CCC offers board-certified training for coach trainees and experienced coaches.  Applicants may take either to 30 or 60-hour training program for completion of application requirements.  Certificants may take either the 30 or 60-hour training for renewal of their coaching certification, but we also offer continuing education courses through our affiliate program www.CE4coaches.com. We offer a 30-hour wellness coaching training program; and a 60-hour training program that includes both the wellness model and an additional 30-hour training program that focuses on designing healthy relationships (total 60 hours of training). We have a 30 & 60-hour training on Victim-Defined Advocacy, and a 30 & 60- training on Social-Emotional Intelligence in coaching. Our focus is the development of choice coaching for generalized coaching and in the specialization areas of life, wellness, or business coaching.  Further specialty training programs that will help you to define your niche are offered upon request and are also available through our continuing education program and are applicable for renewal hours for board-approved courses (The Center for Credentialing and Education).  

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Level 2 (60 hours)

Advocacy~Integrating a Victim-Defined Approach

Introduction

1. The Stop Program

2. The 15 Commandments of Stop

3. The House of Abuse & Relapse Prevention

4. The Cycle of Abuse

5. Red Flags of Trauma

6. Mindfulness & The Many Faces of Addiction

7. Assertiveness and Dealing with Conflict

8. Ethics & Victim-Defined Advocacy Coaching

9. Coaches Approaches for Business & Organizations

10. Core Competencies & Victim-Defined Advocacy Coaching 

     This course will offer coaching choices, methods and approaches, and ways to teach clients and families how to overcome victimization and build resiliency. Having the skills necessary to work collaboratively with other professionals who provide treatment, legal, or social support services is a  necessary skill for professional coaches.   The characteristics of violence and patterns in men vs. women as perpetrators or victims will be explored. An in-depth examination and discussion regarding the effects of domestic violence and residual trauma will be offered.  Many "victims" are rebuilding their lives and experience increased risks when attempting to leave the situation, acquire a job or work skills and secure a job, or other attempts at independence.  For those who are already working, the employer costs are extreme in relation to changes in productivity, absenteeism, and health-related concerns.  Coaches can make a difference by assisting victims with the development of advocacy skills.  

     Terminology referred to as survivor-defined, trauma-informed, or strength-based have resulted from changes in our approach to understanding domestic violence which has resulted in a change in perspective to improve service and increase prevention efforts by listening to the stories of those who have survived, and by creating a fresh approach and partnership of victim-defined advocacy.  Coaches can contribute to this important social movement, and play a significant advocacy partnership role in listening, reviewing the risks,  implementing strengthened plans, building support, and by identifying relevant options. Empowerment is a major focus in coaching, and assisting the client in addressing the batter and life-generated risks in a realistic manner will be a necessary step toward change.   

 

 

Level 1 (30 hours)

Advocacy~Integrating a Victim-Defined Approach

Introduction

1. Domestic Violence and Victim-Defined Advocacy

2. Risks Victims Face

3. How Women Form Perspectives From Priorities

4. Victim in Contact with Children

5. Trauma, Mental Health, and Substance Use

6. Advocate Role with Violent Partners

7. Victim-Defined Advocacy Environments

8. Victim Defined Policy Advocacy, Ethics, and Coaching

9. Domestic Violence and the Work Environment, and Coaching Applications for Business and Organizations

10. Core-Competencies and Coaching and Victim-Defined Advocacy Coaching 

     The impact of domestic violence is far-reaching and can be passed inter-generationally within families; therefore we now have broadened the scope to consider "family violence." There are numerous reasons why women stay in relationships with intimate partners who are violent (IPV), these risks can be viewed from two main categories: batter-generated risks, and life-generated risks. Various addictions can result in episodes and cycles of violence, some predictable and some impulsive incidents. Trauma can result from the experience of exposure to violence that can result in PTSD, and/or inter-generational and vicarious trauma. 

     As most victims experience an increased risk upon attempting to leave their efforts at developing a career are disrupted or thwarted, and for those that are employed they may experience increased health risks that interfere with job performance.  The coach can be very beneficial in assisting the client in developing advocacy skills to improve communication and their relationship within the business or organization in which they are training or are employed. A comprehensive review of IPV and non-battering IPV, harm to children, and adult violence not IPV will be examined from the perspective of: identification, and reporting of abuse, a look at the residual repercussions of involvement with the legal system, the impact of abuse on children, links to substance misuse and domestic violence, an exploration of the variety of physical, emotional, and spiritual injuries that can result from exposure to domestic violence, an examination of why people stay in violent relationships, the New Choice Model; and  the development of resiliency and healthy families.  Advocacy for victims of domestic violence has been the cornerstone of the movement to create change for families. 

     Domestic violence occurs across every socio-economic status, age group, and providing the "victim" a voice from their unique perspective will make a difference. Victim-defined advocacy can be achieved in five basic steps: prepare, think, plan, act, and monitor.  Coaches can partner with victims to empower, create options that clearly consider batter and life-generated risks, promote choice, and improve advocacy through applying a step-by-step systemic approach to change!  

 

Level 1 Training (30 Hourrs)

Special Needs Coaching

1:  Who are the "special needs" populations and what does that label mean?

2.  Understanding development and lifespan concerns

3.  The educational needs and working collaboratively with school and educational professionals

4. The mental health needs of individuals with brain-based issues of learning, cognition, or behavior

5.  The social needs of individuals with brain-based learning, cognitive, or behavioral concerns

6. The medical needs of individuals with brain-based learning, cognitive, or behavioral concerns

7. The spiritual needs of individuals with brain-based learning, cognitive, or behavioral concerns

8.  Working with families of individuals with brain-based learning, cognitive, or behavioral concerns

9.  Social services and issues of placement

10.  Life transitions and you as the coach

     Understanding how our brain functions can open the door for us to provide a different type of coaching that offers something beyond simple care-taking.  After completing this course, coaches will have the ability to provide an opportunity for learning that is brain-based and considers the holistic needs of the client.  Individuals who experience impairments or limitations with the cognitive skills that involve learning, memory, and other aspects of thinking experience an array of issues that effect and may impair functioning.  The need for independence creates a constant struggle for these individuals and their families.  This course will assist you in acquiring a deeper understanding of how the brain functions, areas that may be involved in disability, and a framework in which to provide coaching that is not only meaningful but also holistically considers way to increase independent functioning.  We will learn about a spectrum of conditions such autism and others that involve sensory integration or processing, as well as issues of trauma.  We will consider conditions that may not cause the individual to experience impairments in learning but can affect impulse control, decision-making and choices, and social skills such as what may occur for those with attention deficit disorders (ADD), and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).  You will be provided an alternative approach to examine ADD/ADHD that explores natural and behavioral treatments that can be used alongside medication or with families who choose not to exercise that option.  This course considers developmental and lifespan issues and will explore the special needs of children, adolescents, and adults with issues of cognition or brain-based learning problems.  Knowing how to tailor your coaching program to address the specific needs of your clients will allow you to stand out as a coach when compared to other professionals who are not able to apply a brain-based approach.  In a short time, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide individualized special needs coaching.   

