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Reframing
There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
Another key skill for the coach is to be able to help the coachee reframe their perceptions and understanding of situations, especially when the coachee’s existing interpretation of a situation is not helpful or is a barrier to progress.
What is reframing?
Reframing is essentially changing the way you perceive an event or issue, and by doing that you change the meaning of that event. When you change the meaning, responses and behaviour to that event will also change. So sometimes it’s really helpful to change the meaning so that the response is more relevant and more positive; in short, more effective. Reframing is deliberately looking at a situation from ...
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