Life Coaching Research Articles

Breaking the Silence: A Workshop for Medical Students on Dealing With Failure in Medicine.

Failure is a powerful teacher but an emotionally stressful experience. Before residency, when failure in clinical training is inevitable, medical students should learn to talk about and cope with failure. However, medical school curricula rarely include this topic, and physicians seldom share their mistakes and failures with trainees. This report describes and evaluates a workshop on dealing with failure in medicine. Two attending surgical consultants and a life coach facilitated the workshop between February 2021 and February 2022, which consisted of different educational approaches, such as presentations, small group discussions, and journal clubs. The sessions aimed to enable medical learners to identify and analyze actual and potential failure events in everyday clinical practice and learn from them, disclose and communicate medical failures and "speak up," reflect on failure and develop coping strategies, and understand the moderating role of fear of failure. Thirty medical students participated in the workshop. Dealing with failure in a productive manner was the medical learners' key learning objective and anticipated takeaway from the workshop. After the workshop, 19 of the 30 participants anonymously completed the standard university evaluation form. The medical students gave the workshop a mean (SD) rating of 8.59 (0.98) on a Likert scale ranging from 1 to 10. They felt better prepared to approach future challenges in a constructive manner after being equipped with strategies to deal with failure. Listening to the failure experiences of faculty and peers in a safe environment helped them accept that failure is inevitable. The findings suggest that medical students appreciated a safe environment to discuss failure. By promoting a safe learning environment early in the medical career, medical schools could make an important contribution to reducing the stigma of failure and eliminating the shame and blame culture, thus contributing to students' well-being.

Coachable or Uncoachable? A Qualitative Study of A Life Coaching Intervention for Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes

Coachable or Uncoachable? A Qualitative Study of A Life Coaching Intervention for Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes

Want to Thrive in Healthcare? A Life Coach May Be for You

Want to Thrive in Healthcare? A Life Coach May Be for You

Implementasi Pendidikan Moral demi Menciptakan Generasi Emas 2045

Moral education is the development or learning of character or morals in students. In this paper we describe character education innovations that have the aim of shaping the character of the golden generation of the next era. The golden generation cannot be equated with the generation of the 90s, the implementation of moral education is also almost similar to. As is known, technological advances make a big difference between the generation of the '90s and today, of course this also has an impact on the way of thinking and the way of learning in themselves. When viewed broadly about the problems that exist in Indonesia is due to a lack of self-sensitivity or morality. The problem of morals and morality is also one of the importance of moral education. In order to welcome the 2045 generation with character, moral education provides several scopes such as the scope of life coaching, morality coaching, environmental coaching and also spiritual coaching.

Breaking The Silence: A Content Analysis of Medical Students’ Perceptions of Failure in Medicine

Abstract Background Failure in medicine may cause severe harm to patients, especially in surgery where failure has immediate consequences. Despite often being an emotionally stressful experience for surgical residents, failure is a powerful teacher as well. Before entering residency where failure is inevitable, medical students should ideally learn how to talk about and cope with failure. Aims Educational interventions to support learners to regulate failure and its consequences are rare. Therefore, a four-day workshop entitled “How Physicians deal with Failure in Medicine” was offered to medical students at an academic institution to open the conversation about failure in medicine. Methods The curriculum provided insights into the ubiquity of failure in surgery and beyond. 30 participants wrote reflective essays as a pre- and post-intervention task. Tutors, namely two surgeons and a life coach, facilitated presentations, group discussions, and journal clubs about failure, and discussed potential coping strategies. Results The content analysis of 60 reflective essays revealed various self-experienced and observed failures in the clinical context. Experiencing and witnessing failure was emotionally draining and often in conflict with expectations of being a physician. Fear of failure was omnipresent, while students realized that failure in medicine is human and inevitable. Perceived clinical supervision often protected medical students from failure and its potential consequences. However, open communication about failure rarely occurred. Overall, medical students emphasized the importance of open conversations about failure to learn from it. Conclusions Medical students wish to discuss failure before entering residency. Without open discourse about failure, medical students, and later residents feel left alone with their experiences, triggering fear. Clinical supervisors should support learners entering clinical training by being more transparent about their own failures and sharing their coping strategies which will ultimately help them to make sense about failure experiences in order to learn from and cope with it.

