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The ACTP Summer Institute
Portland, Oregon August 10 - August 13, 2025
Non-Member
$800
Member
$550
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Venue Information
Hilton Portland Downtown
$149.00 Per Night
(503) 226 - 1611
921 SW 6th Ave.
Portland, Or 97204
Portland Downtown
Portland in August is generally warm and dry with low humidity. Temperatures peak in August with an average daily high of 81°F (27°C), and rain is rare. The evenings are long, and numerous festivals and fairs are happening throughout the month.
Pre-Work Assignments
Introduction to Academic Coaching
- How we think – Paradigm Shift
- Brief History of Coaching
- Why and what is academic coaching?
- Coaching Alliance
- Difference between coaching and other support activities
Ethics and Coaching the Student
- Ethics and Trust
- Informed Consent
- Confidentiality
Theoretical Foundations of Academic Coaching
- Choice / Reality Coaching
- Humanistic Coaching
- Coaching through Positive Psychology
- Neuro Linguistic Programming
- Solutions Focused Brief Coaching
- Prochaska and Di Clementi
- Stages of change
- Cognitive Behavior Coaching
- Cognitive Distortion
- Cognitive Restructuring
- Questioning
- Rational Emotive Behavioral Coaching
Developing non-cognitive traits that support student success
- Self-regulation
- Self-esteem
- Self-efficacy
- Self-Determinism (motivation)
- Agentic, assertiveness, grit
- Locus of Control
- Motivation
Appreciative Coaching
- Appreciative Inquiry and Coaching
- Principles of appreciative inquiry
- How to develop inquiries focused on student strengths
- Appreciated coaching and interviewing strategies
- How to assist students to design steps to achieve dreams
Developing the Coach
- Assessment of emotional intelligence
- Key concepts of emotional intelligence
- How to coach for Emotional Intelligence in coaching
- The emotional intelligence competency model
- Best practices in coaching emotional intelligence
Coaching the student
- Building Trust
- Active Listening
- Nonverbal behaviors
- How to Ask questions
- Goal-Setting
- Establishing Trust and Rapport
- Beginning and Ending a Session
- 5 A’s plus additional models
Toolbox Support
- Metacognitive strategies
- Workshops
Motivational Interviewing
- OARS
- DARN
- CAT
Assessments in Coaching
- Learn how to use assessment tools:
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
- Coaching Questionnaire
- Observe modeling of how to incorporate assessments into coaching sessions.
- Learn how to integrate assessment results into your feedback coaching preparation process
- Practice giving assessment feedback
- Understand the ethical use of assessment tools
Coaching Program Presentation
- Program Name
- Mission
- Values
- Motto & slogan
- Organizational structure
- Measurable outcomes
Institute Refund Policies
*Requests for registration refunds of the must be made in email 15 days prior to the event minus a $50 processing fee. Requests for refunds of the Institute after 15 days prior to the event will not be honored unless they are requested in writing and are extenuating circumstance. ACTP reserves the right to offer a credit to the following institute.
Requests made 5 days prior to the Institute date will not be considered.
Payments by institutions will be refunded to the institutions and payments made by individuals will be returned to the individual.