How to activate resources in coaching

How to activate resources in coaching, e.g., like calm, confidence, courage

Positive past experiences—also known as resources—can often be “mentally transfered” to areas where the client feels “stuck. For that we explore questions like “Where in your life have you already demonstrated skills like calmness or confidence ? How are you doing it there – please give a rich description?”

Resource work helps in situations that seem hopeless

Some situations seem hopeless. Perhaps goals in the company are set too high, or there is a manager who has deaf ears. You can not simply walk away, you feel “helpless”— no matter what you do, there seems to be a price to pay. Having no control —a feeling that few people like, a feeling that drives hopeless after a while.

The Path to your inner safe space

In this situation, resillience is key. The ability to walk away internally … without being able to walk away externally. For this inner safe space, it helps to look for resources. Things like a mountain view into the valley, wide horizons on an island over the sea. This inner resources change our brainwaves, they relax and bring inner peace.

That may sound like hocus-pocus at first glance. But no, it is not. Our brain cannot distinguish whether we are merely imagining a situation or actually experiencing it. Our autonomic nervous system calms down both ways and we regain perspective and oversight. This is where imagination can be particularly helpful. Take a suit of armor that you can mentally put on with the visor closed. Or feel like a grounded, imposing mountain gorilla. A shift in the body. Detachment and a change in focus. The view widens, and with it you find your inner wisdom again. And of course, as we are all connected on an energetic level, this wise state of mind has its ripple effect on other people, too.

Finding resources means in neuroscience: getting out of the limbic system and into the prefrontal cortex. Einsteins quote says it like this: you can not solve problems at the level at which they were created.

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