Consultation
Services
“Catalytic Consulting” facilitates you to tap and engage your human capacity
Alternative to coaching, potentially parallel to therapy
TDS’s consultation is neither therapy nor conventional coaching. It possesses elements of both, but is also larger than both.
Talisman consultation isn’t about giving advice or supplying curative insight. It’s a creative process of discovery aimed at unearthing and evoking what’s within clients in a way that equips and empowers them towards their own definition and progress.
How Does it
Work?
The consultation begins with a proprietary assessment that is wide-spectrum and integrative.
Then while that evaluation is turned into a starting formulation (of needs, progress lines, and problems), some core practices (described here) will be started to begin the ongoing cultivation of a growing mindset and an underlying self-care. These core practices will expand and consolidate through the whole growth plan.
A tailored proprietary overall growth plan will then be conducted through a series of sessions. This plan will be integrative and customized to the assessment, and will be proactive and collaborative. It will include:
- A Learning Program of both general and specifically relevant material targeted to the assessment. Derived from a menu of topics, it equips you with greater understanding of your capacity and challenges, cultivates a new mindset, empowers with fresh insights, and fuels the entire growth process.
- A Development Plan that engages your human capacity through targeted practices to reshape your situation. This will entail: regularly reviewing and clarifying purpose; visualizing the desired circumstances in both larger overview plus specific areas of progress; understanding the conditions and indicators of fulfillment; charting a path by defining capacity-driven objectives, goals, plans and steps; fostering motivation; strategic alignment by conceiving and practicing relevant attitudes, skills, habits and routines; accounting of results, reassessing and adjusting plans. These will help you build self-efficacy towards your own practical and meaningful outcomes.
- Navigation and Problem Solving supports you to address issues and roadblocks that naturally emerge. This includes: getting facts, analyzing factors, understanding the barriers, describing the challenges, gaining perspective, reflecting on feelings; identifying relevant strengths, insights, principles and tactics; coming to a judgment for the time being; planning a response, executing solutions, and weighing results. This helps you bridge the gap between aspiration and realities, and is the basis for continual self-improvement.
- Creativity Sessions to ignite and use your own versions of resourcefulness to reinforce all parts of the overall growth plan, and help maintain momentum.
- Possible Ancillary Group Activities – gatherings of active clients for extra talks, dialogues, and even creative sharing. These will rise and fall as need, numbers and interest do.
The overall growth plan will be accompanied as needed by discussions that identify other more intense factors and obstacles that might need other or specialized professional services outside the purview of TDS’s services (eg - psychotherapy, medical, psychiatric, nutritional, legal, social services, etc.). Clients would be encouraged and empowered to take ownership and management of such struggles and would be referred as needed to other professional services for them. While TDS won’t directly address such challenges, our consultation services would help the client see how they might fit into the larger picture of their total situation, and support them to coherently harmonize all services in and out of TDS.
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