 

Level 2 Training (60 Hours)

SEI Coaching

1.  Emotional Intelligence as a Foundation for Effective Coaching

2.  Connecting Emotional Intelligence and Coaching

3.  The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Coaching

4.  Building Social and Emotional Effectiveness in Your Clients

5. Developing Your Emotional Awareness as a Coach 

6.  Understanding and Working with Values, Beliefs, and Attitudes

7.  Core Coaching Skills

8.  How Goals Flow from Values to Action

9.  The Coaching Toolkit

10. Coaching Ethics and Best Practice 

This course provides the necessary information to expand your knowledge of SEI which will enable you to begin building your expertise in this area of coaching.  It will teach you how to create sustainable changes in your clients.  Having an emotionally intelligent core-based coaching practice will help you stand out in the crowd amongst other coaches. The field of Emotional Intelligence continues to grow globally and is ever expanding.  Having the skills and competencies of an EI coach will prepare you to participate in this global movement and make a difference and a social contribution to the field of coaching. You will be provided with a framework to develop your EI coaching practice and acquire the skills necessary to begin your EI coaching practice.

Level 1 Training (30 Hours)

SEI Coaching

1. Defining Social & Emotional Intelligence?

2. The History of Emotional Intelligence

3. The First Factor: Perceiving Emotions

4. The Second Factor: Reasoning With Emotions

5. The Third Factor: Understanding Emotions

6. The Fourth Factor: Managing Emotions

7.  Five Key Components of EI: Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Social Skills, Empathy, and Motivation

8.  Measuring Social and Emotional Intelligence 

9.  Developing Social and Emotional Intelligence

10. Coaching for Social and Emotional Intelligence

The concept of Emotional Intelligence is not new, and as far back as in the 1930s Thorndike was describing social intelligence as the ability to get along with other people.  In 1987, Keith Beasley coined the term, emotional quotient and began to explore measuring the EQ.  In 1985, Wayne Payne introduced the term emotional intelligence as it related to fear, pain and desire and its application for problem-solving. In 1995, Daniel Goleman brought worldwide attention to the concepts of emotional intelligence and began the discussion on ways in which EQ can matter more than IQ.  There is ongoing debate as to whether or not EQ may be even more significant and important than IQ.  Some view emotional intelligence as an array of non-cognitive capabilities, competencies, and skills that influence one's ability to succeed in coping with environmental demands and pressures (Reuven Bar-On).  Emotions are described as involving the subjective experience, the physiological response, and the behavioral response.  We will examine and challenge old views of EI to explore how the skills of EI are closely linked to cognition, and how they can be taught and learned.  In this course, you will learn the four factors of emotional intelligence along with the five key components, and explore ways in which we can measure, develop EI skills, and apply them to your coaching practice.  The integration of SEI in you coaching practice will allow you to assist your clients in developing increased self-awareness and self-management.  Through improvements in insight and self-control, your clients can learn to exercise choice at a heightened level.  By gaining a deeper level of understanding, and the ability to access critical and creative thinking your clients will demonstrate positive outcomes in their professional and personal lives.  Begin today and learn how utilizing SEI in your coaching can improve your practice! 

Level 2 Training (60 Hours)

Family Connections

1.  Connecting to Your Roots

2.  Understanding Family 

3.  Core Values Coaching

4..  Enneagram Personal Coaching

5.  Birth Order Coaching

6.  Family of Choice Coaching

7.  Tribal Think Coaching

8.  Family Healing Coaching

9.  Community Coaching

10. Expanding our Global Family

The course specializes in the exploration of coaching as a means of assisting families in the development of increased intimacy by rooting their connections to one another.  In understanding family in the broadest definition we are able to expand support and resources for healthy relationships, wellness, and healing.  Moving from the root through the core to the inter-connections allows us the consider the multiplicity of modern families.  Exploring the values, personalities, organization and inner workings of family allows us to create family by choice.  When we view family from a tribal perspective we recognize the need for all members to contribute and find a place of value.  Utilizing a strength based perspective we are able to begin a healing process for families that have become fragmented or experience disconnect.  Moving outward we reach individuals and families in the community, and redefine means by which to empower communities.  This approach offers a universal message of healing that has global application as new definitions of family emerge.

Level 1 Training (30 Hours)

Creating Your Niche

1. Introduction to Niche Coaching 

2. Core Competencies

3.  Core Values Coaching

4.  Enneagram Personal coaching

5.  Nature's Spiritual Coaching

6.  Wellbriety Coaching

7. Coaching for Peace

8. Social-Emotional Intelligence Coaching

9. Victim-Defined Advocacy Coaching

10. Family Life Coaching 

This course is designed for life coaches who are looking to develop an area of expertise to add alongside their life coaching practice.  This program includes the nine areas of core competency as the foundation for all coaching services and practices.  The areas of niche coaching explored are: core competencies, core values coaching, enneagram personal coaching, nature's spiritual coaching, wellbriety coaching, coaching for peace, social-emotional intelligence, victim-defined advocacy, and family life coaching. 

 Level 2 Training Program (60 Hours)

 Leadership for Life

1.  Core Competencies

2.  Leadership Principles

3.  Foundations for Leadership

4.  Strategic Planning

5.  Problem Solving and Decision Making

6.  Team Building

7.  Change Management

8.  Conflict Resolution

9.  Self-Development for Life-Long Leadership

10. Creative Thinking

This course offers coach training in six areas of core competencies along with the development of leadership in the areas of strategic planning, problem solving and decision making, team building, change management, conflict resolution, self development, and creative thinking.  The principles of the core values, new choice thinking, and cognitions of choice offer the foundation to build competency, foresight, wisdom, excellence in communication, construction of your worldview, integrity, cultural awareness, people skills, and time and energy management.  Leadership is recognized by the actions we take and the habits we form.  Each individual has the opportunity to excel and present as a role model for others in the present and in the future.  We can learn from past leaders and use their wisdom to create character that defines leadership qualities and characteristics for life.  Leading a balanced life and creating a legacy of leadership adds to life success; the elements of coaching offered will assist in your ability to coach yourself and others into becoming leaders for life.

