Habit Change Coaching Method Flashcards
What is the Habit Change Coaching Method?
The Big Picture work, facilitating lasting transformation with positive changes that support well-being.
Transformational coaching levels:
Behavior (habits)
Beliefs
Identity
What is habit change the primary focus of this program?
Habits are the #1 determiner of your quality of life. Habits are what keep people stuck even though they know it’s what’s the most important to change.
Why are habits difficult to change?
Habits are wired into the brain after they have been performed thousands of times over a given period of time. It becomes a matter of retiring the neuron to adapted to new behavior.
What are habits?
They are automated behaviors in some cases saving us time and energy. It’s up to us to monitor and decide which habits are promoting wellness and which are not.
How can we identify self-defeating habits?
Stepping back and practicing awareness is the first step of the change process. Habit change is not just an event, it is a process.
What is true behavior change (aka habit change)?
It is really identity change because with every behavior, you are casting a vote for who you want to be.
If you simply identify a client’s wants and their obstacles and remove the obstacles, this is only temporary and they will not have real transformation.
You want them to go from a “have to” to a “get to”.
What is the 5 Steps in the Transformational Process?
- Step Back (get distance between you and your programming to see a new perspective)
- Let Go (the core of transformation is continually letting go of old beliefs & create new ones)
- Say YES to Self (anchor new beliefs you choose that reflect true Self now)
- Take Empowered Action (action needs to come from a place of empowerment and nothing less)
- Set Up Accountability (with support and stretch)
What’s an important coaching tip?
In order to create a safe space for transformation, you must get off your Map and onto your clients map.
What is a coaches job?
To get curious about what someone is experiencing from the client’s point of view and how they manage to keep having that same experience.
A big mistake coaches make is assuming they know what their client is talking about or meaning.
How does a coach get on a client’s map?
With:
Active Listening - as witnessing your client with full presence and holding space; no changing, advice or opinions
Eliciting Experience - getting the client to draw out more of their feelings & thoughts for a clearer picture of how they see the world; typically asking the same question to go deeper
Verbal Backtracking - a reflective technique of simply repeating the client’s words back to them to help the coach get on their client’s map (other forms of building rapport is the do mirroring or matching when interacting with the client)
What are the 12 Session of the 90 Day Program set up to help the client?
Sessions 1-4: Build Intuition and start to recognize the signals of the body
Sessions 5-6: Learn to recognize self-sabotage and replace destructive habits with nourishing ones
Sessions 7-10: Techniques for managing stress and stepping into your personal power
Sessions 11-12: Establishing a new baseline and dreaming bigger
How can a coach make sessions into “experiences”?
You don’t want to just “give” information. You want to “create” an experience. Knowledge or information does not create habit change. Experience or embodying a new learning does create habit change.
How does a coach always want to start a session?
Always ask first “What’s going well”. It’s important to start with something positive to create an experience of “celebration”.
After the celebration in the beginning, what can a coach discuss next before continuing the session?
Address any areas where the client may be stuck/ struggling, or confused. It’s important to bring clarity to the forefront for the client to give them confidence in their own experience to continue.
What does the “new information” part of the session consist of?
It is 5-7 minutes to keeps clients engaged, excited to keep learning being careful not to overload with new information. Just give enough “scientific brain cookies” for inspiration to take action.
What is experiential related information in a coaching session?
This takes 8-10 minutes and should be a coach’s secret sauce for making transformation. The coach is giving information to create an experience.
What is the action steps part of the session?
The coach suggests 1-3 simple and clear action steps to make sure the client has actions and not overwhelm as a take away until the next week’s session.
How does a coach end the session?
The end the last 1-2 minutes with discussing any ahas, insights, or appreciations about the session.
What’s a good overview of sessions 1-4?
Session 1 - is a WHO and WHY session
Session 2 - is a WHAT session with a little HOW
Session 3 - is a HOW session
Session 4 - is a WHO session
*Refer to HCI Handout Pillar 2, Week 2