Are We Really Listening? Coaching Strategies to Engage with Mindfulness and Care with Colleagues, Supervisees, and Students

Do you ever feel not heard? Overwhelmed from all the 1:1 meetings? Not connecting well with certain people? Notice those you work with struggle to overcome roadblocks? This session will give you frameworks, skills, and mindsets to show up for those (it is impossible to be at 100% all of the time) you work with. With the busy world of technology, understaffing, and life stressors, this workshop will aid you in refocusing how to best show up for others using coaching techniques to advise, supervise, and collaborate with others.

The program introduces intention and mindfulness presence needed for meetings with supervisees and students. Activities to engage mindfulness throughout preparation and execution will be demonstrated.

To help assist before meetings, we'll identify opportunities to set intentions, goals, and center gratitude for productive relationship building. During meetings, strategies like reflections, self-discovery, decision making, goal setting, open-ended questioning, motivational interviewing, appreciative inquiry, visioning, change talk, forecasting challenges, and feedback looping will be explored. After meetings, we'll address follow-up support, self-care, and reflection to maintain energy throughout the day.

Navigating human interactions and external pressures can be overwhelming, whether introverted or extroverted. This session will expand your toolbox to stay present, support others, and take care of yourself. When we show up for ourselves, we can truly listen and support those we work with effectively.