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Interview: How does mindfulness help our clients?

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This is one of my favorite topics and I am excited to have my good friend Sabrina here today with Roberta Rolfe to talk about why mindfulness can be helpful to our clients. Previous interviews focused on why mindfulness is good for us as career service providers. (Here is one of my blogs on this topic if you are interested. Watch now.)

Today I ask our experts
—How do you use mindfulness practices during your coaching or therapy sessions?
–What would you like career coaches to keep in mind as they do their coaching work regarding mindfulness?

If you enjoy(ed) this interview, you may want to check out another interview on this topic where Bob McIntosh interviewed Sabrina Woods and me (Jim Peacock) about mindfulness. (Watch now)

Guests today

Sabrina Woods is a Holistic Career/Life Coach & Consultant with close to 20 years’ in the career services field at universities including Harvard, Northeastern and the University of London. She is also the President of the Career Counselors Consortium based in Boston. In her private practice, her joy comes from tapping holistic and mindfulness-based practices while helping people with major career transitions. Sabrina also facilitates workshops and train-the-trainer sessions ranging from the Myers Briggs to Mindfulness to Linkedin. Her workshops combine her insights, enthusiasm and infectious energy. Sessions have been taught in the US, UK and Middle East. For more info: www.sabrina-woods.com or www.linkedin.com/in/sabrinawoods.

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Roberta Rolfe. Since 2008 Roberta Rolfe has worked as a limited licensed psychologist in private practice. Her clientele is primarily women with childhood trauma. Roberta has extensive training in treating trauma and has many tools to help her clients lead fulfilling lives. Mindfulness practice is at the center of her work with recovering clients. 

Prior to Roberta’s work as a psychologist, she helped to found organizations and projects that focused on healing, both individuals and groups.

Roberta‘s most important and satisfying career was being a mother. Today Roberta lives in a retirement community in Kalamazoo Michigan. She and her husband travel to Europe and Mexico and relish time with their children and grandchildren.

Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a weekly email for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching.

He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move and The Adventure of Finding Me in New Zealand. He is also the recipient of the 2020 Kenneth C. Hoyt Award from the National Career Development Association and the Mid-Atlantic Career Counseling Association’s Professional Contribution’s Award in 2020.

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WEBINAR: Mindfulness, Positive Psychology & Neuroscience to Help Yourself & Your Students/Clients

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Watch this interactive and thoughtful webinar with
Sabrina Woods, Holistic Career Coach & Consultant

Recorded on Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Mindfulness, Positive Psychology & Neuroscience to Help Yourself & Your Students/Clients

Note, as of January 2022, this will no longer be available for purchase.
Contact Jim Peacock directly if you would like further information.

Description:

  • Are you looking for new and creative ways of working with your students/clients, especially those who are feeling stressed or anxious?
  • Have you noticed the rise of, as Time magazine puts it, “The Mindful Revolution”?
  • How about the trend of tapping into positive psychology?

During this webinar, we’ll talk about how stress and anxiety impact us as well as our clients. Next, we’ll explore the emerging areas of mindfulness and positive psychology, applying tips from these fields to manage our stress. We’ll even throw in a bit of neuroscience, to keep things interesting!

Beyond building our resilience to manage stress better, we’ll segue into new mindfulness-based tools and creative techniques to use during your client coaching/advising sessions.

 

Tools and Topics will include:

  • Get a Boost from Your Past – When self-esteem is dipping, we can use this exercise to gain more confidence and renewed energy.   
  • Face Your Fear, Free Your Energy – Explore your worst-case scenario and face those fears, as a means to getting unstuck and freeing up that energy that is being wasted on worry.
  • Bulls Eye Exercise – An insightful and comprehensive tool for decision making, whether that be choosing a major, deciding on a career path, or another topic of importance.

PRESENTER BIO:

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Sabrina Woods is a Holistic Career Coach & Consultant with 20 years’ experience in the career services field at universities, including Harvard, Northeastern, and the University of London. She is also the President of the Careers Counselors Consortium based in Boston.

She regularly facilitates workshops and train-the-trainer sessions on topics ranging from Linkedin to Mindfulness to the Myers Briggs. Sabrina’s workshops combine her insights, enthusiasm, and infectious energy for maximum engagement.

She has taught in the US, UK, and Middle East at organizations ranging from Harvard Medical School to Caltech.  Sabrina has a BA in Business and an MA in Holistic Counseling. For more info: www.sabrina-woods.com or www.linkedin.com/in/sabrinawoods. 

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Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a monthly newsletter and weekly career emails for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF, and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching. He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move

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INTERVIEW: What is Mindfulness and Why Should Career Practitioners Care?

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My guests today are….well me, Jim Peacock 🙂 and Sabrina Woods, Holistic Career / Life Coach and we will explore mindfulness and career practitioners embracing it in their practice.

