In Lieu of Therapists, Benchmark Opts for "Coaches"

[Deborah]

This fine NATSAP program, unlicensed, unaccredited, chooses "Coaches" over therapists.

Benchmark Young Adult School
Redlands, CA
Benchmark's Primary Coaches
Receive ICF Life Coach Certificates

Shelley Skaggs
Marketing & PR
714-963-4148
www.nextstepforsuccess.com, or read the recent articles about coaching on Strugglingteens.com website under "Essays" in the August issue at (www.strugglingteens.com).

NEXT STEP FOR SUCCESS
http://www.nextstepforsuccess.com/

EVER HIGHER LLC
http://everhigher.com/our_clients.htm

[ZenAgent]

Izzy Zehnder is probably looking for a coaching gig.

[try another castle]

I particularly love how the course to receive this dubious certification is only 39 hours.

Why hell, that's only two propheets worth of info there, boy. Gotta go thru all seven n' the two worky-shops ta really know what goes on in folks' noggins.

[psy]

This is typical program behavior.  Program gets threatened with licensing... so program changes wording to comply with law while still continuing with the same old behavior.

Instead of "counselors" benchamark counselors will now be known as "coaches".  They've taken a cue from Isabelle Zehnder... congratulations Izzy, you once again provide a valuable contribution to the fight against this industry (sarcasm very much intended).

HOLY FUCKING SHIT:
http://everhigher.com/our_clients.htm

CEDU was a client!

What it's supposed to do in black and white:
http://everhigher.com/PLworkshopdescription.htm
http://everhigher.com/PersonalLeadership.htm

Anybody know about these guys?:
http://everhigher.com/about_us.htm

[Anonymous]

Yeah, seems Izzy has hitched her wagon to the congressional hearings while at the same time distancing herself from the role she apparently played in assisting in the placement of youth into unregulated private programs through Sue Scheff of PURE.  

:puke:

[try another castle]

We are especially indebted to:  Mel Wasserman, the founder of emotional-growth education, for providing us with the experience of the power of transparent personal relationships;

This is their selling point? Ah.. mah.. gahd...


They seem to like to fling that term around... transparent... interesting euphemism for the same things we learned.

[psy]

We are especially indebted to:  Mel Wasserman, the founder of emotional-growth education, for providing us with the experience of the power of transparent personal relationships;

This is their selling point? Ah.. mah.. gahd...

Source please?  Oh the idiots at Benchmark keep making it easier and easier...

They seem to like to fling that term around... transparent... interesting euphemism for the same things we learned.

[try another castle]

We are especially indebted to:  Mel Wasserman, the founder of emotional-growth education, for providing us with the experience of the power of transparent personal relationships;

This is their selling point? Ah.. mah.. gahd...

Source please?  Oh the idiots at Benchmark keep making it easier and easier...

They seem to like to fling that term around... transparent... interesting euphemism for the same things we learned.

It was on the link you gave me, silly!

http://everhigher.com/PLworkshopdescription.htm

First sentence of the second paragraph.

[psy]

Anybody know these clowns?
http://everhigher.com/nextstep/certifiedcoaches.htm

Penelope Valentine, CC, is founder of   NEXT STEP FOR SUCCESSSM   and is a CTA Certified Coach.

Penelope brings a solid professional background of more than thirty-five years working in areas as diverse as airlines, corporate, private sector and non-profit administration, treatment center, and private education. Her educational background includes language studies, counseling, and alcohol and drug studies.

 

In 1987 Penelope made a major career and life-style change - moving from the corporate world to working with at-risk adolescents, young adults and their parents. She found a sense of fulfillment working in some of the country's premier emotional-growth schools and programs where she was instrumental in creating and developing a pioneer parent support and educational services department for parents of children enrolled in these specialty schools and programs.  She has an in-depth knowledge of specialty school curriculum and teachings, of the challenges faced when making the decision to enroll a child or when transitioning out of these schools, and of the recovery process.

 

As a CTA Certified Coach Penelope brings her passion and expertise to her coaching so that each client can realize their goals and achieve fulfillment.   It is her background as a counselor, teacher and administrator, along with her ability to guide, motivate and mentor, that gives Penelope unique skills.

 

Penelope is also co-founder of Ever Higher LLC and is responsible for the company's finance, marketing and logistics. Her talent for organization and logistical administration has supported more than a hundred workshops and seminars for Ever Higher LLC.

 

After growing up and living in five foreign countries, Penelope has put her roots down in Redmond, Oregon. Penelope is a step-mother and step-grandmother.  She and her husband, Bill, live in beautiful Central Oregon, where she enjoys gardening, the great outdoors and her pets.

 

Bill Valentine, PsyD., CC, is founder of Ever Higher LLC. In 1987, after a successful thirty-year business career in fields as diverse as grain merchandising, publishing, advertising and outdoor adventure, Bill Valentine began a quest for opportunities to combine personal growth with service to others.

His search led him to a group of private, residential schools serving at-risk youth. It was here, in his work with hundreds of young people and their families as counselor, director of wilderness programs, academic dean, parent educator and Executive Director of California Operations, that Bill learned first hand of our children's greatest need - for models of healthy, growing adults.

Modeling his belief that "if you're not dead, you're not done", Bill obtained his Master of Arts degree in Education, his Doctor of Psychology degree, his professional Coach Certification, completed three marathons and numerous triathlons, climbed more than 20 major mountains, and is 1800 miles into his walk of The Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada - all after the age of 40.

In 2000, he started his third business, Ever Higher LLC, offering coaching, consulting, seminars, workshops and outdoor adventures to adults wanting to increase their successes as leaders, parents, partners and friends. Bill has challenged and led thousands of growing adults to personal summits through his workshops and seminars.

