K a r e n
B a r a k
CATALYST LIFE COACH,
VISIONARY ARTIST,
GROUP FACILITATOR
COLLABORATIVE SHIFTING THROUGH CREATIVITY -
UNCOVER, DISCOVER, RECOVER...
"Align your values. Design your life."
Coactive approach
Everyone has something they want to change or achieve.
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Be a catalyst to help you create a life you love
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Bring to light your personal compelling reasons to change
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Forward the action and deepen the learning
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Hold you as creative, resourceful and whole so you can tap into your own inner resources
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Create structures and accountability achieving your goals and dreams
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Evoke transformation
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Focuses on discovery, awareness, and choice
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The relationship between a coach and client is collaborative hence the "CO" and "ACTIVE" on both sides.
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Empowering clients through powerful techniques
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Designed alliance
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Do you like bluntness or prefer a softer approach?
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Do you want assignments for accountability?
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These are some of the questions we discuss to create our framework.
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We assume strength and capability, not weakness, helplessness, or dependence.
"CO" - BEING
"ACTIVE" - DOING
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Respect & Openess
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Willingness to experiment
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Commitment to speaking the truth
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Every situation has possibilities
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People really do have the power of choice
Coactive Coaching VS Therapy
Coactive Coaching
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Views both parties as naturally creative, resourceful and whole. Do not diagnose or treat.
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Trained to work with functioning clients
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Works with clients forming an alliance with common goals
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Co-Active model
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Coach and client interact on a peer basis as collaborative
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Alliance designed by coach and client together
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Focus on evolving and manifesting potential
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Emphasis on present and future
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Action and being oriented
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Solution oriented
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Explore actions and behaviors that manifest high self-esteem
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Regard and coach negative self-beliefs as Saboteurs (temporary obstacles)
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Coach and client ask: "What's next/what now?"
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Works mainly with external issues
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Discourages transference as inappropriate
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Accountability and "homework" if important to client
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Contact between sessions for accountability and "wins" expected
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Uses coaching skills
Therapy
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More apt to view clients from a medical model. Diagnoses and treats
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Trained to work with major mental illness
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Works with clients with entrenched problems
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Therapist the "expert"
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Hierarchical difference between therapist and clients
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Treatment plan largely designed by therapist
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Focus on healing and understanding
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Emphasis on past and present
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Insight oriented
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Problem oriented
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Explore genesis of behaviors that create low self-esteem
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Analyze and treat origins and historical roots of negative self-beliefs
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Therapist and clients ask, "why and from where?
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Works mainly with internal issues
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Encourages transference as a therapy tool
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Accountability less commonly expected
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Contact between sessions for crisis and difficulties only
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Uses therapy techniques
What her coaching clients say
"Karen is someone who strikes you right away with her confidence, her skill, and an underlying joy even in the face of great difficulty. Karen is a skilled coach."
Kim Ellyn Fowler
CPCC, CPCC, ORSC, PCC
"Karen has changed my life. Negative thoughts about myself have been replaced with a miniature Karen cheerleader. She is power, she is light, and she is energy."
Anonymous, Chicago
"In all my sessions with Karen I've finished with a sense of accomplishment, empowerment and/or insight into the person I am and want to be. She has a terrific tool kit of exercises and processes that compliment her natural talent for enabling me to identify my own path for growth and fulfillment."
Marlene, Director of Developement, Chicago
"Karen is extremely talented and intuitive. She has the capacity to change hundreds of people. Her ability to point out new perspectives and make me aware of them has made a real difference in my life."
Sylvie, Tel-Aviv, Israel
"Karen was born to be a coach. She has a wealth of knowledge and experience that have molded her into the powerful woman she is. With a heart of service, she enthusiastically calls upon her invaluable knowledge and experience to help clients achieve their goals. She is incredibly intuitive and is not afraid to follow her instincts to help clients."
Shani Magosky, Co-Active TM trained Coach, Vitesse Consulting, Fort Lauderdale/Colorado
"An excellent listener, Karen Barak's coaching is thoughtful, empathic, and creative. She steps into your shoes while giving you space to walk wisely in the direction of your goals."
Lin Batsheva Kahn, Professor and Wellness Coach
book a session
Self-care includes carving out time and making space for yourself.
Give yourself this gift.
Experiment and imagine new possibilities.
Let's speak the truth and be explorers for an hour.
No judgment. No agenda.
FORMAT
SET-UP
We talk a bit about what you want, what you have done before, what worked, what didn’t.
You'll pick what you'd like to talk about.
I will ask for permission to coach you.
coaching
Topic or Exercise
Challenge or Request
debrief
What is different since the beginning of the session?
30, 60 or 90 minutes available
Zoom, Phone call, Whatsapp, Facetime, Telephone
Sliding scale available
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