A truly unique training package for Occupational Therapists to develop the coaching skills that will enhance your clinical and managerial skills and broaden your horizons.

Benefits to you personally

Gain clarity and direction for your career.
Understand your career values and live by them.
Achieve a great work life balance.
Develop real skills that you can use at work or to develop your own dreams.
Gain courage to reduce your dependency on the public sector.
Confidence to market yourself and your profession.
Find strategies to minimise the impact of external pressures on your daily working life.
Find ways to bring creativity back into your professional role.
Develop your practice and career in exciting and challenging ways.



Benefits to your service

Clarity about your professional role and practical steps to demonstrate it.
Use your creativity to problem-solve, design and deliver services that work for everyone - clients, managers, staff.
Create a coaching culture within your team that increases staff morale, reduces sick leave and increases productivity.
Empowering services for clients.
Outcome orientated treatment sessions.
Looking at the possibilities not just the problems.
Provide the best supervision and staff appraisals


Benefits to you professionally

Develop enhanced listening skills.
New questioning techniques that move the client forward.
Simple and effective ways to structure a treatment session to ensure outcomes are met.
Create truly respectful partnerships with clients that give them the utmost control.
Motivating goal setting techniques.
Skills to establish the client's values and their priority.
Enhance your goal setting and lifestyle work.
Skills that are excellent for person centred planning, recovery work, rehabilitation and case management.
Understanding the benefits of a coaching approach within Occupational Therapy.



What is life coaching?

Life coaching enables people to realise their potential by helping them to know what is right for them, not by telling them what to do. The focus is on the here and now and the future possibilities. It increases awareness, tackles negative self-belief and puts the responsibility on the person to set and achieve their own meaningful goals.

Does this sound familiar? Yes, life coaching has a lot in common with Occupational Therapy which is why OTs can make fantastic coaches. How ever there are specific approaches, skills and techniques that are brought together in coaching which are not part of our core skills. Combining the two approaches creates an extremely powerful and empowering experience for clients and staff alike.

Coaching is a powerful tool. The coach motivates the client to explore the possibilities and overcome blocks through powerful questioning and defining accountability for goal attainment. Coaching can be used in all areas of Occupational Therapy. It is great for working with  clients and carers, and also with colleagues and other professionals.


To request your FREE copy of
"What is life coaching and how does it fit with occupational therapy"


Please email Catherine


The Occupational Coaching Training Package

This package has been designed specifically for Occupational Therapists, with your previous knowledge taken into account. It is designed to give you the knowledge, practical experience and follow up support to start using the skills with confidence.

The package includes

A two day intensive and interactive workshop

PLUS

Six weeks of email coaching from Catherine Hadrill

PLUS

A teleclass to help you put all you've learned into practice

PLUS

A comprehensive work book

PLUS

The opportunity to buddy up with other delegates after the course to practice telephone coaching


The course objectives

When you have completed the training package you will:

Be able to define coaching and how it differs from counseling/therapy.

Have experienced a lot of coaching for yourself.

Understand the three levels of listening.

Be able to construct powerful, incisive and inquiry questions.

Have practiced coaching skills.

Be able to facilitate motivating goal setting.

Be able to structure a session using a coaching model.

Be able to complete a values elicitation and prioritisation.
 
Be able to identify limiting beliefs and strategies to overcome them.

Be able to identify when coaching skills are appropriate to use and when they are not.

Have identified the potential of coaching skills in your own personal and professional life.


Why should I attend?

Because you want to deliver the best possible service to your client group. You want to enhance your client centred practice and use new coaching techniques to motivate clients. You want your work to be more positively focused and give the clients the opportunity to design their future. Because you can see the potential of Occupational Therapy and what your service can deliver, but you need the skills to plan the way forward. Because you want more than just a study day - you are committed to using these skills in practice and value the support that it provides.


Because you are a manager and want to develop the personal development skills coaching provides. You want to provide the best possible supervision and staff development service within current budgetary restraints. Because you want to foster a positive attitude within your team and reduce recruitment and retention difficulties. You want to reduce staff sickness and increase "productivity". You want to manage the team people really want to work in. Because you want to get ahead.


Because you want to be a life coach and reduce your dependency on the public sector. You are considering a diploma in life coaching, but are daunted by financial risk of fees between £1000 - £6000. You want to explore what coaching is all about, develop sound coaching skills that you can use straight away in your practice at a fraction of the cost, and to have a sound grounding if you choose an accredited course later. You are cautious of all the hype and want to have taster course designed specifically for you, taking into account your existing skills, and to be amongst other Occupational Therapists. You want to develop the idea of independent work and will benefit from the follow-up support.