Level 1 Training Program (30 Hours)

East Meets West: Wellness Choice Coaching

1. Core Competencies

2. Becoming a Social Entrepreneur

3. Our Choice Define Us: Wellness & Prevention

4. Ethics: Our Guideposts in Coaching

5. The Development of New Choices

6. Wellness as a Metaphysical Choice

7. Beyond Problem Solving to Growth Assessment and Evaluation

8. East Meets West: Integrated Wellness Coaching

 

The training and certification program consists of 30 hours of virtual, tele-training or face to face training segments in which the student will learn a practical approach to coaching.  The student will be taught how to develop their choice coaching philosophy, administer and interpret assessments and integrate a wellness coaching philosophy to begin or apply it to an already established coaching practice.  All training is aligned with the Core Competencies outlined by the Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE) and the International Coaching Federation (ICF).  Coaching Choice College (CCC) is an approved provider training site for CCE.  Upon completion a certificate will be provided for submittal to CCE toward competency or renewal hours.

Level 2 Training Program (60 Hours):
Designing Personal Relationships By Choice! 

 The program consists of core seminar requirements in East Meets West: Wellness Choice Coaching plus advanced skills training.  The following areas of training are provided:

  1.  Core Competencies

  2.  Becoming a Social Entrepreneur

  3.  Our Choices Define Us: Wellness  & Prevention

  4.  Ethics: Our Guideposts in Coaching

  5.  The Development of New Choices

  6.  Wellness as a Metaphysical Choice

  7.  Beyond Problem Solving to Growth:  Assessment and Evaluation

  8.  East Meets West: Integrated Wellness Coaching

  9.  Habits of Mind: Developing Critical Thinking

10.  Cognitions of Choice: Cognitive Restructuring

11.  Exemplary Coaching: Observation of Leadership Techniques and Strategies

12.  Developing Your Evolving Coaching Business

13.  Relationships:  The Big Five/The Core Connection

14.  Defining Your Coaching Focus

15.  Independent Study: Your Personal Trademark

16.  Launching Your Coaching Business

The training and certification program consists of 60 hours of virtual, tele-training or face to face training segments in which the student will learn a practical approach to coaching.  The student will be taught the foundation skills, learn how to administer and interpret the Core Values Index, DISC, or Coaching Choice College assessments and other assessments in a variety of settings as it applies to their independent study project, practice or advancement of their coaching practice.

 Independent Study Project:

The student chooses an advisor approved area of study within one of the three concentrations areas of choice coaching.  A research-based project will be developed by the student which allows for building an individualized coaching program.  The Independent Study Project will incorporate the following:

·     A concentrated area of coaching research

·     Utilization of the Core Value Index, DISC, or Coaching Choice College assessments including application to the specific area of study  

·     Three PowerPoint Presentations in support of the specified coaching area

·     The development of marketing materials for the Individual Coaching Project: handouts, brochures, social-networking plans, etc. 

   

 

Course Content:

  • Assessing LOSS
  • Sensory Stimulation Systems
  • Attention Systems
  • Memory Functions
  • Communication Systems
  • The Power of Different
  • Why Can't I Be "Normal"
  • Neurodiverse Tribes
  • Creating a Balanced Brain
  • Choice and The Future of Neurodiversity

     This is a fifteen-hour course with 13-hours on online education and two hours of training with Dr. Clare Steffen.  Neurodiversity occurs in individuals for a multitude of reasons and is a complex picture which can make coaching difficult and challenging.   You will have access to Dr. Clare Steffen’s assessment, Limitations of Sensory Systems (LOSS) and learn how to apply it and have a deeper understanding of clients who are neurodiverse.  These differences result in an array of strengths and limitations.  Many of these limitations are viewed as losses; socially, emotionally, and cognitively, but perhaps there is another way in which they can be viewed.  Regardless, the experience of these losses are real for the individual and their families and must be accurately assessed if acceptance is to occur.  Once acknowledged, there is an opportunity to reframe these losses as we search for the strengths within the individual.  At times, these losses result in brain imbalances, which require attention to re-balance.  Understanding brain wiring and in specific the sensory, attention, and memory systems and how they work collectively will allow your coaching to have more depth than the average approach to coaching for disability as compared to ability.  We have numerous social examples of individuals who are or were neurodiverse who made great contributions in various fields of intellectual development. Social and cultural changes appear to be creating shifts in brain structure and therefore are changing the terrain of what is considered "normal."  The tribal view of groups of diverse individuals who gravitate toward one another for acceptance is activating a social and cultural shift.  The approach to coaching must be active as well as proactive, as a stagnant approach will not support the brain differences that are a reality in these individuals.  The influences of technology and changes in brain wiring have impacted communication.  The melding of diversity within a culture that defines "normal" in a manner that does not fully assimilate these differences can result in individual stress and brain imbalances.  Offering techniques to the brain and calm the brain is a necessity if the picture of neurodiversity is to be fully appreciated.  Supporting a hopeful future that is not limited and acknowledges choice as a key component assists in creating movement toward acceptance for diversity, appreciation, and acknowledgment of the power of difference. 

     

Level 2 (15 hours)

Victim-Defined Advocacy

Introduction

1. Defining the Problems: Assessment

2. Screening and orientation 

3. The House of Abuse & Relapse Prevention

4. The Cycle of Abuse

5. Red Flags of Trauma

6. Mindfulness & The Many Faces of Addiction

7. Assertiveness and Dealing with Conflict

8. Victim-Defined Advocacy Coaching

9. Coaching Approaches for Business & Organizations

10. Core Competencies & Victim-Defined Advocacy Coaching

     This course will offer coaching choices, methods and approaches, and ways to teach clients and families how to overcome victimization and build resiliency. Having the skills necessary to work collaboratively with other professionals who provide treatment, legal, or social support services is a  necessary skill for professional coaches.   The characteristics of violence and patterns of men vs. women as perpetrators or victims will be explored. An in-depth examination and discussion regarding the effects of domestic violence and residual trauma will be offered.  Many "victims" are rebuilding their lives and experience increased risks when attempting to leave the situation, acquire a job or work skills and secure a job, or other attempts at independence.  For those who are already working, the employer costs are extreme in relation to changes in productivity, absenteeism, and health-related concerns.  Coaches can make a difference by assisting victims with the development of advocacy skills.  

