catalyzing a transformation
The Parent Coaching Institute (PCI) Parent Coaching journey is a powerful model for positive change within your family. It gives you the kind of tangible results you can’t get from most books or a standard one-night seminar. Research shows that parents are highly satisfied at the end of their coaching sessions that are tailored to meet their specific needs and concerns. Extensive preparation and research go into each and every call, as well as the comprehensive call summary. The entire transformational process usually entails 8-12 one-hour confidential weekly or bi-weekly phone sessions scheduled at your convenience during the days, evenings or weekends. You can expect your coach to listen deeply and non-judgmentally, ask you perspective-changing questions that can lead to holistic solutions, give you new, relevant information for your particular parenting challenges and offer you specific suggestions to help you implement new attitudes and strategies leading to a more mindful, intentional approach to your parenting and your family life.
a process, not a quick-fix
PCI Parent Coaching is a unique process exclusively developed by Gloria DeGaetano, Founder of the Parent Coaching Institute. It utilizes a 4-step methodology that takes into account all of your family’s dynamics, strengths, needs and goals and then customizes a collaborative action plan as to how to attain the vision of the parent you’ve always wanted to be. It is not a quick fix, problem-solving or Q&A type consultation, but an overall, comprehensive, all-encompassing approach whereas your concerns, problems and challenges are addressed progressively through our series of conversations. From behavioral problems to discipline dilemmas and an overall negative home environment stuck in unhealthy and ineffective patterns, we will tackle all of these issues together in a timely way. Please be leary of another professional claiming to be a certified parent coach. The profession is yet to be regulated and one can call oneself a parent coach after ordering a CD program or a weekend’s training seminar. The PCI’s one-year, intensive, graduate-level program is the industry’s most rigorous certification with the highest standards of any certification process in the country.
value-based decisions from a place of fullness
Parent Coaching also supports you in your self-care because a consistently drained parent doesn’t usually make the most effective decisions based upon sound intuition and true inner beliefs. Parenting today has many more challenges than in the past due to a media-saturated, consumer culture that seems to celebrate self-indulgence, play the blame game and promote instant gratification much more readily than in the past; not to mention safety concerns, plummeting acceptable decorum, plus increased economic and emotional pressures. These influences are ubiquitous and coaching can help you counteract a society that appears determined to undermine basic family morals and values. Good parents with the best intentions can inadvertently be allowing or teaching the exact opposite of the characteristics they wish to encourage in their own children. After all, for the most part, we all wish to instill similar values within our children: self-respect, self-discipline, personal responsibility, strong work ethic, committed, caring, high integrity, resilient, knowledgeable, kind, compassionate-just to name a few! But how can we take the most effective steps today to bring about our parenting dreams? If you truly want to help shape what will be a one-in-a-million adult one day in the future, then it is time for you to become a one-in-a-million parent today. As your parent coach, I will be the timely catalyst that sparks newly found purpose, focus, energy and hope.
