What are some ways we can help our clients inhabit an energy of trust? Awareness of the doubt state. Our clients must first become aware that doubt is there so …
A Great Exercise for Exploring Trust with Your Clients
This is an effective exercise you can go through with your clients to gauge where their level of trust is. The categories can be changed as needed. Have your client …
What Do You Really Think of Your Clients?
Many years ago when I was a new coach I learned a valuable lesson about my own capacity for trusting and respecting my clients. A man in his late twenties …
20 Great Questions to Shift a Client Out of Blame
“When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not a part of you, that there is no one who is not a part of you, …
A Path for Reframing Perspectives
Human beings are meaning making machines. We learn the meaning of things from an early age from our individual culture and the significant others in our lives. The meaning or …
3 Tips for Working with Resistance
Resistance is one of the main obstacles to change for our clients. Resistance makes it very difficult for our clients to reframe the limiting perspectives they hold. These perspectives, however …
8 Considerations for Working with Visualization
Visualization is a technique that utilizes the power of our will and our imagination to create mental images and feelings of what we want to manifest in our lives. One …
Working with Underlying Beliefs
We’ve all heard the saying, “Our beliefs create our reality,” but what does this really mean? Beliefs form the lens through which we see the world. Since they are “you”, …
15 Strategies to Maximize Self Awareness
The role of all coaches is to create a space where our clients become more and more self-aware. Transformational coaching as an approach seeks to go beyond general self awareness by dropping …
Overcoming Judgment Through Expansion: A Deep Coaching Technique
Visualize your consciousness like a bubble or an energy field that surround you. When you are stuck in your intellect, in emotional duress, judging others in a critical fashion, or …
Johari Window
To develop awareness, it’s essential to take an honest look at who you truly are. From self-awareness to self-realization to self-actualization….that is the journey of life. This is also the …
4 Levels of Awareness & Engagement
This is an extremely helpful model which reveals how we engage with our life situations and issues. It is also an excellent guide for coaches to distinguish the transactional coaching realm …