{"id":1204,"date":"2012-02-29T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2012-02-01T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T20:23:15","slug":"laura-berman-fortgangs-model-of-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/laura-berman-fortgangs-model-of-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Berman Fortgang&#8217;s Model of Coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from <a title=\"Top Coaching Techniques\" href=\"http:\/\/www.topcoachingtechniques.com\" target=\"_blank\">Top Coaching Techniques<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>David: Okay. So, I know a really nice model of coaching &#8211; I heard this from Laura Berman Fortgang at the ICF conference, and I really like it. Her model that she is using is very simple, and that is to begin each question with the word \u2018what\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>So don\u2019t ask them \u2018why\u2019. Never ask clients, \u2018Why do you want to do that?\u2019 or \u2018Why do you feel like that?\u2019 Just ask them \u2018what\u2019. You can ask them \u2018how\u2019, but again, try to start with what. It was really funny when we did the exercise, we had someone tell us about a problem, and we had to say \u2018what\u2019. Like, \u2018Okay, what\u2019s the solution?\u2019 and they\u2019d say, \u2018Oh, I don\u2019t know. I probably need to lose some weight.\u2019 Then I\u2019d say something like, \u2018What\u2019s the first step?\u2019 and they\u2019d say, \u2018Oh, I probably should go to go to the gym.\u2019 and I\u2019d say, \u2018What are you going to do at the gym?\u2019 It was really amazing how it just focused them in, even if they didn\u2019t know the answer. In five \u2018what\u2019 questions, they had it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from Top Coaching Techniques. David: Okay. So, I know a really nice model of coaching &#8211; I heard this from Laura Berman Fortgang at the ICF conference, and I really like it. Her model that she is using is very simple, and that is to begin each question with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159],"tags":[162,349,161,160],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}