Recovery Coaching
The NDIS context
The NDIA has acknowledged that it’s psychosocial (mental health) stream has had difficulties in the past. In response to feedback, consultation and expert advice it created a new recovery-oriented support type for people with a psychosocial disability, the Psychosocial Recovery Coach. Additionally it has introduced a Recovery Framework aiming to better support people in the NDIS.
Picking it apart
For those of us who have engaged with services (other than the NDIS) about mental health; the term ‘psychosocial disability’ is a foreign word. It simply means the impact and barriers that mental health has on day-to-day life compared to someone not experiencing that mental health difficulty.
Recovery
‘being able to create and live a meaningful and contributing life in a community of choice with or without the presence
of mental health issues’ -Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council.
Recovery-Oriented Service
A service that supports the process of recovery to occur. This service does not “recover” people, it holds hope and an environment for empowering individuals to take responsibility for their own recovery.
A relationship, in which shared goals are determined and the coachee is supported (by the coach) to reach those goals using their own strengths and abilities.
A coaching relationship, that has a recovery-oriented process and goals for individuals whose lives are impacted by their mental health.
Coach Role
- Appreciate, Facilitate and nurture Coachee strengths
- Provide opportunities for exploration, experimentation, and failure
- Empower
- Be transparent, and communicate fully
- Fix, dominate, provide answers
Coachee (particpant) Role
- Be open to new learning
- Willing to enter a calloborative journey with coach
- Accepts they need to take action to achieve their goals
- Give the coach feedback, about what is and isn't working
- Blame the coach for the rate of their progress