CONVENTIONAL THERAPY – PROBLEM SOLVING

PERSONAL COACHING – POSSIBILITY CREATION

Personal strengthening

Personal evolution

Exploring and discovering the client

Empowering the client

Triage – Where does it hurt, what’s happening?

Visioning – what’s possible, creating dreams/goals

Why is this happening to me?  Why this?

What’s next?  What now? How can I?

Overcoming obstacles

Sustaining a flow – obstacles are new opportunities

Operating from an unconscious-conscious level

Operating from a conscious-consciousness level

Moving away from

Moving toward

Looking backward

Being present NOW, focusing forward

Cognitive behavior problems examined

Actively challenging and building new behavior

Needs help – fix me, I am broken/dysfunctional

Wants to partner with coach for transformation

Stuck in pain – don’t know what to do

Frustrated by obstacles –&unresolved conflicts/limits

Focus: Past-present

Focus: Present-future

Focus: Issue resolution

Focus: Life design – on-purpose life – intentional

Driven by unresolved experiences

Choosing new behaviors, goals and actions

Takes information in

Acts on information received

Discussion-oriented, feelings-based

Action oriented, possibility-based

Focused on self & past understanding

Focused on NOW and reaching self-potential

Therapist: Nurturing, supportive, telling

Coach: Catalyzing, challenging, asking

Asks why? (why keeps us in the past)

Asks what? (what is now possible, what can I do?)

Usually a slower, measured, methodical pace

Often an accelerated pace – results oriented

Relationship: Patient-client

Relationship: Coach-Client

Medical model

Performance model

Treatment

Possibility Co-creation

Healing

Achievement – desired outcomes (healing may occur)

Four Basic Questions to Ask the Client: 1. What are you moving towards?2. What is motivating you to change?3. What are some of the possibilities in getting there? 4. What if you get a different result?