Registration Open: Coaching Skills Course for Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, and Speech-Language-Hearing Therapists 🌈

Facilitated by Masanobu Yamada, a physical therapist and professional coach,

“Coaching Skills Course for Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, and Speech-Language-Hearing Therapists”
—Become a top-tier rehabilitation therapist who can support clients in achieving their goals by mastering coaching skills—

is now open for registration.

● The Affinity Between Rehabilitation and Coaching

Coaching skills are one of the tools used to facilitate smooth communication. These skills are represented by techniques such as active listening, validation, and feedback.

We, as physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language-hearing therapists, support our clients in achieving their goals every day while communicating with them. Therefore, it goes without saying that we understand the necessity of honing our communication skills.

However, on the other hand, while we understand the need for communication, including coaching skills, many of us have never actually learned them systematically. We tend to think that “communication ability is all about natural sense,” and...

“That person has a good sense for communication, so they get results in clinical practice easily.
Compared to them, I don’t have that sense...”

I get the impression that many people give up in this way.

I myself used to think that “communication is a matter of sense” until I started learning coaching in earnest in 2016.

However, when I actually started learning, the coach who was the instructor for the course on the first day said,

“Communication is not just a matter of sense; it is something that improves with training. If you practice swimming, you will be able to swim. If you practice riding a bicycle, you will be able to ride one. It is the same as that. Therefore, if you accumulate training in communication, you will be able to communicate well.”

I still vividly remember the shock I felt, as if I had been struck by lightning, when I heard that.

As I began to learn coaching, I discovered the existence of representative coaching skills such as active listening, validation, and feedback, and I felt:

“Oh, we rehab therapists use these skills unknowingly while communicating with clients every day. But if I can consciously use active listening, validation, and feedback as skills, the clients' reactions change, and above all, I feel more at ease myself.”

That is how I felt.

By naming these skills—active listening, validation, and feedback—and categorizing them, I have experienced many times in clinical settings that clients' reactions change compared to when I was just using skills blindly without knowing what they were.

Of course, you won't be able to master everything from the start and suddenly improve your communication skills, but as I wrote at the beginning, “communication improves with training,” so if you train correctly, results will definitely follow in clinical settings as well.

And once you acquire these skills, you will be able to communicate thoroughly regarding the client's goal achievement and correctly grasp their needs and goals. Once you can grasp those, it becomes easier to plan rehabilitation programs that align with them.

Having worked as a physical therapist since 2004, encountered coaching in 2016, and working as both a physical therapist and a professional coach since 2020, I feel the necessity of communicating thoroughly with clients in rehabilitation settings every day.

While working as a professional coach, I have served as an instructor for training on communication and coaching skills, and I have also conducted coaching sessions with many rehab therapist clients in personal coaching settings.
Through these practices, I have felt firsthand the importance of rehab therapists, who communicate with clients daily, improving their communication skills through coaching and other methods.

Therefore, we have decided to hold a 5-session course titled "Coaching Skills Course for Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, and Speech-Language-Hearing Therapists." While it is best to attend all 5 sessions, the course is designed so that you can acquire skills even if you choose only the themes that interest you.

Acquiring coaching skills will likely have various ripple effects, not only in your interactions with patients in clinical settings but also in your relationships with staff within your department and with your family at home.

I am truly looking forward to learning together with physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language-hearing therapists who want to incorporate coaching—a topic currently gaining attention and expanding in the business world—into their actual rehabilitation practice to achieve results.

● Course Schedule and Overview of Each Session

*While you will gain a deeper understanding by attending all 5 sessions, it is also possible to attend individual sessions.

Day 1: "Coaching Overview" November 12, 2022 (Sat) 20:00–21:30

Many of you may have heard the word "coaching," but I will explain the overview of coaching while answering questions such as "What do you actually do in coaching?" Additionally, I will discuss how it can be applied in actual rehabilitation settings and, with the cooperation of participants, have you experience a demo coaching session.

Day 2: "Active Listening" December 10, 2022 (Sat) 20:00–21:30

Listening to people. It is a natural thing to do, but because it is so natural, everyone's image of what it means to listen to someone is surprisingly different. For some people, even if they intend to be listening, it may not look like they are listening to others. In rehabilitation settings, it is no exaggeration to say that the first step in building a relationship with a patient lies in active listening. Also, to listen to others, it is important to have the experience of having your own story listened to, and you will have that experience as well.

Day 3: "Acknowledgment" January 14, 2023 (Sat) 20:00–21:30

Acknowledgment is not just about praising; it involves recognizing the other person, and furthermore, it requires recognizing yourself first. Sometimes the word "acknowledgment" takes precedence, and people think, "I just need to praise them!" and try to do it, but they find they can acknowledge one person but not another. Everyone has had that experience. In rehabilitation settings, acknowledging the patient is a necessary skill to increase motivation and facilitate rehabilitation. Also, since it is important not only to focus on giving acknowledgment but also to properly receive it, you will experience this through various exercises.

Day 4: "Feedback" February 11, 2023 (Sat) 20:00–21:30

Feedback can be said to be the power to convey objective facts that you have felt to the other person. To do this, you need to confirm what values the other person cherishes and what their purpose in life is. Conveying something on the spot without that confirmation is not feedback; for some people, it may lead to the feeling of "I've been criticized again." In rehabilitation settings, feedback to patients is an important skill, and I hear that many therapists are surprisingly uncomfortable with giving feedback, but once you can provide appropriate feedback, the effects of rehabilitation will also increase. Let's train together to improve your feedback skills.

Day 5: "Coaching Session" March 11, 2023 (Sat) 20:00–21:30

Coaching sessions have a structure called the GROW model. It is said that what makes coaching different from casual conversation is the existence of this structure. In rehabilitation settings, rehabilitation therapists are already doing something similar to this GROW model when setting goals for patients, so these structures are easy to grasp. You will gain the ability to improve your goal-setting skills in your own clinical practice, and you will also acquire skills that can be widely applied not only in clinical settings but also in 1-on-1 meetings and interviews with staff.

● Instructor Profile

Masanobu Yamada
Representative, Coaching Office Be a Smile

Born in Hokkaido, resides in Kanagawa Prefecture
Father of three children

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[Qualifications Held]
International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach
Coaching Platform Certified Coach
Physical Therapist

[Career History]
・2004: Graduated from Kitasato University, School of Allied Health Sciences, Department of Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy Major
・2004: Chigasaki Municipal Hospital, Rehabilitation Department
・2009: Pokapoka Life Care Co., Ltd. (In addition to clinical work, became editor-in-chief of Ryohoushi.com, a portal site for physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language-hearing therapists, which boasted the highest number of visits among similar industry sites at the time)
・2013: Sophia Medi Co., Ltd. (to present) (Worked up to management of a visiting nursing station and was involved in the launch of 3 new offices. Among over 1,000 employees, was the first to have a side job application approved and was introduced in the company newsletter)
・2016: Began studying coaching
・2017: Coaching Platform Certified Coach
・2018: International Coaching Federation Associate Certification
・2020: Established Coaching Office Be a Smile

[Course Eligibility]: Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Speech-Language-Hearing Therapist

[Capacity]: 6 people, first-come, first-served for each session

[Participation Fee]: 5,500 yen per session (tax included)

● How to Apply

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