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Interventions For Students

January 2, 2024 / lawriescott

Maximising Students Opportunities & Potential

Tailored interventions for students missing out on or struggling to stay in education, college / university, work placement or employment.

The roadmap is to identify the plan, the action, the steps, the movement to undertake where you need to be, to reach your required destination, goal or achievement.

Holistic approach, effectively de-escalating crisis and equipping students with the tools and skills for their mental wellbeing.

Targets based around social and personal pathways.

Are you struggling or have gaps in specific areas, such as: confidence, self esteem, stress, life balance, relationships, career, anger management, do you seek solutions to move forward in a constructive way for successful outcomes.

Comprehensive steps, roadmap to maximise opportunities, potential and fuel ambitions.

Contact for a strategy session

Email: lawrie.7@outlook.com

Transformational Coaching

January 12, 2023 / lawriescott

7 Ways To Transform Your Life

1. How To Be Optimistic

*Notice good things as they happen.

*Train your mind to believe you can make good things happen in your life.

*Don’t blame yourself when things go wrong.

*When something good happens, give yourself some credit.

*Remind yourself, setbacks are temporary.

*Notice how other people talk about themselves.

Positive thinking or an optimistic attitude is the practice of focusing on good in any given situation. This can have a big impact on your physical and mental health.

2. The Importance of Small Actions

*Confidence can be raised or restored.

*Progress is being achieved or completed.

*A task is started or being finished.

*A goal can be commenced and broken down to small actions, that can lead to a long term goal.

Small steps can be big progress. By hiring a coach, will support you with specific actions, will keep you motivated through any difficulties or challenges you may face, to keep you on the right path. Coaching has helped many people improve their lives.

3. How To Open Your Mind To More Possibilities

*Understand yourself and your situation. Be open to new ideas, new opportunities.

*Shift your thinking, reach out to other points of views, write then down, consider your options.

4. The Importance of Exercise & Mental Health

*Being physically active can improve your brain health, help manage weight, strengthen bones and muscles and improve your ability to do everyday activities, boosts energy and can boost self esteem.

Many people do not realise that exercise can dramatically improve mental health and wellbeing. Consider things like: yoga, swimming, cycling, jogging and various sports.

5. How To Define What Success Looks Like For Yourself

*Success looks very different for many of us. Sometimes we feel pressure to be perfect. [Nobody is perfect].

*Success is being able to look at yourself in the mirror and feel good about yourself and the choices you make.

*No person is without their mistakes, but you learn through the process.

*Ultimately, the way that you define success will lead you towards living a more contented life that is aligned with your values.

Hiring a coach will support you to put in place action plans to reach where you want to be with your path to success.

6. 5 Practical Tips For Being More Present In The Moment

*Notice your surroundings.

*Focus on one thing at a time. [Not multitasking].

*Practice mindfulness, meditation.

*Practice deep breathing exercises.

*Spend time with people who make you feel happy and fulfilled.

7. How To Create A Winning Mindset

*Define your why. List 3 top reasons that you want to succeed.

*The first reason should be personal and for yourself, the second reason can be based on loved ones, and the third reason could be for anything important to you.

*Make a plan, the plan should include short, medium and long term goals.

*Then include the how, when, where, who and what, needed to be in place for implementation.

*Share your plan with a friend or family member who is willing to cheer you on and be honest with you. Even better get a small group of supportive and positive people who will hold you responsible and keep you on the plan.

*Make a daily routine and scheduled. A winning mindset is built on momentum. Checking off each thing on your to-do list daily will help you see progress and give you motivation to continue.

*Use visualisation [sessions] to see your goals completed,this will drive you on.

*Make a plan should you fall. Evaluate what is going on, what happened. Have a system in place that you are comfortable with to learn from mistakes.You could keep a journal, make amendments to get you back on track, use any support you have.

*Mistakes and misfortunes can occur and delay success, but it doesn’t matter as long as you get there.

Hiring a coach involves helping clients bettering themselves and bringing about necessary changes.

The benefits of transformational coaching are endless, but some examples: self awareness, exploring your strengths, areas you want to focus on, learning to reflect, new insights, problem solving, expanding out of your comfort zone, fulfilling potential.

Life Coaching: will help people navigate the complexities and uncertainties of life.

