Press release:
A six-hour workshop will be offered in Batavia on Sept. 11 for people working with those with substance use disorder.
It is titled "Taking a Coach Approach -- A Conversation for Change" and is intended for recovery peer professionals, counselors and clinicians.
Participants will have the opportunity to engage in and practice using evidence-based coaching strategies and tools relevant to their work.
The International Coach Federation defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.”
Coming from a strength base and client-centered perspective, coaching honors the individual in recovery/family member as the expert in his/her own life and believes that every individual is creative, resourceful, whole and fundamentally brilliant about their own lives.
Coaching addresses the entire person, challenging them to expand their definition of recoverywhile focusing on the “gap” between the quality and scope of their recovery today and wherethey would like their recovery to be tomorrow.
This free class is taught by Keith Greer or Lori Drescher of the Recovery Coach University. Limited space. Reservation required.
It will be offered from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at Lake Plains Community Care Network, 575 E. Main St., Batavia. (In Eastown Plaza, near Aldi, next to Family Dollar.)
To register, call 585-345-6110 and request by class name and date.
Some of the topics to be included in this workshop include:
- The use of both powerful questions and empathic reflections;
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Using both a coaching plan and coaching contract;
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Being "in the inquiry" vs. being "in the answer";
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Moving away from a focus on “helper as the expert” to the role of coach who facilitates an inquiry based and action oriented process viewing their client as a resource (vs. object);
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Practice with several established coaching tools.
This class is sponsored by Genesee/Orleans Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse -- GCASA.
