Category: Supervision and Management, Clinical Supervision, Empowerment / Strengths-Based Category: Supervision and Management, Clinical Supervision, Empowerment / Strengths-Based (show less) Other: Wisconsin Other: Wisconsin (show less)

Coaching is one of the fastest ways to improve client-centered care. Are you interested in coaching but want to do it ethically? Are you ready to expand your skills and keep up with current trends to meet client needs? A foundation of being a good coach is being able to embody a coaching mindset. This workshop will teach you how to cultivate a coaching mindset by teaching you exactly what coaching is, how it is different from therapy, and how to bridge coaching and social work. 
Objective(s): Students will be able to:
 

1. Examine the ethical congruence between social work and coaching (and how to use coaching as an agent of change)
2. Understand the potential of bringing coaching to social work, including to the community level
3. Define and differentiate between therapy and coaching 
4. Define and differentiate a coaching mindset from other helping professional mindsets
5. Explore and identify their own mindset as a social worker
6. Explore and begin to shape their own mindset as a coach as the groundwork to incorporate coaching into their social work practice  
7. Begin to explore bridging coaching and social work
8. Explore ways to to use coaching modalities in clinical practice, in agency work, in supervision, and community settings.
9. Evaluate if coaching could be helpful in participant’s specific social work settings
10.  Create a strategy to implement coaching for one’s practice or agency, if desired