Coaches Deserve the Care and Attention They Are Nurturing in Others: exploring co-active life coaches’ perspectives on professional practise and self-care during the COVID-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT Helping professionals promote self-care amongst their clients: a proactive practise that enhances personal well-being. Yet, many struggle to engage in self-care personally which can lead to adverse health consequences and burnout. To date, little is known about helping professionals’ views on self-care as it relates to personal and professional practise: especially during a worldwide pandemic where the demand for health-oriented services is amplified. Certified Professional Co-Active Coaches (CPCCs) are poised to offer unique insights into this phenomenon given their inherent focus on enriching client well-being. The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore CPCCs’ experiences related to coaching practise and self-care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Semi-structured interviews were used, and data were analysed using an inductive approach. Twelve CPCCs (10 = female) participated. Four main themes emerged: a shift in practise; changes in clients; personal self-care practises; and professional self-care practises. Therapeutic empathy and setting emotional boundaries were identified as valuable coaching strategies. Participants also highlighted the need for intentional self-care routines to care effectively for themselves and others. Taken together, these findings may be transferable to other helping professionals, training bodies, and clients through an enhanced understanding of self-care during times of crises.

Breaking through social determinants of health: Results from a feasibility study of Imani Breakthrough, a community developed substance use intervention for Black and Latinx people

Racial and ethnic disparities in substance use intervention design, implementation, and dissemination have been recognized for years, yet few intervention programs have been designed and conducted by and for people who use substances. Imani Breakthrough is a two-phase 22-week intervention developed by the community, run by facilitators with lived experience and church members, that is implemented in Black and Latinx church settings. This community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach is a concept developed in response to a call for action from the State of Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) with funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to address rising rates of death due to opioid overdose, and other negative consequences of substance misuse. After nine months of didactic community meetings, the final design involved twelve weeks of education in a group setting related to the recovery process, including the impact of trauma and racism on substance use, and a focus on citizenship and community participation and the 8 dimensions of wellness, followed by ten weeks of mutual support, with intensive wraparound support and life coaching focused on the social determinants of health (SDOH). We found the Imani intervention was feasible and acceptable, with 42 % of participants retained at 12 weeks. In addition, in a subset of participants with complete data, we found a significant increase in both citizenship scores and dimensions of wellness from baseline to week 12, with the greatest improvements in the occupational, intellectual, financial, and personal responsibility dimensions. As drug overdose rates among Black and Latinx people who use substances continue to increase, it is imperative that we address the inequities in the SDOH that contribute to this disparity gap so that we can develop interventions tailored to the specific needs of Black and Latinx people who use drugs. The Imani Breakthrough intervention shows promise as a community-driven approach that can address these disparities and promote health equity.

The Aspirations and Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Involved in a Research Project: A Study Protocol

ABSTRACT Community-based research, which involves working alongside communities, is being increasingly implemented. This paper outlines a protocol developed to explore the impact of involvement by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers and life coaches in a community-based project on their aspirations and wellbeing. The proposed study will implement a mixed-methods longitudinal design, including peer researchers, life coaches and staff at Aboriginal Housing Victoria (AHV). Peer researchers and life coaches will participate in a survey and interview at baseline and 6 months. The survey and interview will capture participants’ wellbeing, aspirations, and resilience. AHV staff will participate in an interview to explore their opinions regarding the project and its impact on the broader community at baseline and 6 months. This study will contribute to the literature, which advocates for Indigenous Peoples’ genuine and authentic inclusion in research. An expected outcome of the research is that it will enhance our understanding of the goals and aspirations among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples working within the space of community-based research. In doing so, policy can focus on adhering to these goals and aspirations, thereby promoting self-determination among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Jacques Berlinerblau. The Philip Roth We Don’t Know: Sex, Race, and Autobiography

Jacques Berlinerblau. <i>The Philip Roth We Don’t Know: Sex, Race, and Autobiography</i>

On the road to achieving work-life balance in academia.

On the road to achieving work-life balance in academia.

