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Parent Wellness Coaching is utilized with all parents and is focused on elevating parents’ own capacity to increase protective factors, manage stress, and self-actualize. Its components include Parent Circles and optional 1:1 Coaching.
Parent Circles are monthly group coaching experiences intended to be a space for parents to support each other, explore the relevance of wellbeing and child development concepts to their lives, and share what has been valuable to their goals and journey as parents (skills, resources, experiences, etc.).
One-on-one coaching calls serve as an individual touchpoint between a parent and their Parent Wellness Coach.
Schools have the opportunity to integrate Parent Wellness Coaching (PWC) flexibly. Parent Circles, as a group offering, need psychological safety in order for meaningful and judgment-free reflection and growth. Schools that have never engaged in family goal setting and reflection activities, it is advised to begin with Parent Circles without individual goal setting and in-Circle goal reflection. The Parent Program can then ladder up to include those activities in the program.
What Coaches Do
What Coaches Do
Coaches guide. The coach helps the coachee discover their path through listening and powerful questions.
Coaches focus on the present and provide a path to the desired future, focusing on opportunities to grow from or find a positive reframing in experiences.
Coaches empower coachees to hold the agenda. The coach holds the stance the person is creative, resourceful, and capable of solving their problems. They may suggest a structure, but first invite coachees to set priorities.
Coaches say the hard things. A coach validates the experiences coachees share and calls them in to consider opportunities for resilience and reframing of their experience.
Coaches help build capacity. Though coaches may do minor case management, the end goal is that parents activate agency. That they identify and navigate potential barriers to access support systems such as school and healthcare, and then successfully connect to and navigate those systems.
Coaches build a strong relationship with the parent rooted in trust, partnership, and focus on making progress.
Coaches are action oriented and actively guide the person to problem solve.
What Coaches DON'T Do
What Coaches DON'T Do
Coaches do not manage. Unlike Coaching, Managers tell the person what they think the other person should do and evaluate their performance of the task.
Coaches do not offer counseling or therapy. Unlike Coaching, Counseling is historically retrospective and deals with attending to personal issues from the past.
Coaches are not the expert on everything. The coach is not a content expert and does not train or instruct on what to do.
Coaches do not judge rather they assume the best in coachees. Coaches work from a strength based perspective to balance power dynamics and avoid making coachees feel inferior.
Coaches are not case managers. Case managers are responsible for coordinating on behalf of families and managing their path through support systems.
Coaches are not friends. If the parent likes the coach, the relationship will be more productive, however the coach is focused on helping the parent progress, not becoming their friend.
Coaches are not shoulders to cry on or people to strictly complain to without reframing or action planning.
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