Training Coaches for IKYTA Membership Benefit Program for coaching new Kundalini Yoga Teachers, using Motivational Interviewing.

1. Welcome to
Coaching New Teachers
Orientation Training for Coaches First Annual Webinar

2. Orientation Training Webinar for Coaches
Welcome & Introduction
How Coaching for New Teachers Works – Guruparkash Kaur
Familiarization with Coaching Website – Rion
Coaching Tools and Techniques – Gurumeet Kaur
Q&A

3. How Coaching for New Teachers Works

4. Orientation Training Webinar for Coaches
How Coaching for New Teachers Works
Individual coaching sessions are
set up in a broad framework that
is also flexible.
One-on-one coaching sessions are
offered to Level 1 teachers.
Seven contact meetings are
scheduled.
The first contact meeting will serve
to set the parameters for the next
six meetings, to take place over a
maximum of 6 months.

5. Orientation Training Webinar for Coaches
How Coaching for New Teachers Works
At the first meeting, Coaches and teachers
select coaching themes (options available
on website) that best serve the needs of
the teacher.
You will also decide on meeting dates,
times, and venue (phone, Skype, google
hangout, etc.), that are the most effective
for them.
Coaches are welcome to contact us for
additional support, if needed, in how to make effective use of online
meeting tools, such as Skype or Google Hangout.

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How Coaching for New Teachers Works
The program duration will be for six
months maximum.
Coach and teacher will decide on the
frequency of contacts, i.e. one contact
a month, or other timing to be worked
out during the first meeting.
Contact meetings will be for a
maximum of one hour.
Coaches and teachers will keep a log provided by IKYTA to document
meeting content, goals set, achievements, and challenges.

7. Orientation Training Webinar for Coaches
How Coaching for New Teachers Works
Coaches and teachers are asked to
submit a confidential Evaluation
and Feedback form.
Neither Logs or Evaluations will be
made public or used to evaluate the
coach or the teacher.
Logs and Evaluation and Feedback
Forms are used to assess and
improve the coaching program.
My Input
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8. Familiarization with the Coaching Website

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Familiarization with our website
http://www.ikyta.com/coaching
Application process to
receiving coaching.
Steps to become a coach.
Once approved, submit a
photo and bio to be displayed
on IKYTA website.
Coaching tools:
Coaching themes
Session logs
FAQs
Evaluation & Feedback forms

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Coaching Themes
1. Get started setting up a class.
2. Market and promote Kundalini
Yoga classes and workshops.
3. Develop curriculum for classes/
workshops (IKYTA resources).
4. Build Aquarian Community:
After class time
Sadhana
New/Full Moon meditations
Women’s teachings
Children’s teachings
3HO Music

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Coaching Themes
5. Support and resources for
Kundalini Yoga technology.
6. Feedback on teaching.
7. Living the Code of Excellence/
reviewing specific challenges.
8. Staying in relationship and
sharing best practices with
IKYTA and NKYTA.
9. Keeping Up! Serving as a
teacher while going through a
personal crisis.

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Coaching Themes
10. Gurudakshina, the cycle of giving
and itarashtam tithar kashtam,
empty handed you come, empty
handed you go.
11. Relationship to Yogi Bhajan and
the Golden Chain.
12. Teacher-student relationship and
relationship to students.
13. Responsibilities and logistics of
teaching professionally: i.e. links
with Yoga Alliance, IKYTA, your
NKYTA, online presence,
protecting your reputation, and
liability insurance.

13. Coaching Tools and Techniques

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Coaching Tools and Techniques
Coaching is different than traditional
forms of support:
Counseling (concerned with the past)
Consulting (provides solutions)
Training (teaches skills sets)
Mentoring (share wisdom/experience).
Coaching is a facilitation process to
assist teachers to realize and access
their own solutions within and learn to
trust in their own intuitive brilliance.
Coaches may also sometimes act as
mentors, but are primarily focused on
the coaching process.

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Coaching Tools and Techniques
General coaching principles
Assist teachers to clarify their goals.
Help create the future, not rehash the past.
Assist teachers trust their intuition and to
discover their own solutions.
Utilize supportive, discovery-based
techniques (asking questions and
deep listening) .
Help teachers develop strategies that lead to success in achieving their goals.
Assist teachers to recognize and know their unlimited potential and see that
there are many opportunities to avail themselves of to achieve success.
Help teachers to create and manage change that achieves desired outcomes
toward reaching their potential as teachers.

