From Helplessness to Healing: Strategies for Effective Coaching
Steve and Tina go live to answer audience questions about coaching, therapy, and building a practice. They discuss giving clients “hope” as a way to create a crack in learned helplessness, focusing less on semantics and more on getting clients curious, playful, and willing to try something different, including occasional provocative approaches. They share examples of rapid change work, including a client who stopped drinking after a session, and how stage fright can be addressed using anchors, submodalities, and deep trance identification (DTI), with stories involving rock musicians and actors. They explain handling clients who bring a long list of issues by prioritizing, looking for connected root issues, and aiming for quick wins while setting realistic expectations about session length. Business and marketing topics include generating more inquiries through structured referral strategies, using a collaborative sales conversation process to prevent end-of-call objections (including ensuring decision-makers are present), and challenges of selling workplace wellbeing services in the UK, emphasizing ROI and supporting mental health first aiders/champions. They also cover working with children’s limited diets by training parents, and hoarding by identifying counterexamples and strategies without starting with home visits. The episode closes with updates on upcoming books, travel and trainings, a Mindvalley hypnosis course recording in Estonia, a webinar on hypnotic anesthesia from Italy, and invitations to a July Business Alchemy retreat in Glastonbury and an upcoming London practitioner training.
00:00 Going Live Banter
01:16 Updates Books Travel Courses
04:03 Client Hope Learned Helplessness
12:13 Provocative Hope Reframe
13:58 Stage Fright Anchors DTI
20:23 Actors Anxiety Role Switching
26:24 Getting More Client Inquiries
28:50 Selling Without Fear
29:06 Collaborative Conversation Framework
30:52 Decision Maker Commitment Question
31:42 Handling Objections Through Process
34:13 Kids Food Issues Train Parents
38:47 Hoarding Cases Avoid Home Visits
44:01 Workplace Wellbeing Pitching ROI
53:22 Choosing What To Treat First
59:42 Wrap Up Events And Goodbye