Dr. Bill Valentine has 17 years sobriety.  He is a father and a grandfather, and lives in Redmond, Oregon, with his wife Penelope.

 

Vicki Jones, MS, CPC, is an Associate Coach with Next Step and has worked as a personal growth facilitator for the past 25 years.  She has advanced degrees in Psychology and Education, and decades of experience counseling teens, young adults and adults in self discovery and personal empowerment.

Since 1986 she has worked in the field of private secondary education with children and their families facing emotional and social adjustment challenges.  The past eight years have been devoted to creating and delivering personal growth and parenting workshops as a professional trainer, facilitator, and coach for parents as well as counselors and other staff.  In 2001 she completed her Professional Coaching Certification through the Academy for Coach Training and is a licensed Living Your Vision® workshop facilitator.  Vicki is committed to offering safe and supportive opportunities for her clients to be challenged to deeper levels of self-knowledge so they may experience greater fulfillment and life satisfaction.

 On a personal note, Vicki is an adventurous traveler, a voracious reader and a slow, but committed, runner.

OK.  I'm gonna go eat some brekkie, come back, and start raking mud...

[try another castle]

Oh my fucking god, Vicki. She was my challenge family head.

Since 1986 she has worked in the field of private secondary education with children and their families facing emotional and social adjustment challenges.

Yeah, that was called RMA, you moldy yam-sacks.



Wow.

Time....has...not...been...kind...to...her.


Saw something a while back that had her webpage for her own private "practice", but what I'm seeing here is all new.


***runs off to tell dishduty and idaho****

[Deborah]

This should get you started.

http://wwf.fornits.com/viewtopic.php?p=43357#43357
Mail order PhDs are not uncommon at CEDU In fact, they are very common at CEDU. Bill Valentine (in charge of parent services PhD) has a mail order Degtee that he braggs about on the CEDU website. I checked. The college doesn't offer the unacredited mail order PhDs anymore.
After meeting him, I couldn't understand how a PhD could be so ignorant - now I know.

http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?p=134814#134814
As a result of our family's experiences at RMA, not only has my son done well, but I was inspired to change my fown field of interest. I was a biologist and MBA ,and on the basis of my RMA interactions with Bill Valentine and with Mel Wasserman in the last Advanced Workshop that he gave at RMA, I entered the field of psychology. I was just granted my Masters' and am working on my Doctorate, and it is my hope to start a school of my own someday, keeping intact the ideas that Mel and his compatriates developed.
Ottawa5

http://www.strugglingteens.com/news/let ... 50403.html
CEDU closing
March 28, 2005
Gentlemen:
I write this with no thought of impressing upon you the impact your abrupt, insensitive and callous handling of the CEDU closure has had on hundreds of families across the country. If you were emotionally capable of being affected by this tragedy you have unleashed, you would have handled the incident compassionately - at least professionally. But then, CEDU, its families and staff have apparently always been just another business for you.

I was not surprised that Bob Naples and the revolving door of outside "experts" ran CEDU into the financial ground. However I was, and am, stunned by the total cowardice displayed by your organization in abandoning unpaid staff to safely see YOUR clients off the campuses and to their homes.

You may have firewalled yourselves from the financial ramifications, but you will forever be the objects of scorn, anger and - perhaps with the passage of time - pity.

Bill Valentine PsyD, CC
Bend, Oregon
everhigher@bendnet.com

[try another castle]

Bill was at RMA? When? I don't ever remember him. He must have gotten there in 90 or later. Or... I just don't remember him.


But seriously, this is so fucking great. Self-regulation at its most ridiculous. Fuck it, man, let's just certify ourselves!

[Deborah]

Coaching was big in Lifespring
http://www.lifespringnow.com/pages/about.htm

Landmark Education
http://www.landmarkeducation.com/section.jsp?top=21


A sponsor’s job is to help guide you through the 12 Steps. A coach’s job is to support you in creating and living a great life. A coach isn’t limited to referring to the steps and traditions of A.A. but can utilize those tools and many others to help you effectively find solutions to everyday occurrences. Coaching focuses your attention on manifesting your dreams and desires to aid you in accessing your highest values.

IS COACHING JUST ANOTHER FORM OF THERAPY?
Coaching was born as a result of great advances in psychotherapy and counseling, then blended with consulting practices and organizational and personal development training trends (such as EST, PSI Seminars, LifeSpring, LandMark Forum, Tony Robbins and others). Coaching takes the best each of these areas has to offer and provides a now standardized and proven method for partnering with people for success.
 
Unlike therapists, counselors and psychiatrists, Life Coaches focus on making changes for the future, rather than looking into the past to deal with issues or to understand human behavior. Coaching is about deepening the learning, forwarding the action, creating intentions and letting life feel fulfilled.

The ICF is a consortium of professional coaches and organizations that have joined together under it's auspices to shape and govern the profession of coaching. With more than 11,000 members in 82 countries, the skills sets, competencies, ethics and standards are a collective agreement between coaches from all over the world who have made the commitment to maintain the very highest standards you would expect from any other profession.
http://www.dreamliving.org/faqs

The Evolution from Therapy to Personal Development Coaching
http://www.support4change.com/change/co ... ution.html

http://board.rickross.com/viewtopic.php?t=1203

[psy]

Coaching is big with Premier Education as well (WWASP).

[psy]

Interesting..

Bill Valentine, CEDUs Parent Services Director, claims to have a PhD from Southern California University. I checked it out. It's a distance learning degree in Business and Management, unaccerdited, and currently they don't offer PhDs.

source: http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?p=22926#22926

Interesting.  Anybody know what it takes to run a background check on a person?