o many happy returns.... successfully returning to work after a mental health leave a presentation...

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Many Happy Returns....

Successfully returning to work after a mental health leave

A presentation for the BRIEF Symposium, July 26, 2014Rhea Plosker, M.A.Sc., M.C., CCC.rplosker@inspirationsolutions.comA colleague with William Cooke and Associates

Did you know?

75% of short term disability claims in Canada--$20 billion/yr, and growing,

are due to mental health leaves!

Statistics Canada (2011) “What’s Stressing the Stressed? Main Sources of Stress Among Workers”Homewood Health Solutions “Able-Minded Report” (2010)

Therapeutic Process

Disconnect between the person and their source of passion

Problem-saturated stories

Problem-saturated stories

Stories about client’s skills, values, achievements

Start to move from this

To this

Stories about client’s skills, values, and achievements

Stories about client’s skills, values, achievements

Therapy vs. Coaching

For Glee lovers, remember Roots Before Branches? (by Room for Two)

“ I gotta have roots before branches,To know who I am,Before I know who I want to beAnd faithTo take chancesTo live like I seeA place in the worldFor me.”

Therapy

Coaching

Coaching Process

Things already working: Exceptions, unique outcomes, “pockets of passion”

Goals: Best hopes for the futurem

Action Plan: Small, realistic steps towards the goal

Things already working

Goals

Action Plan

NewIdeas

New Ideas Through CollaborationClient being the expert in their own life

Coach offering “insider expertise” from personal experience, other client experiences, resources other clients have found helpful

Things Already Working

Create an “elevator pitch” about yourself. What are the three most important positive qualities

you would like others to know about you?

First rule of brief work is “Go Slow”Reconnect with sources of passion.

Water and nurture the roots until they are well established.

Things Already Working

Create an “elevator pitch” about yourself. What are the three most important positive

qualities you would like others to know about you?

First rule of brief work is “Go Slow”Reconnect with sources of passion.

Water and nurture the roots until they are well established.

New Ideas-Options Without Advice

Would it be helpful for us to share…maybe, ideas about…?

What would (option being discussed) look like for you?

(rehearse in detail)

Goals

Let’s suppose that we can get a small glimpse into the future 6 months or even a year from now. It’s

6AM Monday morning your alarm has gone off, and you are getting ready to start your work week. Now,

in this future, you have work that supports your good health. Can you describe your day, starting

with the first thing you notice that tells you things are better?

Current Situation

Goal/Future Hopes

Small steps

you feel confident

you can complete

on the journey to

reaching your goal.

S. Select one goal at a time to work on.

T. Target a solution

I. Implement your desired solution one small step at a time.

R. Review the outcome. If it worked, keep going. If not, try something else.

Action Plan

How do these stories end?

“ Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." ― Carl Bard

For more ideas and information

Rhea Ploskerrplosker@inspirationsolutions.comwww.inspirationsolutions.com416-996-2500

William Cookeinfo@williamcooke.ca www.williamcooke.ca416-762-0330

“ There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."― Leonard Cohen