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Part 1

1.    Define the outcome

  • What is the habit or behaviour you want to change (or start doing)?

2.    Identify the trigger of the unwanted behaviour

  • Using one particular example of the habit or behaviour, “When and where does this happen?”

  • “What do you see or hear immediately before you start the behaviour you don’t want?”

    OR

  • “What do you see or hear immediately before you don’t start the behaviour you do want?”

3.    Make a still trigger picture (associated i.e. coachee is seeing it through their own eyes)

  • “Make a picture of what you see through your own eyes that triggers the unwanted behaviour or state”

4.    BREAK STATE

 

Part 2

5.    Create the outcome picture (dissociated i.e. coachee is seeing themselves in the picture)

  • “What qualities, abilities and feelings will you have when you are the person for whom this is no longer a problem?”

  • “What will you be seeing, hearing and feeling when you’re behaving differently?

  • Adjust the qualities of the picture to make it bigger, brighter and more colourful.

Note: the final outcome picture needs to be a dissociated picture. If there is no noticeable state change with the outcome picture initially then you can help the person associate into the outcome state to create the motivation and then dissociate to create the outcome picture.

Part 3

6.    Exchange the pictures - “Swisssshhhhhh”

  • “Temporarily shrink the outcome picture until it is a small dot.”

  • “Place the dot in the middle of the trigger picture and see it in the middle of the trigger picture.”

  • Now move the trigger picture, with the dot in it, away from you

  • As it moves away notice that the trigger picture gets smaller and smaller until all you can see is a little dot all the way out on the horizon

  • Now notice that the dot can move towards you

  • As it gets closer all you see is the picture of how you want to be getting bigger and brighter until all you see is having achieved you outcome.

  • Swisssshhhhh. 

7.    BREAK STATE

8.    Repeat (5 to 10 times)

  • We’re going to do this a number of times and you may notice how much faster your brain does this each time

  • See the trigger picture and the dot that represents your outcome

  • Move it away……….. and……… Swisssshhhhh.

  • BREAK STATE

Part 4

9.    Test

  • Now try to get the old picture back and notice what happens

10. Future pace (which means ‘trying on the new response’ and ‘acting as if’ in a future situation)

  • “Imagine a time in the future, which, if it had have happened in the past, you would have done that old behaviour and notice what happens instead?”