     Terminology referred to as survivor-defined, trauma-informed, or strength-based have resulted from changes in our approach to understanding domestic violence which has resulted in a change in perspective to improve service and increase prevention efforts by listening to the stories of those who have survived, and by creating a fresh approach and partnership of advocacy. Coaches can contribute to this important social movement, and play a significant advocacy partnership role in listening, reviewing the risks,  implementing strengthened plans, building support, and by identifying relevant options. Empowerment is a major focus in coaching, and assisting the client in addressing the batter and life-generated risks in a realistic manner will be a necessary step toward change.   

Course Content:  

  • Foundations: The World, Behavior, and Group Dynamics
  • Foundations: Stages and Multicultural Dimensions of the Work
  • Foundations: Theories of Group Process 
  • Skills Development:  Assessment and Specialized Leadership Skills
  • Skills Development:  Group Dynamics, Techniques, and Structure 
  • Application:  Coleadership and Critical Incidents
  • Application & Advanced Group Structure:  Difficult Group Members
  • Advanced Group Structure:  Adjunct Structures, Social Justice, and Social Action
  • Social Responsibility Through Coaching
  • Social Entrepreneurialism and Coaching 

The dynamics of a group are extremely powerful and can have a stronger impact on clients than working one on one.  Groups create a place of support, and the ability for the client to address isolation by feeling connected.  For a coach, managing a group can be very challenging not only because of the dynamics but because of the multiplicity of issues that arise in a group.  It takes skill and expertise to effectively run and manage a group.  This course will provide you with the necessary insight and skills to develop your own group and focus on your area of specialization in coaching.  From the foundations of group coaching, through skills development, application, and advanced group structure, this course shines the light on the inherent power of groups.  Alongside, creating another revenue source for your practice, leading groups offers you and your client the opportunity for growth and development of skills that would not be addressed in your one on one coach sessions.  Develop your group coaching skills and explore methods for application in coaching that are tailor made to fit your practice.  Make a social contribution by creating and providing groups that incorporate advanced techniques and promote social responsibility in coaching.  

Course Content:

  • Brain-Based Learning
  • Emotional Sensitivity
  • Emotional Resilience Theory and Application 
  • Wellness Coaching
  • Mindfulness
  • Cognitions of Choice
  • New Choice Thinking
  • A Philosophy for Living
  • Applying What We Learn
  • Applying What We Know and Social Entrepreneurship

Individuals, couples, families, as well as organizational environments, seek sustainability.  Lasting endurance mixed with the ability to maintain a consistency, wellness, and integrated holism epitomizes sustainability.  Dr. Clare Steffen created Sustainability Coaching to integrate the elements of neuroscience, emotional resilience, wellness, mindfulness, healthy choice and applied learning.  Assist your clients in becoming mindfully present intrapersonally, interpersonally, and inter-relationally to engage on a conscious level.  Offering your clients an organized thinking and decision-making system will provide them the opportunity to create choice at a conscious level.  Teaching your clients a brain-based approach to applied learning within each environment to which they relate will support the development of emotional resilience, wellness, and sustainability coping.  Clients frequently engage a coach to seek to assist in creating a new life plan and to change direction in life.   Utilize the Wellness Self-Awareness Scale, Creating Confidence Thinking Assessment, and the Emotional Sensitivity Self-Assessment to define and build a strength-based resilient foundation for your client to orchestrate life changes and develop a philosophy for living.  Add sustainability coaching to your practice to make a socially responsible contribution to the field, and explore the global opportunities for social entrepreneurs to build a better world.  Assist your clients in changing courses, creating new choice thinking and help them create a sustainable life map.

Course Content:

  1.  Everything is Related
  2.  The Relationship to Self
  3.  The Relationship to Others
  4.  Genuine Intimacy
  5.  A Well Community
  6.  Connecting to a Whole Life
  7.  Connecting in Time
  8.  The Foundation of Hope
  9.  Wisdom for the Present
  10.  Spirit for the Future 

In life everything is related!  The influences of Westernized thinking have impacted global thinking and created an imbalance between how we think, feel and behave and ultimately what we believe.  Our focus on the consumerism of knowledge, information, products, and materials gain have caused us to experience distress.  Returning to the phenomena of "being" holds the promise for recreating a balance.  Nature is genuinely chaotic, yet we strive to take control but fail which creates further imbalance. It is the acceptance of the subtle changes that allow us to gracefully adapt.  Sustainability Coaching provides an approach that promotes a philosophy for living and choice.   Offer your clients the gift of sustainability and balance by connecting to the all the inter-related elements in their lives.  
 

Course Content:

  • Introduction to Niche Coaching
  • Core Competency Coaching
  • Core Values Coaching
  • Enneagram Personal Coaching
  • Nature's Spiritual Coaching
  • Wellbriety Coaching
  • Coaching for Peace
  • Social & Emotional Intelligence Coaching 
  • Victim Defined-Advocacy Coaching
  • Family Life & Parenting Coaching

This intensive course offers 25-Hours of CE credit (21 hours online education and niche development and 4-hours of consultation with Clare E Steffen, Ed.D., ND, CADCII, ICADC, CNHP, CMH, NCC, BCC).  You will examine ten areas of coaching that can become your specialized niche.  Developing a niche in coaching allows you to expand your practice and stand out as an expert in the field.  The ten areas presented can be utilized to develop other niche coaching interests.  Assessment tools are provided within the course which will be helpful in focusing your coaching efforts.  Whether you decide to further develop your niche or just broaden your skills to offer a deeper coaching connection, the topics presented in this course will develop and expand your approach to coaching.  Creating your own niche and area of specialization can help you develop as a social entrepreneur, and contribute to the field of coaching.  Enroll today and create your niche!  Ask about our 30-hour niche training program.

