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3HO INTERNATIONAL KUNDALINI YOGA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION AND GLOBAL TEACHERS COUNCIL

COACHING NEW TEACHERS

TRAINING FOR COACHES

Coaching New Teachers Training for Coaches

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COACHING NEW TEACHERS PROGRAM STRUCTURE, CONTENT, KEY CONCEPTS

Introduction

The 3HO International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association (IKYTA) and the Global Teachers Council (GTC) are please to present Coaching New Teachers. Developed as a starting point, IKYTA anticipates the program evolving through the contributions of teachers and coaches who participate in the program. Our National Kundalini Yoga Teachers Associations (NKYTAs), formed by Kundalini Yoga teachers in countries around the world, are invited to offer the coaching program. IKYTA looks forward to collaborating with each IKYTA, as it chooses to work with the program.

Training for Coaches has been developed to prepare coaches to:

Understand the coaching program structure

Deliver the coaching program content

Learn key concepts about coaching

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True or False Our global community of Kundalini Yoga Teachers is known as IKYTA, while national communities of Kundalini Yoga Teachers have formed as NKYTAs in many countries.

TRUE

FALSE

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The Correct Answer is True. Part of the mission of IKYTA is to support our NKYTAs in their efforts and endeavors to spread the teachings of Kundalini Yoga around the world. The GTC has representatives from IKYTA and from NKYTAs in many countries.

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True or False Training for Coaches has been developed to prepare coaches to:

Review the training content for synchronization with the teachings of Kundalini Yoga

Provide a critical analysis of coaching as an effective support process.

TRUE

FALSE

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The Correct Answer is False. Training for Coaches has been developed to prepare coaches to:

Understand the coaching program structure

Deliver the coaching program content

Learn key concepts about coaching

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THE PROGRAM STRUCTURE

What is Coaching and How Is It Unique? Coaching is a supportive process that focusses on creating a bright future. Utilizing the teachers intuitive mind as a guide to achieve his or her goals, coaching builds on a teachers talents and strengths. Coaching is different than other forms of support:

Therapy (concerned primarily with the past)

Consulting (providing solutions)

Training (teaching skills sets)

Mentoring (sharing wisdom and 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 to create success. Coaches may also sometimes act as mentors, but are primarily focused on the coaching process. Coaching is based on an observed trait in human beings: a built in desire to grow and change to improve themselves.

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True or False Coaching is a facilitation process that strives to motivate, direct, and support a teacher to access and trust his or her own intuitive mind to achieve success.

TRUE

FALSE

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The Correct Answer is True. The Coaching process assists teachers to find their own answers within and learn to trust in their own intuitive brilliance to create success. Coaches may also sometimes act as mentors, but are primarily focused on the coaching process.

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Individual coaching sessions are set up in a broad structural framework 1. One-on-one coaching sessions are offered to Level 1 teachers.

2. Seven contact meetings are scheduled.

3. The first contact meeting will serve to set the parameters for the next six meetings. Within the program structure, coaches and teachers have the flexibility to select coaching themes that best serve the needs of the teacher. They will decide on meeting dates, times, and venue (phone, Skype, google hangout, etc.), that are the most effective for them.

4. The program duration will be for six months maximum, depending on the frequency of contacts, i.e. one contact a month, or other timing to be worked out by the coach and teacher.

5. Contact meetings will be for one hour.

6. Coaches and teachers will keep a log provided by IKYTA. Logs will serve to document coaching meetings, including meeting content, goals, achievements, and challenges.

7. Coaches and teachers will be asked to submit a Confidential Evaluation of the coaching program to IKYTA or NKYTA.

8. Neither Logs or Evaluations will be made public, nor will they be used to evaluate the coach or the teacher. They will be used to assess and improve the coaching program.

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True or False Coaching New Teachers will follow strict and narrow precepts that allow little or no flexibility for individual teachers needs.

TRUE

FALSE

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The Correct answer is False. Coaching New Teachers is designed to be flexiblewithin a broad frameworkin order to best meet each individual teachers needs and help them reach their unique goals.

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True or False Coaches may choose to invite multiple teachers to join in group coaching sessions or optionally to extend the duration of coaching to a year or more.

TRUE

FALSE

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The Correct answer is False. One-on-one coaching is designed to provide focused, impactful and meaningful support that is dedicated to each individual teacher achieving his or her unique goals. Coaching is limited to a six month period to help motivate teachers, within that time frame, to create strategies and take actions needed to achieve their goals.

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True or False The first contact meeting will serve to set the parameters for the next six meetings, including selecting coaching themes and goals, meeting dates, times, and venue (i.e. phone, skype, google hangout, etc.) The remaining six meetings may take place once a month or other timing, to be worked out by the teacher and coach, for a duration of up to six months.

TRUE

FALSE

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The Correct Answer is True. Coaching New Teachers offers teachers and coaches the flexibility to work out the details of their coaching sessions. They choose coaching themes according to the teachers needs and goals. They select their meeting dates and times. Additionally, they choose a meeting venue, utilizing telephone conferencing or online meeting tools that are the most effective for them.

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True or False Coaches and teachers may or may not choose to maintain and submit logs of their coaching sessions. Logs are an optional activity, depending upon how busy they are.

TRUE

FALSE

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The Correct answer is False. The primary purpose for keeping logs is for the coach and teacher keep a record of their meetings. They document the teachers vision and goals at the beginning of the program. They plan actionable strategies and document the actions taken by the teacher. At the conclusion of the six months they honor the teachers successes toward reaching the goals. Neither Logs or Evaluations will be made public, nor will they be used to evaluate the coach or the teacher. They will be used to assess and improve the coaching program.

IKYTA looks forward to receiving coaches and teachers logs at the conclusion of the coaching session. Keep in mind that logs consist of simple, brief statements and are not meant to entail extensive or formal writing.

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Announcements and Application Process 1. Coaching New Teachers announcements will be posted on IKYTA and NKYTA websites

and sent out to our global teacher community, to invite coaches and teachers to be a part of the program: Communications through IKYTA and KRI mailing lists. Communications to NKYTAs to send out to their mailing lists Communications to teacher trainers to send out to their mailing lists and ask them to

encourage appropriate teachers to apply to become coaches. Communications to Khalsa Council/Siblings of Destiny to send out to their mailing lists. Communications through online forums, such as the Kundalini-Yoga and Kundalini

Yoga Yahoo group forums. 2. Coaches and teachers who wish to participate will apply online and sign a confidentiality

agreement, through IKYTA or NKYTA websites. 3. IKYTA or NKYTA will match coaches and teachers. In general a coach would not be the

teacher trainer from whom a teacher received Level 1 certification, however there may be exceptions.

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True or False IKYTA or NKYTA will match coaches and teachers, assuring that the teacher trainer from whom a teacher received Level 1 certification is assigne