Assessing Your Well-Being
When people are asked to assess their own well-being, they generally rate their physical, emotional, and spiritual health as being either “good” or “very good.” However, this casual assessment isn’t always very accurate. When the general health of Americans is measured by an objective reference point, such as real statistics, you often get a different story. For example, a man who is significantly overweight and has shortness of breath states that his health is “good.” What he means is that he hasn’t been diagnosed with any terrible conditions, yet. A young woman who has trouble getting out to see friends because she feels depressed just thinks of herself as an introvert and doesn’t feel the need to see a counselor about what she refers to as her “moodiness.” A pastor tells himself that his lack of interest in the Bible is due to “ministry burnout” and doesn’t see this as a problem that needs attention.
The point of these examples is to show that assessing our own well-being can be tricky. Many people create an unconscious narrative about their lifestyle choices that they want to be true, even though there are many obvious contradictions that others can clearly see.
Well-being is a term closely associated with self-care. Self-care is something we assume everyone knows how to do, but that is not the case. Self-care is something a person learns. Unfortunately, many people have not learned how to do it very well or assess their own state of well-being accurately. This may be due to not having good models in their family of origin, being told that their needs are not important, or thinking that self-care is synonymous with being selfish, among others.
As a person going into the people-helping profession, it is critical that you are able to accurately assess your own well-being and make any necessary changes as a result. You cannot help another person care effectively for their own well-being beyond what you are willing to do for yourself.
In this assignment, you have the opportunity to take a brief well-being assessment to get you thinking in this direction. You will compare and contrast your actual well-being rating with your target rating and decide what, if anything, you want to change. You will then take your results and assess how being more attuned to your own self-care could better equip you to help others with their well-being. After all, you are training to become a life coach.
Speaking of life coaching, this assignment also asks you to begin “trying on” different coaching styles. Among the many different coaching methods and approaches are three common styles that you need to think about as you begin learning about life coaching. These styles are 1) solutions-focused coaching (helping to solve problems), 2) values-based coaching (identifying and living by values), and 3) growth-based coaching (promoting growth). They overlap to some degree but have slightly different emphases. You will choose one that you think best fits your personality and provides the type of coaching help that you are most interested in. The idea here is to explore the various coaching approaches and begin experimenting with at least one. As you contemplate your coaching style “fit,” be sure to consider your chosen life coaching area of specialty (see Assignment 1.4 in Workshop One).
Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:
· Assess the elements of well-being and preferred style of coaching.
Background Information
The well-being assessment and the coaching style assessment may at first glance seem unrelated, but you should work to see the important connection between them. Coaching involves knowledge competence for sure, but the most effective coaches are those who model the behavior or change they want to encourage in their coaching client. If you can grasp that reality now and embrace healthy self-care on a regular basis, your credibility and effectiveness with your eventual coaching clients will be far more potent.
Instructions
1. Watch the video “ Well-being and How to Measure it (new tab) “.
2. In your textbook Positive Psychology in Coaching: Applying Science to Executive and Personal Coaching, complete the well-being assessment on pages 95–97.
a. Read the introduction on page 95 and then rate yourself from 1 (low) to 7 (high) on each of the seven areas. Be sure to rate your current status and your target satisfaction level (or where you’d like to be) for each of the seven areas.
3. After you’ve finished the well-being assessment, read the following articles, which provide brief descriptions of the three most popular coaching approaches and what they focus on: 1) helping to solve problems, 2) identifying and living by values, and 3) promoting growth.
a. “ Solutions Focused Coaching Is a Powerful Approach (new tab) ”
b. “ Values Based Coaching (new tab) ”
c. “ GROW Coaching Model (new tab) ”
4. Choose one article that you think best fits your personality and provides the type of coaching help that you are most interested in. The idea here is to explore the various coaching approaches and begin experimenting with at least one.
5. Once you’ve finished the assessment and have read about the three coaching approaches, respond to the following using at least five substantive paragraphs.
a. State what your current status rating is on your well-being survey as well as your target satisfaction rating for each of the seven areas in the assessment.
b. Which areas showed the greatest difference between your current status and your satisfaction level?
c. How might the results of your well-being survey help you to be more attuned to helping others toward their own well-being?
d. Which of the three coaching styles that you read about seems to best fit your desired coaching approach and interests? Explain.
e. How do the results of your well-being survey inform your chosen coaching approach?
6. Be specific in your responses and use concrete examples from the textbook, supplemental readings, outside sources, and personal experiences to frame your writing.
7. Use Academic Writer (new tab) to write your papers in APA Style or navigate to the APA Style Page (new tab) and scroll down to the APA 7th Edition Paper Template.
8. Use at least two scholarly resources in addition to the readings assigned in this workshop.
a. Use in-text citations and APA format for direct quotations and references to the readings.
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