ABSTRACT
This strategy enables a person’s resilient and independent choice making about what to do next when their feeling response is strong enough to cloud their judgement. Bringing to conscious awareness the pattern of feeling, thought and action creates the potential to reshape that pattern. It can be used at any moment in the coaching when the coach notices a repetition of expression of strong feeling emanating from the coachee and the coach hypothesizes that some exploration would assist both to be released from the grip of this emotion. Once released it will show in the coachee coming across to others in more appropriate ways. Looking through a magnifying glass in this way at a replay of an emotionally significant interaction which the coachee has been in can help to create a transformational shift into a new and more useful pattern of feeling, thought and action. This brings an immediate fine tuning of the impact s/he has on others and a commitment to try and mentally step back and reflect, before reacting, when an overwhelming feeling response happens in future.
