Institute of Coaching - Well-Being

Theory to Practice Presentation Slides

Danad t Deek — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:58:21 +0000

Summary:

Theory to Practice: Evidence-Based Health Coaching for Flourishing in Chronic Illness Presentation Slides

Author:

Benzo, Maria

Content Type:

Presentation Slide

Coaching Specialty:

Health / Well-being

Resource Topics:

coaching complements clinical care, Webinar Slides, Health and Wellness, Well-Being

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Theory to Practice: Evidence-Based Health Coaching for Flourishing in Chronic Illness

Danad t Deek — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:55:21 +0000

Author:

Benzo, Maria

Summary:

What if supporting patients with chronic illness meant more than adherence to medical treatment and instead included empowering them to navigate their daily lives with greater resilience, clarity, and purpose? Health coaches play a unique and essential role in bridging the gap between medical treatment and real-world behavior change. In this evidence-informed webinar, Dr. Maria Benzo explores how coaching complements clinical care by helping patients build the psychological skills, emotional resources, and mindset shifts needed to flourish — even in the face of ongoing illness. Grounded in positive psychology, mindfulness, and behavioral science, her approach illustrates how coaching interventions can address what medicine alone often cannot: motivation, meaning, and self-leadership in the journey toward health.

Drawing from her clinical and academic experience, Dr. Benzo will illustrate how personalized coaching interventions can:

Build competence by strengthening self-efficacy and adaptive behaviors, empowering patients to confidently manage their health.
Promote autonomy through value-aligned choices, shifting patients from compliance to authentic engagement.
Enhance relatedness by leveraging social support and cultivating coaching relationships rooted in empathy, trust, and emotional connection.
Integrate mindfulness and self-compassion to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, fostering emotional resilience.
Support psychological flexibility through presence, acceptance, and committed action — helping patients stay grounded, embrace discomfort, and take meaningful steps aligned with their values.

Key Takeaways:

How coaching and behavioral interventions drive clinical change in chronic illness management.
The role of mindfulness, and self-compassion in emotional regulation and resilience.
How Self-Determination Theory (competence, autonomy, relatedness) informs effective health coaching
Practical strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Coaching: be present, allow and accept, do what matters.

Content Type:

Video

Coaching Specialty:

Health / Well-being

Resource Topics:

coaching complements clinical care, Webinar, Anxiety, Health and Wellness, Well-Being

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Webinar

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Wendy-Ann Smith on Ethicality for The Good Life: Wellbeing Through Integrity

Danad t Deek — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 04:34:38 +0000

Author:

Smith, Wendy-Ann

Summary:

Ethicality plays a pivotal role in shaping a fulfilling life, providing a foundation for long-term wellbeing. By viewing both personal and professional challenges through an ethical lens, you gain deeper insights into scenarios and yourself. Ethical action fosters confidence, resilience, and offers new perspectives, supporting mental and emotional strength over time. This approach not only enhances your ability to navigate adversity but also cultivates a sense of purpose, aligning integrity with a truly good life. But it isn’t always easy—ethical choices often require navigating complex situations, balancing competing values, and facing uncomfortable truths. Yet, it is through these challenges that growth, wellbeing, and The Good Life are truly experienced.

Content Type:

Video

Coaching Specialty:

Health / Well-being

Resource Topics:

Well-Being, CoachX Conversations

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CoachX Conversations

Margaret Moore on Ground Zero of Coaching: Integration

Danad t Deek — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 20:24:46 +0000

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Margaret Moore and Carol Kauffman will explore the topic of integration, from the perspectives of self-determination theory, mindsight (Dan Siegel), leadership (leader’s shadow), and well-being.

What is integration?

Integration involves connecting to and integrating new ideas, thoughts, and perspectives. One type of integration is a moment of insight. Insight is defined as “a sudden understanding that solves a problem or reinterprets a situation, but, due to its immediacy, seems to be disconnected from the immediately preceding thought.”

Content Type:

Video

Coaching Specialty:

Health / Well-being

Resource Topics:

CoachX Conversations, Coaching Integration, Well-Being

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CoachX Conversations

Integrating Images & Metaphors in Your Coaching Practice

Danad t Deek — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:36:42 +0000

Summary:

Integrating Images & Metaphors in Your Coaching Practice Presentation slides

Author:

Golan, Yaron

Content Type:

Presentation Slide

Coaching Specialty:

Health / Well-being, Positive Psychology

Resource Topics:

Positive Psychology, Well-Being

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Presentation Slides

Defining The Competencies Specific To Coaching Physicians Presentation Slide

Danad t Deek — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 04:40:18 +0000

Summary:

Defining The Competencies Specific To Coaching Physicians Presentation Slide

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Content Type:

Presentation Slide

Coaching Specialty:

Health / Well-being

Resource Topics:

Coaching Competencies, Well-Being, Coaching Physicians

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Presentation Slides

Defining The Competencies Specific To Coaching Physicians

Danad t Deek — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 04:36:46 +0000

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The unique culture and current circumstances of healthcare require an emphasis on particular competencies for coaches who work with physicians and their leaders. General coach competency models provide a foundation, but specialization is needed to adequately address these needs. In this webinar, authors of the paper Competencies for Those Who Coach Physicians: A Modified Delphi Study will discuss the results of a study aimed at codifying what coaches need to know and be able to do to work effectively with physicians.

