Psychologist Dr. Shinaver's Thoughts and Reflections: My New Coaching Program and the Videos I posted.

First, a side note: How this site got into German or whatever that language is I don't know.

I'm pretty exhausted right now. I've been loading several coaching videos onto the Internet. This is the product of working for seven or eight weeks. I have an intern from Butler, Coty Nicoson, who helped me work on these videos.

The first question is why am I going in this direction?

Most importantly, because it's exciting. Secondly I have a number of people I work with who are owners of their own small businesses. As I saw many of them make progress and move past the original mental health issues that brought them I realized I had great rapport with them and I knew I could offer them something regarding moving forward with their lives. That's where coaching comes in.

Coaching looks forward and focuses upon goals in and a person's dreams for their life. It also includes consideration of the larger picture of a person's life. With my background in playing sports, watching sports and coaching sports I always enjoyed the role of being a coach. I like motivating people and challenging them to excel. I enjoy the process of helping people to do that. For quite some time I've thought about focusing on sports psychology as a result. I still might do that to some degree. However I came to realize that I can play the role of a coach for people in their overall life not just sports or business.

Part of what is developed in a therapeutic relationship is a sense of trust and openness to the degree that allows a person to reveal information that they might otherwise holdback. That information is often critical in understanding how to motivate a person and can help me to help them. It gives me unusual access with how to connect with them on a more profound level and then encourage them to challenge themselves and move past their fears. The nature of that relationship and my own interest in developing my own practice/company and the sheer fun I get from that is what motivated me to go in this direction.

So, what is my plan?

My plan is to do this:

1. I decided to make these videos to serve as an introduction to my own transition into coaching. However what you get from these videos is your introduction into coaching. But what it does in a deeper way is to ground you in my point of view about how therapy relates to coaching and how my role as a psychologist relates to coaching. Indeed these give a level of authenticity and transparency that are consistent with my values of how to operate in the world and as a business. At a later point, if anyone asks me discuss how I came to choose the topics that I chose.

2. I decided to launch all these videos simultaneously for a few different reasons. The first is that it gives an opportunity to give a broader scale of material to more people at once. I would put this under the concept of why I call "suddenness." I don't think I've seen anyone else use that term but I'm not really sure. Anyway, why mean by that is injects me into people's consciousness with velocity and impact. In other words, it captures attention. I remember this quote from somewhere: "It's like killing a mosquito with a sledgehammer". What it does, in my mind is bring you here to my webpage in my blog. Now, what I do your attention is up to me. However, it is also up to you. What you mean by that is I'm interested in finding out what you would like to have to coaching program. I would like to start one from the ground up. However, what I think people might want and what you actually do want could be two very different things. So, let me explain one thing that I do have right now.

3. Right now, I have a coaching program that I can do that has to do with managing anxiety and stress. This coaching program can be packaged in a four to six session format. It has a solid research behind it. When we discussed this point in more detail below.

Let me digress for a moment to talk about what that means is a psychologist. As a psychologist I am trained to use scientific research and to consider claims that I make placed in that context. What most people don't realize is that demands a rigor for such claims are substantial. That is, often for someone from the scientific community to be able to say that something has substantial evidence behind it means that there are maybe 10 to 20 years worth of research behind it. Even then you hardly, if ever, hear a scientist or social scientist say that something has been "proven". Part of that is based upon the logic of science. That is, it is much easier to prove that something doesn't work then to prove that it does. For example when an intervention works there are almost always other possible explanations for why it did so even when you attempt to account for every variable and control for those variables.

Contrast this to someone from say the biofeedback community or coaching community. Neither one of these groups of people are regulated by a community of scientists. As such when they say that "this really works I know what I've seen with my own eyes" they are very convincing and believable.

However a scientist would rarely if ever make such a statement because all he would be saying is that with the subject sample of 01, (him), or with a small sub example 10, 15, or 20 people, without an actual investigation, it seemed to have some impact or at least it appeared to do so. Yet, unless he were to do a scientific investigation of that he still wouldn't "know". Furthermore, the first scientific investigation wouldn't suffice there would have to be several of them.

That entire digression was to address this phrase "solid research". Within the scientific community the research behind heart math techniques and products would be considered probably mild to moderate evidence. However to contrast this with what one might find in the coaching community people are more likely to say based upon their individual experience or that experience of their clients that it 'proves' that their intervention is effective or definitely works and they "know" this to be true.

Either way right now I can offer you a coaching program that I consider to be effective based upon my own use of its, patients that I've worked with using it, and the research that I've read about it. That program helps people with anxiety. The program can be either focused on business, on sports, on overcoming burnout, or in the general context of personal growth.

So if you're ready for that program, and you want to enter it please contact me by sending me an e-mail at Dr.shinaver@hushmail.com.

The e-mail is secure and will reach me and stay confidential in at that website.

4. However, what I want to do is develop a bigger broader coaching program. I intend to focus upon small-business owners or entrepreneurs, life coaching, marital coaching, and leadership coaching. The leadership coaching will include teenagers or adolescence as well as adults. What I'm interested in from you is a dialogue with you about what your point of view about coaching news. That includes people who've been coach before what they liked and what they didn't like. And when once knows what you'd like to see in a coaching program. This along with my own research will contribute to be developing my own coaching program.

I will make every effort to be transparent and authentic with you as these are truly my values.

I will make every effort to provide information that is valuable, insightful, and as often as possible actionable.

Why would like from you is your participation in getting the feedback attending live sessions that I will schedule over time.

So, here is my initial schedule for the next eight weeks.

You can check out all the videos at:

Week 1: The first video will be discussed at www.Livevideo.com at 11:00 on Friday April 18, 2008.

The title of the video is: 1 Why Coaching will Change the Way Everyone does Business by Dr Charles Shinaver

Week 2: The second video: 2: Why a Psychologist-Coach is what YOU need. Dr Charles Shinaver