Advanced Coaching 200: Re-framing (Part 1)

For those of you not familiar with the term, re-framing is basically a shorter way of saying “Looking at something through a different vantage point.” I was really excited for this class, as I think that re-framing is a huge part of coaching and I think it’s something I need to help my current client with.

For me, the greatest tidbits I got from this class was all of the questions you can ask to help you shift your perspective:

* “What is this situation asking of you that you haven’t yet called forth?”

* “How can you turn this around and grow from it?”

* “What do you give your attention to? What do you wish you can give more attention to? Less attention?”

* “What’s your intention when you do this?”

* “Put aside what you don’t want. What do you want?”

We spoke a lot about attention and intention, and how you need to shift both of these in order to re-frame a situation. We also gave some time to the Law of Attraction (although we didn’t call it that), since the things you give your attention to seems to grow & grow, and the things that you don’t give attention to will eventually whither & die.

I know that when I have my next session with my client I will ask her to picture the situation, take herself out of it, observe it, and describe what she sees. As a challenge, I will ask her to take a mental picture of what happens when she finds herself in a situation where you wants to change her way of thinking. What is she doing? How is she feeling? What does she want to feel? Since I know that she journals before our time together I’ll ask her to journal about these moments the day they happen. Angela made a point to not try to do anything about this, but just observe. I’d be interested in seeing what she comes back with.

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Today I’m grateful for a work environment where I’m finally being looked out for.