Important Details for This Meeting

There is no meeting at the Embassy Suites this evening.

Registration closes Monday, February 2, 2015.

NAPO-New England members:
Member registration for this event is required.
The Promo Code for this meeting is on the members' home page of our website. 
Please obtain the code before you try to register below. 

Visitors: $25
The visitor fee refunded to individuals who join NAPO-NE as a
Regular or  Associate Member within 10 days of date of follow-up email sent.

Beyond Basics and Systems:
Organizing to Support Personal Development
Denslow Brown, CPO-CD 

Are we willing to say we are there for the personal development of the client"?
This is a shift in how we see our role, and the tools are out there to help us do this.
 

Introduction/Overview

• Acknowledge the impacts of traditional organizing: clear out backlog and set-up systems
• Recognize the sometimes additional benefits of traditional organizing: client insights, a fresh start they can use, new skills
• Consider the powerful impact we could offer/facilitate for our clients’ in the Opening for Change they stand in when they ask for organizing support.
• The organizing process invites (even requires) the client to develop his/her self-awareness and potential. The addition of simple coaching skills allows us to reveal and anchor client curiosity, self-knowledge and positivity.  (Specific coaching skills and language provided)
• Basic coaching models (e.g., Awareness/Action/Learning) goes even further to deepen client personal development (tools for a lifetime: perspectives and self-talk, motivation, understanding one’s strengths and how to protect and leverage them, etc.)
• Optional homework/exercise at the end for participants to do in pairs on their own

Presentation Benefits:

• For those new (or somewhat new) to coaching, this will be a new perspective on their work and will offer specific tools they can use (and use with more awareness). 
• For those with coaching experience, this is also an invitation to fully embrace your role as pivotal to the personal development of your client – and provides exposure to the application of coaching skills and models, which may not have been considered previously.
• The relationship that attending professional organizers and productivity specialists can have with their clients will be strengthened by connecting more deeply with their client’s life and capacity to fulfill what matters most to them. Coaching communication strategies and client partnerships allow the development of this connection and capacity.

About Denslow Brown, CPO-CD

Denslow has been a professional organizer since 1974 and a mentor coach and ADD coach since 1997.  Denslow was an original member-subscriber of both NAPO and the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization (now The Institute for Challenging Disorganization) and has remained active in both organizations. Concern for her clients and a family diagnosis led her to research adult ADHD in the early 1990s and she quickly found her way to coach and ADHD coach training.Denslow has been a professional organizer since 1974 – and a mentor coach and ADD coach since 1997.  Denslow was an original member-subscriber of both NAPO and the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization (now The Institute for Challenging Disorganization) and has remained active in both organizations. Concern for her clients and a family diagnosis led her to research adult ADHD in the early 1990s and she quickly found her way to coach and ADHD coach training.

Denslow is a CPO, as well as a CPO-CD and a Level V Master Trainer with ICD.  She is a Master Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation, coaching’s highest credential. Denslow is a frequent presenter at the annual national and international conferences in the three fields addressed in her work (organizing, coaching and ADHD).

A past board member of NAPO, Denslow has been honored with their President’s and Founders’ Awards and with ICD’s Judith Kolberg Award in 2012.

Denslow's Publications, available from www.OrganizerCoach.com
The Processing Modalities Guide
Recognizing & Respecting the Lines Distinguishing Organizing Coaching & Psychotherapy

Professional Organizer Training offered through Denslow’s Coach Approach for Organizers™
www.CoachApproachforOrganizers.com
Professional organizers are trained to use coaching skills in their work with  clients via teleclasses.
Through The Institute for Applied Coaching, Denslow credentials Certified Organizer Coaches^® 

NAPO-New England members:
Member registration for this event is required.
The Promo Code for this meeting is on the members' home page of our website. 

Visitors: $25
The visitor fee refunded to individuals who join NAPO-NE as a
Regular or  Associate Member within 10 days of date of follow-up email sent.

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Snow Cancellation Policy

In case of inclement weather, the NAPO-NE Board of Directors may cancel our monthly NAPO-NE business meeting in order to ensure safety. Should there be a snow emergency declared in the city of Waltham, MA, the President and the Treasurer will make a decision regarding the meeting no later than 2pm that same day. The President will direct the website committee to reflect the change on the NAPO-New England website, will send out an email to the membership, and will notify the Boston/Waltham Embassy Suites of the meeting cancellation. Members should not call the Boston/Waltham Embassy Suites. Liaisons to Programming, Greeters, Associate Members, Facilitator, etc. will contact appropriate people to inform them of the cancellation.

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