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Coaching Tools and Techniques
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing is based on the
theory that every human being has an innate
desire to grow and change. Even so, change
is often difficult.
Motivational Interviewing is a directive,
teacher-centered exploratory and
and discovery method for enhancing intrinsic
motivation to grow and create change.
The process begins by focusing your questions on the teacher’s values
and goals vs. present concerns and challenges or blocks. Learn what is
important to them and where they want to be vs. where they are now.

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Coaching Tools and Techniques
Motivational Interviewing
The inherent contradictions or
inconsistencies between what they
consider important and where they
want to be vs. where they are now
creates ambivalence (duality) and a
tendency to feel stuck, until the
ambivalence is resolved.
Motivational Interviewing explores and
resolves ambivalence by eliciting and
reinforcing strategies and action plans that move teachers toward the
change that promotes success in achieving their goals.

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Coaching Tools and Techniques
Motivational Interviewing strategies to stimulate change talk
The four strategies of motivational interviewing to stimulate
change talk are known as O.A.R.S.
Open-ended questions
Affirmations
Reflective listening
Summaries

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Coaching Tools and Techniques
O.A.R.S.s strategies to stimulate change talk
Open-ended questions
Often start with words like “tell me about” or
“describe” or “how” or “what.”
Require more of a response than a simple yes or
no, usually go from general to specific, and
facilitate dialogue to gather broad descriptive
information.
Listen attentively and neutrally (without
judgment) and demonstrate that you are
interested in learning about them.

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Coaching Tools and Techniques
O.A.R.S.s strategies to stimulate change talk
Affirmations
Acknowledge difficulties and
validate experience and feelings.
Recognize past experiences that
demonstrate strength and success.
Support and promote self-efficacy.

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Coaching Tools and Techniques
O.A.R.S.s strategies to stimulate change talk
Reflective listening
Make a demonstrable effort to
understand how the teacher sees
things.
It is essentially hypothesis
testing, because what you think a
person is saying may not be what
they mean.
May include
repeating, rephrasing, paraphrasing,
and sensing feelings.

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Coaching Tools and Techniques
O.A.R.S.s strategies to stimulate change talk
Summaries
Reinforces what has been said
and shows that you have been
listening attentively.
Helpful to take notes in order
to offer effective summaries.
Prepares teacher to move on.

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Coaching Tools and Techniques
Motivational Interviewing strategies to maintain change talk
The four strategies of motivational interviewing to maintain
change talk are known as E.A.R.S.
Express Empathy
Amplify ambivalence
Roll with resistance
Support self-efficacy

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Coaching Tools and Techniques
E.A.R.S.s strategies to maintain change talk
Express Empathy
Teachers who know they are
understood, will share more
openly, which allows the coach to
better assess where they need
support.
Teachers who perceive empathy
are more open to challenges by
the coach.

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Coaching Tools and Techniques
E.A.R.S.s to maintain change talk and develop steps to promote change
Amplify Ambivalence
Ask questions about the teacher’s goals,
hopes and dreams vs. their current situation.
Develop discrepancy to amplify ambivalence.
(Use O.A.R.S.s open ended questions,
affirmations, reflective listening, summaries.)
Allow the teacher to make his or her own
argument for change. (Use O.A.R.S.s )
Support the teacher to identify steps/actionable strategies and objectives
needed to achieve their goals. (Use O.A.R.S.s )

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Coaching Tools and Techniques
E.A.R.S.s strategies to maintain change talk
Roll with Resistance
Roll with Resistance to avoid argument by
saying something like “I get it” or “I
understand your point.”
It does not mean you agree with the teacher
but you may choose to bypass engaging in an
argument.
If a teacher argues for one position, he/she
becomes more committed to it.
Resistance is a signal to change strategies.
Redirect the teacher toward common
ground.

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Coaching Tools and Techniques
E.A.R.S.s strategies to maintain change talk
Support Self Efficacy
Review examples of past successes, using
reflective
listening, summaries, affirmations.
Validate frustrations while remaining
optimistic about the prospect of change.
Remind them that change is not only
probable but inevitable. Taking charge of
the change gives the teacher the ability
to produce the intended outcome.

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Coaching Tools and Techniques
Motivational Interviewing O.A.R.S. and E.A.R.S.s can be effective
tools to promote change talk and help develop steps to change
These tools are suggestions and are
not required.
We have developed this program as
a starting point.
We invite and encourage your input
to improve and enhance the
program.

29. Q&A
The goal of coaching is to elevate teachers to their greatness.
As Yogi Bhajan taught us, create 10 teachers better than you.