ALL OF THE THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH SCALING

As a Meta-Coach, you scale things with clients. You ask, “From 0 to 10, how much courage do you have right now and how much would you like to have?” We even have scaling as a skill and activity on the feedback form. If you look on the form, scaling is one of the sub-skills under state induction. Why? Because when you ask someone to gauge the degree to which they are or that they want to experience something, they generally have to try it on and experience it to some degree in order to be able to answer. That’s one use of scaling, there are many, many more uses. Here are some more.

1) Use scaling to help a client identify the subject of the session and an outcome. Steve de Shazer used scaling to establish a desired outcome and demonstrated it many times as part of his “consulting session” with clients. “If 10 is where you want to be when you achieve your goal, and 0 is where you started when you began thinking about setting this goal and reaching it, where are you now?”