Wellness Coaching
The Best Coaching Question
The Best Coaching Question
As a guest on Mike Vera’s Podcast Healthy & Awake (https://mikevera.com/healthy-%26-awake-podcast) I was surprised to be asked “What’s your favorite question to use in coaching?” For a brief moment I was puzzled by the question, then I immediately said
“What are you aware of right now?”
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The Growth Mindset vs. The Fixit Mindset in Coaching
“We define mindsets as core assumptions that we have about domains or categories of things that orient us to a particular set of expectations, explanations, and goals. So to put that a little bit more simply, mindsets are ways of viewing reality, that shape, what we expect, what we understand, and what we want to do.” Alia J. Crum, PhD…
The Quandary of Closeness And Compassion in Coaching
“Don’t get too close to your clients.” It may have been my junior year of being an undergraduate psychology major when a professor offhandedly gave this warning to me and a couple of other students. There is always this question about ‘therapeutic distance’. Clearly when a therapist allows their own feelings of attraction or repulsion, insensitivity or caring to interfere…
The Well Traveler: Healthy and Well on the Move! General Well Travel Tips – Part Two
General Well Travel Tips – Part Two
Our last post generated lots of interest in traveling “well”. We’ll be posting more on this theme and on the larger concept of “wellness travel”, that is consciously planning and traveling in a way that enhances our experience in all the dimensions of wellness. Wellness is a whole lot more than hygiene…
The What, the How and the Why of Lifestyle Improvement
Health and wellness folks are sometimes confused about the role each professional might play in helping individuals to live their best life possible. Our clients are seeking to be healthier by losing weight, managing stress, stopping smoking, becoming less isolated, and often, managing a health challenge of some kind. To do so they need:
- excellent wellness information
- …
Wellness And Aging Well: Conversation With Donald Ardell – Part Two
In our last post Don Ardell contributed to our conversation on Aging and doing it really Well! Don begins by referring to the study he introduced in our last post. Here’s the conclusion of his thoughts and my reply.
(Don)
What are the key variables here? (in aging well and longevity) Is the ability to live unstressful lives…
Wellness is conscious living.
We are often admonished to slow down, to relax, to be mindful, to be aware, to live our lives consciously. We are urged to remember all of this and more. To “re-member” is to become again in touch with some part of ourselves, some “member”, that we have lost contact with. Most of us human beings find all of this…
Where The Listening Starts
Where Listening Starts
An essential part of any wellness coach training is focusing on developing competency in what the ICF (International Coaching Federation) calls Active Listening – Paraphrase and Restatement; Reflection of Feeling; Request for Clarification; the use of Silence and Intuition; Summarization. Yet the active listening skills that we talk about aren’t really skills about how to listen…
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