Accessing Cognitions of Choice

In this course you will:

  • Learn a New Choice Thinking Model that you can easily teach to your clients
  • Learn how to apply the Cognitions of Choice to assist your clients in developing critical and creative thinking
  • Acquire a universal system of coaching that can be utilized and applied to any client
  • Understand personality traits and be able to guide your clients in learning more about their own personality traits
  • Assist your clients in learning how to access their choice cognitions to improve their lives
  • Teach your clients how to restructure unhealthy habits, patterns of thinking or feeling
  • Teach your clients how to invite, investigate, and initiate change
  • Teach your clients how to access automatic thought, meta-thinking, and mindfulness
  • Help clients explore critical and creative thinking
  • Assist your clients in learning how to reach their goals
  • Learn a new coaching tool,  Creating Confidence Thinking Assessment to focus collaborative coaching efforts
  • Assess yourself using the Creating Confidence Thinking Assessment and learn how to interpret the assessment
  • Assess two clients the Creating Confidence Thinking Assessment and learn how to interpret the assessment 
  • Gain the confidence to utilize New Choice Thinking, Cognitions of Choice, and the Creating Confidence Thinking Assessment with your clients 

     Cognitions are not just the thoughts we hold but incorporate the actions we take based upon these patterns of thinking.  Cognitions connect to our values and personality traits that create our neural hotwiring or programming that construct our social perceptions and life choices.  Our cognitions guide our habits of being and life philosophy. 

     Cognitions of Choice (COC) represent concepts, constructs, or percepts to which the individual places relational meaning; personal relevance, associative memory, or value.  These symbolic representations connect to thoughts, feelings, and underlying beliefs.  The experiences that connect these representations to the belief structure serve to form perceptions that construct the individual’s values that drive actions, decisions, and choices. 

   Cognitions of Choice are dispositional traits, attributes, percepts or cognitive skills used to neutralize negative self-defeating cognitions that interfere with self-harmony and creating balanced life choices.  These cognitions or percepts not only offer patterns of thinking that may be deeply programmed or engrained at the level of core identity but also offer intuitive guideposts for making healthy life choices.  If they are not already present within the parameters of thought, with practice they can be taught at varying levels of cognition and become a part of the integrated life filter or functional force as a means of offering psychological immunity. 

      The Cognitions of Choice Model offers a network of neural programming percepts that engages self-dialog between automatic thinking, critical and creative thinking, mindfulness, and integrated life choices.  COC’s can be used to realign the incongruences between values, beliefs, and actions to create healthy choices and life-decisions. It evokes an active process of resiliency and hopefulness for living in the present with a healthy respect for future orientation and a transcendent wellness perspective. 

Learn to teach your client how to access their choice processing system:

      Level 1: Unconscious (Automatic thought)

      Level 2: Meta (Thoughts about thinking)

      Level 3: Conscious or Mindfulness

      Healthy Outcome: Integrated or Authentic Perception

Teach Your Clients How to Access their Choice System To: 

Level 1: Invite Change

Level 2: Investigate Change

Level 3: Initiate Change 

     Restructuring of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to connect to the core beliefs will allow the individual to focus attention, become more analytical and tap into critical and creative thinking.  Connecting the beliefs to actions, decision making, and choice will allow realignment with core values. Matching beliefs and values will reduce incongruences and allow the individual to engage in critical and creative thinking.  Realigning beliefs, actions, decision making and choice to core values will assist the individual in creating or restoring life balance. 

     Getting to the core beliefs and values can be an ongoing process, as the individual may not be consciously aware or have integrated their beliefs and values to perceptions of healthy relationships.  Assisting them in identifying incongruences in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors is part of taking responsibility for self, and making a commitment to others.  Considering how this matches up with beliefs and values is a step toward developing, repairing, or maintaining healthy relationships.

Utilize a New Assessment to help your clients build confidence in developing choices

     At times people feel unequipped to change because they lack skills, or self-knowledge, or do not have a clear vision of what they need to do to improve their lives.  The cognitions of choice can be utilized to specifically address a dispositional trait that is needing further development or was identified by the client as a focus in treatment that they desire to explore and improve.  In this course, you will learn how to administer and interpret the Creating Confidence Thinking Assessment that can be utilized to identify obstacles to healthy choice making which will provide a focus in coaching to assist your client in reaching their goals, improving their life, or learning more about themselves.  Administering the Creating Confidence Thinking Assessment will offer useful information that will assist the coach and client in collaboratively deciding where to begin coaching efforts to development confidence in making choices.  

The concepts of race and culture are frequently used interchangeably, which falsely represents large groups of people.  On an individual basis, it can distort service delivery, and result in the perpetuation of bias.  Being able to distinguish between race and culture offers a first step in the provision of trauma-informed and sensitive coaching.  Approximately ten percent of Americans report being in recovery and require assistance maintaining sobriety.  Approximately 23.5 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol and these numbers continue to rise.  Unfortunately, there are many gaps in service delivery, and frequently a medical model or westernized medicine doesn't adequately address all the needs.  Coaching may serve an important role to help close the gap.  Even though it is clearly recognized that coaches are not therapists and do not provide therapy services; coaches can clearly provide an important service that allows some individuals or their families to become educated on issues of race and culture and their influence on trauma and addiction.  Having an increased awareness will allow coaches to contribute and provide trauma-informed and sensitive services. 

Purpose:

To raise visibility and competency in providing trauma-informed coaching, and recognize the effects of race and culture related to issues of addiction. 

 

Goals:

1.     To apply principles of advocacy in sobriety coaching 

2.     To examine an inclusive model for addressing trauma in coaching 

3.     To improve coaching and educational skills in addressing trauma and issues of addiction

4.     To learn how to develop trauma-informed and sensitive coaching 

 

Objectives:

 

1.     To learn how to address racial and intergenerational trauma in coaching

2.     To view the impact of race and culture in addiction

3.     To provide a model for wellness coaching

  1. What is trauma?  
  2. Changes to the Brain
  3. Reshaping the Personal Story
  4. The Relational Component
  5. Trauma and Substance Use
  6. Trauma, Depression, and Anxiety
  7. Retraining the Brain
  8. Providing Hope for the Present and Future
  9. Healing and Integrating Traumatic Experiences 
  10. Reclaiming Life and Empowerment

Trauma has many faces and can impact the lives of not only the person who experienced trauma but of their family and close relationships.  In this course, you will learn about the different types of trauma, and how to effectively address it in coaching.  You will be provided the tools to assist your clients in reshaping their experience so they can retrain their brain.  As a coach, it is important to know when to refer to a therapist, consult, or collaborate.  Our client's life stories give us insight into their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (TFB Paradigm), but most importantly their relationships to self and others.  Examining their ability to analyze the TFB paradigm will allow you to teach them how to apply corrective techniques, and reshape their present day relationship to their experiences.  Clients rely on life coaches to teach them new behaviors, acquire new skills, as well as change attitudes and correct thought processes and address healing in their interpersonal relationships.  Trauma impacts so many aspects of life functioning and providing your client with the tools needed to reclaim and empower their lives is a first step toward healing and wellness.  Everything in life is relational.  Addressing trauma from a relational and brain-based perspective will provide you with the necessary tools to assist your clients in reshaping the experience and retraining their brain to begin their healing process.  Trauma is experienced globally, and coaches can contribute to changing world views and empowering people. 

