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Attitudes, Thinking and Behaviour Transforming Rehabilitation Conference, 9/12/13 Baillie Aaron, Executive Director & Cofounder. Agenda. Background Life Coaching Spark Inside Success Metrics Track Record Partners & Supporters TR Opportunities and Challenges. Background.
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Attitudes, Thinking and Behaviour Transforming Rehabilitation Conference, 9/12/13 Baillie Aaron, Executive Director & Cofounder
Agenda • Background • Life Coaching • Spark Inside • Success Metrics • Track Record • Partners & Supporters • TR Opportunities and Challenges
Background • 18 to 25 year-olds are over-represented in the CJS • 10% of population vs 33% in CJS • Reconviction rates of 76% (prison) and 67% (community sentence) • Why? • Need for specialised innovation
Life Coaching Delving into clients’ values, motivations and goalsby asking powerful, open-ended questions that engage them in guided self-reflection around their motivation to change NO: • Advice, suggestions or guidance • Mentoring • Counselling or therapy (incl. CBT) • Sharing of experiences • Teaching
Life Coaching: Evidence Base • Proven international model • PACT (Canada): 43% success rate • Strong research base • Men and women, young and old • Offending; drug and alcohol misuse; self-esteem and aspirations; employment and education • Based in neuroscience • Institute of Coaching is at Harvard Medical School
Spark Inside • What we do: • Pure life coaching • Clients: aged 15 to 25 in the CJS, London/Kent • Coaches: pre-qualified/accredited life coaches (e.g., ICF, AFC) • One-to-one coaching • Through-the-gates (15 sessions: 9 in, 6 out) • In the community (8 sessions) • Group coaching: the Hero’s Journey • In custody and in the community (1 to 3 sessions)
Spark Inside • One-to-one coaching is best for clients who: • Want to change but don’t know how • Leaving a gang • Getting out of crime • Are going through a transition • Change in location • Youth to adult prison/supervision • Group coaching also supports those who don’t want to change / aren’t ready yet
Success Metrics • Identification of passions, skills, strengths and ambitions • Focused, active goal pursuit • Active engagement in meaningful education, employment, or training • Improved soft skills • Reduced offending / associated risk factors
Track Record • Pilot (2013) • 50% engaged in employment, education and training • 0% reconvicted for a new crime • Independent evaluation • University of Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology
Partners & Supporters • Close collaboration with probation/prison officers and complementary charities/companies York House Group YJB Evidence Awards national finalist
TR Opportunities and Challenges • Opportunities • Flexibility and responsiveness to client, market and partner needs • Partnership-working • Challenge: Innovation vs… • Track record • Cashflow to support PBR/risk transfer • Immediate scale • Human capital to work on bids / access social investment • Access to research
Contact Spark Inside Baillie Aaron, Executive Director exec@sparkinside.org www.sparkinside.org @spark_inside
Addenda • Life coaching vs mentoring • Life coaching: theory of change • Life coaching demo video
Life Coaching: Theory of Change Coaching addresses skills deficits, builds long-term cognitive ability and enablesself-sufficiency by: • building a growth-promoting relationship • eliciting motivation for change • improving capacity to change (positivity, resilience, and self-efficacy) • facilitating the process of change (constructive development) Supporting theories include: social cognitive; adult development; nonviolentcommunication; immunity to change; solution-oriented therapy; positive psychology;mindfulness; self-determination theory; relational/cultural theory; emotionalintelligence; and relational flow.