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Loss

Loss is a powerful emotion. Much research has been explored about loss. The loss associated with estrangement is unique because of what is called ambiguous loss where the person missed and loved is physically absent but psychologically present. This type of 'frozen grief' makes moving on difficult because of uncertainty, lack of clarity about the future and feelings of being "stuck." Though no reasonable parent would ever prefer their child to be deceased rather than estranged, when someone dies, there is a funeral and other rituals to make their absence real and final. Estrangement creates feelings that life will never be the same again. As I seek to share what I have learned from a decade of this type of loss, I hope to help you process your loss and the many complex feelings surrounding estrangement.
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Empathy

Empathy is a difficult emotion to express when you are hurt or even angry about an adult child going "no contact." Empathy has many facets that are important to other aspects of the dynamics of estrangement for anyone enduring this pain. This class also explores some important aspects of objectivity to better understand how a reasonable person could accept the unique difficulties within estrangement, as part of moving forward and moving on. Empathy is emotional and yet all relationships include logical elements. This class will explore empathy against the backdrop of the most common research methods. You will be presented with the opportunity to assess the likelihood of reconnecting, building trust, forgiving, reconciling and even restoring the most important familial relationships in your life. The discipline of empathy can become a new approach to relationships. Self-discovery is the starting point of accepting what it will take to do the work to move from estrangement to engagement.
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ETC Challenge

Overview: The ETC Challenge is the twelve-week Estrangement Transformation Coaching Challenge. If you are ready, join me, as I facilitate group coaching. You may prefer individual coaching and this is also possible. Come learn to SHIFT your mindset, heartache and volition towards healing. SHIFT is a wondrous journey!
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Employee

Estrangement is profoundly distracting, even when a person compartmentalizes, and tries to set aside their grief and loss in the workplace. Eventually, strong feelings catch up to us and sneak up on us, without warning. Prolonged estrangement often involve conflicts which produce chronic stress. Dealing with estrangement is a worthwhile endeavor as chronic stress contributes significantly to absenteeism, illness and other problems that can cost employers not only financially but through morale impacts as well. Much research has been done to measure the cost of absenteeism on employers. For example, the most recent 2024 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report estimated absenteeism costs employers in the United States billions annually. The cost of productivity losses are estimated at over $225.8 billion per year. Eventually, strong feelings catch up to anyone and sneak up even the most accomplished person, without warning. This class provides strategies and tools to equip anyone seeking to find fulfillment and meaning from work, even when enduring the pain of estrangement.
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Employee development

I believe coaching is an approach to leading ourselves and others towards interpersonal excellence, job satisfaction, competitive superiority and developing loyal/raving fans/clients/customers. Unless your business achieves competitive superiority, it’s possible your business isn’t going to survive. When a business employs knowledgeable, professional people who understand the importance of interpersonal effectiveness, the business is more likely to thrive within the pains and strains of turbulent political and economic realities and impacts. Working with a coaching mindset (and skill set) distinguishes people, processes and business practices. I hope you agree. Coaching, of course, is also a fulfilling profession. As a master certified coach, I spent thousands of hours with managers, leaders and front-line employees, sharing about what it means to demonstrate ‘coaching’ in our work life. I trademarked my coaching style practices as The Coach Approach™. Whether nationally at organizations like Microsoft and Abbott Laboratories, or locally at IBM or National Life Group in Vermont, I have watched coaching become a more accepted and respected skill set. I have helped almost 100 companies over 25+ years. My role was to support each individual’s capacity to communicate effectively, lead with integrity, manage priorities as a leader and live more comfortably with ambiguity and uncertainty as change became the only constant in the workplace. I supported individuals as they learned The success factors of teams® and encouraged lifelong learning. Demonstrating emotional, social and cultural intelligence as a person is a personal commitment, so all my coaching engagements involved these and other topics. As an Executive Coach, as you can imagine, people were often ‘sent’ to me to learn how to communicate better or lead with greater attention to demonstrating a more effective leadership style. Do you know your leadership style? Do you know what distinguishes leading from managing and how each overlaps in key areas? What are the five components of emotional intelligence and how does a person internalize these ideas to apply them to daily tasks, with their team and customers? If you are receptive to professional and personal development, rather than resistant, then you may be ready to learn how to apply the principles of The Coach Approach™ in your role at work. Leading with a coaching style will always make a lasting, positive difference. If you want to devote time to learn more and are ready, contact Dr. Mann HERE to work with her or be recommended to a trusted coach in her broad network.
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Transition

Psychotherapy (also called talk therapy) is a noble professional where individuals may recommend choices and present information to remediate mental health issues, over a long period of time. Therapy often explores family-of-origin issues in-depth, including root causes of behavior, including self-destructive behavior. Psychiatry follows a medical model to create inner strength to overcome addictions and other self-destructive behaviors. Counseling is often shorter-term, focusing on specific, current challenges or situations. Consulting offers expertise in certain disciplines. Consultants are considered trusted advisors who freely offer advice and solve problems through specialized services. Come and learn how coaching is distinguished from therapy, psychiatry, counseling, consulting and coaxing, while experiencing each (during mentoring) as a distinct set of skills so you are clear about coaching to never mistake one for the other, as a practicing coach.

Estrangement

Estrangement is currently an epidemic in several countries. The recent research of Dr. Joshua Coleman estimates approximately one-in-four families are facing some kind of familial discord, parental alienation and other painful forms of estrangement. Decades ago, Dr. Pauline Boss researched ambiguous loss, which is a hallmark of the many unresolved elements of estrangement, similar to the emotional torture of times of war, abduction or similar forms of disappearances (when someone is missing from your life and you do not know if a person is dead or alive). If someone is fortunate enough to be unfamiliar with the emotions associated with estrangement, they can underestimate the toll this agonizing experience can take on people, at the receiving end of someone they love going “no contact,” (with or without an explanation). Dr. Dee Dee Mann has endured over a decade of several forms of estrangement and has written several original coaching methods that will be taught in this track.

The Core Fundamentals of Coaching

The Core Fundamentals of Coaching is foundational to understanding what distinguishes coaching and coaching skills from other essential interpersonal abilities and professions that are dependent on proficiency in communication. Come as you are to begin explore the basic, intermediary and advanced coaching skills.

Whether you are enjoying a career in coaching or your employer is sponsoring this learning, you will learn all facets of the proprietary Coach Approach mindset and skillset. The Coach Approach describes the importance of a coaching mindset to embody and emulate trust as you actively listen to others. Also, internalizing the best practices of coaching will ensure you always maintain presence to awaken awareness in those you work with to foster growth and development.

The core fundamentals will also explore the theory and precepts that defined coaching as a practice and profession, especially the importance of establishing and maintaining agreements at all phases of your coaching engagements. Core Fundamentals also distinguish coaching from therapy, psychiatry, counseling, consulting and coaxing. The Core Fundamentals of Coaching will equip you will high-impact knowledge, skills and abilities that are ICF-aligned to set you apart in whatever way you seek to coach. The distinctions this coaching program includes the two coaching tracks: Estrangement and Career Transition as well as the design and delivery of the curriculum.