Competency #7: Evokes Awareness

DEFINITION: Facilitates client insight and learning by using tools and techniques such as powerful questioning, silence, metaphor or analogy. Considers client experience when deciding what might be most useful Challenges the client as a way to evoke awareness or insight Asks questions about the client, such as their way of thinking, values, needs, wants and beliefs Asks questions that help the client explore beyond current thinking Invites the client to share more about their experience in the moment Notices what is working to enhance client progress Adjusts the coaching approach in response to the client's needs Helps the client identify factors that influence current and future patterns of behavior, thinking or emotion Invites the client to generate ideas about how they can move forward and what they are willing or able to do Supports the client in reframing perspectives Shares observations, insights and feelings, without attachment, that have the potential to create new learning for the client WATCH: ICF Core Competency 7: Evokes Awareness with Giuseppe Totino, MCC READ: 8 ICF Core Competencies (Updated) + PDF Asking the question: this would be to go deeper for the client to process Shares Observations & Noticing: without any attachment Silence: hold the space to allow their thoughts, feelings, and emotions to get to completion Questions What sort of questions do you ask without any attachment? What ways do you encourage the client to make their own choices? What stories are you telling yourself? What’s one way you could move this forward? What words or patterns are you noticing about your clients? How do you "sit back" as a coach to notice? What ways do you present thoughts without attachment? What way do you let go of your own ego, as a coach? What does “good” coaching look like for you? What possibilities do you offer your clients ASK A CLIENT: What if… ? What are you taking away from this session? What actions do you want to take from this? What’s one way to move this forward? RESOURCE: ICF Converge Conference TOOLS: Limiting Beliefs (Coaching Exercises) ----- How are you evoking a response, dear coach? Tell us about it: Follow the pod on Twitter: @CoachingThruIt & Instagram: @CoachingThruIt Email us at: [email protected] Connect to the hosts: @laurapasquini & @julieclarsen Music credit: The song reCreation by airtone has been remixed under a CC-BY license.