Training Courses

I provide coaching programmes for health care professionals to teach coaching skills to those dealing with patients with life threatening illnesses.

Life coaching is the art of helping others identify and achieve their ultimate goals in life. The people I work with have huge challenges in their lives as they come to terms with their own mortality and deal with a roller coaster of emotions and face a future very different from the one they had expected or would have wished for themselves.  Coaching helps them focus on what and who are really important to them. It empowers them to make the emotional shift from vulnerable and helpless to feeling back in control, energised and inspired to make the most of every precious moment.

 The most important skills in coaching are having a natural empathy for others and good interpersonal skills – something that those working in palliative care usually have bucket loads of!

In the training I cover;

  • What coaching is and how it differs from counselling.
  • How to ask powerful questions & the importance of intuitive listening and instinct.
  • How to help the patient gently explore new directions and identify what they really want.
  • How to stimulate and support the patient to focus on alternative solutions and nurture their hopes and dreams.
  • Visualisation and other practical exercises.
  • Involving loved ones.

The benefits of the training;

  • The primary benefit is enhanced patient quality of life, self-esteem and emotional balance.
  • Happier, positive patients make the work of nurses and carers much easier.
  • Learning coaching skills will make you much more self-aware and help you consider your own needs.
  • You will take away practical applications you can put into practice immediately for your patients, yourself and those close to you.
  • Coaching almost always has a ripple effect which generates benefits for all touched by the process.

Who should attend

The day and half day courses are focused exclusively on those working in palliative care which enables a much deeper understanding of the issues they face. Drawing from practical experience the programmes have been designed with lots of practical examples and thought-provoking case studies.

Course prices on application.