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Criteria for becoming a coach
These are the criteria coaches must meet to become a Coach4Care coach. Some skills and qualities are required before training, while others are developed through the training process. This helps ensure carers receive the best possible support.
Criteria for becoming a coach - PDF document
Coach journey
An overview of what a journey through the Coach4Care service looks like.
Double Diamond coaching model
The Double Diamond Coaching Model is a coaching tool created with coaches and carers, for carers. It is based on the Design Council’s Double Diamond, a well-established framework for innovation and problem solving.
Double Diamond Coaching model - PDF document
Guidance on supporting a carer if their loved one dies
Guidance on how coaches can respond if a carer’s loved one dies, offering practical suggestions at a difficult time.
Guidance on supporting a carer if their loved one dies - PDF document
Learning Lunch agendas
Learning lunches provide peer support for carers and group supervision for coaches.
Learning Lunch agenda for coaches - PDF document
Learning Lunch agenda for carers - PDF document
Supporting tools
Building networks of support
This is a tool for helping you think about how to identify and increase the support available to you through your social network.
Building networks of support - PDF tool
Facts, feelings, future
Use this tool to explore a challenging or stuck situation in terms of your feelings, facts and future aspirations.
Facts, feelings, future - PDF tool
Identifying core values
Use this tool to help you identify the core values most important to you to help you reflect on the values you will bring to caring.
Identifying core values - PDF tool
Increasing positivity
Use this tool to help you plan how to bring more positivity into your life and to make time for yourself.
Increasing positivity - PDF tool
Journalling
Use this tool to help you reflect on your thoughts and emotions in your day to day, and this can give clues to goals, but can also be used to evaluate the impact of a change.
My typical day
Use this tool to reflect on your daily routine and to explore the highs and lows of your day.
My typical week
Use this tool to reflect on your day-to-day life and the highs and lows of your week.
Positive scripts
Use this tool to help you to identify some positive scripts that you can use to challenge negative thoughts. It is a useful tool to keep coming back to.
Self compassion
Use this tool to help you identify ways you may already meet yourself with self-compassion or notice where this is not the case.
Strengths
Use this tool whenever you are feeling disheartened. It will help you to remember what your strengths are.
What can I control?
Use this tool to reflect on what is and what is not in your control.
What can I control? - PDF tool
Wheel of life
Use this tool to reflect on different aspects of your life, and then choose an area that you would like to focus on.
More resources
We have developed a variety of resources that can be used to implement Coach4Care.
