Registered Nurses are learning the Intrinsic Coaching® methodology and turning a coaching methodology into a movement creating healthier people, healthier organizations, and a healthier world. Because Intrinsic Coaching® enables Nurses to engage people's best thinking and contributions to their care, Nurses are finding it to be a more effective, productive, and satisfying way of working with people.  Nurses learn Intrinsic Coaching® by signing up as individuals and also as part of their organization's initiative.

Enroll as an individual: View the schedule and enroll in an Intrinsic Coach® Development Series for Health and Wellness professionals by going to http://www.intrinsiccoach.com/english/enroll/.  New series start almost every week and meet via teleconference for two consecutive hours a week, once a week, for twelve weeks. If you have to miss a session, you can listen to an audio file of your missed session. Upon completion of this Series, you will be able to elicit people's best thinking, including your own, so they and you can accomplish important outcomes. You'll also be able to identify yourself as an Intrinsic Coach®, use the Intrinsic Coach® logo, wear the Intrinsic Coach® pin, have access to the Intrinsic Coach® community, and have a readily available way to develop your coaching in any direction you choose, through www.IntrinsicCoach.com. For a brochure, click here.

Train your staff in Intrinsic Coaching®: We'd be happy to train your entire staff and also talk about creating in house Intrinsic Coach® Development capabilities. To take a first step, contact us for a conversation.

Excerpt from an interview of Badrieh Caraway, RN

What stands out to you about the Intrinsic Coaching® methodology?
It’s such a unique methodology in that it focuses so directly on goals and what is most important to the individual you are working with. Intrinsic Coaching® helps people think better about their choices even after the coaching conversation is over. It values people for who they are. It’s self-directed, meaning that the coachee is the active person in the conversation, and can be applied to all aspects of one’s health and well being. Intrinsic Coaching® has a broad ability to impact all the different aspects of a person’s life.

How do you see Intrinsic Coaching® fitting into the nursing profession?
I feel strongly that Intrinsic Coaching® impacts nursing in different areas. Some of the areas I think Intrinsic Coaching® can have considerable impact on are enhancing communication with nurses, establishing a positive family and work environment, maintaining harmony with each other, and increasing positive attitudes. Intrinsic Coaching® helps us realize we can accomplish what’s important to us and enables us to have this same impact on someone else’s life. Integrating Intrinsic Coaching® into the nursing work environment enhances teamwork and increases productivity. Intrinsic Coaching® can be applied to just about every aspect of life.

How does Intrinsic Coaching® support your personal vision for nurses?
I envision Intrinsic Coaching® being integrated in professional nursing leadership. I also envision it being reinforced in the nursing practice, meaning the nurses would practice it in caring for the patients. Intrinsic Coaching® can be utilized in all aspects of nursing, caring for the patients as well as team building and even training. I hope that one day Intrinsic Coaching™ can be a part of the curriculum at the schools, too. It can reinforce for nurses the reason they chose the nursing field in the first place and help them keep that in the forefront as they care for patients. It also would enable them to value people for who they are and the contributions they can make to their care.

What is most rewarding for you in being an Intrinsic Coach® nurse?
What is most rewarding for me is I use Intrinsic Coaching® in all of my daily activities. As a mother of the two teenage daughters I use the listening skills on a daily basis and notice the changes in my communication with my family members. The opportunity of using the principles of Intrinsic Coaching® is endless either as one-on-one coaching conversations or just taking a coaching approach to interactions with people. It really helps me to deal with my family, my colleagues, and my clients at every encounter I have with them. I learned to establish harmony in myself, be patient with myself and know that I don’t have to have all the answers for all the situations. And from that I have received feedback from others saying they enjoy being around me. That personally gives me a lot of satisfaction.

What do you want for other nurse professionals?
I would like to have the opportunity to promote the principles of Intrinsic Coaching® to the various levels of the nursing profession. I believe that nurses have a great opportunity to use these principles in their daily communication and interaction with their patients, colleagues, and family members. I believe that Intrinsic Coaching® applied to daily activities will decrease the stress levels that come with the nursing profession. As I mentioned, Intrinsic Coaching® creates harmony within oneself and between others and this can help promote a positive working and living environment. I strongly believe that Intrinsic Coaching® will help in all service areas. Anyone can benefit from it.

With 25 years in Nursing and Health Education, Badrieh has experienced all aspects of leadership, management, teaching, evaluation, and consulting, designed programs for all levels of multidisciplinary services, and collaborated with diverse groups to improve policies and procedures, meet goals, and form organized partnerships, all with the aim of improving the standards of care, practice, and education in the health professions. Badrieh is currently a Nursing Education Consultant with the Board of Registered Nursing at the California Department of Consumer Affairs and acts as a consumer advocate.