FIRST: COMPLETE THE WELL-BEING COACHING INITIAL FORM
If you’d like to sign up for coaching, please complete this initial form and our Well-being Coaching Lead will be in touch with more details.
Well-being Coaching Cornell Tech
What is Well-being Coaching?
Well-being Coaching is a free service available to Cornell Tech graduate students to help them set and pursue their well-being goals.
Well-being coaches are trained to partner with students in one-on-one, evidence-based conversations structured around the changes they want to make in their lives. Coaches work to create a strengths-based and collaborative conversation space for students to self-identify ways to get unstuck, maximize their personal and professional potential, and become the best versions of themselves.
*Please note: Well-being Coaching is not a counseling, clinical, or mental health service. If you are seeking mental health services at Cornell Tech, please visit our website here. Additionally, sttudents who would like to work on issues or concerns that are outside the scope of coaching will be referred to appropriate resources.
SIGN UP FOR WELL-BEING COACHING
NEXT: Complete the VIA character strengths
All coaching meetings will start with a review of your VIA character strengths. Character strengths are the positive parts of your personality that impact how you think, feel and behave. Scientists have identified 24 character strengths that you can express. By taking the VIA Survey you will discover your unique character strengths profile. Knowing and applying your highest character strengths is the key to you being your best self.
You can see the full listing of strengths and virtues here.
Contact us
If you have any questions, please email studentwellness@tech.cornell.edu.
Well-being Coaching Information
Learn more about Well-being Coaching
How can Well-being Coaching help?
Well-being Coaches partner with students in one-on-one meetings to help them:
• Find and maximize their strengths, values, and motivation for change.
• Create their own well-being vision and goals.
• Navigate barriers.
• Connected to additional support/resources.
What Well-being Coaching is & is not
- Privacy/Confidentiality:
– Well-being coaching is Private.– Not confidential. - Staff training & licensure:
– Well-being coaches are professional staff who have participated in training as coaches.
– Not licensed mental health or health professionals in their coaching roles. - Relationship with student:
– Collaborative partnership model, student-as-expert, and action-oriented.
– Not a provider-patient model, coach-as-expert, or coping/treatment-oriented. - Scope:
– Provides support by enhancing holistic well-being, mental health promotion, and overall (self-defined) success.- Does not provide counseling, therapy, assessment, consultation, or treatment for mental health concerns. - Goals:– Help students identify, strengthen, and utilize their unique strengths and values in the service of pursuing goals and directions that are aligned with their desired well-being outcomes. Help students to explore, generate, and try out different strategies, approaches, and resources to support overall change and well-being. Help students to develop their distinctive voice and identify what well-being means, looks, and feels like to them.- Does not try to teach students what they should or should not do on their journey toward resolving or managing their concerns. Does not try to help students identify, treat, or resolve specific “weaknesses,” symptoms, or problems. Does not provide/prescribe specific health, psychological, or medical advice.
- Focus:– Emphasis on students’ potential to move forward in meaningful directions and focus on the future.- Does not emphasize helping students to resolve issues from the past.
- View of well-being:– Responsive to students’ unique identities, culture, and experiences of power and oppression and how this shapes their experience in the coaching alliance and understanding of well-being.- Does not prescribe a “one size fits all” approach to well-being based on “normative” health and wellness practices.
Meet your Well-being Coaches
Darshita Dhanak
Student Life & Wellness Specialist
Student & Academic Affairs
(she/her)
- Darshita’s signature strengths: Judgement, Humor, Curiosity, Teamwork, and Honesty
- Ways Darshita supports her well-being: The primary ways I support my own well-being are by working out, spending time with family and mindful meditation. I ensure I carve out time in the day to do something active and practice gratitude.
- Personal interests: My personal interests include dancing and performative arts. I have studied film-making and theatre, so I like to keep updated on the latest plays, shows and movies. I’m also interested in traveling, and playing sports. Most of my time outside of work is spent with loved ones exploring new places and watching binge-worthy shows!
Tyler Rhorick
Director, Studio Programming
Studio Team, Cornell Tech
(he/him/his)
- Tyler’s signature strengths: Humor, Creativity, Forgiveness, Perspective, Fairness
- Ways Tyler supports his well-being: I prioritize my well-being by cooking nutritious meals and unwinding through my love of movies, utilizing AMC A-list to enjoy the latest films. These activities help me relax and maintain balance in my busy schedule.
- Personal interests: I have a passion for art, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and food. I enjoy exploring the intersection of technology and human connection, mentoring emerging innovators, and finding new ways to challenge myself. Whether it’s through travel, pursuing my EMBA at Cornell, or mentoring future leaders in tech, I am always seeking new ways to grow.