IDM Program One, Module C

"Behavioral Assessment in Business and Life Coaching"

At this point in Program One, you have begun to exercise two perspectives on adults (and what they say), the social-emotional and cognitive one. You begin to wonder how these two relate to each other.

In Module C, we postpone answering this question since there is an essential element missing that can help answer the above question. This element has to do with the way in which adults shoulder the pre-adult legacy of their childhood and adolescence that they have no choice but to carry into adult life.

In particular, Module C dwells on the unconscious needs of an adult in relation to the inner and outer pressures that stand against need gratification. We speak of ‘Need’ vs. ‘Press[ure]’, meaning the psychological balance an adult is capable of in life as well as work.

We look, in particular, at how clients’ balance or imbalance effects their performance at work, in terms of what energy is lost internally that never enters work but simply dissipates, and the frustration experienced in the workplace, as well as the conflicts between needs and aspirations encountered by the person.

Module C leads to an assessment more closely fitted to a particular person than either Modules A or B, only that the assessment is a snapshot without any developmental depth. For this reason, we read ‘Need/Press’ data from a developmental perspective, to arrive at a comprehensive and rounded perspective on a client. This perspective helps answer the question asked initially in very practical terms, of ‘how is my client doing, and what can I do about it, knowing what I now know developmentally?’

We invite you to listen to an info session with information on how what you learn in Module C is integrated into the case study worked on in Module D.
2008-05-06 Information Session - Streaming
2008-05-06 Info Session - MP3 Download

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