  1. Introduction
  2. Core Competencies
  3. Coach Training Direction
  4. FOC Coaching
  5. Choice 
  6. Core Values and Families
  7. Learning How Our Brains Work
  8. A Commitment to Change 
  9. The Development of New Choices
  10. CCE and CE4 Coaches Training Sites 

Family coaching can assist families with developing, improving, or learning new ways to communicate.  Frequently, families get stuck in old patterns of behavior and need to learn to make new or healthier choices.  As a coach, you can be instrumental in helping families learn how to change old or unhealthy patterns.  Restructuring the family to incorporate equality, empowerment, "good listening skills," plans for change, and a maintenance plan for changes made can be invaluable.  Using a change stage model, cognitions of choice, and The Big 5 of Healthy Relationships will provide you with the formula needed to guide families through change so they can learn to make healthier relationship choices.  Teaching negotiation, mediation, and arbitration can help families learn the techniques necessary to secure their future in a way that will allow them to remain healthy.  Family coaching is continuing to grow and develop, why not join this new and expanding aspect of the field and make a lasting contribution to society?  

Introduction

1. Domestic Violence and Victim-Defined Advocacy

2. Risks Victims Face

3. How Women Form Perspectives From Priorities

4. Victim in Contact with Children

5. Trauma, Mental Health, and Substance Use

6. Advocate Role with Violent Partners

7. Victim-Defined Advocacy Environments

8. Victim Defined Policy Advocacy and Coaching

9. Domestic Violence and the Work Environment, and Coaching Applications for Business and Organizations

10. Core-Competencies and Coaching and Victim-Defined Advocacy Coaching 

     The impact of domestic violence is far-reaching and can be passed inter-generationally within families; therefore, we now have broadened the scope to consider "family violence." There are numerous reasons why women stay in relationships with intimate partners who are violent (IPV), these risks can be viewed from two main categories: batter-generated risks, and life-generated risks. Various addictions can result in episodes and cycles of violence, some predictable and some impulsive incidents. Trauma can result from the experience of exposure to violence that can result in PTSD, and/or inter-generational and vicarious trauma. As most victims experience an increased risk upon attempting to leave their efforts at developing a career are disrupted or thwarted, and for those that are employed they may experience increased health risks that interfere with job performance. The coach can be very beneficial in assisting the client in developing advocacy skills to improve communication and their relationship

    The coach can be very beneficial in assisting the client in developing advocacy skills to improve communication and their relationship within the business or organization in which they are training or are employed. A comprehensive review of IPV and non-battering IPV, harm to children, and adult violence not IPV will be examined from the perspective of: identification, and reporting of abuse, a look at the residual repercussions of involvement with the legal system, the impact of abuse on children, links to substance misuse and domestic violence, an exploration of the variety of physical, emotional, and spiritual injuries that can result from exposure to domestic violence, an examination of why people stay in violent relationships, the New Choice Model; and the development of resiliency and healthy families.

     Advocacy for victims of domestic violence has been the cornerstone of the movement to create change for families. Domestic violence occurs across every socio-economic status, age group, and providing the "victim" a voice from their unique perspective will make a difference. Victim-defined advocacy can be achieved in five basic steps: prepare, think, plan, act, and monitor. Coaches can partner with victims to empower, create options that clearly consider batter and life-generated risks, promote choice, and improve advocacy through applying a step-by-step systemic approach to change!

 

Every individual has a unique identity, set of values, and way of being.  When we establish a coaching relationship that offers personalized coaching, we connect to the individual at a core level that relates to what the person values so we can assist them in connecting to what makes them thrive.  Providing this deep level of coaching, can make the difference between a successful outcome, and a disconnect in which the individual leaves coaching early or never begins.  We have an opportunity to provide services that create choice, and sustains life changes that matter to the individual.

The Board Certified Coach is required to master these specific areas of knowledge within the field to be considered an expert.  This course covers the required competency areas and will teach you how to put down roots in the following core areas:

  1. Screening and Orientation in Coaching
  2. Fundamental Coaching Skills
  3. Assessments in Coaching
  4. Coaching Approaches for Individuals
  5. Coaching Approaches for Business and Organizations

Learning to view each of these areas of competency as they inter-relate to you and your client, will provide a perspective that allows you to connect to your client at a core level, and make a deep and meaningful connection.  Mastering each of these skills areas will provide you the metaphorical garden in which to grow and develop a sustainable coaching practice, that delivers the core connection that clients seek. There is an old proverb that states, "More grows in the garden than what the gardener sows." Coaching to the Core will allow you to get to the root and establish a healthy connection to your clients and provide them the tools they need to plant the seeds for new choices to blossom and grow.  

You are required to complete a 10 question quiz (true-false and multiple choice questions) and will have 3 attempts to pass with a grade of 80% or higher.  Upon completion of the course, you will be provided a certificate to submit for the board.  This course can be utilized to acquire your coach training hours or for renewal. 

Individual coach training and planning sessions with Clare E Steffen, Ed.D., CADCII, ICADC, CNHP, CMH, NCC, BCC, to examine any areas of the core competencies, coaching practice or business development, and professional training and development. Learn about the Core Values assessment and coaching, and Family Coaching as areas of specialization, as well as all our programs supported in Facebook and Twitter.  Want to understand what style your brain prefers when new information is presented so you can better personalize your coaching?  Take the free Core Values Assessment and the Brain Profile (for a nominal fee), and individualize your approach to coaching by providing a higher degree of choice.  Each 1-hour session will provide 1-hour of CE training.  

