How to Coach Yourself and Others Popular Models for Coaching | Page 190

Rogers defines four phases in the level of psychological contact:
1. Being able to communicate about external subjects, without
personal involvement
2. Gradually becoming more and more involved and being able
to communicate
a.

- with description of past feelings

b.

– with description of present feelings

3. Being able to communicate from a personal referential frame
and express gradually always more thoughts and feelings
which were suppressed or censured at the start
4. A shift takes place from values borrowed from the external
world to proper values of coachee.

Empiric focusing
Empiric focusing helps the coach to understand and cope with
coachee’s emotions and causes moments of far reaching
emotional change.
1.
2.

Explore the connected feeling, find a word or image to
describe this feeling

3.

Check if the word or image really covers the feeling (use
“felt sense”)

4.

What are the implications for the self concept?

5.

Explore alternatives: ask what is required to make
coachee feel better

6.

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Name the problem and describe it in general terms.

Correct answers result in a feel-good sensation, (the
“felt shift experience”)