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Parent Coaching Benefits

  1. Better understanding of yourself and your family. We’ll be delving into figuring out the different personalities involved. We all have predictable responses to stimulus, and this is because of our personality trait. Simply put, different personalities are best addressed differently. If you have one child that is a driver and another that is very gregarious and outgoing, to motivate each requires a different approach. To the former, you would give the child a challenge, for the latter you would promise a star, new dress, new bike or whatever is appropriate for the task to be done.

  2. You’ll be learning the coaching skill of “tuning in”, basically what I call truly listening. By truly listening to your child, your child will know that you really care and you will gain more knowledge about your child. In addition, we will focus on active listening, using “I” messages, to talk to your child about emotionally charged issues.

  3. As a result of #1 and #2, communications between you and your children will become much easier and more enjoyable.

  4. I will help you activate skill sets (coaching skills) and you'll begin to have more effective experiences and relationships with others, not only your children. By activating coaching skills in you, you will be able to coach yourself between phone calls; this is where most of the work happens anyway. And when you are skilled at this, you'll be able to coach your children.

How Coaching Works

Coaching is a partnership between a client (you) and a coach (I) using focused conversations. Through questions, listening, observations, clarifications and more, we will explore solutions and identify actions on any topic you want to address. This focus accelerates the achievement of your goals.

Coaching is typically done over the phone.

Conditional Consult

A conditional consult is a 30 minute session which enables you to experience coaching. The condition is at the end of the 30 minutes, wherever we are in the process, I will stop and ask if you found value in our the coaching and if you would like to hire me. If yes, we will create a coaching relationship or if no, we part as friends.

 

To schedule your conditional consult call 408-482-4086 or send an email to dmcook@family-rx.com.