What the GROW Model Can't See: Coaching and the Work Beneath the Goal
GROW gives a session structure and keeps the work moving. Its blind spot sits directly underneath the goal, and this piece is about what lives there.
Read the piece →Explore › Coaching
Coaching
When the goal
will not move.
Every coach knows the client who is fully capable of the thing and keeps not doing it. These pieces are about that layer, and what to do when you reach it.
The gap
Coaching frameworks are excellent at the layer they were built for.
GROW, contracting, powerful questions, accountability. They work, and Alexia trained as a coach before any of this existed. The problem is not the framework. It is what the framework does when the block is not cognitive.
A goal that survives every framework applied to it is usually being held in place by something the client cannot reason their way out of. These pieces cover what that is, how to recognise it in session, and what changes when you have an operation for it.
Accountability works on a client who is stuck. It does nothing for a client who is blocked.
More for coaches
Self-sabotage, stalled clients, and better results in less time.
Three more pieces on integrating clearance work into a coaching practice.
Self-sabotage
Subconscious Sources of Self-Sabotage: How Coaches Can Use HTC to Fast-Track Client Success
The barriers that undermine progress without the client ever noticing them, and how to surface them in a coaching session.
Read →A worked example
Clearing Self-Sabotage: What It Looks Like, An Example
One real piece of work, start to finish. What surfaced, what got cleared, and what changed afterwards.
Read →Results
Up-level Your Coaching: Better Results in Less Time
What changes in a coaching engagement when clearance work is available, whatever the coaching niche.
Read →Keep exploring
Other sections.
The Method
What the method actually does.
Head Trash Clearance and the Absolute Healing Process are two operations, not one. These pieces explain the mechanics of each, and where the line between them sits.
Explore this section →Evidence & Measurement
Faith is not a measurement.
Most of the healing world runs on how someone says they felt afterwards. We take a baseline, do the work, and take it again. These pieces explain how that works and what it is worth.
Explore this section →The Practitioner's Practice
The part of the job nobody trained you for.
Clients who stall. Caseloads that drain you. Work that helps people and does not pay. These pieces are about the practice itself rather than the method.
Explore this section →Ready when you are
Reading about the method is not the same as doing it.
The training runs in two levels: Level 1 to use the method on yourself, Level 2 to use it with clients. If you are not sure which, the Pathways map sorts that out in about five minutes.