Ch 9 - Generative Moments Flashcards
What is a generative moment?
Moments when clients are aroused along the path of change and growth.
Generative moments inspire clients to generate new ideas or insights or uncover capacities which lead to bold actions that can positively affect their future
Generative moments are pivotal moments when clients feelings, needs, and desires are investigated around the topic that they have an emotional charge around (positive or negative)
GM are mini-transformations that energize both client and coach and catalyze the next stage of the client’s progress
Generative moments engage all of one’s coaching skills to energize and help clients stretch towards their goals.
What is the most important thing for the coach to remember about the generative moment?
That generative moments are about the client’s needs and desires.
Topics can include things clients want less of (aversive indicators) or things clients wan more of (attractive indicators)
The coach should be attentive for topics the client has strong emotions around
When do generative moments occur within coaching sessions?
In the Wellcoaches ongoing coaching session the GM occurs after the weekly goal review and before setting new goals.
This would be in between the warm up phase (establishing connection, exploring and appreciating recent events and experience around client goals and defining the topic) and the cool down phase (identifying goals and developing innovative strategies)
Ideally generatively is woven throughout the entire coaching session
In the Wellcoaches First Session checklist the GM can occur during the vision setting process.
Who is responsible for generating a generative moment? Why?
The client.
It is up to the client to show up with the energy to explore and the desire to learn. The client has that responsibility in every coaching session.
It is not the coach’s job to have the moment, but rather to support clients through the flow of the moment.
It is the coach’s job to listen mindfully for that life force, reflect it back to the client, and inquire as to where the client wants to go with that energy.
What might indicate that it is time to refer a client to therapy, either concurrently or as a prelude to future coaching?
A lack of client movement over several weeks, or repeated dealing with topics related to healing unresolved pain or wounds from the past, may indicate that it is time to suggest to a client that a therapist is needed either concurrently or as a prelude to future coaching.
What is the difference in functionality of coaching clients and therapy clients?
Coaches work with functional people who want to reach their full potential.
Therapists work with dysfunctional people who want to work through psychological problems to become functional.
Name and explain the coaching skills that need to be fully engaged to move clients forward through generative moments?
1 Suspending judgment 2 Mindful listening 3 Expressing empathy 4 Evocative Inquiry 5 Open-ended inquiry 6 Preceptive reflections 7 Honoring silence 8 Creative brainstorming 9 Unfailing affirmation
How is suspending judgment important to the GM?
GM require a judgment free environment where the client trusts the coach and willing to be vulnerable based on the confidence that the other is benevolent.
How is mindful listening important to the GM?
The only way to identify the topic for a generative moment is through mindful listening.
Mindfulness = the nonjudgmental awareness of what is happening in the present moment
How is empathy important to the Gm?
To let the client know that the coach understands what they are experiencing; their feelings, needs, and desires.
Empathy uses both emotional and cognitive awareness to connect with and give voice to what clients are feeling, needing, and desiring.
Empathy is the respectful understanding of another person’s experience.
How is evocative inquiry used in the GM?
Evocative inquiry refers to the engaging questions of the discovery phase of AI that connect clients to their own best selves so clients can call upon their strengths.
It also refers to the open mindedness of the coach. True inquiry comes from the framework of not assuming and not knowing. If a coach asks too many leading questions with an implied right answer the generative moment can be lost.
How is open-ended inquiry used in the GM?
Open-ended inquiry gives clients an opportunity to tell their stories which has more power to generate an upward spiral than questions that lead to short (closed-ended questions) or analytical answers (Why questions).
Full engagement follows most directly by encouraging clients to remember and fully verbalize the stories and images of their own best selves.
How is perceptive reflection used in the GM?
Reflections help clients to figure things out for themselves. They communicate the full engagement of the coach and connect the client with the motivation to change. 5 types Simple Double-sided Amplified Shifted-Focus Empathy
How is honoring silence used in the GM?
During the generative moment, in response to empathy, inquiry, and reflections, clients will often pause to think, feel, or connect with their truth. It is essential for coaches to honor this silence, be comfortable with pauses, and not intrude prematurely.
Intervening too quickly prevents the client from maximizing their discoveries. Silence affirms the coach’s desire to hear what the client has to say and implies “I trust you know the answer”.
How is creative brainstorming used in the generative moment?
Change strategies are co-constructed with clients through creative brainstorming of ideas, questions, approaches, and frameworks.
Together numerous possibilities can be generated without evaluating the relative merits until later?
Taking turns in coming up with possibilities is a good way to build and maintain momentum through the brainstorming process.
