On 4th April, 2011, an exciting event was held in celebration of the launch of the book "The Guide to Parents Coaching" by Maly Danino, CEO of Nitzan. The event was held in the shop "Book Worm" in Tel Aviv, attended by many friends, colleagues and acquaintances: board members, chairmen and Nitzan branch managers, volunteers, coaches, professionals, parents who had been through coaching with Nitzan, and friends of the Association.
The event was hosted by Sharon Ayalon CEO of the not-for-profit-organization, "Lev Ohev", who spoke about the special connection she has with Nitzan. "I met Maly through parenthood; we both came out of an interview and we started to talk, Maly about her first baby, her book, "the parent as a coach", and me about a parenting programme that I had just submitted. This coincidental meeting between us led to many more meetings over the coming years, through which we equipped several Nitzan branches with advanced computers, we raised funds for the computer literacy programme which is currently active in several Nitzan branches, and we share many more dreams together..."
The evening was opened with the warm and moving words of Ms. Ofra Elul, Chairperson of Nitzan.
This was followed by the blessings of, Ms. Dalia Shtenzler, CEO of Machon Yeadim, who assisted in the production of the book:
"Dearest Maly, we met over a year and a half ago, your eyes were particularly bright, you had the creation of a piece of work in your hand, The Parents Guide To Coaching". You realized the dream together with your team over years of hard work, and today the book was born, and published. Many books have been launched during my lifetime, but I have never before encountered a whirlwind like you. A combination of a professional, and a person of vision and dreams, a combination of great sensitivity and superb analytical insights, a combination of pioneering, and examining and analyzing every step of the way. Maly, Nitzan and its parents' activities would not work without you, it's a factory of life, and the products come together in the book that is before us, which you created together with Sivan, the meticulous researcher who wove together the elements to produce the creation that is before us."
About the book:
The Parents Guide to Coaching, as you define it, is a translation of meetings with parents, for a specific work plan. The book journeys through the need to respond to parents shared emotions, to changing behavioral patterns with the development of the parental coaching process.
- The template of the meetings creates the uniqueness of the book.
- The combination of the professional nature and insightfulness of the book, together with the wide range of ground experience is what distinguishes it.
- Many times I encounter professionals who want to write books based purely on theoretical analysis, or on the basis of a limited pilot. The Parents Guide to Coaching is a great mosaic of accumulated experience; the hundreds of examples in the book allow the coach and the professional to travel through an enormous variety of experiences.
- The book is written at a level that is also accessible to parents who are seeking to specialize in their role as a parent, if because, and I told you this several times, the amazing success of the model that you invented with the Nitzan team, will be the third book, that will reach every parent in the world.
- The book is universal, the examples are universal.
- The language is picturesque. I liked the fine key phrases that were woven into the book such as:
"The parents need help conceptualizing their emotions" or "the coach is like someone who is shining a flashlight". Or terms from the literary metaphorical world such as: "separation of colors" which refers to learning parent- child dialogue without prejudice on the part of the parent. "Navigation pages." And more...
· The structure of the book is important: 12 meetings and one more, where in each meeting patterns are repeated. In each meeting there are background words that include the objectives of the meeting.
· Every encounter was conducted with the use of theoretical examples including the types of difficulties and needs that brought parents to the meetings. For every meeting there are guiding questions and recommendations for parent-coach dialogue, and for every meeting there are exercise pages for guidance in creating a "journey diary". In addition, for every meeting there is a graphical summary for the chapter, and work pages and feedback pages, which present the possibility of an end to instruction and a transition to the individual level. The 13th meeting is also research-based and unique- taking place half a year later that the previous meetings it allows for reflection. Maly's personality as a professional woman, who wove together with a skillful hand, the messages and team work that constituted the process of creating the model that is in the book, can be summed up in words that Maly herself expressed: "Where to start? asks the parent. From wherever is convenient for you, from wherever suits you to start..." When reading the book is it advisable to read it in the same way: from where to start? From the introduction of course, but then where to continue in order to understand? From the end to the beginning, from the sections with examples... every way in which one reads the book will be suitable.
And a word to the young and vibrant Sivan, who was always on the ball. The researcher that cares about details, the ongoing dialogue between her and Liram from Machon Yeadim taught us the great important of every word in the educational process, on the importance of every graph that was drawn to summarize a chapter. The importance placed upon testing and examining every detail, was a reflection of the process, and a reflection of the hard work and the meaning of what was done.
As The Guide to Parents Coaching was cooked up in Maly's kitchen, it will not serve as a professional book that will rest on the shelf, but it will act as a life guide for professionals as well as for hundreds and thousands of parents that need it in everyday life; furthermore the stories add another dimension to reading the book.
Dear Maly, and Michal, who leads the field of parents at Nitzan, and whose experience with working with the groups is presented in the book.
The lovely Sivan, who wrote "coaching is a masterpiece, and if you will, art work", and indeed it is, The Guide to Parents Coaching is a masterpiece.
Esther Varchel Streit, an author, my friend and my teacher, once said to me about a children's book that I wrote, that every book is born with its own luck. I have no doubt that this book was born with a lot of luck, and also out of a lot of love for the topic and for the parents' family at Nitzan.
Well done!
Ms. Dalia Shtenzler, CEO of Machon Yeadim and all the Yeadim family.
Maly Danino, with great emotion, warmly thanked all the guests and all those who had been part of producing the book. First and foremost I would like to thank Anat Katzenelson, the coordinator of Nitzan's Coaching program. Only thanks to her was I introduced to the world of coaching and learned about its potential. To Michal Moldawsky, Director of parents programs in Nitzan, for her belief and work in the coaching programs. I would like to thank Sivan Haft-Naftali, who worked day and night gathering the knowledge, the parent's stories etc. I would like to thank Ofra Elul' for her endless support on each phase of the process of developing Nitzan's parents programs and especially Nitzan's coaching programs. Ofra believed in this book and made sure it will be published. There are many more people who became an integrated part of the process; Professor Tzippi Schechtman, Mr. Shalom Rotem, Nitzan's students, parents, coaches and many other good people without whom the book would not have been published.
Hannah Zimmerman, mother of 2 learning disabled children, spoke about the amazing change that Nitzan has made to her life.
Michal Moldawsky, head of the parents department at Nitzan, gave her blessings to Maly, on behalf of all of the Nitzan staff.
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