DETAILS OF MY COACHING PROGRAM STARTING JUNE 25, 2012

Hi All

I knew I wrote this up, but I couldn't figure out for the life of me where it was. Then I found this information below by clicking a secret-looking button on the Frankfurter Ring page that describes my coaching program. I realize you might not have seen it because I didn't see it myself until today. So I'm putting it up here (and updating it).

This is where you'll find the most up to date description. (Tell me if you've seen them before. I'm curious to know who else missed them.)

I'll try to find the details in German as well but it's pretty clear that I don't have a great record for finding things.

It's all written in Brochure-Lingo (sorry about that - and I couldn't find the bullet points either, so I improvised) but maybe it will help you get a picture of what we're going to be doing this coming year in the coaching program. Each module includes some material from the interim periods between modules.

I think the course is almost full, latest I heard there are 9 spots open, and it's almost certainly the last time I'll run it, so read through and let me know in Comments if you want to be there, and/or have any questions.

BARBARA SHER COACH TRAINING 2011-2012
FRANKFURTER RING
http://www.frankfurter-ring.de/index.php?id=120

5 WEEKEND MODULES (10 Training days)

* Module 1: June 25 / 26, 2011
* Module 2: Sept.10 / 11, 2011
* Module 3: Dec.10 / 11, 2011
* Module 4: Feb. 11 / 12, 2012
* Module 5: April 21 / 22, 2012

4 INTERIM STUDY SEGMENTS
ONLINE PRIVATE DISCUSSION FORUM

DETAILS:

BARBARA SHER COACHING TRAINING
GOALS FOR MY STUDENTS

* develop your existing talent and expertise as a coach
* add to your repertoire of communication skills
* receive individualized strength and needs assessment
* gain practice in new techniques and expert feedback
* augment your empathy and problem-solving abilities
* experience hands-on use of innovative techniques with volunteer clients
* successfully market yourself without soliciting, using today‘s technologies
* learn one-to-one and group face-to-face coaching, as well as telephone, live video, subscription site and email coaching
* create interactive conference call classes and your own online courses

THE LEARNING WILL COME IN MANY FORMS

* attend 5 face-to-face, interactive weekend-long modules
* see and analyze video sessions of my work with clients
* read case studies and learn new techniques from my books
* provide in-person and/or telephone sessions to volunteer clients
* review and exchange session transcripts with fellow students
* share your experiences with fellow students
* get guidance from skilled coaches and teaching assistants on a private forum
* participate in individual and group peer counseling

I‘ll be personally working with all students.

CONTENT OF MODULES

MODULE ONE: You and your Clients

- Finding the source of your drive
- Assessing your existing experience
- Discovering why (and in which ways) you are already an expert
- Identifying your strengths
- Developing new skills
- Learning best practices and new processes
- Listening with focus, knowing what to ask
- Identifying client’s obstacles
- Knowing what to say and when to say it

Hands-on practice begins in Interim One. Volunteer clients are provided.

Overview of the four stages of coaching your clients:

First, Find the goal - identify what your client wants, how to uncover and recognize the real wish.

Second, Wish and Obstacle Analysis - differentiate between real and imaginary obstacles, how to defuse imaginary ones and overcome real ones.
(Materials provided: Idea Parties, the rules of brainstorming, Barbara Sher's Idea Book, Discover Your Dream Workbook w/ CD)

Third, How to plan in reverse: create action steps that work back from the goal to something you can do right now; expecting and understanding resistance, knowing and naming feelings.

Fourth, Setting up the support structure and accountability: working with a coach as the foundation of success.


MODULE TWO: Motivation, Feelings, Identity, Influences

- Discussion of interim readings
- Analysis of client sessions and reports
- Assignment of best practices
- Finding client’s motivational system
- Forms of resistance, levels of solutions
- Identity, cultural and family influences, birth order issues
- The true sources of drive
- Perfectionism and critics
- When indecision is a decision
- Why a chronic problem is usually the solution to a worse problem
- Subconscious defense mechanisms
- Locating 'Forbiddens‘
- The 3 stages of excitement, their purposes, how to use each

MODULE THREE: Working with Clients

- Cues, clues, next steps
- Analysis of your recordings and my full-length sessions with clients
- In-person vs. distance sessions with clients
- Lowering stress, expanding client's comfort zones
- Review of previous exercises
- New Processes: The Oracle, The Self-Correcting Scenario, The Temporary-Permanent Commitment, Jet Clarity, Role Play, How Others See You, Gather Your Allies, Finding Your Gifts
- How to design your own exercises

MODULE FOUR: Becoming Known

- Establishing expertise, building client base
- Introduction to social media
- Virtual workshops
- The importance of your blog and commenting on others' blogs
- Where to find solutions: Idea Parties, the Internet, my bulletin board
- How to find your best clients: speaking vs. online
- Introduction to designing workshops
- New, easier marketing methods
- Your first telephone class
- Recording and evaluating your in-person, telephone and video sessions
- Forum discussions with coaches and student coaches
- Marketing for coaches who hate marketing


MODULE FIVE: Earning Income as a Coach

- Getting clients
- Building a good mailing list
- Creating online radio or TV shows
- Producing and running workshops
- How to find your right people
- Using unpaid speaking to paying clients
- Building your mailing list
- Using Facebook and/or your blog to let people know who you are
- eBooks
- The helping professions, avoiding burnout


REQUIRED READING:
My books in English and German:
Wishcraft
Live the Life You Love
I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now (in English only)
Refuse To Choose;
Discover Your Dream Kit w/CD (provided as free download to students)
Barbara Sher's Idea Book (provided as free download to students)
Handouts


http://www.frankfurter-ring.de/index.php?id=120
TEL. 069 - 51 15 55