Sublime

We train in nondirective free association conversations (FACs) with empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard (Rogers, 1957).9

Example: A client used her narrative coaching session to pivot from ‘I make the best of what is given to me' (old story) to ‘I choose to create what matters to me' (new story) – which she then started to use in suitable opportunities to attain more of what she wanted.

Gestalt therapy and narrative coaching are both based in a paradoxical theory of change (Beisser, 1970) in which change is seen to occur through fully contacting “what is”—the truth of one’s experience—rather than through trying to be different.

it should contain a broadly useful set of strategies for producing important life changes that work, and we should know why they do.

We start with this assertion: people are, by their very nature, naturally creative, resourceful, and whole. They are capable:

The central shift is from a focus on what you think and feel to how do you relate to what you think and feel.

Our findings tell us that it’s possible to weave a fixed or growth mindset into the very fabric of an organization to create a culture of genius or a culture of development.

Over the years we each develop a particular blend of strategies designed to hide our flaws and compensate for what we believe is wrong with us.