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Many of you may be successful in creating a single Shift in a session, but then struggle when trying to tie that shift to continuing work. This happens a lot in enrollment conversations, when you’ve had some success in facilitating Shift, but the potential client can’t envision what’s next when working with you: “I’m doing a lot of powerful work, but my clients just don’t get it,” or “They don’t see how valuable the work is. We had a great session, but they say they don’t need me any more.”
The challenge, and point of practice, is learning how to place the Shift that’s happening in the moment into a larger context… one that deepens that Shift further into their being, or extends it further into other areas of their lives.
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Just as Toku’s last video described the tension between facilitative coaching and deep coaching, and how to combine both of these together to create Shift, today’s video talks about two different states of your being as a coach, and how the best opportunities from Shift are when we integrate the intuition of our inner selves with the coaching tools and techniques we’ve learned.
Get ready to be introduced to “Inner Buddha” and “Klaus”… two characters that are part of Toku’s being as coach…
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Facilitative coaching is done around ideas and goals, and is focused on achieving a certain result (the “doing” work).
Deep coaching is done around feelings and values and beliefs, and concentrates on states of being (the “being” work).
The most transformative coaching requires both: focus on goals and ideas and doing, and focus on being.
“But how do I integrate these two models of coaching when they seem so different, with such different outcomes?” you may be asking. “How do I mix them so that my clients aren’t getting lost, and I’m creating the most powerful and effective shifts for my clients?”
Toku talks about the tension between these approaches, and how to best combine them:
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Are your clients experiencing Shift – but only at the level of the head? Are they only experiencing new thoughts or ideas, and missing the truly powerful experiences – the being experiences – that create true and lasting Shifts?
In this video, Toku explains the concept of embodiment, lists a bunch of examples, and shows one technique to create and anchor these deeper Shifts.
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Do you feel confident you’re doing great coaching, but maybe clients aren’t hiring you?
Or do you feel unsure about how impactful your sessions really are, about whether or not you’re creating powerful shifts for your clients?
In the Dojo, often times the Sensei see that the Samurai coaches ARE creating powerful shifts, but they’re not spending time letting the client experience them, and are instead just jumping off and moving to the next thing.
In today’s ODSC video, Toku talks about the importance of letting things land, and how to give that space for the Shift to deepen in the client’s experience… and your own.
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“Am I creating Shift?” That’s a common question and common struggle for coaches who are challenged by this phase of the coaching conversation.
In the previous ODSC video, Toku talked about the desire for a process to follow to assure that a Shift is happening for the client, and how knowing where you’re going, and the context of the conversation for you as coach, and them as client, is an important component for helping facilitate Shift.
This session, Toku “highlights” one of several tools that can help draw attention to The Shift: Highlighting.
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Do you hunger for a clear, step-by-step process to lead you through the process of creating The Shift?
Perhaps it’s not that you’re looking for a specific process to follow, but that you’re unclear about the direction of the conversation. You can paddle with the best of them, but it won’t help you get where you need to go if you don’t know where to point the boat…
Instead of following a formula, take a few moments to get clear on the context of the conversation and where it’s going, for yourself and your client. Toku helps navigate these waters in this segment of the ODSC Framework.
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What if your client is clear on where they want to go, but they seem to lack motivation to get there? Or they’re not excited about their commitment to that direction? Like they’re not enrolled in their own life?
Last time we looked at how a “point of origin” might be the place to dive deeper… and this time we’re focusing on the opposite: creating a compelling ending for a particular phase (what happens when it ends?), or a powerful vision of what comes after (what happens after this particular journey comes to an end?).
Toku discusses several different strategies for helping a client look at endings and create with them an opportunity for a powerful Shift.
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Are you struggling to see the Shift with some of your clients? Do you feel like you (and they) never getting to the underlying issue? Are they not following through on their commitments? Are they unsatisfied with the results of your work together? Are YOU unsatisfied?
If so, you might not be getting to the underlying issue, and without that, your client will struggle to feel the Shift. In this next ODSC video, Toku talks about finding the “point of origin” for a belief or mental structure or mindset, and using that to help facilitate the Shift in your client.
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Another interesting strategy you can employ around the Shift is the interplay between Ownership and Acceptance.
In this video, Toku talks about the dynamic between these two concepts, and how to create Acceptance that leads to Ownership, or perhaps instead, Ownership that leads to Acceptance.
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