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Hi!
Although you may already be a savvy practitioner, I am certain you will learn something new in this video about ‘It’s Not Enough to Master the Science: the Art of Facilitating Lifestyle Change.’ You’ll walk away with pages of notes and practical pearls you can use in your practice right away.
Here are some of the things we’ll be discussing:
- Super sexy but not necessarily making a whit of difference? Why many medical practitioners may believe that the science is all they have to master.
- The most debilitating misconception about the power of functional medicine.
- This one, often-overlooked thing can build confidence, fire up belief, and buy time to uncover each patient’s unique root causes.
- The diagnosis is not enough. But neither is patient education! These other essentials must also be part of health care if you want to maximize your impact.
- The surprising caveat You Must Act On right from the beginning or risk creating your own practitioner exhaustion down the road.
- Fear is a poor long-term motivator. Are you able to elicit these others as an impetus for sustainable change?
- Practitioners may often unwittingly engage in this harmful practice. Are you doing it too?
- When they get off track and way off in the weeds: why this is a Good thing, depending on how You handle it.
- The fatal flaw in relegating “soft skills” to the realm of the optional, superfluous, or less important.
- THIS is often more important than you, the practitioner, having all the answers.
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34 Questions for “It’s Not Enough to Master the Science: the Art of Facilitating Lifestyle Change”
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jeanette walker says:
I really loved today’s live webinar on the art of facilitating lifestyle change. So many pearls of wisdom in one hour’s time! It is so important to accurately assess someone’s readiness to change by finding out the “emotion laden why” that they will be able to transcend daily habits to make different choices and remembering the ego wants to stay the same. In my training I learned that maybe due to the amygdala.
Using the motivational interviewing examples mentioned about asking about willingness and confidence in ability to make dietary and lifestyle changes was a great reminder I will definitely use.
The point of multifactorial factors at root of disease and that changes need to be done simultaneously, not one at a time, for a period of time to see results was a keen point. As well as managing expectations of length of time it actually takes to heal from chronic illnesses was key. Need to educate out of the quick fix mentality.
The idea of rapid relief is something I feel I may need more education on as a functional nutrition counselor.
I loved the idea of empowerment triangle and developing a therapeutic partnership and moving away from the drama triangle so prevalent in conventional medicine. Thank you for all you do! -
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Julianna C Buongirno says:
Hello. Within the past 2 years, I have put my private practice to the side due to health complications. In this process, I have gone through severe depression, PTSD, and anxiety along with Type 2 Diabetes and Syringomyelia. This journey has led me to believe that health coaching may not be in the cards for me anymore. Tracy, you know what people need and I needed this today. I hung on every word and as I would look at my service dog I remembered my “why” and realized that Health Coaching is an everyday lifestyle. Lifestyle changes in my life are what can fix this. I have been living in the nocebo effect. Tracy so much was taken from today. It ministered to my heart and put me into tears of my heart. Thank you so much for really putting this together. I needed it. God Bless you!
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Brooke Lear says:
I really appreciated this session about facilitating lifestyle change – thank you for the inspiration and wisdom! I think my biggest takeaway was the reminder to work to avoid the drama triangle in my client encounters by monitoring my tendency to be the “rescuer”. As a big time 2 on the Enneagram, I’m a helper, so I think the more I can do for clients, the better. But I don’t ever want to make them feel like they aren’t capable. That was an a-ha moment for me, for sure, when Tracy said those words. I will need to work on finding ways to encourage and empower my clients by activating their confidence and their inner capabilities. I really liked the message, “I can’t heal you. YOU can heal you, But I can support you.” I plan to hang these words in my office where I can read them and remind myself of their importance often.
THANK YOU!
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Reviewing the time table to change a habit, I was reflecting on the example given yesterday of the patient who’s conventional doctor made insulting comments about the patient’s functional medicine practitioner. The situation was reinforcing the patient’s possible own resistance to making changes and ending old habits. There’s such a pull to the conventional medical model- just fix me.
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Beatrix Szokola says:
i loved the detailed explanation of how to lead a person towards assuming responsibility, how to start our agreement with 2-3 suggestions, not a list. I am a physical therapist in the usa.
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Trinette Stanford says:
I should provide my patients with the tools and instruction they need. Start with just 1 or 2 concepts. It is up to them to implement them. I am not to over promise.
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The most important pearl was the 3-tac model. And also the quantum vs drama triangle. I loved the empowerment question of “why?” for helping to anchor change and to counter the ego.
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Great talk and just what i needed. I loved the part about Adding an “emotionally laden” why to my intake to really help them be able to sustain change and not stay stuck.
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Amanda Sylvie says:
In the presentation today, the point I will implement immediately is the need for patients to identify their “why.” What it is that will have enough “gravity” in their life to cause them to change their habits.
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Purvi Shah says:
Working on 2 rapid relief at a time!
Hard not to get overly excited.
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Jeannie Hazey says:
I need to remember to emphasize the WHY!! I sometime do not remind my clients of the why and they lose momentum. They also need to understand that many things may be going on and making 1 change may not be enough for complete relief. So they need to not give that up but add to it. ..I like the “thumb tacts” way of explaining.
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Brittany Haugtvedt says:
Working on not overloading patients with expectations and giving analogies for the patient to better understand the goals.
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Denise Krackenberger says:
I love the point about becoming a master facilitator of the ability to motivate and implement change. It’s going to look different for so many clients because everyone has their personal and unique challenges
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Esther says:
I appreciate the “angering why” and necessity of finding that before someone is able to make sustainable changes.
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dawn pitner says:
Starting with a few basic habits for client to work on and progress with setting habit rituals then progressing from there given clients reception
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Donna says:
I really liked your affirmation to clients that they are the ones responsible for their healing and we are there to support them through the process.
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Viktoriya Pleshkan says:
So refreshing, thank you! I agree that motivation and confidence are absolutely necessary for someone to advance toward health. Change is not easy. I also liked your approach to involving inspiration, empowerment, and community concepts when addressing change!
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I love the reminder that my self care is imperative for me as a clinician. And to model this for my clients/patients.
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I find all of Tracy’s sessions incredibly inspiring and educational, but this session helped me realise why I feel so burnt out in practice. I will work to ditch the “rescuer” and focus more on the empowerment, providing opportunities and focusing on underlining the client’s accountability and keeping the “why” as the anchor for their motivation. Facilitating, not fixing!! Thank you for this.