HUMOR COACHING

Do you ever do humor coaching? If a client needed humor as a resource, do you know what to do to coach that client for more humor? It could be just a single session, or if you have a perfectionist, or a client who is really serious, or one suffering from OCD, you could be looking at a number of sessions— 5 to 7 sessions.

Actually, some clients are in desperate need of humor. They desperately need a comic perspective, a playful attitude, so that they can play around with ideas, possibilities, and options and experience more creativity. Clients who are obsessive-compulsive and those who are overly serious, grimly earnest, and overly focused, who have no flexibility for adjusting as well as no joy or fun in life— they especially need the lightening up power of humor. Seriousness kills creativity and overly anxious clients are usually suffering from T.M.—terminal seriousness. They need to be able to think humorously. The less humor a person has, the less the person’s capacity for learning, adjusting, flexibility, coping effectively in life, and more.