Changing lives in our communities and beyond through coaching
Changing lives in our communities and beyond through coaching
Team Boo have been so very fortunate to be working on an amazing project over the last year across Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale in Greater Manchester, UK. This project combined wellbeing and coaching and you all know how much we LOVE wellbeing and coaching!
Over the last 9 months we have achieved the following…
- Supported 17 brilliant folk to become accredited coaches through our CMI level 5 & 7 coaching and mentoring qualification
- Designed a unique 2-day wellbeing coaching programme
- Trained up the 17 brilliant folk to deliver the 2-day wellbeing coaching programme
- Supported the delivery of this 2-day wellbeing coaching programme for 60 participants from across the health, social care and voluntary services in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale.
- Set up future training dates to support the community into 2021.
Here’s some information on why this is so very important right now…
Within national and local policy it is increasingly acknowledged, researched and evidenced that self-care is a key enabler in empowering people to improve their own health and wellbeing as well as reducing demand on health and social care services and finite resources.
The HMR strategy aspires to embed self-care within our health and social care system through a large scale Health and Wellbeing Coaching Training Programme.
This approach is supported by Health Education England who state that strength based conversations and health coaching has been identified as one of the key five interventions by NHS England in their substantial self-care programme. Health coaching can equip staff with additional conversational skills, techniques and the mind-set to support and empower people toward their own goal….as well as potentially improving care cost efficiencies’ (HEE 2019 Online).
In HMR a group of representatives from provider partner organisations from across all sectors including: health and social care, primary care and primary care, public health, mental health, voluntary and community sector, CCG, have co-designed a multi-organisational workforce development programme to provide the wider workforce with the skills, knowledge, techniques and confidence in approaching the delivery of care and interventions based on self- care, person centred principles such as ‘Strength/Asset Based Conversations’ and the gold standard ‘Health and Wellbeing’ Coaching methodology.
The Health and Wellbeing Coaching training will provide the workforce with the understanding, skills, knowledge, techniques and confidence to support behaviour change and true partnership working through meaningful coaching conversations. These skills and techniques will enable a shift in mind-set to empower people towards improved lifestyle behaviours and will cause a long term impact on the health and social care economy as a whole.
Here are some helpful resources that our participants and coaches are now using across the community…
