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Values and Beliefs
What we do, where we invest our time and how we react to others are all connected to the values and beliefs we hold. For example, what’s important to you in life? The answer to this question will reveal a value, which for you may mean ensuring you spend a lot of time with your family. For someone else, it may mean that it’s important to strive to reach the top of their profession, and so on.
Equally, beliefs play an important part too. They can be summed up as personal, accepted generalizations about life. These might be oversimplified and not based on fact, perhaps generalized from an isolated observation or experience. It’s common for beliefs to be connected to self-image, organizations and particular groups of people. Of course, these may be positive or negative. In terms of self-development, it’s when such beliefs are limiting that they begin to cause problems.
Life Coaching addresses limiting beliefs as part of helping individuals become the best they can be. Whatever your career or role in life, coaching has something to offer you.
If you are a teacher or a headteacher, then you also will be aware of the benefit that raising self-awareness and developing a more positive outlook could have on your learners. In order to share this valuable self-knowledge with more people, Rebecca Cain has devised the Life Matters self-development programme for students in Key Stages 4 and 5. Values and beliefs form an integral part of this programme.
Life Matters
The Life Matters self-development programme challenges students to question the way they think, whilst enhancing self-esteem and self-confidence and inspiring them to go for their goals. Topics covered include:
Our Belief System
- How our belief system is formed and controls our behaviour
- Increasing self-belief and self-esteem
How Our Minds Work
- Once we understand how the brain works we can start to use it to our advantage
- The power of self-talk
- Coaching ourselves to success
The Tools Of Change
- Affirmations and visualisation techniques
- Goal setting
Comfort Zones
- Understanding how we sometimes hold ourselves back
- Breaking out
Staying On Track
- Thinking about the future
- Staying motivated
- Action planning
Coaching
- This option can be offered in addition to Life Matters to provide further, individual assistance and support the student in the choices s/he has made.
Previous participants of the programme have reported:
- Increased self confidence and self esteem
- The self belief to ‘aim higher and go for what I want’
- The confidence to try new things
- Increased self awareness of ‘what holds me back’
- ‘An action plan for the future which I can believe in’
Rebecca can also provide packages that help students explore career choice with enhanced knowledge of who they are – i.e. their interests, values, skills and personality – so that they can make an informed decision about the path they take.
Life Matters – developed and run by Rebecca Cain.
Rebecca graduated from Nottingham University in 1989 with a degree in Biochemistry and Chemistry. Having set fire to a laboratory in her final year she decided that a career in science was not for her! She joined Northern Foods plc as a graduate trainee and worked for them in various Personnel Management and Training roles for over 12 years. She was particularly interested in graduate recruitment, careers counselling and coaching work and many areas of self-development.
As well as her little-used Biochemistry degree she is also a graduate member of the Institute of Personnel and Development, and has an Advanced Diploma in Executive Coaching, which has led to her running coaching skills courses and self-development courses. This work culminated in Spring 2001 when she established ‘Life Matters’ to provide a careers counselling/ self-development service for individuals (adults and young people) in schools and colleges. In education, to date, she has coached Year 11-13 students from across the ability range and used profiling to match personalities to possible careers. Students are invited to use this information, together with what has been uncovered about their values, interests and skills, to make informed choices about what career path they wish to follow.
In addition to her work in schools, she carries out executive coaching with people from a wide variety of industries, and is an Asoociate for an HR Consultancy business.
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