Join us for the webinar Coaching Clients Through Obstacles with Improvisation, where you’ll explore how improvisation techniques help clients break patterns, increase self-awareness, and achieve their goals.
Who Is This For?
- Professional coaches looking to add creativity and adaptability to their coaching practice.
- Newer coaches eager to build client confidence through innovative techniques.
- Experienced coaches aiming to help clients overcome obstacles more effectively.
What You Will Learn:
- Apply improvisation principles to coaching conversations.
- Help clients recognize and break unconscious patterns.
- Support clients in generating options and taking effective action.
- Enhance client self-awareness and self-efficacy between sessions.
Course Details:
In Coaching Clients Through Obstacles with Improvisation, join Carrie Spaulding, PCC, and the ICF Health and Wellness Coaching Community of Practice for an experiential and transformative session.
This 90-minute webinar explores how the principles and skills of improvisation can help clients recognize and break unconscious patterns that sabotage their progress. By thinking like an improviser, coaches and clients can generate creative options, foster acceptance, and take action more effectively and efficiently.
Through interactive exercises and real-world applications, you’ll learn how to elevate your coaching practice by helping clients rewrite their narratives and increase self-efficacy between sessions. Regardless of your coaching specialty, this session equips you with the tools to coach more powerfully and help clients achieve lasting change.
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