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Steve and Tina discuss effective coaching strategies, addressing client issues, and business marketing in the context of therapy.

From Helplessness to Healing: Strategies for Effective Coaching Steve and Tina go live to answer audience questions about coaching, therapy, and building a practice. They discuss giving clients “hope” as a way to create a crack in learned helplessness, focusing less on semantics and more on getting clients curious, playful, and willing to try something different, including occasional provocative approaches. They share examples of rapid change work, including a client who stopped drinking after a session, and how stage fright can be addressed using anchors, submodalities, and deep trance identification (DTI), with stories involving rock musicians and actors. They explain handling clients who bring a long list of issues by prioritizing, looking for connected root issues, and aiming for quick wins while setting realistic expectations about session length. Business and marketing topics include generating more inquiries through structured referral strategies, using a collaborative sales conversation process to prevent end-of-call objections (including ensuring decision-makers are present), and challenges of selling workplace wellbeing services in the UK, emphasizing ROI and supporting…

People in this episode

Hosts: Steve, Tina

Topics covered

• coaching
• therapy
• building a practice
• client engagement
• business strategies
• mental health

Keywords

• coaching
• therapy
• learned helplessness
• client engagement
• business strategies
• mental health
• rapid change work
• workplace wellbeing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mindvalley

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