Transition Coaching

THE DIFFICULT CONVERSATION

Work with transitions as a cornerstone of our approach and work with the unemployed and people who are off sick has led to AS3's development of our own coach qualification, called Transition Coach.

TRANSITION COACH QUALIFICATION
We are proud of our qualification, which was the first of its kind to receive EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council) accreditation.

The qualification can be taken at Foundation, Practitioner and Senior Practitioner level, which respectively take 1, 2, and 3 years to complete and end with an examination by an external examiner.

Since 2009 all our counsellors have, as part of their recruitment, received an offer to complete the qualification which makes them highly-qualified coaches and particularly competent at implementing “the difficult Conversation” and motivating and moving people.

Read more aboout EMCC here.

Transitions

At AS3 Employment the mental processes of change that typically arise in situations involving long-term unemployment or sick leave, are what we call transitions. Transitions are an expression of the psychological side of the unemployment, i.e. the way unemployment or sick leave is experienced, and are vital to work with in cases where the unemployed or sick person is so limited in his or her pattern of action that this in itself is an obstacle to being able to escape unemployment or sick leave. In our counselling, we deal with transitions as different phases or perceptions of identity that the unemployed or sick person can undergo as a prerequisite for becoming an active job seeker: We call these phases Stop – Adjust – Start.

Cognitive and dialogical method
In Transition Coaching we work on the basis of a cognitive and dialogical method in which our coach, through motivational and open questioning, forms a picture of how the unemployed or sick person themselves experiences their situation and issues. What he or she thinks, is fundamental to what he/she feels, just as what he/she feels is absolutely crucial to how he/she acts or does not act.

During the coaching, the coach is involved as far as possible in the process, as we focus on help to self-help, on the candidate taking as much responsibility as possible for decisions and actions, that he/she learns to accept the conditions of life so that energy and focus are instead expended on what he or she is able to influence; including identifying new options and having a keen eye for one's own resources, to be able to cope with the changes in life, to live in accordance with his or her own fundamental values and, not least, to act on the situation in which he or she is in.

You can read more about transitions in connection with unemployment and job seeking in our book “Transitions-in connection with job-related changes.”

Read the book online here.

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