Participants will:

Learn about the methodology used to develop expert consensus on physician coaching competencies
Understand how physician coaching competencies build on existing industry standards
Identify the key areas of competence in physician coaching
Examine some competencies in detail, including their particular relevance to healthcare clients

Content Type:

Video

Coaching Specialty:

Health / Well-being

Resource Topics:

Coaching Competencies, Well-Being, Coaching Physicians

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Competencies for those who coach physicians

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Webinar

What Actually Makes Us Happy? Lessons from an 85-Year Study of Life

Danad t Deek — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:03:00 +0000

Author:

Waldinger, Robert J.

Summary:

For most of the 20th century we measured our wellbeing solely on the basis of gross domestic product. In the last 20 years, people have taken a serious look at what makes us happy. The UN publishes a yearly report that identifies the conditions that people say they need to live a happy life, and they are fairly uniform across all cultures and income levels. These factors include social support, health, freedom to make life choices, and trust. Yet when we survey millennials in the US about their most important life goals, they tell us that they want to become rich and famous and achieve a great deal at work.

The disconnect is due at least in part to what we are told we should want and should make us happy, through constant bombardment from media about what life should look like. The Harvard Study of Adult Development is one of the only studies in history to track the same people from adolescence into their 90s, to find out what really makes us thrive. We find that the breadth and depth of our relationships with others are keys to wellbeing as we age – not just happiness, but physical health. Loneliness is toxic, and many people are lonely. We find that material things make us less happy than experiences. Although relationships are key to our thriving, we have stopped investing in others over the last 70 years. Beginning with the arrival of television in every home, and increasing with the advent of our electronic screens, we have greatly diminished the frequency with which we invite others to our homes, have family dinners, and invest in community activities and religious institutions. We must actively tend to our connections with others in order to foster our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of those we care about.

Content Type:

Video

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Health / Well-being

Resource Topics:

Conference, Conference 2024, Well-Being

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Conference Video

Integrating Images & Metaphors In Your Coaching Practice

Danad t Deek — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 04:42:27 +0000

Author:

Golan, Yaron

Summary:

Research in positive psychology predicts numerous benefits of play and playfulness including enhanced positive impact on motivation, emotional stability, divergent thinking, creative expression and an overall increase in well-being. Images and Metaphors are science-backed techniques that can ignite imagination, trigger intuition, provoke the mind and spark an authentic dialogue.

In this webinar Yaron Golan shows us how we can integrate images and metaphors into coaching conversations with our clients.

Get to know a simple 4-step method that can revolutionize your coaching practice.
Experience creative tools and how a fascinating combination of images, words and questions can bring together a whole world of associations, feelings and insights.
Unleash creativity, expand points of view, evoke clarity and create meaningful dialogues.

Content Type:

Video

Coaching Specialty:

Health / Well-being, Positive Psychology

Resource Topics:

Webinar, Positive Psychology, Well-Being

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Webinar

Job Crafting as a Coaching Framework to Enhance Employee Well Being

Danad t Deek — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 02:49:24 +0000

Author:

Slemp, Gavin

Summary:

Job crafting is defined as “the physical and cognitive changes that individuals make in the task or relational boundaries of their work” (Wrzesniewski & Dutton, p. 179) and has been shown to predict workplace well-being (e.g., Rudolph et al., 2017; Zhang & Parker, 2019).

We propose job crafting as a framework to be integrated into a coaching relationship to help enhance the experience of work for employees and their well-being. This project proposes a randomized controlled trial design to compare two different job crafting-based interventions: a ‘standard’ job crafting intervention used commonly in the literature, and a job crafting intervention that also incorporates solution focused executive coaching techniques (i.e., job crafting-based coaching). Participants (N = 90) will be recruited via the Blueberry Institute, who will also co-fund the research.

Participants will be randomly assigned into conditions. Participants in the intervention group will receive bi-weekly coaching sessions delivered over a 6-week period. Participants will complete a range of validated measures that encompass job crafting, autonomous motivation, well-being, work engagement, job satisfaction, autonomy, burnout, and the perceived meaningfulness of work to evaluate the efficacy of the coaching intervention. Measurements will be taken pre-intervention, post-intervention, as well as at 6-months follow-up. In addition, qualitative interview data will be collected after the conclusion of the study to evaluate the perceived changes employees experienced through the programs, ways they implemented learnings, obstacles faced, and to obtain feedback about how to enhance the program.

The study will contribute to the literature by being the first to examine whether job crafting can be used as a conceptual underpinning for a coaching relationship, thereby providing a promising coaching strategy to enhance careers and enhance the experience of work.

Content Type:

Research Grant

Coaching Specialty:

Health / Well-being

Resource Topics:

Workplace Spirituality, Well-Being

Research Grant Type:

IOC-ICF