Susan Britton MCC explains ICF PCC Marker 7.1, which asks coaches to uncover a client's current thinking, feelings, wants, and values. She gives examples like "What does that mean for you?" and "What's it like to be in your shoes right now?" to show how coaches can access the client's present mental and emotional state before exploring new perspectives.
Susan here with a tip on ICF PCC Marker 7.1, and that marker itself says that the coach is to ask questions about the current thinking that the client has, the way they feel about their situation that they've brought, the wants that they have around it, the desires, the values that are associated with that. And so some of the examples of how you could ask questions that elicit 7.1 or demonstrate 7.1 would be things like, wow, so 'What does that mean for you, this situation that you've brought?' Or, 'How, you know, what's the feeling associated with that news?' Or, 'What's that like to be in your shoes right now?' And then that's going to give you a couple of ideas, or the client a couple of ideas, about how they are currently thinking. And then from there, they'll be able to, through the coaching conversation, move towards how do they want to think about it differently. So 7.1 is a contrast with some of the other markers that come in evokes awareness, ICF number 7.
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