How to Coach Yourself and Others Essential Knowledge For Coaching | Page 439

Her therapeutic model rested on the following assumptions, that:
 Change is possible. Believe it.
 The most challenging tasks in life are relational. Simultaneously,
relational tasks are the only avenue for growth. All challenges in life
are relational.
 No task in life is more difficult as the role of parent. Parents do the
best they can do given time the resources they “see” available to
them at any given time.
 Next to our role as parents, no task in life is more challenging. We all
have the internal resources we need to access successfully and to
grow.
 We have choices, disempowering and empowering ones, especially in
terms of responding to stress.
 All efforts to produce change need to focus on health and possibilities
(not pathology).
 Hope is a significant component or ingredient for change.
 People connect on similarities and grow on resolving differences.
 The major goal in life is to become own choice makers, agents and
architects of our life and relationships.
 We are all manifestations of the same life energy and intelligence.
 Most people choose familiarity over comfort, especially in times of
stress.
 The problem is not the problem, coping is the problem.
 Emotions belong to us. They are an essential aspect of experiencing
self, life, others.
 All human beings at heart are beings of love and intelligence who
seek to grow, express their creativity, intelligence, and basic
goodness; need to be validated, connect, and find own inner treasure.
 Parents often repeat own familiar patterns, even if dysfunctional.
 We cannot change past events, only the effects they have on us today.
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