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Emotional Self-Management as a Self-Care Tool

By Carilu Torres | June 10, 2024

The Prosperity Agenda believes in a balanced Family-Centered Coaching environment where the coach guides the participant to agency. However, to be an effective coach, being able to regulate one’s emotions, behaviors, thoughts, and physical well-being is of utmost importance.  Self-Management then promotes better personal and professional outcomes and is an essential part of the coaching process.   What is Self-Management? Self-management is a crucial skill to keep a good work-life balance for the coach.  Self-management is being aware of one’s strengths and weaknesses and managing both time and resources. It can be divided into four elements: …

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Embracing Change: Nurturing a Coaching Culture with an FCC Approach

By Rachel Brooks | May 28, 2024

In today’s dynamic and fast-paced business landscape, the need for effective leadership and continuous improvement is more vital than ever. Organizations striving for success recognize the importance of fostering a coaching culture that empowers individuals, enhances teamwork, and drives organizational growth. But how can you cultivate such a culture within your own organization? Join us for an engaging and enlightening webinar as we delve into the art of fostering a robust coaching culture with an FCC (Feedback, Communication, Collaboration) approach. Our esteemed panelists, comprising seasoned experts in the field, will share innovative strategies and insights …

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Executive Coaching for Nonprofit Leaders: For a Limited Time Only!

By Jomaris DeJesus | May 8, 2024

How can you better cope with stress and burnout? What challenges in the workplace are keeping you up at night? Our exclusive Executive Coaching service, specifically tailored for leaders at human service agencies, can help you address these challenges, or simply provide you with an objective sounding board. Led by two distinguished leaders at The Prosperity Agenda. For a limited time only our very own Executive Director Jomaris DeJesús will be offering 1:1 coaching sessions: Jomaris is a Certified Holistic Life Coach and Certified Entrepreneur Coach, with extensive experience in nonprofit leadership and a profound …

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Cultivating Self-Awareness with a Coaching Lens

By Jomaris DeJesus | April 3, 2024

Self-awareness is the compass that guides human services practitioners and coaches toward authentic connection, compassionate support, and transformative change. Cultivating self-awareness isn’t just beneficial in the dynamic field of human services—it’s foundational. It serves as a crucial element of coaching practices, providing practitioners with a vital lens through which to navigate the complexities of their work. As practitioners engage with diverse individuals and communities to address multifaceted social issues, the practice of self-awareness emerges as an essential tool for fostering meaningful relationships and improves the coaches ability to help participants gain self-awareness. Understanding Self-Awareness as …

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Mastering the Art of Effective Feedback with a Coaching Approach: For Human Service Professionals

By Jomaris DeJesus | March 5, 2024

Feedback built on a Coaching Approach: At the foundation of a coaching approach is a coaching mindset, rooted in curiosity, non judgment, and a genuine desire to support others, acknowledging the resourcefulness and capabilities from every person over our own perceptions or opinions. By cultivating a coaching approach and culture of coaching within organizations,  individuals are empowered to self reflect, own decisions and grow.  Creating a safe space of effective feedback is a key element in establishing a culture of coaching, because it encourages individual and organizational growth. The Power of Feedback through the Coaching …

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Coaching is Transformational for People Experiencing Poverty

By Jomaris DeJesus | February 2, 2024

Families can find navigating support for poverty as frustrating as poverty itself.  It adds pressure, stress and challenges that can deter people from seeking services all together. Practitioners working with these families can have tight constraints to the support they can offer which can feel draining and demoralizing. Family-Centered Coaching (FCC) was designed a as holistic approach to address these collective problems. It is a set of strategies, tools, and resources designed to strengthen the way human service providers engage with families and community partners. Organizations that have received training in FCC report a greater, more …

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Leaders in Family-Centered Coaching: MS Cohort Training Scholarships

By Rachel Brooks | January 8, 2024

The Prosperity Agenda is excited to announce the launch of our Family-Centered Coaching (FCC) Intensive Training Cohort and scholarship opportunities. This is a unique offering for human service organizations based in Mississippi who are committed to empowering families. Through a grant from W.K. Kellogg Foundation, our Leaders in Family-Centered Coaching program will provide scholarships for staff at five eligible organizations in Mississippi to attend this intensive training. About Family-Centered Coaching FCC is a set of strategies, tools, and resources that help human service organizations reinvent how they engage with, and help, families that are experiencing …

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Coaching Spotlight: Using Money Mindset Cards in Monthly Workshop

By Rachel Brooks | February 3, 2023

John McKenney is the Financial Education Coordinator for a government agency in Washington State. He provides a range of financial education workshops free of charge to organizations, schools, and groups in Washington State. He’s a partner and/or board member to governmental organizations, non-profit organizations, private organizations, educational service districts and school districts across the state, all with the underlying goal of providing financial education services to everyone, but with a focus on families, communities, and specific groups of people who have experienced generations of poverty or who have been historically marginalized and discriminated against. I …

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Innovative Approaches to Family-Centered Coaching: Six Partner Experiences

By Rachel Brooks | August 12, 2021

Family-Centered Coaching is not a one-size-fits-approach. As we’ve worked with organizations around the country we’ve been honored to see each live into the approach in their own way. Through a culture of learning, coaches and their leadership have built the relationships and continuous improvement to center programs on the services that families need and deserve. Through the leadership and learning we facilitate, we often hear from our partners how they are innovating. We interviewed staff at six organizations to capture how each are continuing to develop their practice of coaching and build coaching teams and culture. As you …

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Community-Centered Design for Racial Equity in New Orleans

By Rachel Brooks | May 1, 2021

In February 2020, at a momentous time globally, we launched the long-planned Family-Centered Coaching for Racial Equity Project in partnership with W.K. Kellogg Foundation and eight organizations committed to advancing racial equity. We are guided by community members and stakeholders in each step of our process. Read more about how we first launched our working group, mapped local stakeholders, and created the New Orleans Community Insight Report. Our next step was to facilitate a design process with a team of community members and stakeholders. Facilitating a Community-Centered Design Process Design sessions were held online over four meetings in April and …

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