ANATOMIE VAN KONFLIK

Wat doen jy die oggend van 16 September?

Die jaar spoed ten einde en meeste van ons sien uit na die Desember vakansie. Maar is ons voorbereid om die beste te maak van die stresvolle aanloop na die vakansie sodat vakansie weer ‘n slag vakansie in die ware sin van die woord kan wees?

Hoekom wag tot dit te laat is?

Ons leef in ‘n wêreld waar mens daagliks gekonfronteer word deur geweld, slegte nuus en stress wat traumatiese afmetings aanneem.

Leierskap is in krisis – nie net in die wêreld van politiek, kerk, werk en skool nie, maar ook vir die tuisteskepper kom leierskap onder aanslag.

• Hoe hou mens dit uit sonder om self deel van die probleem te word?

• Het jy die beste bedoeling om positiewe verandering in jou direkte omgewing te bewerkstellig – maar maak nie veel vordering nie?

DIE SLEGTE NUUS: Spanning en stress laat ons denke toeklap, versnel die hart se ritme, belemmer die bloedsomloop en ons vuiste bal as ‘n outomatiese regmaak vir veg (...of soms vlug)

DIE GOEIE NUUS: Kom leer meer oor die “Anatomie van Vrede” voor die Feesseisoen en gaan die jaareiende tegemoet met ‘n “Oop kop, hart en hande” gesindheid!

Wie Behoort Dit By Te Woon? Almal in leierskapsposisies en/of diegene betrokke by menslike hulpbron funksies

Hierdie uiters kreatiewe , laat-jou-dink, hoë impak, aksie-leer werksessie sal jou

• toerus met ‘n paar kragtige oopkop eerstehulpmiddels en

• jou inspireer om die beste te maak van jou professionele en persoonlike potensiaal.

• bemagtig om die dinamiek van jou eie verhoudings (werk, huis, andere) positief te beinvloed!

Waar: Kleinkaap, 87 Jim van der Merwe Weg, Clubview, Centurion

Wanneer: 16 September 2011, 8:30 vir 9:00 – 12:00

Koste: R600 (afslag vir groepsbesprekings vir meer as 5 – vooraf registrsie noodsaaklik voor 9 Sept - Verversings, ens ingesluit) Beperkte aantal registrasies – bespreek NOU om teleurstelling te voorkom!

Besprekings: doc@profact.co.za 012 460-5686 / 082-555-7575

AANBIEDER: Dr Elta Boshard is ‘n Leierskap ‘Coach’ en Traumapraktisyn en het meer as 21 jaar ervaring in haar vakgebied.

Hierdie werksessie word gewoonlik in Engels aangebied – dis is ‘n eerste in Afrikaans en hopelik nie die laaste nie– maar hierdie is ‘n spesiale geleentheid – soort van ‘n verjaarsdag....

....want C-i-C@29–virtuele trauma sentrum – is 6 jaar oud!

Soos berig in “TSHWANE BEELD 2005”
Dr. Elta Boshard, bekende Pretoriase traumapraktisyn, sê dis ’n slegte en bitter pil om te sluk wanneer allerlei gevare en verlies jou om elke hoek by die huis, werk, straat of motor inwag.

Boshard het Saterdag, 16 September 2006, geskiedenis gemaak in Pretoria toe die eerste virtuele traumasentrum, wat bekend staan as C-i-C@29 in Momumentpark bekend gestel is.

Dié sentrum is ’n gemeenskapsontwikkelingsprojek van Dr. Elta’s Enablers en word deur vrywilligers, wat deur Boshard self opgelei word, beman. (Tshwane-Beeld Woensdag 12 Oktober 2005)

Hierdie werkswinkel is daarop gemik om fondse te genereer vir hierdie sentrum -wat sonder winsmotief bedryf word.

International Association of Coaching Blog: How to Stop Bumbling Your Way Through the Business of Coaching

International Association of Coaching Blog: How to Stop Bumbling Your Way Through the Business of Coaching

Give yourself the gift of coaching - REPOST & UPDATE-

By Elta, March 2, 2010 4:30 pm --Give yourself the gift of coaching

‘Supervision with a Difference’

The PROFACT Network is offering a unique opportunity to coaches, especially those living in or near Pretoria. You will also be introduced to ReciproCoach - with exposure to coach and be coached internationally!