 

  1.  Introduction to Ethics
  2.  Code of Ethics for BCC
  3.  Why are Ethics at the Cornerstone of Coaching?
  4. Ethical Intelligence
  5. Five Simple Rules for an Ethical Coaching Practice
  6. Ethical Intelligence and Individual Coaching 
  7. Ethics in Business and Organization Coaching
  8. Ethics and Your Clients
  9. Ethics Within Core Competencies 
  10. Maintain Ethics and CEs for Coaching 

This course is designed to meet the 4-hour requirement for the Board (Center for Credentialing and Education).  You will be provided a 1-hour Web-Ex seminar on Ethics in Coaching, and access to 3 hours of training in Choice College (our online education system in Moodle).  You are required to complete a 10 question quiz (true-false and multiple choice questions) and will have 3 attempts to pass with a grade of 80% or higher.  Upon completion of the course, you will be provided a certificate to submit for the board.  This course can be utilized to acquire your coach training hours or for renewal.  

Level 2 (60 hours)

Advocacy~Integrating a Victim-Defined Approach

Introduction

1. The Stop Program

2. The 15 Commandments of Stop

3. The House of Abuse & Relapse Prevention

4. The Cycle of Abuse

5. Red Flags of Trauma

6. Mindfulness & The Many Faces of Addiction

7. Assertiveness and Dealing with Conflict

8. Ethics & Victim-Defined Advocacy Counseling

9. Counseling Approaches for Busines& Organizations

10. Core Competencies & Victim-Defined Advocacy Counseling

     This course will offer counseling choices, methods and approaches, and ways to teach clients and families how to overcome victimization and build resiliency. Having the skills necessary to work collaboratively with other professionals who provide treatment, legal, or social support services is a  necessary skill for professional counselors.   The characteristics of violence and patterns in men vs. women as perpetrators or victims will be explored. An in-depth examination and discussion regarding the effects of domestic violence and residual trauma will be offered.  Many "victims" are rebuilding their lives and experience increased risks when attempting to leave the situation, acquire a job or work skills and secure a job, or other attempts at independence.  For those who are already working, the employer costs are extreme in relation to changes in productivity, absenteeism, and health-related concerns.  Counselors can make a difference by assisting victims with the development of advocacy skills.  

     Terminology referred to as survivor-defined, trauma-informed, or strength-based have resulted from changes in our approach to understanding domestic violence which has resulted in a change in perspective to improve service and increase prevention efforts by listening to the stories of those who have survived, and by creating a fresh approach and partnership of victim-defined advocacy.  Counselors can contribute to this important social movement, and play a significant advocacy partnership role in listening, reviewing the risks,  implementing strengthened plans, building support, and by identifying relevant options. Empowerment is a major focus in counseling, and assisting the client in addressing the batter and life-generated risks in a realistic manner will be a necessary step toward change.   

Purpose:

To raise visibility and competency in the treatment of trauma in addressing addiction and the effects of race and culture.  

Course Goals: 

•To apply principles of advocacy in AOD treatment

•To examine an inclusive model in the treatment of trauma

•To improve counselor skills in addressing trauma in AOD treatment

•To learn how to develop trauma-informed and sensitive therapies. 

 

Course Objectives: 

 

•To learn how to address racial and intergenerational trauma in AOD treatment

•To view the impact of race and culture in substance use and other addictive disorders

•To provide a model for healing. 

 

Six Steps to Providing Trauma-Sensitive Treatment:

1) Differentiate the impact of race and culture

2) Respect the advancements in neuroscience and apply a brain/mind-behavior relationship approach in treatment

3) Initiate the "The Mending" of trauma 

4) Offer Healing from a 4 Directions Perspective

5) Address the Gaps in Service Delivery

6) Provide Trauma-Sensitive/Informed Treatment

Course Description:

The concepts of race and culture are frequently used interchangeably, which falsely represents large groups of people.  On an individual basis, it can distort service delivery, and result in the perpetuation of bias.  Being able to distinguish between race and culture offers a first step in the provision of trauma-informed and sensitive counseling.  Approximately ten percent of Americans report being in recovery and require assistance maintaining sobriety.  Approximately 23.5 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol and these numbers continue to rise.  Unfortunately, there are many gaps in service delivery, and frequently a medical model or westernized medicine doesn't adequately address all the needs.  Counseling may serve an important role in closing the gap.  Counselors can clearly provide an important service that allows some individuals or their families to become educated on issues of race and culture and their influence on trauma and addiction.  Having an increased awareness and a step-by-step approach to treatment will allow counselors to contribute and provide trauma-informed and sensitive services. 

Introduction

1. Domestic Violence and Victim-Defined Advocacy

2. Risks Victims Face

3. How Women Form Perspectives From Priorities

4. Victim in Contact with Children

5. Trauma, Mental Health, and Substance Use

6. Advocate Role with Violent Partners

7. Victim-Defined Advocacy Environments

8. Victim Defined Policy Advocacy, Ethics, and Counseling 

9. Domestic Violence and the Work Environment, and Counseling Applications for Business and Organizations

10. Core-Competencies and Victim-Defined Advocacy Counseling 

 The impact of domestic violence is far-reaching and can be passed inter-generationally within families; therefore, we now have broadened the scope to consider "family violence." There are numerous reasons why women stay in relationships with intimate partners who are violent (IPV), these risks can be viewed from two main categories: batter-generated risks, and life-generated risks. Various addictions can result in episodes and cycles of violence, some predictable and some impulsive incidents. Trauma can result from the experience of exposure to violence that can result in PTSD, and/or inter-generational and vicarious trauma. 

     As most victims experience an increased risk upon attempting to leave their efforts at developing a career are disrupted or thwarted, and for those that are employed they may experience increased health risks that interfere with job performance.  The counselor can be very beneficial in assisting the client in developing advocacy skills to improve communication and their relationship within the business or organization in which they are training or are employed. A comprehensive review of IPV and non-battering IPV, harm to children, and adult violence not IPV will be examined from the perspective of: identification, and reporting of abuse, a look at the residual repercussions of involvement with the legal system, the impact of abuse on children, links to substance misuse and domestic violence, an exploration of the variety of physical, emotional, and spiritual injuries that can result from exposure to domestic violence, an examination of why people stay in violent relationships, the New Choice Model; and  the development of resiliency and healthy families.  Advocacy for victims of domestic violence has been the cornerstone of the movement to create change for families. 

     Domestic violence occurs across every socio-economic status, age group, and providing the "victim" a voice from their unique perspective will make a difference.Victim-defined advocacy can be achieved in five basic steps: prepare, think, plan, act, and monitor.  Counselors can partner with victims to empower, create options that clearly consider batter and life-generated risks, promote choice, and improve advocacy through applying a step-by-step systemic approach to change!  

