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What Is Your Story? - Called to Coach S6E1
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Publish Date: 2018-01-09 14:50:51
Description: We’re all contemplating our own personal and professional goals as we kick off 2018. Talking about the work Nicole does is going to help us. Even us as coaches and leaders have an opportunity to reflect. I love your concept of mindful strengths-based narrative. The name of your business is “Is This My Story." Please begin by introducing yourself to us and what you do. My business is about helping people understand the strategies and tactics they can use to be the author of their own story rather than a character in someone else’s. My Top 5 are Strategic, Connectedness, Learner, Intellection, Input, and I like to add Positivity and Empathy I’m predominantly a strategic thinker and relationship builder I talk about a learning path and connecting to a larger system. I was living StrengthsFinder before I even knew about it. It was like finding the missing key. I was a school teacher teaching English, interested in how stories could become a metaphor for life. I was predominantly looking at language and communication. What I started to realize was the of power meditation, brought it into my classes, then expanded beyond my classroom. I wrote a book in about 2012, then went into private practice in the area of mindfulness and narrative. In 2015 I was introduced to StrengthsFinder which just opened up my world. How does this framework play into what you do? (the framework was displayed during the webcast, you can find it on Nicole’s web site at http://isthismystory.com/welcome-to-is-this-mystory/) Look at the Strengths circle first – we get our own natural patterns of thought, emotion and behavior We need to add knowledge and skills to develop our talents, how do we do that? How are the talents playing? That’s where the mindfulness come in Mindfulness helps us be alert to what is happening to us at any particular time, the physical recognizing and letting go, as you practice mindfulness you are recognizing your natural patterns, as you recognize them, it’s going to help you strengthen your talents In order to strengthen your talents, you need to practice; the mindfulness is giving you that practice Then we you come over to the narrative circle, you recognize your self-talk, the voices inside your head that is chatting away…which one is my true voice not that of society? Narrative has techniques like symbolism, metaphor, foreshadowing A basic story has an orientation, an initiating event, then a complication, then a resolution What you find is that your mind tends to work in that way The best part about that is that you know there will be a resolution once you’ve identified the complication and you know you can get your way through The other part of narrative is Hero’s Journey which I won’t go into now (always a sidekick and wise person) Who are my friends? Who is on this journey with me? Who is that wise person? The wise person can often be the voice within yourself, the sidekick can also be yourself You are the author of your own life because you can recognize the patterns This seems like something we could all use, understanding our motivations through the mindfulness work and the narrative, but I know you do a lot of work in the educational setting; tell us about the work you do in the classroom One of the number one identifiers of success in the classroom is a student’s relationship with the teacher I work with teachers on how they can build a professional, friendly relationship with their students I help students tap into their emotions and develop a bigger emotional vocabulary, the bigger that is the more they can check in with themselves, understand what they’re thinking and feeling and then express it When they can do that in relation to their strengths, we can talk about it in an objective way Strengths gives the student a language that makes it so much easier for them to understand E.g. - It’s ok to get things done in different ways and both ways can be successful This could be a great framework for millennials and others to cope and build resilience and be aware of their own motivations, do you see this? Parents would tell me they appreciated the way I helped them break things down. StrengthsFinder allows us to break things down into needs and contributions and talents You can reformulate the puzzle so it works for the individual I teach teachers how to do this in my workshops People might not always be consciously aware of the connection between communication and relationships, relationships are everything, in order to have effective relationships, you need to have effective communication Learn more about becoming a Certified Strengths Coach at the Gallup Strengths Center: http://on.gallup.com/1i5OXhq. Gallup's Called to Coach is a live Webcast that targets current and prospective coaches to interact with Gallup experts and independent strengths coaches who have found success in strengths-based development.
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