This workshop explores the role of life and career coaches in helping clients to reach goals: goal-setting, motivation and accountability.

1. Empowering Clients
To Reach Goals
Trevor Buser, PhD & Juleen Buser, PhD
Rider University
January 28, 2016

2. Plan of Presentation
What is coaching?
Tapping motivation and strengths
Cultivating accountability for goals
Coach Training Program

3. What is Life & Career Coaching?
Freud on “common unhappiness”
Coaching:
Professional relationship
Optimizing wellness
Scope of practice
Pathology “Normal Functioning” Wellness

4. Life & Career Coaching
Conspiring on the go
to awaken ingenuity and promote resolution
now and again
Partnering
Action orientation (and spontaneity)
Focus on wellness
Present tense

5. Human beings are conflict-resolving creatures
Naturally inclined to move toward:
 Reduction of ambivalence (MI)
Equilibrium (Gestalt; Systems)
Congruence; merging of ideal & real self (Rogers)
Tapping Motivation & Strengths

6.  To generate motivation for change, build
awareness of conflict
 Strategies
Tapping Motivation & Strengths

7. Timing of goal-setting
 Cautious not to set goals too early
 Thorough understanding of difficulty
 Listening grants you the “right to be heard”
Cultivating Accountability For Goals

8. Flow: (1) Understand difficulty
(2) Understand want (what different?) &
what client is doing to achieve want
--------------Movement to Goals-----------
(3) Understand client’s ideas for change
(4) Generate additional ideas (if needed)
(5) Make “big request”
Cultivating Accountability For Goals

9. Coach Training:
Oxygen Mask Placement
Creating new channels of self-care
Self-exploration & self-efficacy
Coping strategies (e.g., mindfulness, PMR)
Tolerance of ambiguity, self-compassion, acceptance
Authenticity, spontaneity

10. Rider University Life & Career
Coaching Certificate Program
Bachelor’s degree:
3 courses; 30 hrs. practice; cert. exam
Master’s degree in social/behvr science (e.g., education)
2 courses, 30 hrs. practice; cert. exam
Master’s degree in counseling
1 course, 30 hrs. practice; cert. exam
For more information:
gradadm@rider.edu  609-896-5036  www.rider.edu