How to work with clients towards creating Understanding
Imagine the following situation:
Grace just found out that she keeps going back to this feeling of helplessness and frustration every time that she can’t control a situation, the last episode was after the kids went to bed and while she was preparing to go to bed herself with her husband the lights went off, no power in the house, they looked outside and the whole block was affected by the power outage, her kids were asleep regardless of the temperature inside the house, but she started feeling this sensation of frustration for not being able to solve the situation and provide her kids with a good night sleep, she started feeling overwhelmed by all the ideas racing her mind and finally she burst out crying and the feeling of I’M HELPLESS filled her, after she noticed that temperature at home wasn’t that bad, and that the kids were sleeping soundly, she realized that she was overreacting but the feelings were so real that she knew there was something else going on there. She wants to find the root of this feeling and solve it, release it, and move on.
The following are questions that can help discover the root of this feeling and to put together an action plan to confront it:
The beautiful part of this practice is that as a coach, when you believe and understand the flow of the process, it will take you where you need to go, the client will guide you; you’re just flowing with the process.