THE SOCRATIC PRACTICE OF �CARE OF THE SELF� (EPIMELEIA HEAUTOU) AND THE COACHING PROCESS

In this paper I present a comparative analysis of the knowledge discovery process applied by Socrates and the contemporary life coach. On one hand, I will use the method of in-depth analysis of selected (Socratic) dialogues by Plato, and on the other one of coaching practice and coaching values formulated by the International Coach Federation. The term �care of the self� (epimeleia heautou) appears in the Socratic dialogues, Alkibiades I and Apology of Socrates, and this term is juxtaposed with the coaching idea of �being resourceful�. �Taking care of yourself� is about constantly gaining knowledge about yourself. This knowledge is extracted by Socrates and, in contemporary terms, by a life coach. The process of uncovering knowledge involves certain key elements that are shared by both the Socratic method and modern life coaching: establishing a relationship, a purpose and relevant questions. The analysis of each of these elements leads us to the conclusion that the key value of coaching, �the resourceful state of the coach and the coachee�, has its roots in ancient philosophy � in the wisdom of Socrates.

The Design and Planning of the Inner Peaceful Life Coaching Complex Academy

Individuals who have difficulty making decisions in life can benefit from the help and support of life coaches. Patients or addicts often find life mentors to be wise and smart because they can solve problems appropriately and effectively. Hence, this study aims to propose a design for the construction of a life coaching complex academy mainly for inner peace of individual. This study considered several case studies of rehabilitation center from Netherlands, Malaysia and Israel. The selected case studies are equipped with unique design and facilities. The proposed zones in the project consist of five main zones namely administration, rehabilitation, recreational, residential, and services. A comprehensive site assessment was accomplished to recognize the most suitable location for the project’s site. Several site assessment criteria are used and the preferred site for the project is positioned near to sea and Al Rahma Mosque, at Jeddah Saudi Arabia. The site zoning was designed and executed.

Case Study Presenting Remarkable Improvements of all Parameters in a Long-Term T2DM Patient with Multiple Chronic Comorbidities by Sugar fit’s -Tech/Ai-Driven Platform with Daily Personalised Life Coaching and Expert Medical Advice

Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is not only one of the leading causes of mortality, but its impact on healthcare costs and burden is becoming unsustainable each year. The quality of life and life expectancy are both significantly impacted by this chronic metabolic condition. To help control their blood glucose levels, patients with T2DM adhere to a self-management regimen as instructed by a professional. Various technological options are available now to help self-management. Methods: Here, we present a case of a 64-year-old female with insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes mellitus, multiple co-morbidities, depression, confined to her room, and inability to walk for about a year. After six months of the Sugar fit approach with daily-personalized life coaching, expert medical advice, tech-enabled, AI-driven model, she showed tremendous improvement in every parameter. Results: Before joining sugar fit, the patient was on 44 units of rapid insulin and 18 units of long-acting and oral anti-diabetic medications. The patient’s Hba1c at baseline was 8%; six months later, it is 6.8% with all rapid and long insulin stopped and oral meds essentially the same as before. She has reduced creatinine from 1.88 to 1.37 and triglycerides from 1015 to 448, respectively. Her BP medications have been reduced to 50%. She walks for 2 km every day and is socially active with resolved depression. She has lost 3 kgs of weight and 3 inches of waist circumference. Conclusions: The findings indicate that a tech-enabled, AI-driven model with intensive, personalized coaching, lifestyle modification, and expert physician guidance has shown remarkable results even in this particularly complicated case. The findings indicate that the personalized and individualized frequent lifestyle coaching and expert physician opinion enabled by superior technology and AI-driven Insights resulted in marked improvement of all parameters and significant medication reductions even in Diabetes of long duration with comorbidities

Self-Directed Long-Term Care: A Revolution for All Facing The Potential of Disability

Journal Article Accepted manuscript Self-Directed Long-Term Care: A Revolution For All Facing The Potential Of Disability Get access Richard M Allman, MD, FGSA, AGSF, ACC Richard M Allman, MD, FGSA, AGSF, ACC Executive Life and Leadership Coach, Allman Coaching, LLC, 250 Hollin Way, Winston Salem, NC Corresponding author: E-mail: richard.mark.allman@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1850-6515 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Gerontologist, gnac174, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnac174 Published: 17 December 2022 Article history Received: 31 October 2022 Published: 17 December 2022

Understanding a Care Management System's Role in Influencing a Transitional-Aged Youth Program's Practice: Mixed Methods Study.

