QUESTIONS TO REFINE YOUR COACHING

You already know that you coach best by asking questions. Questions, unlike telling, lecturing, and giving advice, can direct a person’s mind and plant a idea that can grow into all sorts of powerful responses later on. While I was researching for Meta-Therapy I re- read a lot of books on Brief Psychotherapy, Solution focus Therapy, and Ericksonian psychotherapy. I found myself delighted by the creative use of questions in these schools —all inspired by the premise that questioning is perhaps the most powerful tool for framing and reframing a mind.

Several of these stand out and some operate as torpedo questions taking a client directly into the meta place where meaning governs the experience. While you can find some of these in the feedback form, others are presupposed.

1) Questions eliciting pre-session change.

2) Questions that describe life after the problem (the miracle question).

3) Exception finding and constructing questions.

4) Hidden coping questions.

5) Scaling questions.