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24/10/2022 3:06 pm
I absolutely love posing the following question to both Coaches and Therapists, as their perspectives vary so broadly and that appears to be based on their history of Client experiences, training and pre-conceived notions.
The question on the table is, “Can a Client’s problem be resolved in one deeply transformative therapeutic coaching session, or not?”
If you were to ask ME this question, today I would say “Actually, it can!”. Previously I may have have written that possibility off as fiction, firmly believing that actually we need 5-6 Coaching sessions to facilitate a breakthrough, clean-up the issue and see the Client in a fully empowered “post-problem” state.
However, when I lean in to WHY I thought that, I realize it is based on what I have been taught.
When I reflect upon the now hundreds of 1:1 Client sessions that I have conducted, I’ve discovered that at worse, by the time we reach the beginning of the third session, when I ask the Erikson-inspired question “What’s the problem?” 99% of my Clients respond by saying “there is no problem”. The only reason we are in that third coaching call is because they invested in a “Coaching package”. At its best, at the end of Session One when I ask “So now, what’s the problem?” I am more often than not greeted with a luminous smile and “There is no problem!”.
The fact is, there really is no remaining problem. I have followed up with all of these individuals a day, a week and then months later and the original presenting issue has in fact been resolved and vapourized without a lingering trace.
Given this incredible phenomenon, I have spent many months deconstructing what went into the sessions that resulted in a “there is no problem” at the end of session one. Here are some of the elements that they had in common:
- A specific problem for which the Client sought resolution has been established and agreed during the strategy call and included in the Client Agreement as a primary area of focus
- The Client was accountable, ready and asking for help to shift
- The session began by establishing Open Awareness
- There was solid Client-Coach rapport
- The entire session was heavily metaphor based
- There were extended periods of silence during which I truly held the space, paying complete attention to even micro-movements on the Client’s face
- Abreactions have varied between Clients and has included crying, burping, yawning and laughing
Some of the symptoms or problems which I have helped clear in one session include (but are not limited to):
- Tinnitus (reduced significantly and cleared in 3)
- Quit smoking
- Insomnia (many clients have slept like a stone after session 1)
- Bird phobia
- Anxiety
I would love to hear your thoughts on the following:
1) Have you experienced one session problem blow-outs?
2) Do you believe that it is possible to facilitate problem-release in one session and if you answer NO, please kindly articulate what you are basing your perspective on (eg is it your training that is framing your belief that multiple sessions are required to resolve an issue? Is this not a limitation? Curious minds want to know!).
3) Are you allowing yourself, as a Coach, to be open to the possibility that a Client’s issue could be resolved in one session?
4) IF you have already experienced this with a Client, kindly share the key elements of the session that may have contributed, what the problem that was resolved was and did you verify problem dissolution after some time had passed?
I look forward to hearing your thoughts… is the one session blowout fact or fiction?
With love and light,
Vinita Temmert
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Topic starter
24/10/2022 3:06 pm
I absolutely love posing the following question to both Coaches and Therapists, as their perspectives vary so broadly and that appears to be based on their history of Client experiences, training and pre-conceived notions.
The question on the table is, “Can a Client’s problem be resolved in one deeply transformative therapeutic coaching session, or not?”
If you were to ask ME this question, today I would say “Actually, it can!”. Previously I may have have written that possibility off as fiction, firmly believing that actually we need 5-6 Coaching sessions to facilitate a breakthrough, clean-up the issue and see the Client in a fully empowered “post-problem” state.
However, when I lean in to WHY I thought that, I realize it is based on what I have been taught.
When I reflect upon the now hundreds of 1:1 Client sessions that I have conducted, I’ve discovered that at worse, by the time we reach the beginning of the third session, when I ask the Erikson-inspired question “What’s the problem?” 99% of my Clients respond by saying “there is no problem”. The only reason we are in that third coaching call is because they invested in a “Coaching package”. At its best, at the end of Session One when I ask “So now, what’s the problem?” I am more often than not greeted with a luminous smile and “There is no problem!”.
The fact is, there really is no remaining problem. I have followed up with all of these individuals a day, a week and then months later and the original presenting issue has in fact been resolved and vapourized without a lingering trace.
Given this incredible phenomenon, I have spent many months deconstructing what went into the sessions that resulted in a “there is no problem” at the end of session one. Here are some of the elements that they had in common:
- A specific problem for which the Client sought resolution has been established and agreed during the strategy call and included in the Client Agreement as a primary area of focus
- The Client was accountable, ready and asking for help to shift
- The session began by establishing Open Awareness
- There was solid Client-Coach rapport
- The entire session was heavily metaphor based
- There were extended periods of silence during which I truly held the space, paying complete attention to even micro-movements on the Client’s face
- Abreactions have varied between Clients and has included crying, burping, yawning and laughing
Some of the symptoms or problems which I have helped clear in one session include (but are not limited to):
- Tinnitus (reduced significantly and cleared in 3)
- Quit smoking
- Insomnia (many clients have slept like a stone after session 1)
- Bird phobia
- Anxiety
I would love to hear your thoughts on the following:
1) Have you experienced one session problem blow-outs?
2) Do you believe that it is possible to facilitate problem-release in one session and if you answer NO, please kindly articulate what you are basing your perspective on (eg is it your training that is framing your belief that multiple sessions are required to resolve an issue? Is this not a limitation? Curious minds want to know!).
3) Are you allowing yourself, as a Coach, to be open to the possibility that a Client’s issue could be resolved in one session?
4) IF you have already experienced this with a Client, kindly share the key elements of the session that may have contributed, what the problem that was resolved was and did you verify problem dissolution after some time had passed?
I look forward to hearing your thoughts… is the one session blowout fact or fiction?
With love and light,
Vinita Temmert
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