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You are here: Home » COACH PORTFOLIOS » Coaching Case Studies » Coaching Case Study: Transformational Coaching

Coaching Case Study: Transformational Coaching

2013/12/17

The Coaching process and the competencies /tools used

The time frame set was 4 months with 10 sessions that we could work on.

The most powerful tools I used were: trust vs. doubt, responding vs. reacting, responsibility vs. blame, reframing perspectives. The skills that were used were: power listening, powerful questioning, Visualizing & creating trust. Questioning her underlying beliefs & Acknowledgement was also used frequently & his helped her be kind on herself.

The process:

Ability to connect with people as they are

It was important for Kalpana to accept people as they are. As she shared her moments in school & college & her own physical shortcomings, she started to feel lighter. She decided by first accepting herself with her limitations completely. This was a slow process to begin with. It turned out to be one of the most significant. She started realizing that when she could connect to the core of herself everything else was a lot easier.

She decided her action would be to share even her smallest fears & thus eliminate it. Complete acceptance of her colleagues was also where she was comfortable. She started by identifying someone she could trust completely who would help her in the process.

Slowly she saw changes as she decided to respond rather than react & the shift in perspective for her was when she saw most of the challenges she saw were self created because of her past. She was happy that everyone around her was worthy of her time & she was in a beautiful space.

Complete self-acceptance:

Kalpana found this a dire need. As the conversations grew & covered different aspects of her life, she realized that there was an aspect she never spoke about ie., her physical disability. She recalled with pride some of the moments she overcame this disability just to prove to herself she is as good or even better than an able bodied person. In a calmer space & time it became easy for her to completely accept her shortcomings. Her biggest fear always remained failure because of this.

She realized that when feedback was given she was hoping for just acceptance rather than challenge herself.

She realized that the complete perspective change would make a huge difference. She decided to shift from blame to responsibility. She told herself that instead of instead of immediately reacting she would use silence to respond as that would make it easy for all.  She decided that she would accept feedback for itself rather than who is giving it to her.

She was smiling so much more easily. She realized how many beautiful moments she had missed out on. Her ability to carry herself as she is was beautiful to see. The transformation actually happening & clearly seen with her body language & the expressions she was using. Clearly she was in a comfortable space.

Change her perspective towards men:

This perspective shift was important. Personally because her family wanted to see her married & professionally when her bosses are men she finds it difficult not to be comfortable with them. The incident that happened in final year of school had a huge impact on Kalpana. There was  a huge perspective reframing that had to be done. As a daughter who adores her father this relationship was used as a metaphor. She slowly spoke about some of her guys who as her classmates helped her with notes & dropping her home when she was down with jaundice in her 6th semester at college.

Using Visualization she was made to see how she could reframe her relationship with her boss who presently is a man. Her dream of going to the U.S is not happening & she feels he is not interested in sending her. When she started the visualization she saw how he wanted to but the situation in the U.S is not permitting her get her visa & he is not responsible. This reframing of perspective made her feel different about him & understand his helplessness.

Proposals for marriage were also coming in during this period. An awareness of her emotional state, her breathing, tone of voice & using a lot of powerful listening I was able to help the shift that was slowly but definitely happening.

Reflecting her statements helped her view it objectively as silence was powerfully used. It was used as a sounding space for reflection . This became useful for her to check on her core beliefs & the influences. Thus she realized that all the three outcomes we set out to achieve were interlinked.

The immediate action steps she said she would follow were:

  • Be nice to her boss. Accept him as he is.
  • Start the day with an acknowledgement to her.
  • Be a self-starter in groups. Be open with feedback & acknowledge feedback.
  • Initiate activities with office groups like social service or trekking where they can bond.

As the sessions were coming to a close the changes in Kalpana were evident to her & everybody around her. This made a huge difference to her & her ability to accept herself. She was turning out to be someone with high self-esteem, which reflected in her confidence levels.

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