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., [email protected] 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 [email protected] www.williamcooke.ca416-762-0330
“ There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."― Leonard Cohen