Competency #7: Evokes Awareness

<p>DEFINITION: Facilitates client insight and learning by using tools and techniques such as powerful questioning, silence, metaphor or analogy.</p><ol> <li>Considers client experience when deciding what might be most useful </li> <li>Challenges the client as a way to evoke awareness or insight </li> <li>Asks questions about the client, such as their way of thinking, values, needs, wants and beliefs </li> <li>Asks questions that help the client explore beyond current thinking</li> <li>Invites the client to share more about their experience in the moment</li> <li>Notices what is working to enhance client progress</li> <li>Adjusts the coaching approach in response to the client's needs</li> <li>Helps the client identify factors that influence current and future patterns of behavior, thinking or emotion</li> <li>Invites the client to generate ideas about how they can move forward and what they are willing or able to do</li> <li>Supports the client in reframing perspectives</li> <li>Shares observations, insights and feelings, without attachment, that have the potential to create new learning for the client </li> </ol><p>WATCH: <a href="https://youtu.be/w2DxQqGKxS8">ICF Core Competency 7: Evokes Awareness with Giuseppe Totino, MCC</a><br>READ: Updated ICF <a href="https://youtu.be/w2DxQqGKxS8">Core Competency 7: Evokes Awareness</a></p><ul> <li>Asking the question: this would be to go deeper for the client to process </li> <li>Shares Observations &amp; Noticing: without any attachment</li> <li>Silence: hold the space to allow their thoughts, feelings, and emotions to get to completion</li> </ul><p><strong>Questions</strong></p><ul> <li>What sort of questions do you ask without any attachment?</li> <li>What ways do you encourage the client to make their own choices?</li> <li>What stories are you telling yourself?</li> <li>What’s one way you could move this forward?</li> <li>What words or patterns are you noticing about your clients?</li> <li>How do you "sit back" as a coach to notice?</li> <li>What ways do you