Coaching Model: The Energy Fountain

A Coaching Model Created by Hélène Genillard
(Life Coach, SWITZERLAND)

To create my coaching model I strongly got inspired by the picture below.

A Lively Fountain

I love the energising feeling of this picture and the unrealistic colors that make it more special.

To experience what you feel, I invite you first to look at it for a few seconds.

1) Feel the Picture

Artwork by Walter Bruneel  © all rights reserved

Now that you experienced this image, please find below a first explanation of my model using the same picture.

2) Explanation of my Model through the Picture

Blue= intuitive part needed also in a coaching relationship to know how to meet the client.

Once this picture became part of me and that I found a coaching explanation for it, I was able to come up with the below schematic representation of my model.

3) Schematic Representation of the Model

The Energy Fountain

4) Model Structure

Despite his full potential, the client has a difficult time to be aware of it. It is the coach’s role to partner, using his intuition and power tools  with the coachee to help him get again in touch with his full potential.

Potential questions to the coachee:

1. How would an ideal situation look like?
2. What prevents you from achieving your goal?
3. How would you describe your strengths?
4. What are you most proud of those days in your life?

Once the coachee realises his full potential, he can let it flourish outside of him as a fountain. This fountain is full of the energy recently gained back.

Potential questions to the coachee:

1. Who could support you in achieving your goal?
2. What is your timeframe?
3. Would you like me to contact you before our next meeting to check how you are progressing?
4. May I acknowledge you for aleardy having achieved this small step?

The coachee’s potential is like the water of a fountain that can now reach his inner and outside goals.

Examples of inner goals could be: be more confident, feel less guilty in doing particular actions, feel happier at work (among other potential areas of the coachee’s life that need to be addressed)

Examples of outside goals: get a healthier body, change jobs (among other potential areas of the coachee’s life that need to be addressed)

Potential questions to the coachee:

1. How do you feel now that you reached your goal?
2. How would you describe your state of mind now?
3. What will do to stay now in this state of mind?
4. On a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being the most) where are you right now?

Once the positive changes have taken place and the goal previously

Set is reached, the new energised water falls down to keep empowering the other aspects of the coachee’s personnality.

Examples of additional positive effects: positive impact on the coachee’s surrounding world such as family, friends and so on due to the positive changes operated by the coachee.

Potential questions to the coachee:

1. How did your recent actions impacted on your family?
2. What other changes did you notice within you?
3. What type of positive comments did you receive from people around you?

5) Conclusion:

The coachee is an energy fountain full of resources. it is the coach’s duty to partner, using power tools and intuition, with the coachee to release his strengths and reach his goals.

The fountain is an inexhaustible source of energy which impacts are as powerful within the coachee as for the world surrounding him.

Look within ; within is the fountain of all good by Marcus Aurelius (written 167 a.c.e)