What is Coaching?

Coaching is a process with a purpose: to get the client going in creating the best life he or she could possibly have, in both the personal and professional realms. Coach and client together will work for powerful self discovery that creates a vision and direction for developing competencies that will support essential actions on the part of the client. During the process, the client will make significant gains in objectives, measuring his or her progress, and getting vital support from the coach for introducing important changes in their behavior, thinking, beliefs and communication.

Coaching NLP

O NÚCLEO Pensamento & Ação trains Coaches in a specific methodology: The Thought to Action Coaching Cycle ©. Clients need approaches that have both structure and flexibility. The Coaching Cycle is designed to provide both. Essential Action can be expressed when the client knows who he is, what is important to him and what to do to get from what he is now to where he wants to be. The Thought to Action Coaching Cycle is about getting the client those results. As for the importance of cycles in personal change work, our change and evolution doesn´t really come to end. It just keeps on spiraling as long as we cultivate the importance of growing beyond where we are now. It is like what the French poet Paul Valery said about his art, "A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

Important concepts of Coaching " Results come from continuous, proactive and concrete actions " Going beyond the comfort zone gets a person to redefine their beliefs " A gratifying life arises as one uses personal resources and acts according to values " Satisfaction will be natural when one risen to his or her states of excellence, including in adverse situations " The client knows the answers How to get those results? " Fortifying key habilities " Encountering sources of motivation " Removing mental barriers " Modifying problem behaviors and attitudes which reduce effectiveness

THE THOUGHT TO ACTION COACHING CYCLE ©

The Thought to Action Coaching Cycle comprises six phases. Each phase can be carried out using tools that the participants will adquire during the course. As well, other tools from previous or future training or experience can be incorporated in the macro-structure of the Coaching Cycle so that once the participant has taken the basic course, he or she can continue growing as a coach, adding and stretching as experience and further studies develop their competencies.

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You can liken the coaching process to building a house. First there is the idea that it´s time for a new house. The process is set off when the future homeowner makes a mental picture and has the desire to actually builde the real and concrete structure. In the Evaluation phase, we take a look at the terrain, test the soil, getting to know the site we'll be building on. Then in the Construction phase, we're building a solid foundation (for the client this is beliefs, values and life purpose) so the new house will stand strong. 

When that foundation is ready, then we can put together the scaffolding, a basic structure to build upon. That would be the Goal Formulation phase of coaching. Then when the scaffolding is ready, the client can start to really carry out the building process, putting up the walls, putting in the floors and getting everything ready. As the steps go through to completion, there comes the time when the house is ready for moving in. Living in a new house can be a big deal. It depends on how much has been changed, just how new the new living space is. It may be cruciallly important to prepare oneself to move into a new place. 

This would be the Transformation phase in coaching, where we look into limiting beliefs, changing self-concept and all other pattern changes that must take place to be able to live in a new place. And once that move has been sucessfully undertaken, then we are finally ready to settle in and have an open house to celebrate the new home. That is like the final Consolidation phase of coaching, that ends the cycle, with celebration and and overview of the whole process.

1. Assessment: Initial phase of coaching in which Coach e Coachee determine the scope of the Coaching and the global goals or themes of the beginning of the cycle. e as metas globais do ciclo a iniciar. This phase includes evaluations by way of interviews and questionnaires. In business contexts, the assessment can include the performance reviews of the Coachee. 

2. Foundations: The Coach and the Coachee construct the necessary foundations to reach new levels of expression and performance. This includes an alignment of the change process with one´s world view, life purpose and core values. For Executive Coaching, there is also an alignment of the individual's purpose with that of the organization. The Construction phase also includes Systems Thinking to broaden the client's model of the world. 

3. Formulation: The Coach and the Coachee formulating priority goals for the current coaching cycle. The goals are measurable, with action plans and should provoke significant changes during the Coaching Cycle. 

4. Implementation: Once the goals are set, the Coach and the Coachee work on implementing the action plan, with a special focus on the strategies and resources necessary for the Coachee to carry out his or her plan. 

5. Transformation: In this phase, the Coach works together with the Coachee to support the overcoming of obstacles and difficulties, transforming limiting beliefs and assumptions, indesirable behaviors and ineffective stategies that appear along the way. 

6. Consolidation: The Coach and the Coachee work together to conclude, consolidate and celebrate the acheivements, learnings and experiences of the whole process. The Client prepares him or her self to go forward on his or her own with regard to those matters which he or she has already transformed and becomes aware of unfinished business which may warrant another coaching cycle. The Coach and the Coachee make a decision about starting a new cycle, going into a maintance phase or ending the coaching all together. The main concepts and tools presented during the course for each phase are shown below:

Introduction to NLP Coaching

What is Coaching? Using Neurolinguistic Programming as a change model Solution Focus Strategies Presenting the Thought and Action Coaching Cycle Coaching competencies - atitudes, skills and knowledge Rapport and empathy with clients Tasking Power questions

Assesment Phase

Making a Coaching Contract The Wheel of Life Evaluating Competencies Mapping Professional and Personal Roles Neurological Levels Analysis Time Line Analysis Dovetailing Professional Goals with Personal Goals Defining Scope for a Coaching Cycle

Foundations Phase

Preferred Future Neurological Levels Systemic Alignment Vision and Mission Needs and Values States of Excellence Balancing Personal Energy Peak Performance Strategies

Formulation Phase

Systemic Thinking and Ecology in Goal Formulation Goals - from S.M.A.R.T. to S.M.A.R.T.E.R. Identifying and Accessing Resources The Bonsai Strategy The Disney Strategy for Creative Planning Planning Time Lines for Implementation

Implementation Phase

Follow-ups Overcoming the Know-Do Gap Stretch Goals for Progress Forming new habits Dealing with excuses Personal effectiveness Learning strategies Skill aquisition Strengthening resources

Transformation Phase

Reframing resistence and objections Resilience in adversity Irrational beliefs Negotiating conflicts - personal and interpersonal Building emotional competency Belief Audit Changing Limiting Beliefs The Belief Change Cycle

Consolidation Phase

Feedback on growth and learnings Reviewing the process Designing support systems to maintain change Ratifying learning in all the Neurological Levels Making new decisions about the future

ARLINE DAVIS is an International Master Trainer and Master Coach living and working in Brazil for the last 20 years. She graduated from the University of California, Davis, in Biology with a specialization in evolutionary ecology. While her studies of human behavior go back more than 25 years, for the last 14 years, as CEO of the Brazilian-based company "Núcleo Pensamento & Ação" she has been leading certification programs in human behavioral technologies (Neurolinguistic Programming and Coaching). She also is a guest trainer on the training staff of several Brazilian and international institutes, having presented seminars in Brazil, Peru, USA and Italy. She also has professional training in art therapy, somatic psychology, Non-Violent Communication and is an instructor in the Rio Abierto System for the Harmonic Development. In her corporate work, she has worked on corporate education development, communication consultancy and a wide range of soft skill trainings. Brazilian corporate clients include: Associação Brasileiro de Recursos Humanos - Rio, Banco Central, Casa da Moeda, CIAGA - Marinha do Brasil, CGU Seguros, Club Méd, Correios, CRVD. Dataprev, Delphos, Eletrobrás, Embeleze, Embratel, Escola Superior de Propoganda e Marketing, GERH - Grupo Executivo de Recursos Humanos, FAPES, FIRJAN, Grifo Enterprises, Instituto de Segurança Pública, ONS - Operadora Nacional do Sistema Elétrico, Petrobras, Repsol, Serasa, SENAC, SENAI, St. Gobaim, UBQ and Varig