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Cheri Rasmussen, Certified Life Coach

5 WEEK  PARENT COACHING

Most parents and professionals need solutions for conflict resolution, work-life balance and creating healthy relationships, but they get overwhelmed and confused by the plethora of strategies/skills, and which ones are exactly right for them.
 

I am pleased to announce a ground-breaking five-week parent coaching program for busy professionals. I use a solution-focused mindset that allows for transformation and growth.
 

Each week will address a specific issue professional parents face.
 

These sessions will include conversations, Q and A, and implementation of strategies. These components will enhance effective communication and create healthier relationships.

Week 1

Objectives: Best Hopes conversation / Connection and Building Trust

 

  • Introduction—get to know you and your best hopes

  • Laying the groundwork; 

  • Introductions

    • Confidentiality 

    • Our contract

    • Guidelines and expectations

  • What’s your favorite thing about your child(children)

 

  • What are you most proud of as a parent

 

  • On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best parent you can be and 1 as the opposite, where are you now?

 

  • Healthy Relationships and Effective Communication. Solution Focused vs. Problem Focused Discussion.

 

  • Having empowering conversations which: amplify resources, giving choices, “Solution Focused, and getting to… “That’s Right.”

 

  • Empowering Parents and Children; Choices and Negotiations, Family System of Rules

 

  • The value of taking pause (Time-out):  The proper way to use and implement it

 

  • DON’T do the processing for your child: forming your choices carefully.

Week 2

Objective: Solution Focused Follow up
 

  1. What has been better?

  • What have you done to contribute to things getting better?

  • How have you stopped them from getting worse, or how have you kept things the same?

  • What has given you enough hope to come back and still believe things can change or get better?

 

  1. Empowering parents to feel autonomy, and regaining a sense of control in their parenting roles.

 

  • Who is in charge anyway? 

  • How to get your child to cooperate, without losing your control. 

  • Empowering your child to make wise choices. 

  • Natural consequences (the best teacher). This is all about NOT being a helicopter or co-dependent parent.

Week 3

Objective: Solution Focused Follow up
 

  1. What has been better?

  • What have you done to contribute to things getting better?

  • How have you stopped them from getting worse, or how have you kept things the same?

  • What has given you enough hope to come back and still believe things can change or get better?

 

  1. Amplifying client resources: building on individual’s resources, and scaling them.

 

  1. Better Communication. 

 

  • What would let you know that better communication is happening? 

  • What’s the smallest thing you would notice, that describes “better” for you?

 

  1. Relationships

 

  • It’s ALL about quality decisions

  • How to build a strong communication bridge—the key to creating connection in relationships

  • What does good listening sound like? (Drive Through technique)

  • Gaining clarification

  • Respectful negotiation

  • Relationships; balancing home and professional life

Week 4

Objective: Solution Focused Follow up
 

  1. What has been better?

  • What have you done to contribute to things getting better?

  • How have you stopped them from getting worse, or how have you kept things the same?

  • What has given you enough hope to come back and still believe things can change or get better?

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Conversations about how to best connect with your children and make the most of time spent with them


Time management for parents and children. (There’s only so much time in a day.)

 

  • Kids need time management too

  • Quality vs. Quantity; how to know the difference.

  • What is quality time? 

  • How do you know when quality is present?

  • Being present and mindful

  • What role do electronics play?

Week 5

Objective: On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best parent you can be and 1 as the opposite, where are you now?
 

  • That is, “What makes you a _and not a_?”

  • What has changed since you we started the course?

  • What has been different in the last four weeks?

  • How did you get from a _to a _?

  • What else?

  • What else?

  • What else?

  • What would be the first thing your children or spouse would notice, when you are at least a half to one number higher on the scale?

  • What is the first thing you notice that tips you off, you’ve moved up the scale—if only by a half?

  • How did you do that?

  • What would someone close to you notice if your best hopes showed up?

  • What else? 

  • What else? 

  • What else?

 

Summarize learning

 

  • What a difference five weeks can make (summary)

  • Transformations

  • Solution Focused Questions

  • Resource lists

  • What’s your favorite thing about your child(children)

  • What are you most proud of as a parent

  • More Resources available at (crlife.coach)

 

  • I invite you to head on over to my website and sign up for your free 30-minute-1:1 introductory coaching session.

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