I love the Brain and Change lessons and find that my enthusiasm for it is contagious to my clients. My approach to the science is one of mystery and exploration. As has been stated repeatedly, we are nature and understanding the brain and nervous system is to begin to understand the wisdom and mystery of the nature that has created us and that…

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Summary Post Partswork 2

After reading through the posts I wondered which part of me was doing the processing and writing of my own summary post. Of course the obedient self (introject? Hmm) was there, but more at the forefront was the learner, the lifelong learner that just loves to take in this stuff. It then became obvious that several…

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Summary Post GnL

A repeating theme of these posts was the idea of holding space for whatever the grieving client brings to the session without trying to manage it in any way. And that grieving is personal. There is no one way that it shows up and no correct or incorrect way. It just is, in all its various forms.

I did like Sher’s idea of a p…

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Initial Post PartsWork 2

PartsWork and Brain n Change are my two favorite tools in coaching. Partswork has proven to be the most challenging. At least to offer it as it was taught to us. My ability to explain what it is to others has improved tremendously. But to follow up in a structured manner seems to create more confusion. I am using it…

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Initial post Brain n Change 2

This is a client with whom I have an established coaching relationship. In recent times, by mutual agreement, I do not coach her because she asked me to work informally with her daughter. To prevent conflicting loyalties my focus has been on her 21 yo daughter but every now and again she checks in.

This…

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Initial Post Guiding Through Grief.

It seems this coaching relationship was established 30 years ago! An old friend and employer called me out of the blue. He was a physical therapist who had offered me my first clinical job as a massage therapist. When we met he explained his situation telling me he had been diagnosed with cancer, for the…

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SUMMARY POST for Long Term Coaching

Reading everyone’s posts was very enlightening and useful. Not only did it give me ideas it helped to shift my perspectives. The comfort level with charging and frontloading helped to normalize the concept for me. I loved Melody’s image when she said the flow of change is not a straight line. Metaphor is o…

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LONG TERM Coaching Initial Post

My initial reaction to the idea of long term coaching and especially charging for it, fit my typical pattern of I don’t know enough and therefore am not good enough to be charging money. So I looked at myself from the perspective of immunity to change and recognized that instead of diving into coaching I keep r…

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Trauma: Summary Post

I have been working with a client, mentioned in previous posts, for about a year now. It’s been a journey for both of us and has given me the opportunity to put together much of what I have learned throughout the NCC program. It began when she, in an ungrounded state, spoke frenetically about her traumatic childhood, her 4…

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Summary Brain and Change 1:
As I learn and understand more about the brain and neuroscience I am fascinated to relate my understanding to the various thinking and cognitive processes I observe in my clients. It also provides me insight into my own thinking patterns and the relationship between brain and body.
Joe Dispenza’s approach to i…

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PARTSWORK Conclusion

I think I’m starting to get the hang of PartsWork, though explaining it still feels like the most difficult aspect. When clients bring up “part of me felt this way and another part felt that way” I dive in. And we seem to do okay until it comes to actually naming the parts. Then we both seem to overthink it and way too m…

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Trauma, initial post:

I have several clients with issues surrounding trauma. Two of them are bipolar, a result of childhood trauma. I am also working with a 70 year old man who has metastatic liver cancer. He has done both chemo and radiation. One scan said it had disappeared completely, a month later the follow-up scan and mri had the doctors…

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B&C initial post

I have a friend who is a DBSA (depression and bipolar support alliance) counselor who has referred several of his clients to me. I had some trepidation at first but as I have met with them and created coaching agreements I have recognized that a large part of establishing the coaching relationship is as simple as pointing out…

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