Extended foster care programs help prepare transitional-aged youth (TAY) to step into adulthood and live independent lives. Aspiranet, one of California's largest social service organizations, used a social care management solution (SCMS) to meet TAY's needs. We aimed to investigate the impact of an SCMS, IBM Watson Care Manager (WCM), in transforming foster program service delivery and improving TAY outcomes. We used a mixed methods study design by collecting primary data from stakeholders through semistructured interviews in 2021 and by pulling secondary data from annual reports, system use logs, and data repositories from 2014 to 2021. Thematic analysis based on grounded theory was used to analyze qualitative data using NVivo software. Descriptive analysis of aggregated outcome metrics in the quantitative data was performed and compared across 2 periods: pre-SCMS implementation (before October 31, 2016) and post-SCMS implementation (November 1, 2016, and March 31, 2021). In total, 6 Aspiranet employees (4 leaders and 2 life coaches) were interviewed, with a median time of 56 (IQR 53-67) minutes. The majority (5/6, 83%) were female, over 30 years of age (median 37, IQR 32-39) with a median of 6 (IQR 5-10) years of experience at Aspiranet and overall field experience of 10 (IQR 7-14) years. Most (4/6, 67%) participants rated their technological skills as expert. Thematic analysis of participants' interview transcripts yielded 24 subthemes that were grouped into 6 superordinate themes: study context, the impact of the new tool, key strengths, commonly used features, expectations with WCM, and limitations and recommendations. The tool met users' initial expectations of streamlining tasks and adopting essential functionalities. Median satisfaction scores around pre- and post-WCM workflow processes remained constant between 2 life coaches (3.25, IQR 2.5-4); however, among leaders, post-WCM scores (median 4, IQR 4-5) were higher than pre-WCM scores (median 3, IQR 3-3). Across the 2 study phases, Aspiranet served 1641 TAY having consistent population demographics (median age of 18, IQR 18-19 years; female: 903/1641, 55.03%; race and ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino: 621/1641, 37.84%; Black: 470/1641, 28.64%; White: 397/1641, 24.19%; Other: 153/1641, 9.32%). Between the pre- and post-WCM period, there was an increase in full-time school enrollment (359/531, 67.6% to 833/1110, 75.04%) and a reduction in part-time school enrollment (61/531, 11.5% to 91/1110, 8.2%). The median number of days spent in the foster care program remained the same (247, IQR 125-468 years); however, the number of incidents reported monthly per hundred youth showed a steady decline, even with an exponentially increasing number of enrolled youth and incidents. The SCMS for coordinating care and delivering tailored services to TAY streamlined Aspiranet's workflows and processes and positively impacted youth outcomes. Further enhancements are needed to better align with user and youth needs.

Review: The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie, by Jenna Ng

Review: <i>The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie</i>, by Jenna Ng

Performances of Legitimate Expertise Among Life Coaches: Three Rhetorical Strategies

In the global crisis of expertise, experts are often viewed with skepticism. This article zooms in to this crisis to analyze how life coaches seek professional legitimacy and verbally perform their expertise by navigating a tension between asserting their authority and cultivating their clients’ agency. Performances of expertise are a range of verbal practices and rhetorical strategies that are co-produced and shaped through interacting with clients. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at three life coaching training schools in Israel, I show that life coaches perform their expertise through the following strategies: (1) defining the problem that coaching addresses as simple, significant, and mendable; (2) using authoritative charismatic speech to define clients as powerful, independent agents who are their own life experts; and (3) creating reflexive experiences of self-revelation by using semi-intelligible jargon. Finally, the study advances the understanding of expertise as performances inextricable from clients’ sense of agency.

"It's Nice to Know I'm Not Alone": The Impact of an Online Life Coaching Program on Wellness in Graduate Medical Education: A Qualitative Analysis.

"It's Nice to Know I'm Not Alone": The Impact of an Online Life Coaching Program on Wellness in Graduate Medical Education: A Qualitative Analysis.

Initiation into the street, challenges, means of survival and perceived strategies to prevent plights among street children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2019: A phenomenological study design.

BackgroundThe life and health of street children are becoming a global concern. Push and pull factors i.e. poverty, family death, economic decline, child abuse, financial independence, and peer influence draw children into the street. The street lives by itself pushes them into sex work, and lack of shelter magnificent abuses, where both sexes have the same sleeping quarters.Materials and MethodsA phenomenological study design was employed from January to March 2019 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Time-Space Sampling (TSS) was used to recruit participants into the study. Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and individual in-depth interview were used to collect data. Data analyzed by using framework analysis software.ResultsAbout 103 participants took part in the study. Finding shows street children are encountering widespread challenges like social network fragmentation, child trafficking, harassments, and shortage of basic needs. Furthermore, poor design of comprehensive, contextualized strategies and less political value worsening the problems. They are considered as a felon, outlaws, and having a mentality of committing a crime by both law-keeping bodies and society. This situation resulted in fewer acceptances of street children by the community, and less legal protection by law that made them more at risk for denial of social protection. Street children positively perceived strategies like Income Generating Activities (IGAs), shelter, community support, child protection, and access to education, health services, life coaching, and less extent re-integration strategies to address their problems.ConclusionThe study shows street children are defenseless to harassments and denial of social protection services. Poorly designed policies, strategies targeting them, less political values, and traditional response by government has been subjugated, which made them prone to health and social problems. Therefore, finding might be beneficial to health data scientists, and policymakers; to design and implement policies, and strategic plans in addressing, and preventing their plights.

