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Coaching and Teleclasses Improve Your Health and Lifestyle The Coaching Partnership If you want to make changes and would like help in bridging the gap between where you are now and where you would like to be, coaching may be the answer. Your coach works with you to: Design an individualized behavioral health plan. Set goals that are exactly what you want. Develop an action plan for success. Provide tools, support, and structure as you implement new skills and changes. Serve as a resource each step of the way. By meeting with your coach or coaching group on a regular basis, you maintain a focus on your heart-healthy goals and keep on track to better meet your personal goals. Your coach is a professional partner who has your best interests and goals as the only agenda. Professionally trained, and with experience in behavioral medicine and health psychology, our coaches are skilled in helping people make changes efficiently and successfully. Your coach serves as your mentor, guide, growth catalyst, and encourager. You are empowered to achieve the goals that are most important to you. Working together, you move toward living a heart-healthy lifestyle as a satisfying reality. You can work with your coach individually, or in combination with a Heart SurvivalT training program to gain a broader perspective and to move along more quickly toward your goals. "Virtual" Coaching Traditional services require you to live in an area that has a rehabilitation center and spend time traveling to and from each session. You'll encounter only a limited number of fellow students. Time and distance limit your participation, enjoyment, and ability to maintain your desired changes. "Virtual" coaching, on the other hand, utilizes modern telecommunications technology and brings the class to the students, wherever you live. Your coach and your class is as close as the telephone. You call in from wherever you are - home, office, even on a trip. You simply phone in at the designated time, and you're right there, linked with people from all over the country (and even the world!) via our state-of-the-art teleconferencing systems. When you're done, you simply hang up and go back to your life - right now. Our workshops and support groups will typically have 15-25 students. Professional leaders work through a carefully planned syllabus that addresses risk factors one at a time. Class members maintain contact and support between sessions via private listservers. Guest appearances by expert professionals supplement the ongoing support groups. The only requirement is access to a telephone (and a bit of privacy from co-workers or children, of course). You pay the cost of the long-distance call (which is rapidly diminishing due to improvements in technology) and your coaching or class fees. (back to top) We Facilitate Problem-Solving Our coaching programs are designed for individuals who are functioning independently in their lives, who want to move forward by utilizing behavior change strategies, and who understand that change is more efficient (and more lasting) when working with others. We've removed the emphasis on diagnosis and treatment of "psychopathology". We focus directly on here-and-now problem-solving, in a teaching/mentoring model. There is no "middle man" in the form of managed care or other distractions from our work together. The goal is simple - to help people to make transformational personal changes and take better care of themselves. [At Cardiance, we do not offer psychotherapy. The work of psychotherapy is very different from coaching. Therapy patients often enter treatment in a psychological crisis, with impaired ability to function. The goal of psychotherapy is to restore ability to function, often by examining past conflicts and traumas.] To Contact Us If you would like to learn more about how individual or group teleconference coaching could work for you, contact us here.

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