Strategic Coaching

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Strategic Coaching Corporate Consulting
(S3C)Application of the Strategic Model to
Multicultural Context
International Congress of Brief, Strategic
Systemic Therapists San Diego, CA September 12
13, 2008

• Christian Moretto, LMSW, MBST
• Director of Strategic Therapy Interventions of
  NY
• Giovanna Rosciglione, Psychologist, PhD
• Brief Strategic Therapist Center Affiliated
  Therapist
• http//www.strategic-therapyandinterventions.com

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If you give a fish to a man you feed for one
day, if you teach him how to fish you feed him
for life
Chinese proverb

• Our Project
• To introduce the application of Brief Strategic
  Therapy to multicultural contexts from the
  clinical sector to the corporate area.
• To provide participants with tools, techniques,
  and a different viewpoint in the way they
  communicate with, interact with, and work with
  patients or collaborators from a different
  cultural or ethnic background.

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Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for
the limits of the world Arthur Schopenhauer
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The meeting of two personalities is like the
contact of two chemical substances if there is
any reaction, both are transformed Carl Gustav
Jung

• This is what can happen into multicultural
  contexts, where people of different origins and
  culture have to interact.
• Unfortunately most of the time these interactions
  are dysfunctional.
• Following a strategic approach it is possible to
  transform a dysfunction multicultural
  interactions into a functional one.

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• At the beginning of 2007, the idea to unite the
  experiences of strategic consulting in Italy and
  Europe with the application of the strategic
  approach in the context of drug addiction
  treatment agencies in New York City was born.
• These agencies deal with treating drug abuse and
  the underlying psychosocial disorders in a
  multicultural context.
• These agencies are also employing collaborators
  from very different ethnic and cultural
  background.
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• The well-established experience of the Center of
  Strategic Therapy (CST) in the organizational
  area, has allowed the two strategic
  consultants/therapists to create evolved modules
  of training interventions targeting clinical,
  communication, and organizational problem-solving
  objectives for the clinical staff in a medical
  and drug treatment agency in New York City.
• This training received the official recognition
  of the New York State (OASAS) and has been
  designed to be easily adaptable to any agency,
  organization or businesss Human Resources.

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• These modules of intervention were presented to
  counselors, therapists and medical doctors at
  West Midtown Medical Group in New York with three
  primary objectives
• to introduce the theoretical postulates of the
  Strategic Approach,
• to provide the clinical staff with the principles
  of communication to facilitate and improve
  communication with patients and colleagues from a
  different culture,
• to offer staff concrete and immediately
  applicable problem-solving tools that the
  clinical staff could use during their career with
  patients and their personal lives.

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• Strategic Coaching Corporate Consulting desire
  is to support the clinical and corporate worlds
  with a Strategic Approach.
• Our experience has allowed us to verify that the
  use of Strategic Dialogue is the most functional
  way to implement the Strategic Approach into a
  multicultural context.

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• In fact, the use of strategic approach permits to
  be able to speak and to use the language of the
  patient or the collaborator to reach the agreed
  objective.

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Working on objectives

• Leaving from the objective
• (arrival point)
• building and negotiating backwards at least 10
  agreed upon steps towards the starting point.

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• It is not necessary, and further its impossible,
  to perfectly know each culture and cultural
  context.
• Using the stratagem leaving later to arrive
  earlier (strategic dialogue), we can enter and
  intervene in each cultural frame by following the
  leads and guiding the person we are interacting
  with.

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to
  be, and you help them to become what they are
  capable of being. 
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe