Faith and fear

One of the greatest sources of joy that a person can experience is to bring into his life something desired due to his own effort, and to have known how to use the resources and abilities that were within his reach to achieve it. And although we all desire many things in our most personal environment, it happens that our ability to decide and our way of conceiving reality from fear or from faith, make the difference.

A life coach must take this factor into account when studying his client, because it provides him with a framework of assessment to know how this person faces the challenges of life, and thus be able to create appropriate strategies that enhance their best qualities and help eliminate the less useful traits.

Making the right choice

An experienced coach focuses his efforts on finding what generates stress in his client and through the right guidance, helps him to get out of that state that prevents him from moving forward. In the same way that a plant born in a crack stretches to find the sun, human beings, when managing tensions from positive attitudes such as faith, find answers and solutions to challenges, because faith, beyond the meaning we commonly give it, is an attitude we take towards the future and drives us to take action.

When a person lives from fear, which is a paralyzing emotion, it cancels all capacity for self-management.

The role of the coach is to help the client understand that, like everything else in life, the process of personal growth has a logical sequence and knowing what are the most important priorities for this person, guides him/her to make the right decisions and act, because only in this way he/she will change his/her reality.

A coach can recognize by the way they behave, if the person is trapped by fear and apathy, moving away from their development possibilities and settling in that area of their reality where they think they feel safe. When guiding her in her process of personal advancement, you will be careful to mark pauses that allow your client to reflect and see where she is in her growth path, gaining self-confidence to continue her advancement.

The Socratic Questionnaire

This is a very valuable resource in coaching work, as it helps the client to see their reality from a different point of view, making it easier to break the limiting ties that fear and apathy generate.

During the work sessions, from empathy and a comfortable and trusting environment, the coach uses carefully chosen questions that lead the client to see reality in a different way.

This method, created by the Greek philosopher Socrates, consists of a set of questions which are grouped into six subgroups: Clarifying questions.

• Questions that produce assumptions.

• Questions that require reason or evidence.

• Questions about perspective.

• Questions that calculate consequences.

• Questions about questions.

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