The purpose of the training program is to acquaint the student with the methods and technology of coaching and to give effective tools that a coach can use when counseling clients.

Program content:

• Fundamentals of individual psychological counseling.
• Organization of the consulting space: soundproofing of the room, calm tones, a comfortable environment, comfortable furniture. The duration of the conversation.
• Stages: acquaintance with the client; formation and check of advisory hypotheses; correction of the client’s attitudes and behavior; summing up the meeting, discussion of further work.
• Professional ethics and requirements for the personality of the specialist.
• Evaluation of results and typical mistakes made by the psychologist.
• Theoretical foundations of coaching.
• Coaching as a form of psychological aid.
• Coaching principles
• Self-awareness and responsibility – the client collects information independently in order to solve the problem.
• Lack of an expert attitude and transfer of personal experience to the client.
• Correlation of achievements in one area of life with success in another.
• Resistance of the client to changes in life.
• Step-by-step development – significant and inspiring goals, feasible steps on the way to achieve them.
• Monitoring – the coach keeps the client’s attention within the goal, reminds him of the importance of achieving it.
• Coaching techniques.
• Technology coaching: model ROST, technology Goach-2.
• Coaching tools.
• Questions: closed, open-ended, paraphrase questions, alternative questions with multiple choice answers.
• Scaling – the client notes his condition at the beginning and at the end of the session on a 10-point scale.
• Time line – the time line marks the stages of goal achievement.
• “What if …” – overcoming resistance, a more realistic perception of the goal.
• Counseling for social and professional self-determination of a person.
• Counseling procedures for values, moral feelings and decision-making.
• Counseling on conflicts in the organization.
• Coaching with NLP.
• Life coaching.