week with behavior changes, meeting smaller goals, and/or identifying challenges that are creating blocks. The coach motivates the person with positive feedback on their efforts (even if not successfui that week.)
FIRST SESSION
Written assessments
Have the client fill out the initial goal sheet and the stress assessments. It is convenient to ask people to rate the different areas of their life because it give you an overview of how they felt about every area, not just the one they wanted to focus on. These ratings help the coach to work with the person more effectively. For example, if someone came in wanting to improve their job situation AND rated "Ability to assert yourself" low, then teaching techniques for effective communication would probably be a focus. The stress assessments questionnaire is used in conjunction with Louise's book, Heal Your Body. For example, if someone checked "Frequent headaches", the person was usually very self-critical and anxious.
Mirror work
Hand the person a mirror and ask him/her to look in his or her own eyes. They are guided through the exercise from the workshop. The coach explains why loving yourself is so important. The person is given the handout, 10 Ways to Love Yourself.
Clarify the person's goals
The coach identifies some preliminary steps toward those goals that the person can work on for the next week.
Listen
The coach listens very carefully to what the person says. He/She notices the negative affirmations that are used so that he/she can help the person change them. The person is asked to write some affirmations for the next session.
How many coaching sessions are needed?
This depends on a number of factors, including how quickly the client can incorporate the new behaviors and take steps toward their goals, as well as finances. Most coaches ask people for a commitment of several months to really give the process time to work.
Will everyone benefit from coaching?
Most people will, to the extent they are really ready to take responsibility for the direction of their life and take action. However, if someone rates himself or herself as really depressed and having no purpose in life, this is definitely someone to refer to tradicional therapy. The coach will have those referral sources already in place if the client need them! The coaches are ready to pay attention to their own feelings. lf their feel they can't help someone for some reason, they will refer the client to a therapist or other resource. We work honestly!
Personal Coaching Questionnaire(you may want to print it and send it by mail or copy and paste and send it by e-mail)
NAME:_______________________________________________________________________________________ ADDRESS:____________________________________________________________________________________ DAY PHONE_______________________________ EVE PHONE________________________________________ FAX #__________________________ E-MAIL________________________________________________________ BRIEFLY DESCRIBE WHY YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HAVING PERSONAL COACHING. WHAT GOALS WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO HELP YOU ACHIEVE? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PLEASE RATE THE FOLLOWING AREAS OF YOUR LIFE ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 10, WITH 1 BEING VERY POOR AND 10 BEING EXCELLENT. Physical Health __Emotional Health __ Relationship (primary) __ Support from friends __ Spiritual Health __ Job or career __ Financial prosperity __ Sense of purpose __ Assertive ability __ WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO KNOW ABOUT YOU? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
STRESS ASSESSMENTS
ASSESSMENT 1
SYMPTOMSRespond to each item with a number between 0 and 5, using the following scale.
O=Never 1 =Once or twice a year 2=Every few months
3=Every few weeks 4=Weekly 5=Daily
Cardiovascular symptoms
__ Heart pounding
__ Heart racing or erratic
__ Cold, sweaty hands
__ Headaches (throbbing)
____ Subtotal
Respiratory symptoms
__ Rapid, shallow breathing __ Shortness of breath __ Asthma attack __ Difficulty speaking due to poor breath control ____ SubtotalGastrointestinal symptoms
__ Upset stomach, nausea __ Constipation __ Diarrhea __ Sharp Abdominal pains ____ SubtotalSkin symptoms
__ Acne __ Dandruff __ Perspiration __ Excessive dryness of skin or hair ____ SubtotalMuscular symptoms
__ Headaches (steady pain)
__ Back or shoulder pains
__ Muscle tremors
__ Arthritis
____ Subtotal
Metabolic symptoms
__ Increased appetite __ Cravings (sweets, tobacco) __ Thoughts racing, difficulty sleeping __ Feelings of crawling anxiety or nervousness ____ SubtotalImmunity symptoms
__ Allergy flair-up __ Catching colds __ Catching the flu __ Skin rash ____ Subtotal ____ TOTAL OF ALL SEVEN AREASWHAT DOES YOUR SCORE MEAN?
0-35: Moderate physical stress symptoms. Low probability of disease related to stress in the near future.
36-75: Average physical stress symptoms. Some increase in probability of stress-related disease, but propably not an immediate threat. Begin using stress management techniques now.
76-140: Excessive stress symptoms. Serious number and frequency of symptoms. Immediate action needed to reduce stress symptoms and reduce risk of stress-related disease.
Adapted from Investigations in Stress Control, Allen and Hyde
ASSESSMENT 2
BROWNOUT INVENTORY
Are you suffering from burnout, or are you only browned out? Mark each statement either True for you or False.
1. Is your efficiency at work declining? __
2. Have you lost interest in your work? __
3. Have you lost some of your initiative at work? __
4. Have you lost weight recently? __
S. Does work stress get to you more than it used to? __
6. Do you get many headaches? __
7. Do you feel fatigued or run down? __
8. Do you get stomach aches frequently? __
9. Do you have trouble sleeping? __
1 0. Do you experience shortness of breath? __
1 1. Do you have frequently changing or depressing moods? __
12. Are you easy to anger? __
13. Do you get frustrated easily? __
14. Are you more suspicious than you used to be? __
1 S. Do you feel more helpless than you used to? __
16. Are you using too many mood altering drugs (i.e. tranquilizers or alcohol)? __
17. Are you becoming more inflexible? __
18. Are you becoming more critical ofyour own and others' competencies? __
19. Are you working more but feeling that you're getting less done? __
20. Have you lost some of your sense of humor? __
lf you answered True to half of these questions, you may be experiencing brownout.
lf you answered True for fifteen or more, burnout is already upon you or rapidly approaching.
Burnout is a syndrome of physical and emocional exhaustion. Begin using stress management techniques to reduce symptoms of burnout.
Adapted from Burnout, by Dr. H. Freudenberger
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