Here's what the last group had to say about the weekend!

" A really inspiring and valuable learning experience that I feel will help to enhance both personal and professional life.... Lots of opportunity to have a go and different people to meet. Fab. Loads of self reflection - we never give ourselves time for"   - CMHT OT


" Beautiful location - amazing catering. I have been amazed at the power of coaching tools and undergoing the process .. along with the strength of my OT habits! And how the process differs"  - A. Loveridge Snr OT (Children's Services)

" Many thanks for a positive experience and helping me realise I can achieve my dreams"

" Very easy going, informative. Very clear. Excellent venue, lovely room, beautiful surroundings, brilliant food A+++." - Kathy Hall , Condition Management Practitioner Scotland

" The environment made a much easier learning experience. The times/ lengths of talks were really well pitched. Very good venue, lovely food. A really well put together course! Many Thanks!" - Amelia Goldsmith Lister OT - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Service, Essex. 

"Well balanced and informative introduction to coaching and what it means to be a coach - Many Thanks"

" Great course! Very clear in helping me decide the best course of action for my future - liberating and motivating"  - Nicole Burchett, Condition Management Practitioner, South Wales.

" Good balance of theory and exercises. Well presented with great notes. Great venue, the beautiful grounds help to offset the weekend! Thank you, I feel that you have given clear information and that I've so much more about myself and my OT practise" - Lynette, Senior OT, Mental Health, South Wales

"Great venue, great food. Good balance of time spent on each topic. Life coaching seems to sit well alongside OT, potentially a great set of extra skills." - Jane Willdigg, Specialist OT, Essex

" All of it was very useful - the new skills and ways of questioning. Also I was particularly interested in learning about finding out core values. ..Very relaxing venue, we were well fed. Thank you - it has given me a lot of food for thought and action!" - Julia Grieve, OT, OT Assessment Team, Calderdale.

" Beautiful venue - perfect for reflection and calm. i thought the pace and content was excellent. Thanks Catherine ...I will definitely use some/all of these principles."

"Very good. Comprehensive handout. Very good setting. Very valuable and an excellent introductory course. Well run." OT Mental Health.


Fees

The cost of the training package including: 2 day workshop, course notes, refreshments and lunches, six weeks of email coaching from Catherine Hadrill and a telecourse is only £187.

If you require accommodation at Gregynog Hall this can be arranged at an additional fee from £60 per night for dinner, bed and breakfast. To be assured of accomodation please book by 20th May 2008.


To book your place for the Occupational Coaching Training package
please complete the following form

Closing Date 20th June 2008
 (20th May to guarantee accommodation) 

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The Venue



The 2 day workshops will be held at Gregynog Hall in the village of Tregynon, Mid Wales. Gregynog is situated in beautiful and peaceful surroundings, the ideal environment for a weekend course. Locally Gregynog is known for its excellent hospitality being only 6 miles from Newtown which has rail links to Birmingham. In the "border country" access is easy to the motorway networks with the M54  being 45mins away. For further details please visit Gregynog's web site.
Previous delegates have enjoyed special rates for partners and made a mini-break out of the weekend!



About Catherine Hadrill




I live in Tregynon with my husband Pete and six year old daughter Mary. Through coaching, I have been able to create a fantastic work life balance, leaving me time to enjoy my family and the beautiful countryside around us. Understanding my career values has helped me to appreciate what is important to me and to make decisions about the way that I work. I now work part-time (term time only) in a community learning disabilities team and my life coaching practice provides the perfect balance. My core values include: fairness, respect, gutsiness, aesthetics, adventure, solidarity, tranquility, creativity and flexibility.

I qualified as an OT in 1989. Most of my career has been in the mental health field, as a clinician and a manager. I have worked for both health and social services around the UK. I completed my diploma in coaching practice from Coaching and Mentoring International in the beginning of 2006. Coaching has changed my life professionally and personally. It has enhanced my approach to working with clients and carers, and I have seen the positive results of using a coaching approach at work and as a parent. I believe coaching and Occupational Therapy have much to offer each other. The combined skills provide us with powerful tools to tackle the challenges of health and social care work, so that we can diversify in the 21st century.


I love coaching and being coached and facing the challenges. If you would like to know more about how a coaching structure with me can help you please visit Coach Yourself Better.

If you have any queries please mail me

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PHONE: 01686 650754