Coaching
The "Coach" in a Collaborative Practice matter should always be a licensed Mental Health Professional
On my CollabLaw listServe, someone recently asked "whether any practice groups have professionals in dual roles such as attorney and coach/child specialist or attorney and financial professional" and some follow up questions. My reply:
There are such 'two-headed' folks throughout the Collaborative Practice community. I'm licensed as an attorney AND as a Mental Health Professional. There are also Attorney/Financials that I know of. There may even be Financial/MHPs, though I can't think of any off the top of my head.
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Interdisciplinary Professionals Communication Skills for Lawyers
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Expanding Our Toolboxes: Skills for a New Paradigm Coaching has become more than a sports term in the past few years. Many business executives, lawyers, and even housewives now have personal coaches. Coaches support their clients in achieving goals. Many of the skills of coaching are also applicable to law practice. Below are some communication tips from the coaching profession that apply to law:
Listening skills:
1. The first rule of listening is to be present. That means you are actually there with the other person. You’re not mentally going over your to-do list while they’re talking. When you are really listening, you imagine what it might be like to live in their world. You allow the other person to share. You pay attention. You get the big picture. You don’t allow distractions. You listen to the other person rather than that ‘little voice’ in your head that is chattering away at you. You show some compassion.
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General Interest Judge as Coach: Positive Coaching in the Courtroom
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Innovative Judges and Courts By Judge Michael A. Town
As a trial judge since 1979, I have presided over many cases involving adults and youths who made serious mistakes, were charged with criminal offenses, and needed to improve their lives. At key moments in these cases, including detention, sentencing, and review hearings, the judge must listen carefully to testimony about—and try to understand—the choices a defendant has made.
After processing this information, the judge must provide some clear direction on what the defendant must do to remain in the community or upon release from incarceration. These are teachable or coachable moments in the lives of the defendants and their families. Outcomes can be quite restorative and therapeutic when these directions are positively stated and understood, and defendants are open to change.
People are sometimes surprised when I tell them I am a trainer with Positive Coaching Alliance, a Stanford University-based nonprofit organization dedicated to “transforming youth sports so sports can transform youth.” They wonder what in the world judging has to do with coaching.
Phil Daunt: Transformational Lawyer
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General Interest Part 2: Living a balanced life - wholeness includes emotion
