Originally Posted on The Coaching Tools Company as Coach FEATURE: Jean Gibson
We continue to meet our fellow coaches, get inspired and build coach community with our “Meet the Coach” features! This month we meet Jean Gibson.
About Jean
Lives In: Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Company: Active Personal Development
Type of Coach: Certified ADHD Life Coach, Professional Personal Performance Coach and WISDOM Coach.
Describe your coaching business in one sentence: As a Certified ADHD Life Coach a Qualified Professional Personal Performance Coach and WISDOM Coach with my ACC credential I help children, young people, families and professionals to improve and transform their lives, increasing self-confidence, self-esteem, resilience, career and work issues and challenges with neurodiversity empowering individuals to achieve change through Coaching.
Meet Jean
QUESTION 1. What one book should every coach read – and why?
The ADHD Support Handbook – A real life guide to empowering a child with ADHD and related conditions.
Gaining an understanding of how ADHD impacts an individual will enable coaches to recognise when someone with neurodiversity may need specialist support.
QUESTION 2. Which website do you visit the most?
I love The Coaching Tools Company and visit often to check out what’s new especially when the newsletter comes out. As a coach instructor I visit gov.uk, ADHDUK and The ADHD Foundation websites to gain insights and information on the UK based situation surrounding ADHD.
QUESTION 3. Whom do you admire most and why?
I currently admire my eldest daughter the most as she is so dedicated to supporting her children with their neurodiversity challenges despite having her own to deal with too. Seeking and fighting for the support they need relentlessly. She is a shining start but doesn’t know it.
QUESTION 4. What’s your vision for your life? Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
I am on a mission to touch the lives of at least 10,000 people & families who are struggling with ADHD to help them transform their lives through Coaching.
In 5 years I hope to have completed my second and third book along with a successful podcast that is in the top ten for Health and Wellbeing. My Coaching school or masterclasses are running two cohorts each year and I have at least 300 students having completed my training programme. I am mentoring new coaches.
QUESTION 5. What is your “big project” at the moment? OR What are your Top 3 Goals at the moment?
My Podcast called ‘The ADHD Revolution’ is about to launch. This is about raising the profile of ADHD to reduce the stigma and myths and change the story that currently exists about ADHD.
Growing my Facebook group The ADHD Revolution where I provide community, information and support for those living with ADHD.
Working to increase my visibility and voice advocating for those who are struggling and fighting with ADHD to get the support needed despite long wait times for assessments, lack of availability of medication or those turned down for requested help. I want to see real change in the profile of ADHD and recognition of the importance and the impact it can have on someone’s life.
QUESTION 6. What has been your favourite coaching moment so far?
I coached a young girl who was in year 5 of primary school in the UK (10 years old). She was full of anxiety, physical and mental struggles in dealing with change and every day life. I coached her for over a year on a number of occasions including her transition to secondary school (11 years old). Seeing her blossom and become happy was rewarding and helped me recognise the power of coaching not just for adults but children and young people too. She said I helped her to smile again!
QUESTION 7. What are your Top 3 favourite coaching tools and/or resources?
- The Life Wheel is useful for children and adults.
- VIA character Strengths is great to help individuals see their value and recognise what they are good at.
- Values Elicitation exercise.
QUESTION 8. What do you love most about being a coach?
The ability to help someone change their perspective on their lives and put strategies in place that help them get their needs met and make the changes in their lives they are seeking.
QUESTION 9. Tell us a secret about you…
I used to be able to tap dance and performed in ‘A Chorus Line’ as part of my dance class as a young adult. I love dancing and so it was fun learning to tap as an adult and being on stage performing to a cheering audience. For one time only!
QUESTION 10. If you could change one thing in our world, what would it be? And how would you go about it?
That all children were assessed for ADHD by the age of 6 years old and all teachers had training in ADHD and how to implement a curriculum with resources that met the needs of all children.
Funding from the government provides appropriate resources for all schools! Change in teacher training so that ADHD was a subject included as part of the standard teacher training qualification and not a specialist option.
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