Attitudes, Thinking and Behaviour Transforming Rehabilitation Conference, 9/12/13 Baillie Aaron, Executive Director & Cofounder.

Attitudes, Thinking and BehaviourTransforming 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 goals by 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

YJB Evidence Awards national finalist

York House Group

Close collaboration with probation/prison officers and complementary charities/companies

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 [email protected]@spark_inside

Addenda

• Life coaching vs mentoring• Life coaching: theory of change• Life coaching demo video

Life Coaching Vs. Mentoring

Coaching MentoringProfessional certification Life experience

Related life experience unnecessary

Related life experience necessary

No advice Advice and guidance

Client has answers Mentor has answers

Setting/reaching specific goals General professional development

Structured & fixed-term Informal and ongoing

Life Coaching: Theory of Change

Coaching addresses skills deficits, builds long-term cognitive ability and enables self-sufficiency by:

(1) building a growth-promoting relationship (2) eliciting motivation for change(3) improving capacity to change (positivity, resilience, and self-

efficacy)(4) facilitating the process of change (constructive

development)

Supporting theories include: social cognitive; adult development; nonviolent communication; immunity to change; solution-oriented therapy; positive psychology; mindfulness; self-determination theory; relational/cultural theory; emotional intelligence; and relational flow.