A Coaching Model Created by Anja Unkel
(Life Coaching, GERMANY)
Just Be & Light Up Reflection / Illumination / Motivation
But suddenly a little breath came up! It lightens the clouds! Some sun sparks find their way through them. The dust clears up. And the sunshine starts to brighten everything around you!
Sunrays spot your way and make you feel well and energized!
This is how the coaching journey should be:
A light-giving journey towards yourself and your destiny This picture combined with my personal experiences as a client & coach together with my knowledge about the human brain and its meaning for change formed my model, which characterizes the stages, clients run through within a coaching with me:
Be – authentic & become aware
Explore – your presence, your future, your unique you & embrace yourself
Light up – your way
Identify – your destiny
Gain – clarity about any obstacles, blockades, challenges that might come in your way. See how you might overcome them.
Holistically – anticipate the future by thinking, seeing, feeling, smelling, & hearing it
Take – a first little tiny action steps that moves you towards your destiny.
Use – the motivation you gain by reaching these first milestones to
Pave – your way towards your delicious life!
1. Reflection
Be – authentic & become aware
Explore – your presence, your future, your unique you & embrace yourself
The coaching journey begins with a journey into the land of awareness & reflection.
The goal of this stage is to become aware of your current dilemma, reflect on options to solve it and to become aware of your unique & authentic you. Be invited to meet yourself and gain awareness for your presence and desirable future, your challenges & chances, your strengths & weaknesses, your inner demons & passions, your fears and joys, your blockades & motivators. – Finally do embrace your whole self with kindness & self compassion, a prerequisite to forgive & to move on.
2. Insight & Illumination
Light up – your way
Identify – your destiny
Gain – clarity about any obstacles, blockades, challenges that might come in your way. See how you might overcome them.
Holistically – anticipate the future by thinking, seeing, feeling, smelling, & hearing it
Take – a first little tiny action steps that moves you towards your destiny.
With these wonderful knowledge in your pocket be invited into the land of insight & Illumination. Illuminate your way by picturing your destiny as well as any patterns, obstacles, blockades and challenges that might cross your way towards a bright future in a safe and trusting environment. Anticipate how you might overcome any challenges that cross your way and get inspired by your destiny. Learn to focus your attention on your way & your resources rather than on any obstacles you see.
The goal of this stage is to give your mind something to work towards to. And to inspire you to go your way towards your desired future by knowing, feeling and picturing the fruits you will finally earn.
3. Action & Motivation
This stage invites you into the land of practice, patience and mindfulness. It is our impatience that sometimes hinders us to earn the blossoms of our thoughts. This stage is of utmost importance to enable real growth. Whatever we focus on grows. But often the wonderful seeds, we planted, are not yet meant to grow and blossom, as they need to get nurtured, watered and lighted by daily thoughts, practice and action. The goal of this stage is to keep the motivation for change alive, to worthy & Value the littlesuccesses on our way and to give your brain the practice it needs to build up & strengthen the new connections it needs to make a short term win a new habit.
For the client that means to be focused, disciplined, passionate and patient; and to worthy the small changes he is able to see, instead of being frustrated by not making the big catch at once.
For the coach this means to nurture that tiny little spark of motivation for change, to keep it alive and to help the client to transfer it into a burning fire.