Solution focused Coaching

Solution focused Coaching

At the outset, Solution focused coaching is not about coach providing solutions. It continues to be about exploration by client, but instead of focusing on the problem, the focus is about exploring what positive outcome is wanted.

What is it that you want to happen? What would a positive outcome look like? So rather than ask what are the issues you want to resolve, ask instead, what is the outcome you wish to achieve?

Most coaches move around the axis of problem solving:

1.  Tell me more about the problem?

2.  When did you experience this most recently?

3.  How is this impacting you?

4.  Where is this coming from?
5.  What is making the issue continue?

A solution focus approach moves along a different axis:

1.  What would be different if you did not have this issue?

2.  How could you make this problem and opportunity?

3.  If you did not have tis issue, what would you have?

A solution focus approach tries to move to a future orientation exploring positive outcomes. Here are a few instances of exploratory questions.

1.  What is your best approach for our session today?

2.  Suppose this is useful, how would you notice?

3.  What difference would that make to you?

4.  If that happens, what other differences could that make for you?

5.  What’s important to you about that?

6.  What would you need to do differently?

7.  What do you believe you must Start doing?

8.  What do you believe you must Stop doing?

9.   Suppose you really connected with this purpose deeply, what’s the first feeling of change you would notice?

    This approach allows the client to move beyond a myopic of this problem, extending it to a large vista of opportunities. Its about social constructivism. It impacts the emotions at a very deep level: it is not cognitive. Both Master Key, written a century back, and the Book of Secrets even more recently a decade ago, allows for a deep personal purpose. It is forward visualisation, or in NLP, what is referred to as a change of state phenomenon. 
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    I read somewhere, that a feeble mind sees problems, a stronger one sees a challenge, and a determined one sees tremendous opportunities.