Co-Lab Coaching Resources
ASSESSMENT WHEELS*:
EPOCH Well-Being Assessment for Kids
Based on the EPOCH assessment developed by Peggy Kern and Martin Seligman for older children, this adaptation for younger children was created by Megan Gilmore with their permission.
Recommended for use with children ages 5-10 years old. Parents/guardians receive their child’s overall well-being score with resources to develop and increase flourishing in the lives of children.
PERMA+ME Wheel
Developed by Megan Gilmore and available for use by LSCCs. This wheel can be used to assess client well-being based on our seven facets of well-being (positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, achievement, mindfulness, and embodiment), all of which have evidence-based interventions that lead to greater levels of well-being.
Use with clients to establish coaching objectives or create areas of focus to increase fulfillment and flourishing.
PERMA+ME Rueda
The PERMA+ME Wheel available in Spanish.
Couples Assessment Wheel
Developed by Megan Gilmore and available for use by LSCCs for the purpose of relationship coaching in intimate partnerships.
*These assessments are under copyright with all rights reserved. This means that you may not duplicate, distribute, edit, or make alterations without written permission of the owner/creator.
STRENGTHS-BASED ASSESSMENTS:
RHETI Enneagram assessment
The Enneagram is a great engagement tool for your clients. The RHETI assessment from the Enneagram Institute has the best test-retest reliability out there! As a coach, you can set up a business account and order assessments for your clients.
StrengthsFinder Assessment
The StrengthsFinder assessment tool was developed by Gallup to identify an individual’s top strength themes that contribute toward high achievement and overcoming challenges in their lives. You can create your own account with Strengthsfinder to purchase and distribute the assessment coaching clients.
Team StrengthsFinder Grid
Use this grid to display a team’s StrengthsFinder assessment results. List the names and themes, and the grid is created automatically.
IMAGE | Intrinsic Motivation Assessment Guide & Evaluation
IMAGE was developed by Dr. Bill Millard at Life Discovery to identify an individual’s proactive motivations for how they are uniquely drawn to service and meeting needs in the world.
CoachinG WORKSHEETS & TOOLS:
Couples Worksheets
Three worksheets for use in couples coaching: Observations & Feelings, Needs & Boundaries, and Love & Forgiveness
Embodied Emotion Worksheet
A worksheet for increasing awareness and regulation around emotion and sensation.
“I Can Be…And” Worksheet
Use this worksheet with your clients to engage in the practice of expanding their range and calling forth their true self.
Designing Group Coaching Experiences Worksheet
This worksheet is a useful tool for planning group coaching experiences from beginning to end - all the way from onboarding and assessment to evaluation and follow-up.
Lark's Song 360 Tool
This is a tool for mapping the most resonant internal & external resources in a client's life.
List Poetry Tool
This tool was co-created by Megan Gilmore and Jami Taylor to be used with individual clients and at group coaching workshops and retreats for the purpose of self-discovery and awakening insight.
Mission Statement Builder
Wanting a tool for relationships and teams to use in place of life purpose statement? Try using the mission statement builder from Franklin-Covey as a homework inquiry.
Points of You
The coaching game that's more than just a game.
Sample Session Format
A guide on how to structure a sample session for a prospective client.
The Servant Leader Paradigm Chart
The chart comparing the Servant Leader Paradigm with other leadership models.
Tolerations List
We tend to get dragged down and overwhelmed by things that accumulate over time - and end up cluttering our minds. What are you putting up with?
Values Card Sort
This tool is designed for the introduction to exploring values with clients, created by LSCC Rachel Passereni.
GUIDED IMAGINING SCRIPTS:
House of You Guided Imagining
Full script for the House of You guided journey visualization
Future Self Guided Imagining
Full script for the Future Self visualization
Inner Witness Guided Imagining Script
Use this when your client has been doing the work around their limiting beliefs to give them access to more of their experience and internal resourcefulness.
Life Purpose Guided Imaginings
Guide to walking a client through the three guided imaginings and follow-up needed to craft their own life-purpose statement.
Tree Guided Imagining
A visualization co-created by LSCCs Luke Anspach and Will Smith for personal branding and discovering you people, place, and product.
PRESENTATION + WORKSHOP TEMPLATES:
Positive Emotion - Group Coaching Session
Use this presentation deck and these coach notes to lead a group coaching session on Positive Emotion.
