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4 Exploring Higher Levels of Awareness
Asking about layers of categories, asking challenging questions about
such. Giving space and time to explore the higher embedded layers
of awareness. Reminding coachee that all perceptions are just maps.
3 Questioning Classification
Asking or calling attention to the classification of the details and
asking about awareness in coachee, providing menu list of other
filters, quality control questions about filters and categories.
2 Imposing Either or Thinking
Speaking as if there is only one other classification and imposing that
upon the coachee by rhetorical questions.
Using either/or
expressions. Tone of judgment, right/wrong, talking more than
coachee to impose the other way of seeing things.
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Acknowledgment of Structure - As the Details of the Story

Talking about the classification, pattern, or structure of the details as
if that map is the territory, as if no other classification is possible.
Using universal quantifiers (all, nothing, always, etc.) and absolute
terms. Speaking and feeling from perspective of being inside the
box of the coachee's story, problems, and challenges.
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No Distinction Between Content & Structure

Talking about and asking questions in the very words and details of
the story without giving evidence of the classifications or categories
of the details. No distinguishing between content and structure

2) Tasking
Asking a coachee to do an action or behavior as part of
developing new skills, developing awareness, or unleashing
new potentials.
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Co-Created Action Plan

Co-creating with the coachee the activities that will maximally
transfer learnings to everyday life and that make the experience

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