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Solution Focused Therapy & Coaching
Goal Orientation & Results © Martyn Carruthers

Online Coaching & Mentorship

"If a miracle happened, and your problem was solved, what would you change?"
 

Therapy & Coaching

Some therapists and coaches (but certainly not all) focus on helping people reach their goals. Both therapists and coaches may talk about empowering people and both may say that they accept people as they are. There is a lot of overlap - and some fighting - often about "Who was here first?"

Psychotherapy may be more appropriate for dysfunctional people who want to control depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, schizophrenia, etc. Our systemic coaching is more for people who want to dissolve emotional blocks, enjoy quality relationships or reach specific goals.

Therapy can help people move from dysfunctional to functional; while our coaching can help people move from functional to happy. We can help you find solutions for your problems, and achieve goals that you thought were beyond your reach. You can change ... if you wish.

Evolution of Coaching . Compare Coaching Styles

Solution-Focused Therapy

We help people unblock emotions and change specific behaviors in brief periods and short time frames. We often guide ourselves with the following presuppositions:

1. Goals can be defined as specific behaviors
2. Sessions can focus on solving key problems
3. Sessions can be active, directive and empowering
4. Desired behaviors are more important than past suffering
5. Solutions and consequences are more important than symptoms and causes

Like solution focused therapy, we also help people define goals, develops plans, and encourage action. We coach individuals to define and reach individual success. Yet our real clients are usually relationship systems, such as couples, families and teams. We perceive people as representatives of their human systems!

Coaching people in families or teams is more about systemic success - about increasing the adaptability, survival potential and happiness of those relationship systems. We often embed individual coaching within systemic coaching.

Solution focused brief therapy and our systemic coaching share some methods

1. Help people define what they want to change.
2. Encourage people to define potential solutions.
3. Help people describe their problems as behaviors.
4. Help people predict the consequences of their actions - or lack of action
5. Offer homework tasks that can accelerate assimilation and complete resolution.

Systemic Coaching Summary

We base our coaching and mentorship on integrity and competence. We help people evaluate their relationships and define their own goals. And we train people to provide effective coaching while avoiding codependence and other enmeshments.

Here's our general coaching sequence:

1. People ask for help with problems or goals.
2. We check if people are coachable.
3. We meet people privately, by telephone or online.
4. We help people define goals and check consequences
5. We help people resolve objections & plan for success.
6. We help people end self-criticism and conflict to recover integrity.
7. We help people evaluate relationships & dissolve unwanted entanglements.
8. We help people define and find appropriate internal and external resources.
9. We help people dissolve fixations, obsessions, compulsions and limiting beliefs.
10. We help people monitor progress and dissolve other chronic emotional blocks.
11. We help people find and benefit from appropriate mentorship and role models.

Questions to Consider

You can use the following questions to help review your life and decide what to do next.

1. Do you accept reality as it is?
2. Do you have healthy relationship skills?
3. What are your relationship history and habits?
4. Do you know what habits you want to change?
5. Do you know what qualities you want to develop?
6. Do you know what you want in your relationships?
7. What are your personal, partnership and family goals?
8. Do you know your relationship needs and how to fulfill them?
9. How do you recognize potential friends, team-workers and partners?

Plagiarism is theft. Copyright © Martyn Carruthers 2004-2011 All rights reserved.

Plagiarism is theft. Copyright © Martyn Carruthers 1996-2011 All rights reserved. Soulwork Systemic Coaching was primarily developed by Martyn Carruthers
to help people dissolve emotional blocks, improve relationships and achieve goals. These concepts and strategies are for general knowledge only. Consult a physician about medical conditions and before changing medical treatment. Don't steal intellectual property ... ask for permission to post, publish or teach this work.