1st Edition

101 Coaching Strategies and Techniques for Recovery and Wellness A Practical Guide

344 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

101 Recovery and Wellness Coaching Strategies offers a practical toolkit of strategies and activities to help coaches broaden and refresh their practice through a more holistic approach oriented toward mental health awareness. It combines various techniques at the intersection of health, recovery, and wellness. Alongside step-by-step “how to do” exercises, the authors outline a comprehensive... Read more

Introduction  Part A: Foundational Strategies  1. Designing the Relationship with the client  2. Referring to other Practitioners  3. Crisis - How to manage when a crisis arises  4.      Self Care Strategy  Part B: Relationships   5.      Creating well relationships  6.      Your relationship with yourself  7.      Exploring your relationship with food  8.      Uncovering the values a couple share  9.      Building Healthy Relationships  10.  Building social support  11.  Evaluating a relationship for support  12.  It’s all about the conversation  13.  How to find shared meaning in a relationship  14.  Making sense of multiple roles  15.  Which Community do you belong to?  16.  Managing relationship conflict  17.  Managing transitional supporting relationships and how they end  18.  Integrating our mind and body practice  Part C: Motivation  19.  How to build SMART-ER goals that motivate better  20.  Finding what makes you tick at work  21.  Getting our needs met  22.  Clarifying whether your client is intrinsically or extrinsically motivated  23.  Goal Setting - Defining Goals and Expectations  24.  Small sustainable steps to create new change  25.  Building belief  26.  How to move a client from fear to meaning based motivation  27.  Starting the day in a mindful way  28.  Creating a mood that works for you  29.  Supporting motivation with the motivation of others  Part D: Feelings and Emotions  30.  Building the courage to feel  31.  Building self esteem in recovery  32.  Being more than “just” OK  33.  Designing with your client how to be with their powerful emotions  34.  Giving, to improve mood  35.  Gratitude  36.  Getting to know fear and using it for change  37.  Keeping cool in hot situations  38.  Separating feelings and emotions from thoughts  39.  Working with negative self critical and anxious voices  40.  Using feelings and emotions in decision making  41.  Mapping emotions to meaning  42.  Bring calm in anxious times  Part E: Meaning and Purpose  43.  Unlocking energy through connection with meaning  44.  Align being and doing  45.  Balancing being self focussed and others focused  46.  Acting on purpose  47.  Exercising on purpose  48.  Putting meaning at the centre of all actions  49.  How to find what matters and go for it  50.  Making meaning the mother of purpose  51.  Living on Purpose  52.  Make meaning from values  53.  What to do if a client says they have no meaning or purpose in their life?  Part F: Energy and Engagement  54.  Engaging as a recovering leader  55.  Energy and what you eat  56.  Doing too much: Managing over engagement by saying ‘No’  57.  Using signature strengths in service of goals  58.  Engaging in non-judgemental listening  59.  Tracking to gather data in support of self-awareness  60.  Building awareness of timing to improve engagement & success  61.  Restoring depleted energy levels  62.  Managing emotions to manage energy for change  63.  Body Scan - Taking time out as a coach - the body scan  Part G: Consciousness, Perception and Attention  64.  Creating the present from the future  65.  State change  66.  Keeping track of what takes your attention (internal / external)  67.  Sleep, think, eat and move well  68.  Walking while coaching  69.  Practising paying attention to build self awareness  70.  Aligning intention and outcome through attention  71.  Whole body awareness  72.  Changing what’s possible  73.  Noticing how a client uses language and helping them use language positively for change  74.  How do you know when you have reached capacity  75.  Exploring Our Relationship to Technology  76.  Changing Perspective  Part H: Change  77.  How to anchor a resourceful state  78.  How to make change stick  79.  Using existing habits to create new ones  80.  Reflecting on Change  81.  What do you need to change today to create a different tomorrow?  82.  Celebrating Change  83.  Do we have the capacity to change?  84.  Using the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) stages of change  on any topic  85.  Becoming more of who you are as a way to change  86.  Eliciting Behaviour Change  87. Creating self-awareness when our short term actions are not aligned with our long term goal  88.  Establishing change as a basis for recovery and wellbeing  89. The cycle of uncertainty  Part I: Performance  90.  Creating your own performance measures  91.  A Performance of your life  92.  Handling the Saboteurs  93. Creating our personal operating standards and setting boundaries  94.  Integrating performance with meaning and goals  95.  A perspective on what I do well  96. Creating an Exercise Routine  97.  Increasing our capacity to handle stress  98.  How to move from resilience to antifragility  99.  Cues that may signal sleep is off  100. Healthy eating for busy people  101. How our body can lead a change Thank you! The Future  Additional Reading Materials

Biography

Anne Archer is an accomplished executive coach, group facilitator, and coach supervisor with over 20 years of experience supporting leaders and teams globally across professional services firms and financial institutions. With an MSc in the Psychology of Wellbeing and practical experience of working across the mental health continuum, which includes suicide prevention, Anne blends evidence-based approaches with compassionate leadership to drive meaningful change in individuals and organisations. She is co-editor of 101 Coaching Strategies and Techniques (Routledge, 2010).

Anthony Eldridge-Rogers is an executive coach, coach trainer, supervisor and organisational consultant in human wellbeing, behavioural health recovery and coaching. A graduate of The Co-Active Training Institute and an Internationally Certified Professional Recovery & Wellness Coach, he works with board members, CEOs, senior management teams, and entrepreneurs as both coach and mentor within the context of recovery, wellness, and collaborative leadership. Anthony is passionate about the power of coaching to foster positive change journeys for individuals, groups, and communities, no matter what challenges they face.

Harry Archer is a manager in an elite world class gym. He has a varied background as a nutrition and exercise coach, a competitive powerlifter, conference speaker and published author. He works alongside world class health professionals to deliver great results by adopting an evidence-based, client-centred approach. His distinctive coaching enables clients to consistently adhere to any change programme they commit to.