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Email: lawrie.7@outlook.com

Family Connections

March 15, 2016 / Lawrie

Maintain Healthy Relationships

Family Tree & Links

Communication builds a strong picture, mediation builds steps for reconciliation.

On occasions, I found that when clients were referring to their family and often extended family members and where issues were strained and complex that it was useful for my clients to relate to a family tree and to draw in the links or connections.

This enabled me to gather a bigger picture and have a better understanding of the family dynamics that may have existed and this helped with the coaching & mentoring sessions.

I also found this system very useful when working in adolescent units. Some young people found it a positive way to explain and relate to their family members and in turn this assisted staff in understanding the family links and in supporting the young person with any issues that perhaps existed.

A family tree can be compiled in many ways or with different systems, this depends on you.

Below is one method of filling in the family tree, however some have larger families and may use a different system.

Consider the relationships, the various levels of communication and support and draw in the lines.

_____________________________ = strong link
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ = weak link
++++++++++++++++++++ = stressful link

This system can be used with adding in external agencies/people you wish.

_____________________________ = strong link
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ = weak link
++++++++++++++++++++ = stressful link

If problems exist or perhaps escalating then do something about it. Seek the help you need now. Consider mediation as a means of neutral support to untangle and help solve issues.

Building trust, having positive relationships with our work colleagues, friends and family are an integral part of life and makes for a happier environment.

Consider setting goals that you can implement to overcome the stressful links.

Mediation bring people back into the present moment.

Family coaching, mediation available for you.

Wise saying/quote!

“I could agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.”

10 Building Steps

January 5, 2016 / Lawrie

Personal Development Steps

What needs your attention now?

What are your challenges?

What do you want to achieve and by when?

This is based on guidelines to help you assess where you are at and where you feel you need to be. This process can be used and described as a 1 to 10 building steps scale system representing balance. 1 = completely out of balance. 10 = totally balanced. This can be used in all areas of your life, monitoring your progress and considering what needs to be done or put in place to raise your level and achievements.

CHART RATING STEPS

10. completion / excellent / couldn’t be better

9. successful / reaching target / very happy

8. achievement / satisfied / positive progression

7. improvement / progressing / achieving

6. building confidence / managing / coping

5. need to work on my goals / plans & actions

4. need more commitment / positive thinking / i can do

3. need constructive change / motivation / support

2. need direction / self belief / use supporting networks

1. need total support / help / guidance / direction

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Through using a system like this many of us would aim to reach 10 in whatever we do, this is often extremely difficult to achieve and maintain.

However, this is what we work towards with a positive self belief and with ” I CAN DO ATTITUDE ” and to have the motivation and willingness to progress and by using the support that is available can only assist in reaching your desired and achievable level.

We may differ on our perception to what is success and not everyone has ambitions to reach the top, some of us are very happy with a lesser level and may have reached that target and feel they have gone as far as they wish to go or can achieve through choice and or decision.

Although encouragement and support should prevail to assist in being, “ THE BEST YOU CAN BE. ” The more you can progress and achieve the better you feel, this will raise your confidence and will boost your ego.

Some people relate to their problems with a feeling of being in a deep hole. This is when the building steps can be a useful tool to implement.

Through viewing the steps as guidelines to what is needed to move forward and up.

With this in mind, some of us may take smaller steps and longer time to reach our required destination, that is OK. The GOAL remains the same to progress and to achieve. TO BUILD YOUR CONFIDENCE.

This assessment style has been drawn up as a means to assist in identifying the level you feel you are at [using describing words] and to monitor your progress at various times through starting out, through your journey and completing studies / assignments / projects / sport / business etc.

The model is just one way of looking at self assessment and personal development using the chart rating [BUILDING STEPS].

Do you need the tools and techniques to get ahead?

Do you have a life coach or mentor and role model?

Are you ready to take action?

We will apply a system designed to meet with your current and future needs, to strengthen the areas that need attention, for your confidence, progression, success & happiness, your BUILDING STEPS.

“ I agree to coach / mentor you to the very best of my ability, to believe in you, to encourage you and to give you 100 % of my energy and commitment.”

Wise saying/quote!

“You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink.”

Tag: Students

Interventions For Students

Maximising Students Opportunities & Potential