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Flourish Coaching
Professional coaching is personalised professional development.
People engage a professional coach to help them improve their performance improve their wellbeing or because they’re grappling with a particular dilemma.
You co design what you focus on with your coach. Learn more about What Coaching Is and isn’t.
Focused 1:1 coaching for your specific issues
We understand that some doctors are not ready to do the deep immersive personal development work of Recalibrate right now but do want access to coaching. Flourish Coaching is a great place to start.
A Flourish Coaching package offers you six sessions with one of our coaches over a defined period of time, usually 4-6 months
The Australian Medical Board stipulates that all doctors need a CPD home (unless exempt) and an annual professional development plan. Each year doctors need to include professional development that includes activities for reviewing performance, measuring outcomes and traditional education. Individual coaching is a professional development activity that meets both measuring outcomes and education requirements.
Doctors have very high rates of burnout, stress, mental health challenges, in part because of the human suffering they are exposed to. They work in very complex systems and have high levels of human interaction. There is an inherent risk in their work, of vicarious trauma and moral injury. They are also very often in positions of leadership where they are responsible for other people and making decisions under high pressure, where there are competing needs.
Reflective practice is essential for them to be able to develop their self awareness so that they can provide patient centred care that is safe for patients, for themselves and for their colleagues. Reflective practice also enables them to build the skills they need to communicate and lead well. And so that they can build a career that is satisfying and sustainable over a long period of time.
1:1 professional coaching is a powerful reflective practice process, providing customised and immediate learning for the Counterpart in a collaborative process, with the express purpose of enhancing the life experience, skills, performance, capacities and wellbeing of the coaching counterpart (the doctor). In the medical context coaching is a powerful tool for reflective practice and learning, with the capacity to improve patient and practitioner safety.
The International Coaching Federation defines professional coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.”
Coaching draws on the systematic use of theory and practice to facilitate reflection, learning and change in the Counterpart’s particular context. The focus in coaching can move between the horizon (strategic) and the immediate environment (specific) and aims to grow new thinking, to help the Counterpart to stretch, to develop insight and skills that lead to behaviour change, skills gap identification and new knowledge and understanding.
The coaching process is high on accountability because of the co-creation process and it’s individualised focus. The coach provides the process, a framework and the counterpart brings their content. Together they unpack the Counterpart’s experience and reflect on the learning and development needs that have emerged. This process promotes insight and change of behaviour and attitude, provides a confidential space for learning by reflecting on actual experience and feedback that has been received and opportunity to rehearse and test new knowledge in preparation for use in the counterpart’s work, especially in their relationships with patients and colleagues.
Coaching promotes curiosity and helps the Counterpart to synthesize and articulate the conditions they need to achieve their goals and influence their own, and the system they work within’s, potential. To bring accountability to what is known and to discover what is unknown or unseen without the help of a thinking partner who can hold up the mirror and help the counterpart process what they discover in coaching.
Coaching can have a direct impact on the Counterpart’s attitude, behaviour, skills, knowledge, performance, wellbeing and career. Affecting their ability to communicate and collaborate, to deliver patient centred care, to practice effective self care, to lead others and to manage change and quality assurance processes. Professional Coaching is supported by over 30 years of research as an effective tool for developing interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, and for impacting systems at work.
Doctors have very high rates of burnout, stress, mental health challenges, in part because of the human suffering they are exposed to. They work in very complex systems and have high levels of human interaction. There is an inherent risk in their work, of vicarious trauma, moral injury and imposter syndrome. They are also very often in positions of leadership where they are responsible for other people and for making decisions under high pressure, where there are competing needs.
Coaching is an effective tool for attending to these issues in a timely and individually meaningful way, at all points of intervention – prevention, early intervention and post events.
Disclaimer: Please note, once you click 'Register now' you will be leaving the AMA’s CPD Home website and entering a third-party education provider’s website. If you choose to register for this learning, you will need to provide some of your personal information directly to the third-party education provider. If you have any queries about how third-party education providers use, disclose or store your personal information you should consult their privacy policy.
Upon completion, your CPD activity record may take up to 4 weeks to be reflected on your CPD Home Dashboard.
*Medical Board of Australia’s (MBA)’s revised Registration Standard: Continuing professional development (the Standard)
