Coaches: Help Your High-Achieving Clients Get Unstuck
According to Acceptance and Commitment (AC )Coaching theory, clients get stuck because they lack the psychological flexibility necessary to manage troubling thoughts and painful emotions that create barriers to taking action. I’ve found this to be particularly true with very intelligent, high-achieving clients, because they are so used to relying on their minds to think their way out of problems. They use their intelligence and problem solving abilities to control and change variables that they find contributes to their problems. This works great when the variables involved are things...
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In this blog I will discuss the six key factors called core processes that contribute to psychological inflexibility and clients getting stuck. I then want to describe the Tools and Techniques used to help clients become more psychologically flexible and get unstuck. I want to look at the core processes and the tools and techniques from both an ACT perspective and an AC Coaching view. The original six core processes that lead to clients being psychologically inflexible were originally described in the ACT Hexaflex Model (see Figure # 1.) or ACT Model of Psychopathology (Strosahl, et. al,...
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Dr. Rich Blonna
phone 908.334.2543
drrich@drrichblonna.com
