Developing Coaches

Designed with direct care professionals in mind.
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What it is

This series offers a collaborative learning experience where coaches gain practical skills, share insights, and learn to navigate the real-world challenges and triumphs of supporting caregivers impacted by the child welfare system.

Series Sessions

The Connected Coach

  • What’s your role?
  • Tools to prepare for coaching sessions
  • How to C.O.A.C.H.
  • Tools for post-coaching

Tools for Motivational Interviewing

  • Understanding the basics of Motivational Interviewing
  • Identify the stages of change
  • Identify the four Motivational Interviewing core skills that represent OARS

Coaching Through Crisis

  • Shifting during a crisis
  • De-escalation techniques
  • Debriefing caregivers
  • Debriefing coaches

Rolling through Resistance

  • What can resistance look like
  • Roots of resistance
  • Maintaining the coaching role
  • Building trusting relationships through connection and self-awareness

Created with direct care professions in mind, sessions are split into four sessions.

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