Biztonságban a falakon belül és kívül – a reintegráció társadalmi jelentőségének vizsgálata női fogvatartottak esetében

Összefoglalás. Kutatásunk célja a női fogvatartottak oktatási szempontú profiljának felállítása. Arra a kutatói kérdésünkre kerestünk választ, hogy a jelenlegi börtönoktatás módszertana adekvátan illeszkedik-e a női fogvatartottak képességeihez, illetve hogyan járul hozzá a sikeres reintegrációs neveléshez. Kutatásunk ezáltal a társadalomba való visszailleszkedést támogató törekvések körébe jól illeszkedik, azt biztonsági aspektusból vizsgálja. Eredményeink alapján megerősítést nyert, hogy a többségi iskola mintáján szerveződő börtönoktatás módszertana kevéssé hatékony az összetett problémahálóval küzdő női elítéltek számára. A fogvatartottak képességstruktúráját tekintve a vizsgált csoport (N = 81) jelentős eltérést mutat a reintegrációt támogató életvezetési stratégia kialakításához szükséges kognitív területeken. Summary. Our research objective was to create a profile of female detainees regarding education and training aspects. The focus of the research was on the investigation of this special, less investigated group of prison population. Our research was conducted in the Penitentiary and Prison Institute of Kalocsa, where our target group consisted of female detainees, just about to be released from their penitentiary or prison-level sentence (N = 81). In the course of our investigation, we used document analysis, meta-analysis of specialized literature, and a measuring tool that could be easily installed and used within the framework of prison education. By the use of Cognitive Profile Test, we measured cognitive operations on three main fields: cognitive abilities, information processing, school skills. We were looking for answers for the research question whether the methodology and thematic of contemporary prison education could adequately fit the abilities of female inmates, and how it could facilitate their successful reintegration. Therefore, our research fits well into the field of social reintegration endeavours, investigating it from the aspect of safety. During a penal sentence, the prison and correction facilities have several responsibilities apart from the mere separation of criminals from society, including their preparation for reintegration through reintegration programmes. Besides the attention and motivation of the detainees, the success of these trainings also depends on the fact whether the general and individual developments can provide long-term lifestyle benefits. Integration into a normal lifestyle, the following of social standards and avoiding repeated criminal activities are all common interests, which constitute a foundation of secure society. In the case of active detainees, employment is an instrument of interior security, which also facilitates the sustainment of physical and mental health. For the individual, it evokes a feeling of social usefulness, thus supporting reintegration into society, while also helps to avoid depression and aggression caused by idleness. Therefore, the proper education of detainees is of utmost importance. By the use of a complex testing method, which measures several areas, we set up the cognitive profile of the inmates, which could facilitate effective education by revealing the structure of abilities. We can confirm that in the course of education, neither the strengths (attention, holistic thinking) of women, nor their beneficial level of abilities are exploited sufficiently. On the other hand, there is no targeted help for their weaknesses (education abilities, abstraction, sequential thinking), thus the effects of developments are merely accidental. These areas of educative intelligence constitute essential criteria for not only successful education, but also for constructive lifestyle, therefore they deserve special attention, and their development is highly advised prior to any treatment/education/training. Our research confirmed that the methodology of prison education, established upon the pattern of mainstream schools is less efficient in the case of female detainees struggling with a complex network of problems. According to our outcomes, we can declare that the investigated group presents significant divergence in comparison with the characteristics of the adult population used as reference point. There are significant deficiencies concerning cognitive areas that are necessary for the establishment of life coaching strategies supporting reintegration. In order to avoid the invocation of dysfunctional impacts, the implementation of integration and the connection of safety objectives require diligent assessment; namely, the development of a coherent point of view and its joint methodology.