My good friend Bob McIntosh interviews me and Sabrina on Using Mindfulness to Impact our Wellbeing & That of Our Clients.

Bob McIntosh, SCPRW is a career trainer and coach and LinkedIn authority and asked if he could interview us as he wanted to learn more about mindfulness.

WHAT WE WILL EXPLORE

  • What is mindfulness and why is it so important to practice it?
  • How do you practice mindfulness and share your experience with your clients?
  • What benefits do you derive from mindfulness, and how do you pass the benefits on to your clients?


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FULL BIO’s

SABRINA WOODS is a Holistic Career / Life Coach & Linkedin Trainer with 15+ years’ in the career services field at universities including Harvard, Northeastern and the University of London. Her joy comes from tapping holistic and mindfulness-based practices while helping people with career transitions. Sabrina also facilitates workshops and train-the-trainer sessions ranging from the Myers Briggs to Mindfulness to Networking. Her workshops combine her insights, enthusiasm and infectious energy. Sessions have been taught in the US, UK and Middle East. For more info: www.sabrina-woods.com.

BOB McINTOSH, CPRW is a career trainer and coach who leads more than 15 job-search workshops at an urban career center, as well counsels job seekers on every aspect of the job search. His colleagues rely on Bob to critique their clients’ LinkedIn profiles and conduct mock interviews. In addition, Bob has gained a reputation as a LinkedIn authority in the community, where he leads workshops for non-profit and for-profit organizations. Job seekers from across the state attend Bob’s LinkedIn workshops. His greatest pleasure is helping people find rewarding careers in a competitive job market. For enjoyment, he blogs at Things Career Related and contributes to Recruiter.com

Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a weekly email for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching.

He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move and the recipient of the 2020 Kenneth C. Hoyt Award from the National Career Development Association.

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INTERVIEW: Mindfulness in Our Daily Work

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Mindfulness In Our Daily Work

In our ever crazy busy world, this 17 minute interview explores the benefits of mindfulness, as well as advice for busy people to find ways to gain control over the “tsunami of information and expectations” we all face. (this is a follow up to my blog https://peak-careers.com/3-reasons-to-…)

Jim Peacock of Peak-Careers Consulting (www.Peak-Careers.com) talks with Sabrina Woods a Holistic Career & Life Coach (http://www.sabrina-woods.com/mindfuln…) and Vanessa Weiner Executive Director for the Center for Resilience. http://www.centerforresilience.org

Mindfulness In Our Daily Work

We discuss:

– – What is ‘mindfulness”?

– – We live in this crazy busy world, at work and at home typically, what are the benefits of mindfulness?

– – What advice do you have for busy people to do in order to be more mindful?

Interview was on July 13, 2017

BIOS:

VANESSA WEINER is the Founder and Executive Director at Center for Resilience, a non-profit dedicated to empowering people to empower themselves through mindfulness practice.

The organization fosters success in the classroom, community and workplace by teaching strategies for managing stress, overcoming obstacles, cultivating compassion and thriving through adversity – outcomes that benefit both the individual and society as a whole. Learn more at http://www.centerforresilience.org

SABRINA WOODS has over 15 years of experience in the career development field including at Harvard, Northeastern, and the University of London.

She also has a private practice as a Holistic Career / Life Coach & Consultant, where she helps individuals who are going through mid-career transitions. In addition, she loves to facilitate workshops including a mindfulness-based session called Building Resilience to Handle Everyday Stress. For more about Sabrina: www.sabrina-woods.com.

Mindfulness at Work Essentials for Dummies. Shamash Alidina & Juliet Adams

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I have been doing lots of exploration on this topic of mindfulness and was recently at a conference that had a portable bookstore. As I wandered through the books I stumbled on this one, Mindfulness at Work Essentials for Dummies, and thought it spoke to me 🙂

Picked up a bunch of good ideas and confirmation for much of what I am already doing, which is great. There were a few chapters on how to be a better leaders / boss, work pressures, dealing with other difficult employees…but as a solo-preneur they did not apply as much to me.

The importance of slowing down in our busy days is so important and any tips you get are good tips. Find something that works for you.

Here is my blog that was partially inspired by this book. 3 Reasons to Practice Mindfulness at Work.

3 Reasons to Practice Mindfulness at Work

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In our ever-busy world that we live in, it is important that we find ways to slow ourselves down as a way to better serve ourselves and clients. Our ability to manage the tsunami of information coming into us daily and hourly is inversely linked to the quality of services we provide. If we are constantly chasing emails, tweets, and other social media messages, we are not taking the time to slow down and “think”.  Yes, just “think” instead of reacting.

“Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you and within you – in your body, heart, and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgement.”                        

From Jan Chozen Bays, Author of  How To Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

Here are three reasons why you should practice mindfulness as a career practitioner.

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