Coaching Supports Your Well-being & Academic Success
We believe that all students are capable of developing the capacity to be successful learners. Students who are interested in taking action towards enhancing their resilience and well-being and achieving their academic goals are encouraged meet with our Success Coach. Students who have been coached report feeling more confident and calm and take action to achieve their aspirations.
- This video shows you how to book an appointment with the Success Coach.
- Success Coaching Appointments are all virtual via web-video conference (zoom) during this time of "social distancing" or you can book a phone appointment. The in-person "office" appointments are not available now.
- Self-book an appointment on-line (instructions on how to self-book an appointment)
- Check your email for the zoom link or, wait for a call if you chose a phone appointment.
- For asynchronous learning instead of coaching check out our podcast: Successful U - a podcast about living your best self.
Rising to the Challenge of Uncertainty
We are all currently being challenged to shift into remote learning and working with the new current reality. A whole-person approach is taken in coaching through this Success Coaching and does include developing self-regulation in learning. However, during these trying unprecedented times, the following desires for yourself might be most important right now:
- Maintaining inner calm and confidence
- Developing clarity of choice in actions and ways of being
- Developing empathy, curiosity and activation in adapting to change, uncertainty, and challenge
Collaborate to gain support for personal & professional development and improving self-regulation of learning, well-being and success.
Document Your Learning
Develop graduate attributes and apply to have your personalized learning experience authenticated on your co-curricular record.
Events (Workshops, Group Coaching)
If you elect to start with a workshop, research would strongly suggest you engage in follow-up coaching conversations in order to put the new knowledge and skills learned in the workshop into practice.
“The authors found that while their training intervention with managers increased manager productivity by 22%, adding a one-to-one (8-week) coaching intervention after the training pushed productivity to 88%”
— Olivero, G., Bane, K.D., and Kopelman, R.E.
In light of the findings of this research, why not attend workshops that interest you and then follow up with some individualized 1:1 coaching to work on what would help you to clear the blocks that are preventing you from achieving your goals and desires for yourself.
There is no charge to VIU students for Success Coaching - neither workshops nor 1:1 coaching.
Review the Welcome Packet and email your coaching agreement to sharon.kelly@viu.ca
Check your email for a zoom link or wait for the call depending on the type of appointment you booked.
Learning outcomes for Student Success Coaching include:
- Set and achieve personal goals
- Set priorities to balance school, work and life
- Enhance self-care, well-being and resilience
- Develop self-regulation of learning
- Form habits for success in school and in life
