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~Trainers Bios ~OC Certification ~Coach Approach ~Testimonials
Training
for Experienced Organizers - Creating organizing excellence and success through
the integration of essential knowledge and skills
Denslow was one of the first members of the professional organizing field, starting her business 35 years ago.
Ten years ago, Denslow committed to several years of study in coaching skills (see trainer bio for more info). She knows that adding coaching to her organizing work dramatically shifts the work in a very positive way.
She has been teaching coaching skills to organizers for several years (through NAPO, NSGCD and this website) and improved dramatically the way organizers work with clients. The testimonials about the training and the transformations are glowing.
This comprehensive program provides coaching skills training for use in organizing situations. It is unique in that approach and leads to certification as an Organizer Coach.
The Coach Approach for Organizers™
This Organizer Coach training is designed expressly for experienced organizers. It will teach you to deepen the communication and understanding you have with clients. Clients will be more engaged and committed to the organizing sessions, the structure you provide, and the systems you create together.
The quality and results of your work will noticeably improve, thereby increasing client satisfaction and your success. You will be able to expand the services you provide.
The training is designed specifically to enhance the work professional organizers do. It is for experienced and active organizers only. An experienced organizer has both knowledge and competency in organizing techniques and principles. Active organizers are currently working with clients and can use the training they receive with clients between classes.
Each training class will be recorded and available for a week in case an emergency or other unavoidable obligation prevents your attendance.
The courses may be taken individually and all are relevant for CPO® recertification continuing education hours. The courses are offered in a particular order and are pre-requisites for those that follow. Five of the six classes offered lead to an Organizer Coach Certification.
The second and third courses (Brain-based Client Challenges and Coaching Skills for Organizers II) directly address brain-based challenges to an organized life, particularly the challenge of ADD. Because there is extensive undiagnosed adult ADD in our culture, and because people with ADD usually have organizing challenges, both organizers and their clients are unknowingly and frequently dealing with it.
Learning how to effectively and tactfully explore with a client the possibility that “more might be going on” with their organizing challenges and to support clients in managing health conditions are critical skills for every organizer.
With enough stress most people exhibit ADD-like symptoms some of the time. Acute stress from disorganization is often what propels people to reach out to organizers. Organizers can use ADD coaching skills with any stressed client.
The Core Courses require concurrent attendance in small groups of three students. These small groups meet for the duration of each course to practice the skills being taught in each class. This is a valued component of any coach training program and is critical for each student.
The courses offered through Coach Approach for Organizers™ are described below. Course size is limited to 15. If registration numbers are high, a second "section" of each course will be scheduled for a different time.
Classes for the four Core Courses will be held on Wednesday afternoons 3:00 - 4:30 pm Eastern. This course schedule is subject to change.
Completion certificates will be sent (as each course is completed) with the information needed to report training hours for CPO CUEs or coaching certification.
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Core Courses
Coaching Skills for Organizers I
Brain-based Client Challenges
Coaching Skills for Organizers II
Organizer Coach Integration
Optional/Supplemental Coach Training
Coaching Skills Lab
2008-2009 Organizer Coach Training
Core Courses
Coaching Skills for Organizers I
$450
Feb 10 - Mar 24, 2009 (7 sessions)
May and June, 2009 -- after NAPO conf. (7 sessions)
10.5 training hours (1.5 hour classes)
9 small group hours
4 hours homework (estimated)
This class is required for Organizer Coach Certification and is also a pre-requisite for four other classes.
This Introductory course trains students in a coaching model designed specifically for organizers in their work with clients. Course elements include:
- Powerful receptive and active coaching skills will be defined, explained and demonstrated
- Skills practice will take place in on-going groups of three students with targeted support and trainer attendance
- The core competencies and ethics of coaching and the basics of the coaching industry and its resources
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Brain-based Client Challenges
$225
Oct 22 - Nov 12, 2008 (4 sessions)
6 training hours (1.5 hour classes)
4 hours homework (estimated)
Coaching Skills for Organizers I or the original Coach Approach for Organizers Telecourse is a pre-requisite for this course.
This course focuses on client support in dealing with executive functioning, brain-based organizing challenges, ADD and common co-existing conditions. Course elements include:
- Addressing the possible need for (and supporting a client who is going through) a mental health, processing or cognitive functioning assessment
- Supporting a client with a new diagnosis
- Setting up systems to monitor the impact medications are having on a client’s functioning
- Self-care strategies and coaching
- Normalizing organizational challenges & strengths
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Coaching Skills for Organizers II
$500
Jan 14 – Feb 25, 2009 (7 sessions)
10.5 training hours (1.5 hour classes)
9 small group hours
4 hours homework (estimated)
Organizing Skills for Organizers I and Brain-based Client Challenges are pre-requisites for this course.
Building on the first two courses, students will learn about the receptive and active coaching skills which are specifically useful for clients with ADD and other brain-based organizational challenges. Course elements include:
- Skills practice in on-going small groups of three students, with targeted support and trainer attendance
- The core competencies and ethics of ADD coaching and the basics of the ADD coaching industry and its resources
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Organizer Coach Integration
$550
Mar 4 – Apr 22, 2009 (8 weeks)
12 training hours (1.5 hours classes)
10.5 small group hours
2 hours homework (estimated)
Coaching Skills for Organizers I and II and Brain-based Client Challenges are all pre-requisites for this course
Coaching methodologies applicable to organizing work are covered in this course including:
- Coaching to a client’s values and goals
- Engaging a client’s curiosity about their unique cognitive processes
- Applying coaching skills to specific organizing stages and situations (for example, intake, expectations, stuck clients, backsliding, accountability, maintenance, coaching during and between sessions, MIA clients and follow-up coaching).
- Virtual organizing
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Optional/Supplemental Coach Training
Coaching Skills Lab
$175
Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 (4 sessions, alternate weeks)
6 training hours (1.5 hour classes)
This is not a required course. Organizing Skills for Organizers I (or the original nine-week telecourse) are the only pre-requisites for this course.
This training is a resource for those who want to practice their coaching skills with a trained facilitator to build coaching experience and confidence.
- Lab training draws on students’ coachable issues to construct coaching scenarios.
- Trainer feedback and instruction assists in fine-tuning coaching skills.
- Although not required for certification, this course may be recommended during the certification process to strengthen one’s coaching skills.
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Advanced Organizer Coach Training
Organizer Coach Practicum
$425
Spring 2009 & on-going -- 6 weeks
9 training hours (1.5 hour classes)
10-15 hours homework (estimated)
This course is required for certification. At this point in time, successful completion of the Core Organizer Coach Training Curriculum is a pre-requisite.
This seminar is a serious exploration of coaching themes and the organizer coach /client dynamic.
- It is designed, to support the incorporation of coaching into one’s organizing business.
- We will use an assigned coaching text to deepen our understanding of coaching and as a contrast to the Coach Approach for Organizers™ Coaching Model presented in the earlier trainings.
- Students will identify and explore emerging issues and promising applications for organizer coaches.
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