Personal and professional development for coaches

ReciproCoach is an international community of coaches who engage in reciprocal coaching, mentoring and supervision for their own personal and professional development.

By giving coaching and mentoring, ReciproCoaches receive coaching and mentoring, and by participating in supervision, ReciproCoaches give and receive through collaborative learning.

Therefore, as a ReciproCoach, you pay for your coaching, mentoring and supervision by giving it to another coach. As a result, because you're only paying us to orchestrate the reciprocal process, not for the coaching/mentoring/supervision itself, 8 sessions can cost much less than you'd normally pay for one session!

Some people recognize this kind of reciprocal arrangement as bartering, exchange, swaps or contra, a means of bypassing the exchange of money. However, the aim of ReciproCoach is to support coaches' personal development (coaching), skills development (mentoring) and professional development (supervision).

What you may recognize as bartering/exchange/swaps/contra is in fact a highly powerful tool for facilitating collaborative learning for coaches across the globe! Of course, the bonus of this kind of learning is that it also makes coaching, mentoring and supervision for coaches financially accessible.
In so doing, ReciproCoach makes regular and ongoing coaching, mentoring and supervision more accessible for coaches and with that advances the integrity, competency and professionalism of the coaching industry.

Benefits to you:

• Demonstrate integrity (coaching), competency (mentoring) and professionlism (supervision)
• Be part of one of the most active coaching communities in the world

• Be at your edge personally and professionally

• Remove the isolation normally attached to working for yourself

• All the known benefits of coaching, mentoring and supervision

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Many coaches are putting a lot of training into coaching skills, and then get discouraged by the business side of running a coaching practice. Not mastering these principles coaches are sometimes unsure how to freely grow both their confidence and their practice.

Besides our coaches’ need to talk about our experiences in our practices, supervision could also afford us an opportunity to reflect upon topics often asked, such as these:

• What can I do to get clients? Who would I call? What would I say? How can I get clients without being pushy?

• Won’t it be weird or uncomfortable coaching my friends and colleagues?

• What if I get stuck during a session?

• How can I be credible when I don’t even have a certification yet?

• Can I really make a living from coaching?

Supervision is a commitment to our own wellbeing, as well as our personal and professional development as a coach, and has the added benefit of protecting our clients, and ourselves, for example from loneliness and potential burnout

Leading these get-togethers, Elta Boshard will start with an introductory session to enable you to find out more about what “Coaching Supervision” is, could be… and is not. You’ll get to know Elta and experience how she works. Elta also runs various monthly supervision groups for those who are interested in making an on-going commitment to growth in terms of professional, spiritual, physical, intellectual and all other intelligences.

Elta invites other coaches and mentors to come on board – to make use of the opportunities for networking with your unique colleagues.

Venue: 29 Lion Road, STERREWAG, MONUMENT PARK.

Your investment in your own growth and development: R180 per Session (Min of 5 persons & Max 8 persons per group)

Numbers will be kept small, so please call Elta: 082 555 7575 for more detail.

Dr Elta Boshard is a certified member (Organizational) of the International TA Association, a member of the International Association of Coaching and has 30 years experience in the Human Service Provider-industry, 20 of these as an Executive Mentor (MHRP--SABPP) and Solution Focused Coach. She has many years of experience of Supervisor in various settings with a variety of modalities. She coaches individuals and groups and supervises other coaches, social workers and trauma counsellors from various NGO’s and other organisations. Her special interest and advanced research in supervision for, and coaching of, survivors of Compassion Fatigue, informed her dissertation (PhD in 2003). Elta is a member of COMENSA.

