Creating Lasting Change: Coaching in a Clinic Setting

British Columbia Naturopathic Association

October 16, 2015 Dr. Joel Kreisberg, DC, CCH, ACC

Executive Director Teleosis Institute

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Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives/ Agenda

• Upon completion: • Be able to distinguish health

coaching from the practice of clinical medicine

• Recognize the benefits of creating a healing topic

• Understand program objectives and there function in health coaching

• Become familiar with four core competencies of health coaching

• Agenda: • Compare health coaching/

naturopathy/ functional medicine

• Create a Healing Topic • Develop Program Objectives • See what it looks like in the

case of Carol • Introduce Four Core

Competencies • Creating Awareness • Designing Actions • Planning and Goal Setting • Managing Progress and

Accountability

Reflection Questions

• To what extent is your current practice supporting learning?

• Is there anything that you currently do that interferes with your patients taking responsibility for their healing?

• How might you focus on learning new skills rather doing new actions?

• Which of the core competencies described here might you use in your practice on Monday? How would you do that?

Naturopathic Medicine

• Naturopathic medicine is a distinct primary health care profession, emphasizing prevention, treatment, and optimal health through the use of therapeutic methods and substances that encourage individuals’ inherent self-healing process.

Health Coaching

• Health Coaches partner with clients seeking self-directed, lasting changes, aligned with their values, which promote health and wellness and, thereby, enhance well-being.

Functional Medicine

• Functional medicine addresses the underlying causes of disease, using a systems-oriented approach and engaging both patient and practitioner in a therapeutic partnership.

Chief Complaint

• Chief Complaint The chief complaint

is a required history component of every medical record, and it makes this portion of documentation extremely crucial.

Healing Topic

• Healing Topic: – Getting a clear

understanding of what the goals are for healing

• Ask: – If I gave you the right

medicine and you got better… What would you like to see come into your life instead?

A Few Healing Topics

• To be more able to integrate my energy and life experiences for increased physical vitality.

• To be more able to release internal identities in order to better take my place with others.

• To be more able to be patient, open and present to the people who are close to me.

• To be more able to trust my body supporting me as I step out fully into the world.

Program Objectives

• What skills will the client need to reach the goals set in the healing topic?

Case Study: Carol

• CC: Anxiety and depression • Healing Topic: To be more able to trust that

everything will be OK for ne and my family, without me having to do anything

• Program Objectives: • To be more able to connect to other women who care

for children • To be more able to feel how safe my child is • To be more able to let others care for me and my son

Prescription

1. Awareness Practice: Connection and Appreciation – Throughout the day, when interacting with women,

direct your attention to a particular individual and connect with the person-- with your mind…with your heart…and with your body.

Prescription

2. Foundation Practice Building the Pride

– At least once a week, plan a time to do something with one of the mothers in your mothers group. Notice how this nourishes you and your son.

– Be sure to recognize the contribution of this person and their child, appreciate these moments.

Potions

3. Potions: – Cocculus 30C - once a week – Max B- 30 drops daily in water – Flowers for Trust- 5 drops three time daily:

• Red chestnut, Elm, Pink Monkeyflower, Bleeding Heart

Four Core Competencies

• Facilitating Learning and Results

– Creating Awareness – Designing Actions – Planning and Goal Setting – Managing Progress and Accountability

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Creating Awareness

• Ability to integrate and accurately evaluate multiple sources of information, and to make interpretations that help the client to gain awareness and thereby achieve agreed upon results.

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Designing Actions

• Ability to create with

the client opportunities for ongoing learning, during coaching and in work/life situations, and for taking new actions that will most effectively lead to agreed upon results.

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Planning and Goal Setting

• Ability to develop and maintain an effective coaching plan with the client.

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Managing Progress and Accountability

• Ability to hold attention on what

is important for the client, and to leave responsibility with the client to take action.

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Reflection Questions

• To what extent is your current practice supporting learning?

• Is there anything that you currently do that interferes with your patients taking responsibility for their healing?

• How might you focus patients on learning new skills rather doing new actions?

• Which of the core competencies described here might you use in your practice on Monday? How would you do that?

Contact

Dr. Joel Kreisberg, DC, CCH, ACC drkreisberg@teleosis.org

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