Better Pathway Coaching Assists Disabled Individuals
To Reach the Lifestyle They Desire
What Life Coaching Is...
Life Coaches work with individuals to create pathways toward their goals. Whether the objectives are starting a job, lifestyle changes or relationship related, our coaches act as unbiased thinking partners through weekly or bi-weekly one-hour sessions.
What Life Coaching Isn't...
Life Coaching is NOT psychoanalytic therapy, which explores deeply buried thoughts, traumas, and childhood experiences.
Our Coaches will refer clients to psychoanalysis when necessary.
Why Coaches Are Needed...
We all need someone to talk to!
Our Life Coaches provide much needed, unbiased listening skills; along with powerful coaching techniques that enable our clients to choose their pathway ahead.
GOOD NEWS!!!
FULL FUNDING IS AVAILABLE!!
Better Pathway Coaching can show you the
process required in order to open up funding
for eligible people!
Some Ways Our Life Coaches Can Help
MANAGING SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
Social relationships are often the biggest area where disabled individuals may need our help.
Better Pathway Coaching assists clients by;
- Improving listening skills
- Recognizing social cues
- Visual flow chart and educational videos to help navigate social relationships
- Relying on family/whanau in a well thought out, realistic manner.
FINDING WORK
Many of our clients reach out to us when they are looking for work.
Better Pathway Coaching assists clients with;
- Practice interviews
- Should I disclose my disability? If so, when?
- Preparation and investigation about the job being considered.
- Preparing for obstacles that may hinder success.
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Practical considerations: Commute? Wardrobe?
FINDING A CAREER
Why is finding a career different from finding work? Because they often are!
Better Pathway Coaching assists clients by;
- Creating a Vocational Mind Map
- Finding pathways with a real-world point of view.
- Researching valid training options and avoiding scams.
It's great to see you here!
He pai tana kite ia koe!
Better Pathway Coaching is a New Zealand based association of Life Coaches experienced in working with intellectually disabled adults.
Many of our coaches are special education teachers with a passion to continue helping their students make good choices.
We specialize in Solution Focused Therapy, Life Map Goal Setting and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
All of these have a strong success rate with the disabled population with whom we deal.
"Mā te kimi ka kite, Mā te kite ka mōhio, Mā te mōhio ka mārama."
"Seek and discover. Discover and know. Know and become enlightened." Maori Proverb
So How Can Coaching Help?
A Brief Overview of Our Process
How Better Pathway Coaching Begins;
- We begin with an in-depth interview with the client to determine their life goals. This interview may include whānau/family if the client so wishes.
- Clients then select two or three goals to work on and we help create their Coaching Contract that will be used to guide their sessions. Most clients may have more desires, but Life Coaching is most effective with small, achievable goals.
- Each coaching session contains a weekly review, spotlighting the client's activities that are both helpful and harmful toward their goals.
- After every 12 sessions, our Coaches reflect on the progress being made, or lack thereof, by clients and coaches as a team.
- Together they decide if changes should be made to their coaching plan, or if goals should be amended.
Better Pathway Coaching believes that in-person coaching is optimal but, given modern life, it's not always available. Therefore, we practice a combination of in person and online communication for our clients. Online coaching is effective in counselling/coaching.
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