Reframing Tools
Reframing is about a coach helping their client to see things from a different perspective. There are several different sets of perspectives that can be used.
Subject
Subject perspectives
Using this model, a client who is looking at a situation from their own perspective, which is the norm, can be encouraged to look at it from the perspective of another individual, considering both how they might feel and how they might think. The third person perspective is about stepping out of the situation and looking at it from the perspective of someone who is not involved.
Position
When a client is getting bogged down in the detail of a situation, they can be encouraged to take a helicopter perspective, which means looking at the situation from above, or taking an overview.
Outcome rather than blame
When a client spends time blaming someone, or something, it can be useful to get them to consider not what is to blame, but what the outcome actually was. The client should be encouraged to understand that they cannot change what has happened and must work with the result, regardless of how they feel about how it was achieved. The feelings of blame can be channelled into how to prevent that course of events happening again.
How rather than why
Focusing on how something can be achieved, rather than why it must be achieved is about accepting and putting to one side, the reasons for it to be achieved and moving forward. This therefore enables the client to move forward positively, rather than persisting with questioning the reason for having to take action.
Possibilities rather than necessities
Recognising that often something that is identified as a necessity is not in fact the only option can free clients from fixating on just the one option and enable them to identify other possibilities.
Feedback rather than failure
This approach is about being positive and taking the lessons from something that has not worked, rather than focusing on the fact that it has not worked.
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