Fifth session on supervised coaching

Had my fourth session on supervised coaching on September 13, with the same client that I have had since the earlier sessions!!The session was focused on the need for her to allocate time for her personal care and I initiated the session based on the information furnished by her in the coaching preparation form!! Discussed the metaphor that I picked up in a recent article on Readers’ Digest to make a point — Life is like a Bicycle. You need to stay in balance in order to move forward and make progress!!She was able to relate it to waht was happening to her and the learning she had from it!!!ctively!!

This was the fifth session conducted by Karen and my fourth supervised coaching!! I got a good feedback from the client and also from Karen!! Karen was very prompt in sending me he official feedback form, from which I was thrilled to learn that I had used all the core competencies(listed in the ICF website) in my sessions so far!!

Two more supervised coaching sessions to go, before I get ready to make the final submissions prior to graduation!!

 

Fourth supervised coaching session

In this fourth supervised coaching session, I had my third supervised coaching session, followed by an oral exam.It was a relaxing and exciting session for me and the message that my class leader,Karen, conveyed in the beginning of the session, helped me reframe my thoughts on the oral exam!!She said that it was more a reflections opportunity regarding the coaching process, rather than an exam!!

The prompt feedback that I got from Karen, made my day!!I had satisfactorily completed the exam.Three down and three to go!!

 

ICA related activities

The sections below the Home Page section,detail the various steps that I have taken to sharpen my skills through association with the International Coach Academy in Australia.

 

Home Page

My name is Dr.S.Chandrasekhar and I have been coaching and counseling for the past 4 years.Most of my coaching till date has been face to face and I discovered, for the first time, thanks to the exposure at the International Coach Academy,that a telephonic coaching session could also be equally, if not more, effective!!

Interestingly, there are some clients who prefer face to face counseling or coaching and are not willing to make the effort to even try out the tepehonic option!! I respect their feelings on this, and devote a considerable portion of my time to face to face counseling.These are mainly clients who come for treatment for various mental illnesses like clinical depression, schizophrenia,drug(alcohol,smoking and drugs)de addiction,and various stress related ailments.After their treatment,and sometimes during the treatment, the Psychiatrist with whom I am associated, refers the clients to me.In a sense, I have not had the need to make the effort to search for clients during the past 4 years thanks to the clinical set up in which I currently operate!

The coaching model and Power Tool that I use in my coaching process has been spelt out in detail in this blog and the various steps that I have taken to upgrade my skills, have also been outined below in the various sections.The biggest asset that I have in the present clinical set up is the number of clients who come on a regular basis to the Psychiatrist, who then get referred to me for counseling or caoching.There are days in which I coach as much as 8 clients, some of them new and most of them on a repeat. basis for as much as 25 or 30 sessions. One may ask whether this amount of coaching gets tiring.Interestingly, I find that it does not!!

My niche coaching areas are

Relationship coaching including Marital and Pre Marital issues

Geriatric coaching

Coaching on stress related issues

Executive Coaching for small and medium enterprises

 

Third session on supervised coaching

I participated in this session on 23 August, 2007, as a listener.There were 3 coaching sessions and the coaches had their clients selected from the class!! There was a lot of learning from each of the coaching sessions.

One of the things that was particularly useful was the observation made by our supervisor in the session, Karen Cappello.She mentioned that if any of the laser sessions came to a successful completion before the allotted 15 minutes, we could wrap up the session at an appropriate time, and do not have to wait till the 15 minutes are over!!

My next supervised coaching session is on August 30 and this would be followed by an oral exam.I am looking forward to that session with the same client I had in my second supervised coaching session.

 

Supervised coaching

I completed my first supervised coaching session a few minutes back and was it exciting!!Karen Cappello was our coordinator and she is always a delighful and insightful  leader and mentor.I always feel energized in her classes!!

The class went on for more than 90 minutes and time always flies when you are excited and having fun!!One of the registered students dropped off and so we were 5 of us!! So there will be only 10 weeks of supervised coaching sessions for each one of us to have 6 coaching sessions.I volunteered today and completed the first of the six!! One down and 5 to go!! We will get the schedules for the remaining supervised coaching classes and laser sessions and I will continue to share my experiences as we move forward in this journey!!

Update on the first supervised coaching session!

We have got the assessment and feedback on the first supervised coaching and I have satisfactorily completed it!!We have also got the time slots for the oral exam and the remaining 15 minute laser sessions for each of us.My sixth session should be completed by October 4!!

We were informed that we could identify any client for our supervised coaching sessions–within or outside ICA.The main criteria in selection should be that we make sure that there is learning for us through the coaching process and we benefit through such an interaction!!The classes are conducted in such a relaxed and calm atmosphere that the whole process flows so beautifully and before we know it, it is time to bring the sessions to a close!!

Second supervised coaching session.

My second supervised coaching session was completed on August 16. An ICA student and my peer client volunteered to be my client and promptly showed up at the designated moment!! She posed her issue and we had our 15 minute laser session. It went off well and I got a good acknowledgement and feedback both from the client and Karen.

The VOIP Skype connection was not very good and so I decided to use my landline telephone for the laser session.It worked out well and since it was quite expensive, I had to switch back to the VOIP connection after that session!!

I got a mail from Karen the next morning that I had satisfactorily completed that session. The feedback indicated that I had used most of the ICF core competencies. As Karen had mentioned in the very first supervised coaching session on August 9, it is good to keep the core competencies in the back of our minds but be ourselves and give our best to the client when he os she shows up for the session with their issues.That is what I did, and the past experience with hundreds of clients made the task so simple and free flowing!!I actually hd a lot of fun, satisfaction  and excitement in the process!!

2 down and 4 to go!!