Is the Pursuit of Happiness Making Us Miserable? - Petrea King

Arizona Reporter » The Miracle Question

The Miracle Question

Being coached through a major transition this article resonates! Whilst preparing for tomorrow's session I "stumbled" upon this article - I just have to share it:

"Setting goals and creating change is not easy. Yes, it is fairly simple to write the next day's goals on a "to do" list and sometimes accomplish the majority of them. But, when it comes to achieving a goal that can make a huge difference in our lives, it's often a challenge. I'm speaking of goals like changing a job or pursuing your passion. Your goal could also be dealing with a physical abuse issue, a bullying problem or letting go of a damaging relationship or healing a present one. The list goes on.



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The reason that these goals are so challenging is that we, by our nature, are over-analytical. Plus, we often create the illusion that we are actually accomplishing something when we are really just procrastinating by worrying, fretting and over-thinking our goal. Then there is fear. "
For the full article: Arizona Reporter » The Miracle Question

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PARTNERSHIPS: Networking With Professionals-In-Action

ACT -

As I am participating in a group discussion** on LinkedIn it reminded about my love for language... and more so about the playful, very creative, even ingenious use of Acronyms! This then prompted me to copy the following from my Webpage  (and did I enjoy playing around a bit between the two sites! )

**The discussion's heading? Strong interest in ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) application to coaching. Does anyone share my passion and know about training in ACT related coaching?

This whole exercise has energised and inspired me to remake this blog and let it be known. About Acceptance and Commitment therapy, or ACT:  It's is a cognitive-behavioral model of psychotherapy that you can learn about on Wikipedia and a host of other places.
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Reframing Cultural and Professional Discourses

[From: Enabling Human Service Providers to Manage Compassion Fatigue through Pastoral Practices – a Transdisciplinary Study. Boshard, E (2003) PhD- unpublished dissertation]
A central theme that emerged from the reflecting team re-Treats was that of acceptance as a way of reconciliation.

Reflection-in-action is enhanced by focusing on the knowing-in-action. For the reflecting team members who came as clients it was exciting to share in the activities of the networkers’ own constant training and development. Various topics would be scheduled for future sessions according to the need expressed by the members. In the spirit of enquiry participants would then research a topic and arrive at the meeting with positive ideas. We call this activity ACT, linking it to our Network’s name. PROFACT is short for Professionals-in-Action. The spirit of competition against the system became the vehicle that turned fruitless competition into learning experiences. For instance one team truly bought into the concept of acceptance, commitment and take action. Team members spontaneously produced coasters for their coffee mugs with the company’s emblem on the one side and the word ‘ACT’ on the other. When misunderstandings would loom, or a person experienced a need to be heard, it was accepted that (s)he may raise the coaster. These events, dubbed creative misunderstandings, enhanced group-learning.

In our creative workshops we often playfully interact with acronyms. Participants agreed that there are many important issues that could be identified and be recalled in the heat of the game by focusing on ACT. Waving the ACT coaster often serves to defuse what could become a volatile situation. The following condensed extract describes one of the PROFACT’s brainstorming maps, recorded on flip charts during a re-Treat.

We all embraced ACT as a way of being, in our work and in other relationships. The following description of ACT is also copied from the worksheet presented at that re-Treat. This is how it was recorded:

 A: I can ‘Analyze, Acknowledge and Accept’, my own limitations and strengths, as I do those of my clients – Affect is my emotional companion, just as much part of my whole self as the leaves are part of a tree.
C: Commitment is to turn constraints into Choice, embracing the opportunities around the bend. Choice is my Cognitive part and helps determine whether I live as victim or survivor. It is part of my whole self, like the branches of a tree.
T: The ‘problem’ is not a threat – even the‘X’  is not a threat. By discovering what is most important to my True self, the threat loses its power. My untested perceptions may be seen as a threat. However as I tract my progress I am in Tune with my I am my own T with my choices.
Therefore ACT will guide my behavioural preferences, and I shall be free indeed!  [This worksheet was developed from the work done by Fox, (2002); Hayes, Barnes-Holmes, and Roche (2001). It was redesigned by one of the workgroups who attended the retreat for the Networkers in 2002. These re-Treat weekends signalled turning points in our work and inspired me to embark on research and dissertation-writing.] COPIED AND ADAPTED, today 17 NOV 2010, FROM:  http://profact.co.za/consultation/