Please Note: 2025 Training Price Increase to help cover the rising cost of virtual delivery infrastructure ~10%: $195
Cost: $195/person
January 2025
January 8
9:00 - 4:00 (EST)
March 2025
March 31
9:00 - 4:00 (EST)
6 Hr. A Coach Approach: Coaching Skills for Recovery Coaches & Peer Advocates
“My favorite part of this training was when the instructor said, “two people walked into this room, one person has all of the answers, and it isn’t me.” I found the perspective she offered very helpful and relevant to my work.
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Photo Credit: Emma Clark Photography
The International Coach Federation defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential”. Coming from a strength base and client centered perspective, coaching honors the individual in recovery/family member as the expert in his/her own life and believes that every individual is creative, resourceful, whole and fundamentally brilliant about their own lives. Coaching addresses the entire person, challenging them to expand their definition of recovery while focusing on the “gap” between the quality and scope of their recovery today and where they would like their recovery to be tomorrow.
Course Description:
In this 6 hour workshop, participants will have the opportunity to engage in and practice using evidence based coaching strategies and tools relevant to their work with substance use disorder some of which include:
The use of both powerful questions and empathic reflections
Using both a coaching plan and coaching working agreement
Being "in the inquiry" vs. being "in the answer"
Moving away from a focus on “helper as the expert” to the role of coach who facilitates an inquiry based and action oriented process viewing their client as the most important resource (vs. object)
Practice with several established coaching tools
Staying out of Judgement
This RCU Zoom/Virtual Training and it’s instructors are approved by NYCB for CARC Initial Certification Hours and for CRPA and CARC Renewal Hours.
The course is also approved by ASAP-NYS for Social Work CE’s and by OASAS for CASAC, CPP and CPS Renewal CE’s.
Participants must have access to both audio and video connection.
As a facilitator, Lisa Nichols merges her decade of experience and Masters degree in education as well as her passion for Peer work, bringing a wealth of knowledge, enthusiasm and applicable examples. When she is not leading classes, Lisa can be found volunteering, working as a Team Leader serving the unhoused, hiking far away from civilization, lifting weights, writing poems, or spending time with her family. You may also see her name in Peer Workforce Initiatives from ASAP or NYCB exam test prep materials. Recovery coaching and peer driven initiatives are part of her life’s work.
Lisa Nichols, M Ed, CARC, RCP, RCPF
“This was my third training with RCU and Lisa Nichols. All of the trainings were outstanding.”
“The facilitator was very engaging and interactive. Lisa is an amazing teacher, her positive attitude was refreshing. The information provided is relevant to my current position.”