Re-imprinting

Complex and very powerful exercise using timelines and working in a ‘gestalt’ way with people from the past to deal with impasses and double binds.

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Pacing and Leading

Copying some aspect of a persons external state, then leading them to adapt that state, in order to change their internal state to establish rapport.

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The Meta Mirror (Integral Mirror)

A person uses spatial anchoring (such as standing on bits of paper in different parts of the room) to examine a stressful situation from a number or viewpoints: theirs, that of their adversary and that of a detached observer. Used for understanding and lessening external conflicts.

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The Permission Pattern

Used for overcoming inner resistance (often from an internalized ‘parent’) to a course of action. A set of questions, leading up to an act of sponsorship by the coach.

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Illusion of control

The illusion of control is the tendency for people to overestimate their ability to control events, for instance to feel that they control outcomes that they demonstrably have no influence over. The effect was named by psychologist Ellen Langer and has been replicated in many different contexts. It is thought to influence gambling behavior and belief in the paranormal. Along with illusory superiority and optimism bias, the illusion […]

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Illusory correlation

Illusory correlation is the phenomenon of perceiving a relationship between variables (typically people, events, or behaviors) even when no such relationship exists. A common example of this phenomenon would be when people form false associations between membership in a statistical minority group and rare (typically negative) behaviors as variables that are novel or salient tend to capture the attention. This is one […]

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