Life Skills Coaching
College life can be stressful! That’s why taking care of your well-being is an important part of your success here at URI.
Life Skills Coaching aims to help you flourish and is a collaborative process that enhances your strengths and turns your challenges into victories.
Coaching can help you transform your educational experience to one of academic success, where you are happy, healthy, thriving, and engaged.
Coaching recognizes that you are the expert in your own life and every student’s life experiences are unique. The coach supports you in creating lifestyle changes aligned with your personal goals and values in a way that affirms your agency and ability to take responsibility for your academic and life experiences.
You will have the opportunity to discover your sense of purpose or define your personal mission, set goals with accountability, develop healthy mindsets, build powerful habits, and manage priorities, time, and stress.
Life Skills Coaching is:
- Positive
- Proactive
- Supportive
- Inclusive of all Social Identities
- Intercultural
How it Works:
Life Skills Coaching occurs in a 1:1 format, is a no-charge service for URI students, and is different from Counseling Services, as we are a private, not confidential resource and service. No personal health information will be collected or recorded.
Coaching provides multiple support options for URI’s diverse student population, where students who may be struggling receive services based on their needs—online resources, virtual workshops, and individual coaching sessions.
Coaching can help you set priorities, manage time, better cope with stress, successfully managing transitions, overcome obstacles, and create solid strategies with measurable action plans and individual accountability.
Common approaches to growth can range from simple changes in habits to developing healthy mindsets to achieve personal breakthroughs.
A prescreening questionnaire will be used to explore which dimension of wellness the student prefers to work on and allows them to identify their desired area(s) of focus for coaching.
Appointment Types/Topics:
- Self-Management – Addresses areas such as stress management, time management, organization, procrastination, and transition.
- Self-Leadership – Addresses areas such as purpose, calling, decision making, school-life balance, or spiritual growth
Option for both in-person or virtual.
During your sessions your coach will support you in:
- Identifying one or more priority areas that you would like to change.
- Recognizing the benefits of creating new, positive habits.
- Identifying barriers to performing at your best and come up with manageable solutions.
- Creating an action plan that incorporates realistic strategies and goals.
- Successfully implementing your plan by providing accountability, problem-solving strategies, skill-building, and referral to other campus resources if needed.
Initial wellness coaching session is approximately 1 hour in which you will meet with a Life Skills Coach. Follow-up sessions can be in-person, virtually, or phone as needed.