{"id":76,"date":"2016-08-06T15:20:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T15:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kawamodel.com\/v1\/?p=76"},"modified":"2016-08-07T09:16:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T09:16:13","slug":"kawa-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kawamodel.com\/v1\/2016\/08\/06\/kawa-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawa Coaching (Jen Gash)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jen Gash<\/strong>. Full text available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otcoach.com\/kawa-coaching\/\">http:\/\/www.otcoach.com\/kawa-coaching\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The integration of coaching within occupational therapy practice is often a key question asked by occupational therapists when they start learning coaching skills. There are numerous answers, ranging from taking a coach approach to your whole practice, using coaching tools on certain occasions, \u201ccoaching\u201d someone for a specific part of their occupational therapy intervention, running groups based on a coaching approach or using coaching as part of occupational therapy supervision and I am sure there are many moreJ<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I became acquainted with the KAWA model around 2006, around the time I started coaching. I was entranced by it and over the years have seen how coaching could be used with the KAWA model. I am not an expert on KAWA (sorry Michael), but love it as it uses the mighty power of metaphor, something I use all the time in my coaching and in my own personal development. So this is written more from my expertise in coaching (and it\u2019s been rattling around my head for years, so I think it\u2019s time to ponder on paper). I believe that a coach approach is probably taken by many occupational therapists using the KAWA model, so my ponderings might not be knew to them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will simplify both coaching and the KAWA model for this experiment, as it\u2019s just a starting point. For those of you who don\u2019t know the KAWA model well:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Kawa (Japanese for river) model uses a familiar metaphor of nature as an effective medium to translate subjective views of self, life, well-being and the meanings of occupations\u201d www.kawamodel.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The aim of occupational therapy intervention is to enhance the river flow to enable meaningful occupation and engagement to take place. The river bed represents the environment \u2013 physical and social; the rocks \u201cIwa\u201d represent life circumstances; the driftwood \u201cRuyboku\u201d represent assets and liabilities; the water\u201dmizu\u201d is life force, flow, energy, chi; the spaces between the rocks, wood and river bed are \u201csukima\u201d these gaps are small places where flow gets through \u2013 very importantJ The model illustrates \u201cthe complex dynamic that characterizes an Eastern perspective of harmony in life between self and context\u201d. www.kawamodel.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s simplify coaching as well: Coaching is a discourse, a conversation, which moves someone from where they are now, to where they want to be. Intuitive, powerful questions, alongside active listening are key to raising awareness and responsibility. Coaching leads to \u201cenlightenment (new knowledge, self-awareness, learning, insights) and transformation (re-creating self, achieving dreams\/goals, moving towards something new, being and\/or doing differently\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To read more, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.otcoach.com\/kawa-coaching\/\">http:\/\/www.otcoach.com\/kawa-coaching\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jen Gash. Full text available at http:\/\/www.otcoach.com\/kawa-coaching\/ &nbsp; The integration of coaching within occupational therapy practice is often a key question asked by occupational therapists when they start learning<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kawamodel.com\/v1\/2016\/08\/06\/kawa-coaching\/\" class=\"read-more\"> Continue Reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[60,56,21,33,32,61,62],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-online-articles","tag-coaching","tag-jen-gash","tag-occupational-therapy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-using-the-kawa-in-coaching","tag-using-the-kawa-model-in-coaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kawamodel.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kawamodel.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kawamodel.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kawamodel.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kawamodel.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kawamodel.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/www.kawamodel.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kawamodel.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kawamodel.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kawamodel.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kawamodel.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}