Paradigm Changing Approach to Health - Backwards from What People Expect - Practiced by Health Professionals Across the USA

Health professionals across the USA are integrating a new paradigm for healthier living that's backwards from what people expect. It's called Intrinsic Coaching(TM).

Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) February 11, 2005 -- Intrinsic Coach Christina Marshall, founder of Totally Coached, Inc. and the Intrinsic Coaching methodology, along with other Intrinsic Coach professionals nationwide, brings health & wellness to the next level with a unique, paradigm changing approach to health called Intrinsic Coaching that creates healthier lives and healthier organizations by enabling people to think better about choices, especially by increasing peoples ability to think intrinsically.

Considered a breakthrough coaching methodology and identified by the Wellness Councils of America as having set the standard for coaching in the health and wellness industry, the Intrinsic Coaching methodology shows how to support people to accomplish healthy change in a way thats backwards from what people expect.

Intrinsic Coaching is an entirely new paradigm for helping people. Its based on increasing intrinsic thinking and, to learn it, Intrinsic Coach professionals increase their own ability to think intrinsically about themselves, others, and their professional practices. Doing so changes almost everything and breakthroughs become inevitable.

Though Intrinsic Coach professionals are experts, they no longer focus primarily on telling people what they think, what they know, or what to do. Paradoxically, the less they tell people what to do, choosing instead to focus on intrinsic resources and strategies that they cant see, at first, the more valuable and applicable their expertise becomes.

Intrinsic Coach professionals have a way to get past the limitations of information and advice, which arent as helpful as people keep expecting them to be. Instead of primarily giving information and advice, they build on resources they dont see, at first. Often, the person being coached doesnt see them, either.

By building on intrinsic thinking, on what we dont see, at first, the people being coached are able to think better about goals to discover a vast array of resources and strategies that are immediately available. In fact, Intrinsic Coach professionals know its the goal, not the strategy, thats most important and where we need to spend the most time. Its backwards from what they are trained to do, which is to spend most of their time, energy, attention, and resources on the strategy.

As Intrinsic Coach professionals, they maximize peoples contributions toward outcomes and, from there, people build one step at a time, with each step informing the next.

Health and wellness professionals reading this will likely think they already do this but thats because they are comparing what they read with what they already know. This is different and goals arent what health and wellness professionals think they are.

The methods health and wellness professionals are trained to use to get people to accomplish healthy change are inherently limited. They leave only one option when they dont work -- to try harder. And, the harder they try with the approaches they are trained to use, the more they reduce the chances of being successful. Its all in this idea that were supposed to get people to..." It is inherently flawed and theres a better way. It takes a little time to be able to see it but once you see it there's no turning back.

Because increased intrinsic thinking is associated with greater health and well being, fewer problems in living, and an increased ability to accomplish great results for, with, and through people, Intrinsic Coach professionals integrate their professional expertise in health and wellness with the Intrinsic Coaching methodology to increase peoples capacity to think more intrinsically about choices.

Just by focusing on increasing intrinsic thinking, they are able to maximize their effectiveness, work with increased resources and strategies, generate continuous learning, create results that stay and multiply, including from person to person, and do so in a shorter amount of time.

By utilizing the Intrinsic Coaching methodology, they are providing benefits that extend across all facets of peoples lives, creating healthier people, healthier organizations, and a healthier world.

They have learned that behavior change is an intrinsic result and intrinsic results require intrinsic strategies. The strategies people use to promote behavior change, in health and wellness, in schools, in organizations, just about anywhere, are extrinsic. Theyre outside in" approaches that are based on getting people to..." and they dont work. Health and wellness professionals are trained almost exclusively in extrinsic strategies but the only way extrinsic strategies would work well is if people were replicable and predictable, like machines.    

The methods health and wellness professionals are trained in tend to minimize people and their contributions toward outcomes and guide them to think about themselves in ways that arent productive. They approach people as if people can be one size fits all. They are based on comparisons and self-reference and as if information should be enough to accomplish a healthy change. Its not what we want but its the best we have until we know how to increase intrinsic thinking about choices -- peoples intrinsic thinking about choices and my intrinsic thinking about people.    

Intrinsic Coaching enables health and wellness professionals to work with what they cant see. Its the only way to work effectively with people. It means they learn to refrain from building on what they think and see, in favor of building, first, on what they cant see. It means being diagnostic, evaluative, and self-referential as a choice, when its appropriate, instead of as a habit. It means unlearning what their training has taught them so that, when they use their expertise, its valuable in ways thats linked to people as the unique, one of a kind people they are, wanting to be healthier, perform better, or create a change.

There are over six billion people in the world and not one person is the same as another yet the way we attempt to support people for better performance or to make healthier choices is as if thats not true. As a result, the only alternative, when people dont do as expected, is to try harder and, when that doesnt work, whats left is to blame.

Intrinsic Coach health and wellness professionals build on the intrinsic. Its invisible, its serious science, it even has a formula, and its backwards from what we expect. Health and wellness professionals and, in fact, all people need to learn to build on the intrinsic. Its far richer than what we can see, at first, and its abundant, available, and free.

For quotations from Intrinsic Coach professionals nationwide and details about Intrinsic Coaching, Totally Coached, Inc., and Christina Marshall, contact:
Patti Smith
Phone: 480-515-5220
Fax: 480-515-4611
Website: www.totallycoached.com
Email: psmith@totallycoached.com

For a free e-book, 50 Answers to 50 Questions about Health Coaching, written by Christina Marshall, email totallycoached@totallycoached.com.

Christina Marshall, President
Intrinsic Coaching | Intrinsic Coach Development
ph 480.515.5220 • fax 480.515.4611 • www.totallycoached.com

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