Neuroscience, Trauma, and Belonging - LSCC Training Workshop
Download the slides here, and view the training by clicking on this link.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can be a really meaningful way to understand your client AND partner with other professionals around their care. Here is the ACE Questionnaire, and here is an ACE Questionnaire with the Resiliency Scale. This assessment considers not only the trauma but the strength of your client's recovery and resiliency from it.
Virtual Workshop Introduction Template
Use this template and its instructions to help your workshop participants feel cared for and prepared even if through virtual delivery systems.
RESEARCH & ARTICLES:
Bodily Map of Emotions
An article describing the unique and universal bodily signature of different emotions.
The Flourishing Center
Founded and led by Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, the Flourishing Center - where the science of happiness meets the art of thriving. Check out their resources, including their free e-book "From Languishing to Flourishing."
Flourishing Forward: Considerations for Trauma-Informed Coaching
This article was written by Megan Gilmore and published by Choice Magazine in September 2020. Readers will learn what trauma is, how it impacts our bodies and practical considerations for coaches and our clients.
Functional Genomic Perspectives on Well-Being
Geneticist Stephen Cole and Positive Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson team up to provide this incredible study on how eudamonic well-being practices actually heal our DNA.
The Science of Well-Being
Laurie Santos and her team took "Psychology and the Good Life" (the most popular Yale class ever) and turned it into a FREE 6 week training on the Science of Well-Being over on Coursera.
The Servant Leader Paradigm Chart
The chart comparing the Servant Leader Paradigm with other leadership models.
WELL-BEING RESOURCES FOR KIDS:
Little Larks Credo
Before beginning well-being education or coaching in the lives of children, review and commit to this credo. This is a great tool if you work with groups of children and need all the volunteers or co-leaders to be on the same page as well.
Little Larks Literature Video Library
A Collection of intentionally curated children's literature read by our Lark's Song community on camera - YouTube playlist.
VIA Character Strengths Assessment for Youth
Use this Virtues In Action Character Strengths assessment to help children understand their strengths and frame their uniqueness in positive terms - adults can take it too!
LSCC Onsite LEARNING Guides*:
Foundations of Coaching
The participant Learning Guide for Foundations of Coaching.
Experience-Assisted Coaching
The participant Learning Guide for Experience-Assisted Coaching.
Coaching and Systems
The participant Learning Guide for Coaching & Systems
*These Learning Guides are proprietary intellectual property and can not be adapted, distributed or used outside the Lark’s Song Certified Coach Training Program without written permission. Appropriate references and citations for the Learning Guides are provided on the final page of each.
CLIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS:
CoachAccountable
Coaches Console
Nudge Coach
Paperbell
Satori app
Shore
HELPFUL WEBSITES & TOOLS:
Acuity Scheduling
Online appointment scheduling software
Airtable
Excel spreadsheets on steroids
Calendly
Online scheduling with easy integration into Google Calendar.
Daily Reminders from Morgan Harper Nichols
Morgan Harper Nichols writes free, simple email reminders for the day, to help you remember that you are wrapped in endless, boundless grace with soul-nourishing affirmations.
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) - Tapping
Tapping is an EFT that is an evidence-based methodology to increase physiological health and heal from emotional trauma. Here are Bianca Gabrielle's videos on tapping for BIPOC, Racial Trauma, & Resistance to Joy as well as White Bodies, Racial Shame, & Guilt
Gottman Card Decks App
As always, we've got to highlight Gottman's Research and expertise in Relationship Science. Download the Gottman Card Decks App to use with your couples clients or clients in relationships.
Happify
A website & app to help you with the practice of positivity
RecUp
An audio recording app that uploads directly to a linked Dropbox account - great for recording coaching sessions for supervision or learning!
TypeForm
Fully customizable forms with logic jumps and payment integrations.
Writing Tools from Alex Elle
Alex Elle offers free writing prompts, meditations, and other beautiful resources.
Lark’s Song Skill Refresh Videos:
LSCC Lecture Recordings:
LSCC LECTURE PRESENTATIONS:
Coming Soon
Cultivating Creativity Webinars:
Little Larks Meditations:
Belief
The Little Larks Well-Being program has 16 thematic and developmentally appropriate meditation recordings and scripts. This one focuses on the concept of belief - or what is most important to us about reality. Instead of using words like "presuppositions" we talk about how our ideas about what is true and dependable impacts how we live.
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