Andi Herman
Mental Health / Addiction Consultant
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With a background in Occupational Therapy, Andi was drawn to working with clients experiencing intense human challenges. She started out working with adults with severe mental health problems, moving on to work with younger people in early stages of psychotic illness. She then became interested in the highly prevalent interplay between mental ill-health and substance use problems (aka Dual Diagnosis). In all of these roles, Andi found herself working with people looking to make significant changes in their lives but struggling to find the path that suited their personal journeys.
Andi eventually moved into education and consultation roles, helping workers within the industry understand the complexities associated with these health problems and best practice interventions.
More recently, Andi has taken a break to raise a family and explore her creative passion of patchwork quilting. She and her husband Dan Prager have two teenage kids, a schnoodle called Holly and a start-up business called YouPatch (www.youpatch.com).
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keyboard_arrow_downWhen at first they don't want to change: Shared lessons from Addiction Therapy and Agile Coaching
Daniel PragerAgile Coach, Consultant, TrainerPrager Consulting
Andi HermanMental Health / Addiction ConsultantCareer breakschedule 1 year ago
45 Mins
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Intermediate
The easy case for coaching looks something like this: a prospective coachee wants to change, can articulate their goals, and is matched up with a suitably experienced and competent coach, the two are a good fit, and they quickly get down to the challenging yet rewarding business of growth and change.
But what if a person (or team) doesn't want to change and would rather not be coached? And despite this an external power deems that change is needed and that coaching will bring this change about. What's a coach to do? What about the coachee(s)? What about the role of the client who's engaged the coach?
This situation is not uncommon, and bears more that a passing resemblance to what often goes on in addiction treatment. A person with a drug addiction (and often other problems) doesn't necessarily welcome therapeutic intervention at the outset. But an external authority has ordered it.
In this session we will explore the parallels between the two modalities of addiction therapy and coaching, including the applicability of the Transtheoretical Model of Change and the related technique of Motivational Interviewing.These approaches offer insights into how to flex and adapt your coaching approach in the face of some of the most common human impediments to change.
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