Interview with Ms Brenda Blackburn, Life Coach, Canada
Brenda, tell me about Life Coaching and what kind of life coaching do you offer? The type of life coaching I offer is group life and career coaching facilitated in personal growth workshops that are engaging and fun! The group interaction creates a dynamic synergy, and the experiential process is an empowering one filled with discovery about self and others. I love what I do! My particular designation is that of Life Skills Coach , with university training based on the Saskatchewan NewStart model, whose founders “saw Life Skills as an important historical step leading to social advancement”, ( The New Dynamics of Life Skills Coaching , 1995 ). Life Skills training has roots dating back to 1964 and was first introduced in an anti-poverty NewStart training program (Adkins and Rosenberg) approved in 1966. Brenda, tell me something about the Life Skills Model? The Life Skills Model is first “a theoretical model, which has a basis in modern psychology and adult...