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The Coaching 4 Wellbeing Model brings together selected models, principles and practices that contribute to successful outcomes. The ingredients are blended to present an easy to use, understandable system which adds real value and measurable results to the client. The main elements are: Positive Psychology, Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioural Coaching/Therapy, Conative Psychology and Improvement Science.
Positive Psychology:
Positive psychology is an emerging scientific discipline about what goes right in life and what make life worth living. It deals with the nature and cause of positive experiences, character strengths, and the institutions which enable citizen happiness and wellbeing. People have an innate desire to be happy, but sometimes fail to enjoy optimally happy, fulfilled and meaningful lives. The emerging insights, frameworks and techniques from positive psychology are used by C4W practitioners to help clients make changes thought likely to help them flourish and enjoy enhanced levels of health, wellbeing and personal effectiveness.
Motivational Interviewing:
Motivational Interviewing is a person focused counselling approach for helping individuals explore and resolve ambivalence about change. It works – recent systematic reviews show MI and its derivatives to be effective in triggering behaviour change in clients, and in helping them to sustain that change over time. MI works with and helps unlock a persons intrinsic motivation to change, minimising resistance and maximising client involvement and ownership of the change process and resulting behaviour change plan. C4W practitioners are skilled at building rapport, empathic listening, communicating understanding and assessing and building readiness and confidence. They share information in a neutral way, explore concerns and options and build client autonomy, decision making capacity and confidence / self-efficacy using proven tools and methods.
Cognitive Behaviour Coaching / Therapy:
The way we feel and behave is commonly more strongly influenced by our thoughts (beliefs, assumptions, explanations, memories, etc) than our situation or the events which befall us. Some ways of thinking are known to be healthy and helpful, whilst others are unhealthy and unhelpful. C4W practitioners use insights, tools and approaches from cognitive-behavioural psychology to help clients identify and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns to help them improve their health, wellbeing and personal effectiveness.
Conative Psychology:
Conative deals with peoples personal projects; their bold ambitions and their trivial pursuits, their desires and their goals. We all have multiple “projects” on the go (even if we don’t consider them projects) and these projects - their number, content and how good we are at executing them – make a big difference to our current and future health and wellbeing. C4W practitioners help clients identify their projects, rationalise them and improve their linkage and alignment – both with each other and with the clients overarching goals and values. This in turn improves a person sense of coherence, that their life is hanging together and that they are making progress towards meaningful goals.
Improvement Science:
All improvement is change but not all change is improvement. Improvement science explores the nature of improvement and how to best bring it about – including the use of goals, measurements, tests of change and projects. C4W practitioners apply insights from improvement science to help create the right conditions for improvement to occur in both their clients and themselves, and are encouraged to participate in activities which help the C4W system continuously improve over time – including research.
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