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What is Coaching

According to the International Coach Federation (ICF), coaching can be defined as:

"Partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential."

Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives.  Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life.

Coaches are trained to listen, to observe and to adapt their approach to individual client needs. Rather than serving as experts with ready solutions, they seek to elicit solutions and strategies from the client; they believe the client is naturally creative and resourceful. A coach's primary role is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has.

Parent Coaching with Advanced Parentology

At the Institute, we approach coaching in a manner that is consistent with above philosophy espoused by ICF, and focus specifically on helping parents to deepen their learning and produce extraordinary results in their parenting experience.  As part of the process of coaching, you will also be introduced to relevant concepts in Advanced Parentology that are aimed to produce deep and sustainable change that makes personal growth possible.

We apply a simple yet powerful 3-phased coaching framework developed by The Coaching Academy.

 

Rather than providing you with solutions or practical tips, we strive to engage you in powerful conversations designed to generate insights into where and how you could grow to become a more effective parent.  The INSIGHTS enable you to make conscious CHOICES and take new ACTIONS for creating the outcome you desire to experience in your family.  The common outcomes of coaching include the experience of greater confidence, joy, peace, meaning, life satisfaction and sense of fulfilment.

Coaching vs. Counselling/Therapy

As an emerging discipline, coaching has drawn significant interest but its differences from the more established helping professions such as counselling and therapy are often unclear. Below are some key points of distinctions that are worth noting:

• Focus: Couselling/Therapy tends to focus on healing or resolving conflicts from the PAST. Coaching focuses primarily on creating the desired FUTURE by taking appropriate actions in the PRESENT. At times, the coach may still guide the client to examine the past, particularly for the purpose of learning and eliminating limiting beliefs.

• Paradigm: Couselling/Therapy typically employs a problem-and-solution paradigm, where the counsellor or therapist seeks to help, guide and support the client to deal with some life issues.  Coaching employs a problem-and-possibilities paradigm, where the coach invites the client to explore new possibilities that can emerge from problems and provide encouragement, guidance and support for the latter to take new actions toward realizing some of these possibilities.

• Outcomes: Couselling/Therapy is usually directed at restoring the clients' emotional or mental WELL-BEING. Coaching is directed at supporting one's personal GROWTH, where clients typically become more competent in some aspects of life, thereby enabling them to function more effectively and live more powerfully.

• Relationship: In Couselling/Therapy,  the therapist-client relationship resembles one between a doctor and a patient, in which the therapist is the expert. In Coaching, the coach-client relationship is a partnership, in which the coach journeys along with the client and supports the latter's learning and growth.  The coach possesses expertise in the PROCESS of effecting human change and development, but not necessarily in the CONTENT of the subject matter that the client is dealing with.

How Coaching Work

Below are some details on 'mechanics' of coaching:

• Format of Delivery:Coaching may take place either over the phone, skype or in person.

• Length of Session: 60 to 90 minutes

• Confidentiality: Our coaches are required to comply with the IAP Code of Ethics .  The confidentiality of clients' information shall be respected at all times.  We will not release their names or other client-identifying information, except with their permission or as required by law. (Click here for Coach Profiles)

• Getting Started: All coaching engagements begin with a 30-minute complimentary a ssessmentto help you clarify your goals and concerns, understand more about the process, and ascertain if coaching is indeed appropriate for your need.

 

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