Course Content:

  • Connecting to Executive: Choice Intelligence
  • The Corporate Culture
  • Beyond Business as Usual
  • Assessing, Developing, and Supporting Leaders
  • Entrepreneurs Need Coaching
  • Sustainability and Outsourcing
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Management Styles
  • The Dilemma: Building Strong Cohesive Teams and Independent Thinkers
  • Multidimensional Thinking in the Work Force

    An Executive/Business/Leadership coach is tasked with supporting individuals who carry heavy loads and responsibilities.  These individuals need you to do more than just ask open-ended questions. They need you to challenge their development, support their growth, and help them create visionary and sustainable choices.  Ultimately, it may serve to influence and inspire them to create new positions for themselves or others, experience identity changes, or find a path that enlightens and empowers.  The corporate environment is ever changing, subject to outsourcing, downsizing, and many other unstable situations that can evoke stress or loss.  In this 10-hour course, you will learn strategies to guide your client to develop and utilize their choice intelligence.  You will explore assessment techniques to bring clarity, explore motivation, and expand personal and professional development with your client. Providing your clients with an individualized approach to coaching will bring closure to support gaps and assist them in experiencing healthy empowerment, which will result in bringing clarity around their choices in their life and work environments. We can also assist them in making sustainable career choices that will allow them to thrive.  Use the Choice Intelligence method to teach them how to expand and develop their personal and work choices, connect to a learning-based approach to choice, use power and proficiency in making a choice, and to create sustainable choices. Change requires new learning and maintaining health, stability, and continued learning is required in an effort to bring about successful outcomes. The techniques and evidence-based approach in this course will provide the necessary keys to success and tools that will assist you in helping your client transform and change their lives. 

Course Content:

  • Wellness and Prevention, The Perfect Compliment
  • Holistic Coaching
  • Assessing Health & Wellness
  • Blending Wellness Coaching within Healthcare Companies
  • A Four Dimensional Axiology Approach
  • Eastern and Western Thought Unite
  • Herbal Applications 
  • The Essential of Wellness
  • Personal Power
  • Connecting and Monitoring Choice

     Wellness coaches have the unique ability to work with clients in improving the quality of their lives across all dimensions.  As the field grows, there are more opportunities available to work in a collaborative manner with other allied health professionals and within healthcare systems.  Wellness coaches who provide services in private practice can offer an even broader range of services, and provide their clients with the full spectrum of wellness services.  Recent wellness models explore the lines where allopathic and holistic services meet but do not always clearly delineate how to effectively blend services.  Examining Eastern and Western thinking offers one piece of the puzzle.  Considering the four dimension's axiology along with the underlying values that support wellness thinking complete the puzzle.  In this course, you will learn all the areas of wellness outlined above. You will be provided assess to Dr. Clare Steffen's Wellness Self-Assessment Scale that can be utilized with your clients to measure their connection to mind, body, spirit, personal power, and their ability to monitor wellness choices.  Use of this assessment can assist you in focusing your approach and efforts in wellness coaching. The course reviews an array of approaches to prevention and maintaining holistic wellness through the use of herbs, essential oils, homeopathic remedies, supplements, tea, and other natural health methods.

   This course provides 10-hours of CE and is supported via online education through Choice College.  You will complete 9-hours of education online and meet with Clare E Steffen, Ed.D., ND, CNHP, CMH, BCC for the remaining one hour via a tele-session, 1:1, or a group web meeting.  As a special offer, you will be provided the opportunity to enroll in the required 4-hour ethics course at a discounted rate if you enroll conjointly in this course.  The ethics course provides three hours of online education and a one-hour consultation with Dr. Clare Steffen.  

Course Content:

  • Aligning with Purpose and Meaning
  • Developing Sustainable Choice
  • Learn the CERT model 
  • Considering Options/Career Assessment 
  • Exploring Possibilities
  • Revising the Plan
  • Transformation
  • Using A Brain-Based Approach
  • Social & Emotional Intelligence 
  • Applying New Learning to Promote Growth & Development 

     A career coach has the awesome role of assisting clients in defining or recreating themselves.  At a minimum, it involves asking thought-provoking questions that lead the individual to consider options they might not have perceived possible. Ultimately, it may serve to influence and inspire that some individual to create a new life course, a whole identity, or find a path enlightens and empowers.  Life brings transitions at most stages of development, and we can choose to respond with awareness or just react and let life happen to us.  In this 10-hour course, you will learn strategies to guide your client to a path of illumination.  You will learn career assessment techniques to bring clarity, explore motivation, and expand personal and professional development with your client. Providing your clients with an individualized approach to career development that specifically fits their brain-based style of learning, will assist them in developing clarity around their choices in their career path. We can also assist them in making sustainable career choices that will encourage their employer to want to keep them when downsizing or job cuts occur.  Use the CERT method to teach them how to consider, explore, revise, and transform their approach to career development.  Employers look for individuals who possess the traits of emotional intelligence.  Assisting them in increasing their EQ will improve their efforts and success in defining a new career path, applying emotional regulation, and developing leadership qualities that make them stand out on the job in a desirable way. Change requires new learning and maintaining the course is required in an effort to bring about successful outcomes. The techniques and evidence-based approach in this course will the provide necessary keys to success and tools that will assist you in helping your client transform and change their lives. 

The Wellness Self-Awareness Scale offers an easy to use assessment that will provide input on the integration of mind, body, spirit, personal power, and monitoring choice.  It can be used to assess or evaluate your client's health needs in coaching. 

This brief assessment is designed to provide an overall view of your level of confidence.  It will specifically examine your confidence as demonstrated through optimism, self-esteem, assertion, social skills and social connection.  

     Everything is a social-relational choice.  The depth of the relationship is dependent upon the type and level of choice made, the situation in the context of culture, and the expected or perceived outcome.  At all levels, humans strive to maintain homeostasis whether the current habits, behaviors, or ways of being are healthy or not.  Familiarity will over-ride and create resistance to change; thus, change can be difficult. Choice is the key to functioning at our highest level of wellness.  The Creating Confidence Thinking Assessment is designed to measure confidence thinking in making choices: 

Confidence Thinking:

     To engage in a process or apply strategies that offer fear reduction, increased awareness, and the ability to assert a conscious choice that supports healthy life-balance.